Former lawmaker likely running to succeed Sacramento's basketball star mayor

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By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - California's former top Democrat legislator hinted broadly on Tuesday that he will run for mayor of Sacramento, bringing political heft to a race to succeed Kevin Johnson, the former basketball star whose boosterism helped revitalize his home town Darrell Steinberg, a former president pro tem of the state senate and a onetime Sacramento City Council member, said in an email to supporters that he planned to make an "important announcement" at the site of a new residential development project on Wednesday morning. "I want to thank every one of you for your support and encouragement in making my decision about running for mayor," Steinberg wrote in the email, a copy of which as forwarded to Reuters Tuesday morning by an adviser.

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