California, the state which represents the future in American politics to many, has become a state which has government leaders who are senior citizens, who have been part of the political system for decades.
A strongly Democratic state in the past twenty years, California’s top office holders are all in their 70s.
Governor Jerry Brown is 74, and was governor when he was in his mid 30s in 1975.
Senator Diane Feinstein is 79 years old, has been in the Senate for 20 years, and was Mayor of San Francisco in the late 1970s.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is 72, and has been in the House of Representatives since 1986.
Senator Barbara Boxer is 71, and has been in the Senate for 20 years, and was previously a House member since 1982.
When one wonders who the leaders of the future are in California politics, the person who sticks out the most is Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, who is 45, and seen as a likely nominee for Governor in the near future, after his earlier service as Mayor of San Francisco.