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Cruz Miguel Bustamante (born January 4, 1953) is an American politician. He previously served as the 45th Lieutenant Governor of California from 1999 to 2007, serving under governors Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Cruz M. Bustamante is a Democrat who became the first Latino to hold a statewide office in California in over 100 years when he was elected lieutenant governor in 1998. Prior to that position, Bustamante served as a California assemblyman and he was the first Latino speaker of the state assembly.
May 25, 2021 · Tuesday, May 25, 2021. Gavin Newsom's allies have been using the story of Cruz Bustamante to discourage Democrats from running for governor. SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The odds of Governor Gavin...
Apr 26, 2021 · Three years later, Bustamante — who was still lieutenant governor — ran for state insurance commissioner, losing to a novice Republican, Steve Poizner. That made him the last incumbent Democrat to lose a statewide election.
Aug 17, 2003 · As Assembly speaker, Bustamante appeared in a TV commercial to help fight off a Wilson administration welfare reform that would have cut benefits for young and elderly noncitizen legal immigrants.
Aug 30, 2003 · SAN JOAQUIN, Calif. — The towns where Cruz Bustamante grew up were little more than rest stops on two-lane roads that crisscrossed vast tracts of farmland and disappeared into the heat. Here, in...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Cruz Bustamante is a Lieutenant Governor for California with 13 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1997 Speech as a Speaker for the...
