As California Democrats party in Philly, state’s head teacher poised to lead Golden State
When former Republican state Sen. Dennis Hollingsworth introduced a bill eight years ago to add a few more names to the governor’s line of succession, he was worried about a cataclysmic event wiping out California’s top leadership.
Little did he know it would turn out to be the Democratic National Convention.
In a chain of events straight out of an episode of “The West Wing,” State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson is poised to take the helm as acting governor at some point in the next week when Gov. Jerry Brown and nearly all of his statutory replacements head out of state to their party’s convention in Philadelphia, which makes them constitutionally ineligible to serve as governor.
SB 1530, Hollingsworth’s obscure law approved in 2008, added the teacher-in-chief to the long chain of command that begins with Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and ends with the Chair of the Board of Equalization, Fiona Ma.
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