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Dems pick Padilla for Senate whip (SF New Mex)

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Dems pick Padilla for Senate whip

Posted: Sunday, December 7, 2014 8:00 pm | Updated: 12:43 am, Mon Dec 8, 2014.

Dems pick Padilla for Senate whip By Milan Simonich
The New Mexican SantaFeNewMexican.com | 3 comments

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.

Read more here: http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/legislature/dems-pick-padilla-for-senate-whip/article_9addf3d2-c21a-5b39-ba53-78a7bef2a114.html