Newsom Taps Asian-American as California Top Cop to Fight Hate

摘要

Rob Bonta, the first Filipino-American state legislator in California's nearly 160-year history, was nominated as the state's attorney general by Governor Gavin Newsom, who called on the Yale-educated son of farmworker activists to battle hate crimes.Bonta, 48, who has been representing Oakland and surrounding cities since 2012 in the state assembly, succeeds Xavier Becerra, who was recently sworn in as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the Biden administration.