California governor to name Laphonza Butler, former Kamala Harris adviser, to Feinstein Senate seat

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California governor to name Laphonza Butler, former Kamala Harris adviser, to Feinstein Senate seat - Lemmy.world

Butler will be the only Black woman serving in the U.S. Senate, and the first openly LGBTQ person to represent California in the chamber.

The long-serving Democratic senator died last Thursday after a series of illnesses. Butler leads Emily’s List, a political organization that supports Democratic women candidates who favor abortion rights. She also is a former labor leader with SEIU 2015, a powerful force in California politics.

She seems like a good appointee, but honestly I’m just glad to have two functioning senators in my state now.

She seems like a good appointee

Hard to tell, but she does meet the only two qualifications that Newsom thought were important enough to mention.

Oh look, a conservative making things up, then being upset by them. That certainly never happens.