Millennial legislator who turned a red district purple is now a prime target

By Laurel Rosenhall, CALmatters
Assemblywoman Sabrina Cervantes had held elected office just a few short months when she was summoned to the Governor’s Mansion earlier this year. Many lawmakers go their entire career without ever negotiating face to face with Gov. Jerry Brown. And yet there was Cervantes, the Capitol’s youngest legislator — just 29 at the time — squaring off with a governor fifty years her senior.
Brown wanted Cervantes to vote for his plan to increase ga