Not only does she check all the progressive boxes needed to keep the various subsets of coalitions together, black, lesbian, abortion specialist etc; but Laphonza Butler also comes from the ideological stable and network of Barack Obama/Oprah Winfrey and was a former advisor to Kamala Harris. The fact that Butler lives as a registered voter in Maryland was a trifle issue of no consequence, all things considered.
The announcement before Dianne Feinstein is even buried is simply a reflection of how the Obama network views people as disposable once their usefulness is exhausted. The media need to play up the “narrow margin, votes are needed” angle in order to pretend the impropriety is unavoidable.
(VIA POLITICO) – California Gov. Gavin Newsom will appoint EMILY’s List President Laphonza Butler to fill the seat of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, elevating the head of a fundraising juggernaut that works to elect Democratic women who support abortion rights, according to a person familiar with the decision.
Newsom is moving swiftly to name the next senator, two days after Feinstein’s death and just as a perilously split Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown. Senate Democrats are in need of every vote in the closely divided chamber.
The announcement was expected to come Monday, and an adviser to the governor, Anthony York, told POLITICO that Newsom is making his appointment without putting limitations or preconditions on his pick running for the seat in 2024. That means Butler could decide to join the sprawling and competitive field of Democratic contenders seeking to succeed Feinstein, with special elections now layered on top of the March primary and November runoff.
Butler is expected to be sworn-in to the U.S. Senate on Wednesday by Vice President Kamala Harris.
Newsom’s selection of Butler comes at a moment of immense change in California’s political establishment, with millions of people still mourning the death of Feinstein, the barrier-breaking Senate lioness. Meanwhile the California governor, who was mentored by Feinstein, has been grappling with his own personal grief and the political ramifications of his choice to succeed her.
The people who spoke with POLITICO ahead of the announcement were granted anonymity to disclose internal deliberations. Butler is registered to vote in Maryland but will switch her registration to California. (read more)
Keep watching closely….
Biden doesn’t stand a chance.
Chicago!
Idiots.
Stop calling these radicals “Progressives”. They are “Oppressives” wh0 promote abortion, gun confiscation, identity politics, open borders and racism!
“……… wh0 promote abortion, gun confiscation, identity politics, open borders and racism!”
A perfect description of Democrat platform !
How about the
“Destructionists”
All they can do is destroy
Here is a funny brought to you by the “Intelligentsia” of the Brookings Institution.
From those same creators of “Rise of the Alt-Right”, lolz.
the rise of illiberalism
This is still on Merriam Webster, but they do change when needed for narratives.
So
One of these does not look like the others … see
I call them communists!
In short, they are the same people all those fleeing oppression FLED!
These illiberal “Liberals” are worse and commit more evils against the citizenry than King George’s crimes that set the Revolution into action. And it’s gotten worse in England with certain liberties that keep being reset and the rest of the old countries that have always been based in the socialist ways of fief and feudal serfdom.
“Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.” – Samuel Adams
“Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.” – Samuel Adams
“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation “ enlightened as it is“ if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.” – Samuel Adams
These “Liberals” are not liberal. Many of our Founding Fathers who helped create this country were liberal and they made a country that broke the chains of socialism and every other failed version of ruled peoples and tried to create that which balance personal liberties and responsibilities with enough government to work with foreign countries on treaties for the people, warn and set up opposition to invasions
These “Liberals” want to enslave us and everyone else they can for their personal gains as they virtue signal on their slave made products paid for with aid and subsidies stolen from the citizenry.
If he da grissley gulper what to ya call moochelle?
Da grizzy’server?😂
who do you think he’s gulping?
Kidnapped child sex slaves?
Over 500,000 USA Children disappear every year.
Add in all those imports they are smuggling across our borders for their activities and you tell me.
They live off of blood and death sacrifices.
They love the pain they cause.
These are our “leaders” and their masters.
Do Not Comply
This is our electorate.
God help us.
is he “Deep Throat”?
“Sore Throat” ?
Takes practice
Why does Obummer love those expensive dawgs?
Som Politico wrote:
“[Gov Loathsom is] grappling with his own personal grief and the political ramifications of his choice to succeed her“…
Sure, sure… the plan was already in place.
There are almost 40M Californians, yet Gruesom Loathsom went and grabbed someone from another state.
A black lesbian is California Gold!
Yea, I laughted at that wording, oh his poor personal grief.
Exactly! As if he couldn’t find many, many Californians who tick all those boxes.
His choice is transphobic, actually. He should have picked a black lesbian trans woman.
A long time ago, Newsom said he would appoint a black woman to the role. Never mind finding someone who’s actually qualified for the job. Who cares if people actually know how to do their jobs, right? Why would such an idea even matter?
Whatever is wrong with the democrats’ brains, I’m just thankful that it hasn’t infected me, too.
Why are we appointing from a community that 1) doesn’t believe in law enforcement and 2) doesn’t believe in merit?
Because “fundamental transformation” is a continuing thing…sigh.
This is what long haul election fraud—now embedded in the state of California—has produced.
It appears that the Soros crowd continues to choose from the lower IQ factory as an “in your face” to the rest of us . There is no intellect out there, none.
Speaking of Soros, the Politico article said she would have a hard time winning the race in CA bc the other candidates already have well stocked coffers and it is extremely expensive to run in CA. My first reaction was to laugh. I’m sure some evil foreigners will step up to keep this box checking female in office.
True Turtle. They laugh at our votes.
LA County alone (10 mm) looks like little China town (couldn’t think of a specific place in China that looks as expansive as LA County looks driving up the freeway.🤔)
The ENTIRE Biden Cabinet, Administration & Embassy appointments are intentional deviants, morons, criminals & freaks – on purpose – to upset and distract WeThePeople from the destruction Soros & BlackRock are producing from the Whitehouse.
Redundant, right ?
The left is looking for anyone who fits the “profile” and will dance for the highest bidder. That person need not have a moral character, intelligence (see Kamala Harris and Joe Biden for reference) or any qualifications other than the superficial characteristics to check the boxes.
and no pesky residency requirement
I really thought this would be how they got Kamala out of the way.
She is BlackRock ordered & approved … an Affirmative Action, cream-of-the-CRAP, guaranteed to fail, hire.
demonRAT brain = *ESG*DEI*CEI*CRT* = ScoreCard.
Environmental Social Governance * Diversity Equity Inclusion * Corporate Equality Index * Critical Race Theory (BLM)
Technically she also qualifies for a Quota ✔️as an “illegal alien” from Maryland – masquerading as a California Senator.
RATS are the evil party of death , dependency, deviancy & destruction … they MUST lie, cheat & steal or they lose … and … RINOS are their evil enablers.
Adam Schiff has to be wondering what he did to get so royally screwed by his friend Gov. Gruesome. Everyone knows that once Fonzie gets a taste of that sweet, sweet Senate life, she’s going to run for the full term. A black lesbian abortionist? Schiff doesn’t stand a chance…..
Adam missed his chance. He could have self identified as a black, lesbian abortionist.
Schiff’s eyes haven’t bulged this much since he was the receiver in a gay porn flick.
Do we, the California voters get any say in this?
No and yes.
No, not when it comes to this appointment but yes to voting against Gavin or any of his ilk the next chance you get.
Clownifornia just got more clownish.
I have always voted against him, including in the recall, and his slimy predecessor moonbat Brown. More and more my vote feels absolutely worthless.
Liz: Same here. No one represents me in CA. I am on my own, but, I don’t mind. I prefer self-sufficiency to communism.
You could always move out of California to a swing state, and convince about five million Republican friends to do the same. That would pretty much guarantee a Republican President for the next twenty years
When I was in my 20s, I wanted to move to California in the worst way but couldn’t land a job at an acceptable salary. Saved by an angel again!
No I can’t. I have relatives who need me here. And even if I didn’t, my husband refuses to budge. I will have to wait until he’s gone before I can leave.
Like totally, no.
Mini Anti Christs all starting with Hussain. A friend believes Orca Winfrey is the main one…idk. San Andreas fault do your thing. Pray for the innocents caught up in it
How can you glibly say you’re hoping for a devastating earthquake that could possibly kill millions? I don’t find that funny at all.
Many people here joke about Putin bombing DC first. It doesn’t mean that they REALLY want innocent people in and around DC to die. The joke is a way to acknowledge the evil demons in our society and we need a major cleaning out of these horrible people.
DISGUSTING!!!
Of course Gruesome Newsom pick this freak to be a United States Senator. Do you have to know anything about the State which you’re going to be representing? According to the COMMIEcrats HELL NO. Do you have to have any real governing experience to represent the State. According to the COMMIEcrats HELL NO. As long as you’re a representing the COMMIEcreat freak show, that’s all that matters
“Not only does she check all the progressive boxes needed to keep the various subsets of coalitions together, black, lesbian, abortion specialist etc; but Laphonza Butler also comes from the ideological stable and network of Barack Obama…”
Just another “O” leave-behind who can be called on at a later date…….. when the need arises.
Ozero is a cancer bomb on our nation. So many idiots (including my late father) rushed to vote for him showing absolutely NO sense. It’s like they were under some kind of a spell. We will be paying for decades.
It is Obama extending his influence over California. Imagine that. He’s have Illinois, California, and much of DC.
Pritzkers are also in Chicago and CA & Oprah
Keep watching closely ,white peoples don’t stand a chance.
When an installed treasonous racist scum masquerading as president reminds the lowlifes he Is giving the wealth of the country to That if would be nice that the receivers of the largess remember to treat those whom they stole it from with respect.for giving it .
Just like the mostly black looters do as the destroy the stores on the way out the door.
Think about why it is that request was on the agenda of Biden that day.
This low IQ birdbrain is trying to soften the blow to the gut of white Americans that is on the way.
Very sad and disheartening.
I hope that at least the so called white college educated /propagandized fools will finally realize, all be it too late, What useful idiots they have been all along.
Today sadly BLACK political operatives can do anything they want in this country aided by white politicians who gladly enable them for a few pieces of soon to be worthless sliver.
Low brow white enablers right before our eyes .
Biden passing the baton to Newsom but not before Obama gets his fingerprints all over it.
Looks like KJP gots herself a new girl friend.
i never did like Divide Obama,Rino.
Is anyone thinking about Whitmer? Seems like a Midwest Governor will have a better shot at picking off those swing states.
Perhaps that’s why Kennedy goes Indy, but why not Whitmer?
Gretchen Hitler is unloveable, even by alternative lifestyle people.
proof – we have n0 representation.
right. it is proof that it is a big club and we aint in it. they will appoint from their own ranks, not ours.
& proof the Democrats do not care or follow residency requirements for governance. The right should be hamming this point home instead of election fraud. This is evidence of lack of residency, which is a hallmark of voting registration.
This thread is frustrating.
We have clear, grifting. Newsome — a crazy left liberal with crazy policies, clearly paid off and used as a tool, selecting someone we know can’t be trusted to replace a senate seat that has kicked our tail, and been used to absolutely destroy the country.
there is very little information on who this person is. How she will vote. What her agenda will be. Who pays her. Who influences her.
We are wasting words venting. Ridiculing. Making Fun.
Newsome picked a resident of another state to be a Senator in California, and she clearly not going to be representing the needs of Californians.
It is an abuse of the constitutional purpose of our bicameral legislature.
They are destroying us.
what useful sunlight can we throw on the process to expose Newsome, newsomes handlers, their agenda, their intent?
California is not the state to leave — it is the state to reclaim. As California goes, is what is happening to GA, FLA, Texas, VA, OH, MI, MN, WI The already got the little New England states and we didn’t care, but New England was rich in powerful senate votes with very little effort/people to sway and fool.
Our enemies are master strategists. They get work done, while we waste time ridiculing them, and our own legislators who pretend to represent us are giving our country away to them in return for money.
They don’t care if we are mad, if we ridicule them, if we show how illogical, weird, or immoral. As long as we don’t get in their way.
One problem is that you and I do not have corrupt minds. I build, create, plan, and execute, just as my father did and as his father did. I am unable to connive, steal, or exploit people. This I cannot change, nor do I wish to.
Michelle is looming. How can Republicans attack her without being called racist, racist, racists? Democrats will win independents on abortion, abortion abortion! If Trump is the nominee, it will be a Democratic Party sweep!
“We win, they looe. What do you think of that?”–Ronald Reagan, a non-Installed President of the United States of America
This is about Ba’al, Ishtar and Molech.
She was selected for her rebellion, perversion and child sacrifice.
Jonathan Cahn: Exposing the Secret War and The Dark Trinity | FULL TEACHING | Praise on TBN – YouTube on his new book Return of the gods:
Or Planned Parenthood Camps.
“The dark is growing darker. It’s time for us, the people of God, to shine not less, but more brightly than ever before. The grays are disappearing. And that must be. The Lord is calling us in the days ahead to return to the Book of Acts, a people all out and on fire for God, not conformed to the world but transformed and transforming it, bold, courageous, unafraid, lights illuminating the world.”—Jonathan Cahn
“Can plunder be retrieved from a giant,
prisoners of war gotten back from a tyrant?
But God says, “Even if a giant grips the plunder
and a tyrant holds my people prisoner,
I’m the one who’s on your side,
defending your cause, rescuing your children.
And your enemies, crazed and desperate, will turn on themselves,
killing each other in a frenzy of self-destruction.
Then everyone will know that I, God,
have saved you—I, the Mighty One of Jacob.”–Isaiah 49:24-26
Yes, Lord Jesus, Amen!
They truly have little regard for people; and of course the people “they” (the leftist/marxist ideologues) are very shallow and stupid people.
However, to the vast majority of “normal” people who are the majority of humans around the world, it appears just that; shallow and inconsequential. Soetero and his acolytes are shallow and of mean nature.
Sorry, but WHO THE HELL CARES that she is a LESBIAN!!! Does this infer now that everyone who runs for political office should think of this labeling as a new norm, your sexual preferences and what group (beyond political affiliation) that you identify with?
What use to matter is your experience and academic achievements, followed by any outstanding awards, would be attributes people would want to know about to size you up as a person assuming a position.
This has gotten beyond sickening! It turns my stomach. And furthermore, inasmuch as someone who is labeled a “caucasion” or “white” by any federal documentation or labeling, as I would be, I object and simply do not care about the color of one’s skin and would not want to run on a political ticket as “ a white, heterosexual male”. Those are not the qualities of a person seeking any office that matter.
Hopefully not being Captain Obvious here; this appointment of the Alphabet Person isn’t designed to keep her in the position for any length of time. The stunt is designed to boost Gruesome Newsom’s profile as a national candidate in 2024 and beyond. It’s becoming very clear that he intends to be the Dem presidential candidate in 2024.
DPP: Good point. I agree.
In a normal time, these things would not matter but, of course, these are no longer common times. These people chose to dominate rather than assimilate so a judge by that person’s stand is essential.
Newsom’s pick to replace Feinstein’s Senate seat lives in Maryland. Who knew there was a shortage of black lesbians in California? LMAO
The wicked glory in themselves and they will have their reward.
“The wicked freely strut about, when what is vile is honored among men.” Psalm 12:8
“God is angry with the wicked every day.” — Psalm 7:11
This is the seat Adam Schiff was gonna run for. So techincally, Schiff has been screwed by a black lesbian.
They told Schiff to lay back and enjoy it.
Can a nation become too stupid to survive? Heck yeah! Here’s your sign!! (actually, it’s a billboard)
I feel really really bad for Schiff , he got the shaft , or more accurately, the Chicago Shive ….. (sarcasm ? You think ?)
Why wouldn’t he (Obama) view Feinstein as disposable?
She was never one of his.
She was just an old-fashioned, standard-issue corrupt politician on the take for all she could get, who fell prey to the commies.
“…has been grappling with his own personal grief …”
Yes, I’m sure all the drugs and debauchery are making it difficult for Grabem Gruesome to fit any good grieving time in.
Any Twosome’s species tends to eat the carcasses of the dead, like vultures and maggots.
Kalifornia the state of the lunatic fringe.
Gavin clearly demonstrates by this appointment he doesn’t represent the demographics of his people. The Latino Hispanic community is the largest segment by far and they should be very upset about this snub by their governor.
Jrod: CA’s Hispanics are just going to have to take a back seat to communism.
California has a Hispanic senator Alex Padilla. According to the US census blacks are only 5 percent of Californians. Although there are probably a lot more. So she’s a real minority appointee.
One more nail in the coffin of humanity.
Lol, millions are mourning Difi. I’m sure. Meanwhile at the ever northward moving border.
Honestly, what do you EXPECT from “California?” 🤷♂️
It is a beautiful, very populous State that has never known how to properly govern itself, ruled by remarkably inept and self-serving leadership. Yet the citizens continue to do nothing about it. You can’t help those who COULD easily help themselves, but won’t. They suffer under the consequences of their own poor choices. And, they have become quite good at it!
“Your choice of Federal Senator” should be soberly recognized as one of the momentous decisions you can make. But, look at what they just did …
Kind of hard to do anything when the elections are dirty.
Shouldn’t “lioness” be gender neutral? Just trying to keep up…
La Fonz jumped the shark.
They are owned by the mafia she’ll vote lock step with the rest.
The new Senator grew up of modest means in Mississippi. She is obviously intelligent and has the ability to organize and motivate groups as she became the head of one of the largest unions in the country. Does anyone know what her connections were to these positions of power in California? You don’t just stroll out west from Mississippi and become a power broker in California within a few years. Was she married to a prominent attorney at one time? It is difficult to find out anything about her personal life online but there has to be a power broker connection somewhere in her life. Sundance, any clues?
From what Sundance said in the article, I think that her ties are with Obama and she was raised up, trained, and indoctrinated in the Obama School of Thought. So Obama is her power broker. I am sure that he has all kinds of this demons warming up the bench, waiting to be activated as all of the Old School Corrupt Democrats start dying.
They just have to be appointed and, boom, they become a US Senator.
DEI positions at large corporations & member of LgBTQ+ community & Kamala’s pres campaign manager, but yes, would like to know specifics.
Endless statements that she was head of one of the largest labor unions in the country. But it’s never stated which labor Union. I haven’t been able to find which labor Union. Does anyone know?
At least NYC resident Wyden has a “home” in Oregon! Of course, he hasn’t lived there in decades.
Oh look ! Obombie has found a tranny running mate for Big Mike
This displays the complete and utter Arrogance of the ‘Progressive Democrat Party’.
We must not let America fall into the hands of these Incarnate Evil Minions of all that is Evil.
A gathering of the Beasts.
Reminds me of carpetbagger Hilary running for senator in New York
I suppose finding a blind, Chinese, anorexic, transgender climate activist was just too much of a hurdle on such short notice… 0.0
I wonder if Laponza will also have a Chinese spy as a chauffeur?
If Newsom is indeed a Clintonite, is he appeasing the Obama camp with this nomination? Does this mean Obama is there is peace between the Obama and Clinton camps, that the Obamas are throwing in with the Clintons? If so, will Michelle be Newsom’s VP pick?
Im already getting nauseated thinking of how the press will gush over Moochelle running with Newsom.
I don’t know why anybody would have thought Newsome would pick somebody less radical. Some people on our side seem to think that by not fighting back, the GOP leadership will win the war because, one day, the leftists will wake up and realize that they have gone too far. Nope. Not fighting back is like blood in the water to them. It only encourages them.
I know that I can’t be the only one who is sick and damned tired of looking obie’s smug, smirking face.
It tells you something about how far gone American society is that such a transparently cynical and graceless move won’t even begin to arouse the ire of voters in California. At this point it’s just expected.
We will not be allowed to vote our way out of this. No matter what. So it’ll come down to how many colonists will bend the knee to imperial rule, and how many rebel.
Anyone worried about Gavin Newsom being some kind of unstoppable 800-lb gorilla if the Dems draft him to be their 2024 presidential nominee should take heart in this story. Newsom’s radicalism isn’t going to go over well in most parts of the country.
He isn’t Obama, who was able to conceal his radicalism. Remember, when Obama ran in 2008 he sounded like a Ted Cruz constitutionalist. Nobody knew who he was – before getting elected to the Senate he was an obscure member of the Illinois state legislature – he was able to get away with it. Not so Gavin Newsom.
Exactly
If the pick is only there for one year, then at best Newsom is doing this for pure political mileage. Notice, he doesn’t care how it appears on the state scene, he’s shooting for national optics and yes, clearly making his bid to appease political masters. There is no emphasis strong enough to measure my utter contempt and dislike of New Some.
Newsom’s pick definitely answers the age old question of Yes, it CAN GET WORSE.
Born/raised/college in Mississippi. “Butler began her career as a union organizer, and served as president of California SEIU State Council from 2013 to 2018” Jerry Brown appointed her as a regent of the UC Universoty system in 2018; she quit in 2021. Ran Kamela Harris’s 2020 campaign — well there was a big success. Major Harris ally. (all per wikipedia).
Hairgel got a commie quadfecta out of this one. Presumably she’s smarter than Harris.
Two things, Sundance. First, this brings to mind the sudden rise of Barack Obama in politics generally and to the Senate as a platform for running for President in particular. Do you think the puppet masters intend Butker to be the Demoncrat presidential candidate next year?
Second, although the left will rude over this illegality as they do with everything, unless Butker first established genuine residence/domicile in California and AFTER THAT is nominated by Newsome, her appointment will violate the Constitution. Art. I, § 3, cl. 3:
See https://reason.com/volokh/2023/10/02/is-sen-to-be-butler-eligible-to-represent-california/
She has a home in CA apparently, but one is supposed to register where they reside over half the year in CA. Therefore, if her voter registration was in Maryland at the time of Newsom’s announcement, she should not be eligible. Her residence is clearly established as Maryland. This is how CA treats voter registration, though, and the right should be calling attention to this, instead of vague voter fraud. In CA, they allow you to change registration, just be claiming residence in the state without any identifying docs. You are supposed to show identification the first time, but CA doesn’t require identification to vote, so it can be easily missed by a pollworker. They just take people by their “word” and a statement that if they were caught, they could incur imprisonment. But there is no follow-up. This is how little Dems care about residency when it comes to voter registration (thereby inviting fraud).
“with millions of people still mourning the death of Feinstein”
I live in Commiefornia and no one is mourning the death of a shriveled up old hag like Feinswine. Good riddance!
“grappling with his own personal grief”
That is just hilarious. Gov. Nuisance would feel more distress if the wind mussed up his greasy hair. How can anyone read Politico with a straight face?