Please join the PDC for an evening reception 6 pm Tuesday October 7 in Atherton to meet State Senator Alex Padilla, candidate for California Secretary of State. Location provided upon RSVP to Maggie Rothschild at 415-402-0303 or [email protected]. Any registered California voter can vote for this state-wide office; this is a wonderful opportunity to meet and talk to him in an informal setting. You can see the event flyer here.

Alex went to MIT and got an engineering degree. He was a staffer for Dianne Feinstein and for Tony Cardenas. He was elected to the Los Angeles city council at 26 years old and two years later was elected President of the city council! He’s currently finishing 8 years in the California State Senate where among other legislation, he just authored the bill banning disposable plastic bags that was signed into law. More than 70 Padilla bills have been signed into law since he was elected to the State Senate in 2006.  Around the Capitol recently named Padilla one of 2013’s “Most Effective Legislators,” citing his ability to “cross ideological lines, take on big bills and keep warring parties within the caucus.” This may be a chance to meet a future and first Latino California Governor. You can learn more about him at http://www.padilla4sofs.com/about and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Padilla.