South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign has employed Cecelia Cabello, a former operative for Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and state director for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, to run its operation in California.
Cabello will serve as the campaign's California state director, the Buttigieg campaign confirmed.
The campaign's retention of a state director in California is the newest sign that Buttigieg and his group have been trying to make an early and critical investment in constructing infrastructure in the Tremendous Tuesday state, where most campaigns construct out an operation afterward. But from the earliest days of Buttigieg's presidential marketing campaign, the mayor has put more consideration into the state than most of his rivals within the main subject, traveling to California often for both low and high-dollar fundraisers in the state.
Just a few different campaigns have announced state administrators at this level within the 2020 cycle. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Kamala Harris, all among the prime tier of Democratic candidates, have built out groups in the state, while former Vice President Joe Biden, the top-polling 2020 Democrat, has at the least 5 staffers on the bottom there.
Cabello provides Buttigieg an on-the-ground presence with shut ties to organized labor in California, having served because the director of government relations for the Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters, a task by which she was answerable for the union's political activity in Los Angeles County.
Cabello was tapped as Clinton's California state director throughout the 2016 presidential election and was previously Clinton's California deputy political director for the 2016 Democratic main. Extra lately Cabello has served as vice chairman of the Board of Public Works in Los Angeles and was also chief of employees to Los Angeles City Controller Ron Galperin.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has endorsed Harris but has spoken positively of Buttigieg, saying he “tends to be many individuals’s second selection — if he’s not already a first." A few of Buttigieg's earliest backers within the presidential race hail from California, including West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon, a longtime ally, and California-based Democratic megadonor Susie Buell Tompkins, who has helped fundraise for Buttigieg in the state.
Article initially revealed on POLITICO Magazine
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