California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced that he will be appointing Laphonza Butler to serve out the next year and a half of Feinstein's Term.
She is a friend of Gavin, and a prodigious fundraiser, as evidenced by her current position as president of Emily's List, but she is also currently registered to vote in the land of Old Bay™, the great state of Maryland.
She is a woman (obviously), and she is lesbian, and she is black, so Newsom has definitely fulfilled his promise about appointing a woman and minority this.
Clearly there are some political machinations going on, because a Senate appointment is a rare and valuable opportunity. Someone like Newsom does not spend this political capital on a whim.
It could be that he thinks that she won't run in 2024, because she is not a California resident, even if she is frantically arranging for an apartment and moving her voter registration as we speak, and Newsom wants to run himself in 2024.
It could be a way to appeal to big fund raisers and lobbyists Butler is both. She has also worked as a consultant for lobbyist for Uber and Airbnb, and Newsom has been aggressively in the pocket of the,"Gig Economy."
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