Robert Rivas won a bruising intraparty fight for the California speakership. Now he has to lead a splintered Democratic caucus.
Robert Rivas, who grew up in farmworker housing, a world away from California’s wealthy tech and entertainment hubs, overcame formidable obstacles to get here. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP PhotoSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Robert Rivas set out last year to become one of California’s most powerful Democrats. But the fast-rising, second-term state assemblymember from the Central Valley had a problem: The man who was in the post wasn’t ready to step aside.
Now, with Newsom claiming a national Democratic leadership mantle, 43-year-old Rivas will shape the progressive agenda in one of America’s most influential blue states — if he can unify his party. “I think it certainly makes it impossible to leave here with a kumbaya, like a collective hug with 80 people on the floor,” he said.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, hands the climate change bill to the author, Assemblyember Robert Rivas , right, during a signing ceremony in Vallejo, Calif., on Sept. 16, 2022. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo “I didn’t know I was poor,” Rivas said during an interview in his district, but “I don’t think many people can say they shared a bed with their mom, their brother, sometimes their great-grandmother.”
Rick, his junior by a year, has long been his most trusted adviser. “My grandfather always said we needed to stick together and support each other, because if we didn’t, we wouldn’t find success,” Rivas said. The brothers began working in politics in their 20’s, making an early mark by managing then-Salinas Mayor Anna Caballero’s successful Assembly campaign.
“I think that Robert both was willing to take a bold step on this issue, but that also it was a smart step,” said Andy Hsia-Coron, a local activist who championed the fracking ban. Assemblymember Evan Low made a failed play for the speakership in late 2021, and then swung his support to Rivas a few months later. After a long night of vote-counting, Rivas announced in May of last year that he had the votes to be the next speaker and asked Rendon to work out a timeline.
Rivas and his allies are eager to put the leadership struggle behind them and project unity. They note there’s little appetite for protracted conflict in a large class of first-year members who are still getting acclimated to Sacramento.
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