Gloria Romero, a former Democratic majority leader in the State Senate, announced Wednesday that she has switched her party affiliation to the GOP.
Romero, 69, represented the east Los Angeles County area in the state Senate from 2001 to 2010 and was majority leader from 2005 to 2008.
Previously she served one term in the Assembly.
“I am now another near-lifelong Democrat who is joining the growing number of people — including key groups, Latinos — who are leaving the Democratic Party,” she said at a press conference in Sacramento.
“This is not the Democratic Party that I once championed, I don’t recognize it anymore and I cannot continue,” she said.
Romero said she would vote for Donald Trump in November, calling the former President “a champion of working people.”
