Garcetti won't serve in Biden administration

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti acknowledged Thursday night that he would not serve in the Biden administration, defusing the longstanding assumption that he would be rewarded for his support of the president-elect.

Garcetti said he had turned down an unspecified administration post — asserting that "Joe Biden has told me for the last two years that he was very interested in me coming to Washington, D.C., and there were things on the table for me" — and said he would instead remain mayor of California's largest city.


"As the administration reached out to me about serving, I let them know early this week that my city needs me now, and then I want to be here and that I need to be here," Garcetti said.

The announcement served as a stunning coda to Garcetti's long alliance with the Biden campaign. The Democratic mayor has been an unswervingly loyal Biden surrogate, serving as Biden's campaign co-chair and breaking with most elected California Democrats by not endorsing Sen. Kamala Harris' run at the time.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/12/17/garcetti-wont-serve-in-biden-administration-1348439

[Texin]

1. Mystifying. I suppose this probably means he's looking for a bigger office

than an appointed one.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

2. I think he's a leading contender to become a Senator

Harris' open seat will need to be filled. There is also talk that Feinstein may step down due to reasons of health.

[onetexan]

3. I so hope feinstein will step down.

When your memory goes you need to so so honorably.