Willie Brown Says Gavin Newsom Should Appoint Himself To Senate Or Choose A Black Woman

Former California State Assembly Speaker Willie Brown suggested in a San Francisco Chronicle column Saturday that Governor Gavin Newsom (D) should consider appointing himself to fill the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA).

Brown, in a column aptly titled “Newsom needs to appoint himself or a Black woman as new senator,” floated the idea of the California governor ditching his position, in the middle of his first term in office, to serve in the Senate.