California officials mourn Democratic leader and ‘champion for the poor’ John Burton, 92

Gov. Gavin Newsom said that flags at the Capitol would fly at half-staff to honor John Burton, a former California Democratic Congressman, state assemblyman and state senate president, who died Sunday at the age of 92. 

Burton was also selected by Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Siebel to be posthumously inducted into the California Hall of Fame in December.