Her selection is causing conflict with some Black activists who had lobbied for longtime Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who is one of three congressional Democrats already running for the open seat, to…
Laphonza Butler, President of EMILY’s List, speaks during an event in Washington, Friday, June 23, 2023. Laphonza Butler, the former head of California’s largest workers’ union who leads the powerful EMILY’s List and is a confidante to Vice President Kamala Harris, is being praised by supporters as a “smart and savvy” progressive activist and respectable choice by Gov. Gavin Newsom to fill the remaining term of the late U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein.
“She’s a younger woman, a Black woman, a lesbian and an out lesbian,” Walsh said. “She’s going to bring all those experiences, as well as her time in union politics and as a campaign operative working to elect more women — it will be a different kind of a voice.” “This is really a snarky move, to me,” said Julianne Malveaux, a progressive Black activist and immediate past dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at Cal State L.A. “He knows that Black women will never raise their voices against another Black woman. And so his appointment mutes us in some ways.”, which would take millions of dollars and a vast political network, is uncertain.
“I found her to be practical, smart, savvy and instinctive with people,” Mesloh said Monday of Butler. “She was a hard worker wanting the right outcome and having the guts to kind of walk the walk.”
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Newsom to name Laphonza Butler, former Kamala Harris adviser, to Feinstein's Senate seatCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom will name Laphonza Butler, a Democratic strategist and adviser to Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, to fill the vacant U.S....
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Gov. Gavin Newsom chooses Laphonza Butler to fill Dianne Feinstein's Senate seatButler is the head of the group EMILY's List, which works to elect Democratic women.
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