Your guide to the California secretary of state race: Weber vs. Wagner
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Set us as preferred California voters will decide this November whether incumbent Shirley Weber will be reelected as secretary of state of California or her challenger, Republican Don Wagner, will replace her.The secretary of state is in charge of administering statewide elections, providing information about ballot measures and candidates to voters and overseeing campaign financing.The office also handles business licensing and filings.Weber, a former state Assembly member, is seeking another term after she initially was appointed to the role in 2020 by Gov.
Gavin Newsom and elected by voters in 2022 with about 60% of the vote.Weber is the first Black woman to hold the role.
Wagner is a member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors and former mayor of Irvine.He also is a Republican member of the state Assembly.
California California’s general election takes place on Novemer 3.Learn about L.A.’s city and county races as well races for state office.Weber attended UCLA and became a professor at San Diego State University, teaching Africana studies for 40 years.
She was born to sharecroppers in Arkansas during the segregationist Jim Crow era, and her father couldn’t vote until he was in his 30s.Weber was a member of the San Diego Board of Education and while in Assembly served as chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus.“I know the position,” she said.
“I have worked in this before but equally important, I understand democracy and the importance of democracy and more than ever at this time, we see an administration that does not respect the rights of every Californian and every person in this nation and is attempting to manipulate the data and the opportunity for people to vote.“I think because of my experience, not only academically and legislatively but personally, the passion that I have for elections and for voting is critically important, so that those who want to vote need to have...