Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday recalled a tense moment he shared on the campaign trail with union leader Laphonza Butler, who was recently appointed to fill the late Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat.
The incoming senator will blaze a trail as the first openly LGBTQ person and the second Black woman to represent the Golden State in the Senate.Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday recalled a tense moment he shared on the campaign trail with union leader Laphonza Butler.
A graduate of Mississippi’s Jackson State University, Butler made an impression on political science professor Dr. Mary Coleman. In 2018, then-Gov. Jerry Brown tapped Butler to a 12-year term on the UC Board of Regents, where she served three years. She made the move to the nation’s capital in 2021 as the first Black woman to lead EMILY’S List – a political action committee dedicated to electing progressive women to public office.
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