Dems pick Padilla for Senate whip
Dems pick Padilla for Senate whip
Sen. Michael Padilla, D-Albuquerque. Courtesy photo
Posted: Sunday, December 7, 2014 8:00 pm | Updated: 12:43 am, Mon Dec 8, 2014.
New Mexico’s Democratic state senators on Sunday elected Michael Padilla as their whip.
Padilla, 42, of Albuquerque, is a businessman who is about to begin his third year in the Senate.
He defeated Sens. Joseph Cervantes of Las Cruces and Linda Lopez of Albuquerque. Padilla won on the second ballot over Cervantes, after Lopez had been eliminated in the first cut.
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