Why an Inland Empire state senator was sworn in at the hospital

Why an Inland Empire state senator was sworn in at the hospital

It wasn’t how Eloise Gómez Reyes envisioned her swearing-in. Yet there she was in a hospital room in December 2024, wrapped in her mother’s shawl to cloak her medical gown as she took the oath of office to officially become a state senator. A Democrat who represented the Inland Empire as an Assembly member for eight years, Reyes, 69, was diagnosed with cancer — she declined to say what kind — around the time she won a four-year Senate term last …