Sen. Alex Padilla is a kid from Pacoima, a public schools kid, a son of Mexican immigrants, the first Latino senator in California history, perched among a group of lawmakers helping shape legislation touching the life of just about every American.
Proponents of mandatory voting say it would strengthen democracy and make America’s politics less awful.Gov. Gavin Newsom chose him to replace fellow Democrat Kamala Harris
after she assumed the vice presidency in early 2021. Padilla has been accommodating himself to changes ever since — to life under a scattershot schedule, to long periods away from his wife and three boys, to the joys of a 4,600-mile round-trip commute several times a month. Not that he’s unhappy or regretful. Padilla will be on the ballot twice in June, seeking to finish Harris’ term, which ends in January, and, separately, to obtain his own six-year lease on the Senate seat through 2028. He’s strongly favored to win.“Public service comes with sacrifice,” he said during a conversation about the personal aspects of his first year and three months in Washington.
The hardest thing about life in the Senate, Padilla said, has been the separation from his family. They remain at home in Porter Ranch in the San Fernando Valley, while Padilla rents a studio apartment a few blocks from Capitol Hill. His boys are 7, 9 and 14. Padilla, a former L.A. city councilman, prided himself on being the kind of dad who attended not only his boys’ sporting events but many of their practices as well. Not anymore.
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