Gavin Newsom Picks Black, Lesbian, EMILY’s List President Laphonza Butler, a Resident of Maryland, to Fill Vacant California Senate Seat

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 Marylan…