Welcome Senator Laphonza Butler to the US Senate

[Brian4Liberty]

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Nice pick.

But you guys don't have a colored, lesbian communist to choose from?

Should start a pool thread on this one.

Thread winner! Meet Senator Laphonza Butler, black, female, lesbian.



Laphonza Butler
JOB QUALITY FELLOW, CLASS OF 2017-18, ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM
President, SEIU 2015, Los Angeles, CA

Laphonza Butler is the President of SEIU Local 2015 – a union uniting the voices of more than 325,000 nursing home and home-care workers throughout California. SEIU Local 2015 is the largest union in California and the largest long-term care local in the country, achieving historic victories – including the passage of the nation’s first $15 statewide minimum wage to improve the lives of over 6 million Californians, for which Butler’s leadership was honored by President Obama.

Previously, Butler served for seven years as President of SEIU United Long Term Care Workers (ULTCW), and also as SEIU’s Property Services Division Director in which she was responsible for the strategic direction of the more than 250,000 janitors, security officers, window cleaners, and food service workers across the country. Butler also currently serves as an SEIU International Vice President and President of the SEIU California State Council. Additionally, she Chairs the University of California African-American Advisory Council, serves as a Board Member for the National Children’s Defense Fund and the Bay Area Economic Council Institute, is a fellow for the MIT Community Innovators Lab, and formerly was Director for the Board of Governors of the Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve System.

Laphonza Butler is a member of the Job Quality Fellowship Class of 2017-18. To learn more about the Job Quality Fellows, visit as.pn/jobquality.

The Job Quality Fellowship is part of the Economic Opportunity Fellows Network, a network of leadership and fellowship programs run by the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program. Within this Network, EOP connects national and local leaders from across sectors — nonprofit, government, business, philanthropy, academia, and more — to advance policies and practices with the potential to help low- and moderate-income Americans thrive in today’s economy. Learn more at as.pn/eofn.
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https://www.aspeninstitute.org/people/laphonza-butler/

Her social media feeds have probably been scrubbed in the past few days, but what is out there says a lot:

Supports gun control, lives for identity politics, hates MAGA/Trump, and is Kamala Harris's biggest fan.

https://twitter.com/LaphonzaB/status...16244049150328

https://twitter.com/emilyslist/statu...68098349477888

[Brian4Liberty]

Laphonza Butler @LaphonzaB

Women of color continue to be underrepresented at the table, and this decision was yet another means of undermining our rights to maintain a system created for white men by white men. Freedom is on the line.

https://twitter.com/LaphonzaB/status...79499173642242

[69360]

Guess that statement bit her in the ass, now that she is taking a senate seat that was only available to black women. Not an equal opportunity was it? I thought Newsome would go for broke and throw trangender in there too. I was wrong. But hey it worked for Biden right?

[Snowball]

She is a Harris buddy, and so is Newsom. This person will vacate and Harris will go back to Senate.

[Brian4Liberty]

Guess that statement bit her in the ass, now that she is taking a senate seat that was only available to black women. Not an equal opportunity was it? I thought Newsome would go for broke and throw trangender in there too. I was wrong. But hey it worked for Biden right?

While (T)rans would fit in as it is the controversy of the day, Newsom fulfilled his LGBTQIA2S+ obligation with this pick.

[Anti Federalist]

Chicago Mayoral Race Version 2.0

[69360]

Looks like she actually lives in Maryland.

[Brian4Liberty]

Looks like she actually lives in Maryland.

The plot thickens...

https://twitter.com/FoxytailRedhead/...19054755651596

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/Sandollar89/stat...22754689593605

[Brian4Liberty]

Gavin Newsom's pick to replace Feinstein appears to scrub online evidence of living in Maryland
An FEC filing, her employer's website and her own social media account said Laphonza Butler lives in Maryland
By Anders Hagstrom - October 2, 2023

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's pick to replace the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein in the Senate has been quick to scrub online evidence that she actually lives in Maryland.

Screenshots of Laphonza Butler's account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, show that she still listed her location as "Maryland" on Sunday when news of her selection was first reported. Her account has since been updated and currently does not list any location.

Butler, who is president of the pro-abortion group EMILY's List, has a bio on the organization's website that was changed hours after the news of her Senate appointment came out, removing references to her living in Maryland. A previous version of her bio concluded with the sentence, "She lives in Maryland with her partner Neneki Lee and their daughter Nylah," which has since been removed.

In addition to the online references to Maryland, a Federal Election Commission filing from EMILY's List also identified Butler as a resident of Silver Spring, Maryland, as recently as Aug. 31.
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More: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gav...iving-maryland

[Anti Globalist]

Nothing a little change of address can do to ensure she'll be able to take that vacant seat.

[acptulsa]

https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/st...36005938487359

[nobody's_hero]

If Californians cared, they'd probably feel pretty sh!t on right now, that someone not even from their state has been hand-picked to represent them. If they were actually representing them.

Fortunately, Butler won't actually represent their interests, and Californians do not seem to care what their government does.

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/DarrellIssa/stat...97240019984715