Continuing the Democrat’s drive to completely remove merit and experience from the list of qualifications for important positions. This is the logical conclusion of almost 60 years of Affirmative Action, filling a seat in the United States Senate with a woman who has no business being anywhere near the Senate chamber.

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Originally posted by TMats:
Continuing the Democrat’s drive to completely remove merit and experience from the list of qualifications for important positions. This is the logical conclusion of almost 60 years of Affirmative Action, filling a seat in the United States Senate with a woman who has no business being anywhere near the Senate chamber.

Yup, TMats!! The Peter Principle PERFECTLY at work here, my friend!! Yeah...whatever fits the Libtarded mold along with throwing shit at the wall and selecting whichever one sticks. I would like to wish California good luck, but I really DGAFF if it falls into the sea. Of course, AFTER all our Conservative brothers and sisters are allowed to flee the place...

GMAFB
YHGTBSM

SSDD...

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Originally posted by 911Boss:
To be a fly on Rep. Barbara Lee’s wall tonight, my guess is she has some choice words to call the good gov.

Link to Lee's reaction, quoted in Fox News article:

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...criticized by U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., who said ...

"The idea that a Black woman should be appointed only as a caretaker to simply check a box is insulting to countless Black women across this country ..."

Insulting to everyone, actually.

I predict that within the next decade the pedophiles will be getting appointed to government positions and it will be celebrated as diversity.

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Originally posted by sdy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laphonza_Butler

Laphonza Butler

Butler is lesbian. She and her partner, Neneki Lee, have a daughter.

They moved to Maryland in 2021 when she assumed the presidency of EMILY's List.

Governor Newsom's office stated Butler would reregister to vote in California before taking office as a senator.

And to boot, her Wikipedia page was created in August, just a little under two months ago. IMO, she was chosen by the commie committee by then. Newsom didn't choose her.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
LaPhonza?

Really?

I'm surprised. My private prediction on this one was that Newsome was going to appoint Kamala Harris to the senate seat, thus clearing the way for Joe to step aside for 2024, leaving the field open for, you guessed it, Gavin Newsome!

There was no more elegant way to get rid of Kamala the Albatross before the 2024 election. Now the Dems are truly fucked. They have to run Dementia Joe and Kackling Kamala against the Don.

Make popcorn. This is going to be epic.

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She served as a senior adviser to Harris's 2020 presidential campaign while at the same time working at a political firm with strategists who have worked for Newsom and other prominent state Democrats. She also has two decades of experience in the labor movement, including formerly serving as a labor leader with SEIU 2015.

She has zero experience being a chief executive and having to manage both people and a P&L sheet...she's the perfect modern Democrat. With such a resume, it's all about who you know and associate with, achievements are low on the list of priorities...acktiually, she's achieved quite a bit, she's managed to schmooze and cajole her way up, impressing the lever-pullers within the party.

Link

Black Democrats Furious at Newsom for Not Picking Barbara Lee

Several leading black Democrats are criticizing California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) for nominating Laphonza Butler of Maryland to fill Dianne Feinstein’s Senate vacancy instead of current Senate candidate Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA).

Butler has lived in California, and owns a home in the state, but lives in Maryland and must register to vote in the Golden State before becoming constitutionally eligible to replace Feinstein, who died Friday at the age of 90.

Lee has been running to replace Feinstein, whose retirement was announced earlier this year. Butler may be able to run for the post as well, once she has taken office, angering Lee’s backers.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported:

“It’s going to hurt him,” Fred Jordan, chairman of the board of the San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce, said Sunday. “Those women in South Carolina that gave Joe Biden the bump, they’re gonna be outraged.”

Jordan called Newsom’s appointment of Butler “disingenuous” and said he “has not fulfilled his promise” to appoint a Black woman to the seat. He wanted Newsom to appoint Lee, who he called “the most qualified” person he could have tapped. He slammed Newsom’s comment earlier this month that appointing Lee “would be completely unfair to the Democrats that have worked their tail off. That primary is just a matter of months away, I don’t want to tip the balance of that.”

Molly Watson, deputy director of California Donor Table and a board member for the Black Women’s Democratic Club of Los Angeles County, congratulated Butler, but was also “baffled” that Newsom did not choose Lee. (Butler previously served on the donor group’s advisory board.)

Other leading candidates for Senate are Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Katie Porter (D-CA). Several Republican candidates are also running but are not considered to have a chance in the overwhelmingly Democratic state.

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Jordan called Newsom’s appointment of Butler “disingenuous” and said he “has not fulfilled his promise” to appoint a Black woman to the seat. He wanted Newsom to appoint Lee, who he called “the most qualified” person he could have tapped. He slammed Newsom’s comment earlier this month that appointing Lee “would be completely unfair to the Democrats that have worked their tail off. That primary is just a matter of months away, I don’t want to tip the balance of that.”

Molly Watson, deputy director of California Donor Table and a board member for the Black Women’s Democratic Club of Los Angeles County, congratulated Butler, but was also “baffled” that Newsom did not choose Lee. (Butler previously served on the donor group’s advisory board.)

What a bunch of fools. He did what he said he was going to do.
They're just pissed that they focused solely on Lee and not anybody else that could also be 'black' and a 'female', in their mind, it was ONLY Lee, with a slim chance of LA Mayor Karen Bass.


Good points, this appointment is solely a play at who's going to donate to Newsome's campaign: tech and entertainment.

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Originally posted by joel9507:

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...criticized by U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., who said ...

"The idea that a Black woman should be appointed only as a caretaker to simply check a box is insulting to countless Black women across this country ..."

Insulting to everyone, actually.

If I was a polictical cartoonist, I would draw a white slave master who looks like newsome, bending down and handing a cookie to a little black slave girl.

Just another white racist using black folks for his own gain.



Any SF artists want to bring this vision to fruition?

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Originally posted by TMats:

Continuing the Democrat’s drive to completely remove merit and experience from the list of qualifications for important positions. This is the logical conclusion of almost 60 years of Affirmative Action, filling a seat in the United States Senate with a woman who has no business being anywhere near the Senate chamber.

She is almost as well qualified as Senator Fetterman.

These people are such phonies.

Gavin Newsom's pick to replace Feinstein scrubs online evidence of living in Maryland

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
LaPhonza?

Jumping LaShark?

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Originally posted by RichardC:
Jumping LaShark?

And she will do exactly as she is told by her libtard betters.

Once in office as a senator, they all think they could be president and she'll be no different.

I can see Butler liking the senator job and since Newsom said he didn't ask for a promise from her not to run for the seat, she'll run for it and use the bully pulpit of the Senate.

The LBGTQ+ crowd will push her to run since it's "one of their own" who's in the Senate and holds the seat and it adds legitimacy to their cause to keep her there.

Congratulations Maryland!
You now have 3 Senators!

Newsom’s bottomless cynicism reflected in his appointment of a black, lesbian, Maryland voter to fill remainder of Feinstein’s Senate term
By Thomas Lifson

https://www.americanthinker.co...ins_senate_term.html

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Originally posted by ArtieS:
I'm surprised. My private prediction on this one was that Newsome was going to appoint Kamala Harris to the senate seat, thus clearing the way for Joe to step aside for 2024, leaving the field open for, you guessed it, Gavin Newsome!

Your "private prediction" is discussed on page 4 of this thread...