Supporters call the former California labor leader and current president of Washington-based political organization EMILY’s List “smart and savvy,”
California democratic candidate for governor, Lt. Gov Gavin Newsom, takes a selfie picture with Laphonza Butler, president of SEIU local 2015, before speaking at Greater Zion Church in Compton, CA, with Pastor Michael Fisher, June 03, 2018.
“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 LA. “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.” Amelia Ashley-Ward, a San Francisco publisher and activist, was born in Butler’s Mississippi hometown — a place where Ashley-Ward remembers walking through the forest with a stick to ward off snakes. She doesn’t know Butler but said the school she attended was “right up the street from our family home.” And while Butler seems to have the background and smarts for the job, Ashley-Ward had hoped Newsom would appoint Lee instead and believes that Newsom “totally disregarded how we felt.
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