California Governor Gavin Newsom has selected the most radical abortion activist he could possibly find to replace pro-abortion Senator Diane Feinstein, who passed away last week.
Newsom will reportedly make good on his pledge to only appoint a black woman to the Senate with his pick of Laphonza Butler, the president of Emily’s List, to fill the late senator’s seat for the remaining 15 months and a bit in her term.
Butler heads the extreme group Emily’s List, a pro-abortion organization that advances abortions up to birth funded at taxpayer expense. It works to elect candidates that also support unlimited abortions and fund their campaigns with tens of millions of dollars from elites across the country.
Butler is already under fire for being a Maryland resident just 30 days ago.
“FEC filings from EMILY’s List record Laphonza Butler’s residence as Silver Springs, Maryland as recently as 31 days ago,” said FEC analyst Rob Pyers. “FPPC and FEC filings indicate that soon-to-be California Senator Laphonza Butler hasn’t been a resident of the state for over two years….”
EMILY’s List appeared to scrub its website of a reference to Butler’s Maryland residence in the hours after her appointment was announced. The group spent $112 million in the 2020 presidential election cycle and $102 million in the 2022 midterms. According to OpenSecrets, in the last federal election cycle, EMILY’s List made 100% of their total contributions in support of Democrats….
From LifeNews
Other than the facts that Ms. Butler is an abortion extremist and has a daughter with her lesbian partner, what qualifies her to represent us in the United States Senate?
Do you mean that you really don’t know?
OK, admittedly, I think I know why. It is just is so bizarre. I wish I’d wake up to find out I dreamt this.
Maybe after a bad burrito at Taco Bell.
She has been a United States citizen for at least nine years, she is over 30 years of age; she is also a very, very recent resident (maybe as of yesterday) of the State of California, the state she will represent. Those are the only three Constitutional qualifications to be a senator.
I mean, if John Fetterman can serve in the Senate, why not her?
So, why not Taylor Swift or Beyonce or one of the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence?”
Shouldn’t minimum qualifications, like minimum wages, be just that: the minimum? Don’t we want and expect more than the minimum?
Do we think a restaurant is great if we don’t go home with food poisoning?
You got a point with Fetterman, I’ll give you that.
Democrats have reasons that reason knows not.
What qualified serial adulterer, adjudicated rapist and fraudster, and likely serial procurer of abortion Donald Trump to be POTUS?
YFC, did you say, “What qualified serial adulterer, adjudicated rapist and fraudster, and likely serial procurer of abortion Bill Clinton to be POTUS?”
Adultery and abortion are, or at least should not be, non-partisan?
Did you know that Mr. Trump, like Mr. Clinton, is no longer in office? America can do better than Mr.s Biden, Trump, Clinton and Ms. Butler.
No Don I didn’t say that. Do you need new glasses? And I have zero idea what the rest of your comment means. Are any of those people running for POTUS? If so I must have missed that.
He was over 34 years of age, was a natural born citizen and resided in the US 14 or more years.
That is all the qual you need.
Your Fellow: There are several degrees of rottenness, and Trump is the least rotten of them,
especially when compared to your Biden.
If you consider Bribery Biden and his unelected influence-peddling. degenerate son, his age-old plagiarism, through-the-root inflation, fake Catholicism, girls’ hair-sniffing, opening of the floodgates to foreign invaders, promotion of baby-killing, and transgenderism, and general decrepitude, you don’t have to ask.
Biden is the enemy of Catholicism. No Catholics should ever vote for him.
Well, her qualifications are not just the minimum. She checked all the boxes required by Newsom, namely: Black, lesbian, toxic feminist, infanticide activist, able to raise lots of money for the forever pro-death campaign.
We don’t know what she thinks of the inflation, homelessness, transgenderism, gun control, the prohibitive cost of housing and utilities, illegal migration, sub-standard schools, the drought, wildfires, etc. Those things don’t matter as much as the lucrative baby-killing industry that California continues to expand. So, yeah – she qualifies.
Recall, anyone?
It is not possible to recall a US Senator. There is no provision for doing that. People, learn your civics lessons.
They don’t teach outdated stuff like that anymore. Civics, who needs ’em?
They’re just rules from a bunch of dead white guys. The Constitution is a living document with lots of penumbras and stuff. Kinda like a sin nod or synod or whatever.
Her appointment is to serve only the remainder of Feinstein’s term. But, of course, she can run for election for the same office on her own afterwards.
Oh, now let’s not get all legal about it, now. The Law, as is now bloody obvious, means nothing. Just another means to power by any means. So let us just lie back, close our eyes, and think of Gavin.
Possibly some action could be taken. It is not an elected Senator and she does not meet the residency requirement of an elected Senator. I don’t think you would need a recall but I do not know what the process would be.
https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2017/12/when-can-congress-refuse-to-seat-a-dulyelected-can
“Laphonza”
Didn’t she star in that cult classic
“Napolean Dynamite?”
why not Whoopi Goldberg ???
pretty much the same qualifications.
Silver Spring.
. . . not Silver Springs, Maryland.
Having lived there, I concur. It is, however, a very common, self-propagating error. Now, if we could just get people to stop calling LA “the City of Angels”.
El Ciudad de Diablos?
No. No, not “del diablos.” How dare you!
LA belongs to the Queen of the Angels, Christ’s Mother and ours.
LA was not named after the angels, but after Our Blessed Mother Mary, Queen of Angels.
To be exact, LA’s official name was/is “El Pueblo de la Nuestra Señora, la Reyna de los Angeles de Portiúncula.” (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Portiuncula.)
Portiuncula (meaning “small portion of land”) outside of Assisi, Italy, had a rundown chapel called “Santa Maria degli Angeli,” which, in 1200 thereabouts, Saint Francis repaired in response to the Crucified Christ’s request to “Repair my house.”
Francis took Jesus’ request literally and repaired a few such chapels in the area, gaining a few helpers and followers in the process which formed his first Franciscan followers. The chapel having belonged to the Benedictines, Francis rented it to become the headquarter of his Order of Friars Minor, at the rate of one bucket of fish per year.
Since then, Franciscans of all flavors (OFM, OFM Conv., OFM Cap., PC, PCC, TOR, SFO, TOSF, etc.) took Our Lady Queen of the Angels as their patroness. Thus, when they came to California, in the 1700s, they named one settlement after her, the beloved Queen of the Angels. now ‘LA.”
Today, by the way, is the feast day of St. Francis. Pax et bonum to all Franciscans, Poor Clares, Third Order regulars and seculars, etc. May the Crucified Christ and His Mother, the Queen of the Angels, bless you.
Did Gavin consult Bishop Cantu?
Does that mean the abortion-promoting, gender-confusing president is still at MItty High School in San Jose again this year?
I was hoping he simply would not renew her contract.
is there any other qualification needed?
Laphonza Butler is celebrating with Gov. Gavin Newsom, because she has at least four important (to Newsom) qualifications for the job he picked her for:
1. She is Black
2. She is a woman
3. She is openly-lesbian
4. She is a strong abortion supporter, being the president of Emily’s List– which supports baby murder up to birth
Emily’s List is a PAC (Political Action Committee) dedicated to getting pro-abortion Democrat women candidates elected to office.
Laphonza Butler does not in any way represent Californians. And she does not have much proof of California residency. She only represents one thing: Gov. Gavin Newsom and his evil, immoral, deviant Democrat pals, extremely focused on promoting the sick, liberal LGBT agenda, immoral promiscuity, and baby murder. As Butler is a lesbian, she will probably not be having abortions– baby murder– of her her own Black babies (genocide of Blacks) at Planned Parenthood— just securing the legal rights for other women to have abortions– baby murder– at Planned Parenthood. Very poor choice, to truly represent Californians.
She in no way represnts me. But, then, I haven’t had legislative representation since well back in the last millenium.
Me, neither. It’s called “Taxation without representation.”
In celebration of the first black, female, lesbian senator, Taco Bell should offer for a limited time the Laphonza Guaco Chalupa.
Chalupa, I think you owe Taco Bell an apology. They don’t stoop so low to pandering. Maybe they could offer a Laphonza empty cup.
Mal masa.
Gavin is simply a jackal who is willing to do anything to promote himself into power and more power. He’s obviously done this to win the acclaim of Marxists in the Democratic Party who are whining about losing their rights to kill humans. This woman is not a Californian. What next, Justin Trudeau runs for President of the United States?
Agreed, Father Higgins.
I suggest Gavin “transition” his name
to “Jack L. Newsom.”
Take that back.
You have no right to besmirch the good
name of jackals that way.
Poor California God help us.
What a slap on the face to California’s Black population. Annointing this woman as a senator is telling Californians that there is no Black woman anywhere in the state who Gavin feels is qualified. While I’m sure there is pushback, those upset in The Party were probably told to shut up and sit down. Barbra Lee should be ballistic. Once an heir apparent, Gavin publicly stated he would not select a replacement for Dianne who was running for her seat, but then changed his mind AFTER the announcement. But, as a loyal Party member, she smiled and nodded. Gavin threw all of the candidates under the bus with this move. To be expected by a ruler who had an affair with his best friend’s wife, ate at one of the world’s best restaurants while his subjects were told to stay home, and had his kids in a private school when he kept the tax payers schools closed. Fortunately for him the people will conveniently forget this when he runs for president.
Lapdogplancha’s appointment will be to serve only the remainder of Dianne Feinstein’s term. After that, she can run for election on her own, possibly against Barbara Lee, Meghan Markle, Oprah, or Whoopie.
Working Class: Butler’s appointment is temporary; it’s only until Feinstein’s leftover term runs out. That was why Gavin did not choose among those running for election. He felt if he chose one of them, like Barbara Lee, that would “tip the balance” and give Lee a foothold. But of course, if Butler chooses to run after Feinstein’s term runs out, she then gets the foothold.
if Willie Brown had only “transitioned”
then he (she) could be a Senator
Don’t worry. Kamala still has a lot of Willie Brown in her. Brown is proud to have groomed her.
well ….. Meghan Markle went
to Immaculate Heart High in LA
so there’s that
for what it’s worth, back in the day,
Feinstein went to an uber-ritzy Catholic girl’s
high school.
some good it did her
Thanks to her Catholic education, she probably understands why it’s so hot where she is now.
“Republicans don’t know who they want. They don’t care, as long as they ‘own the libs’. And the Democrats, they don’t care who it is, as long as it’s a black lesbian.” – Bill Maher 10/6/23
JS: God help us.
The disrespectful tone of the comments on this page are appalling. Please remember this is a catholic website.THe President is our president. He is not “My Biden”, and Trump was twice impeached, 4 times indicted, and his company was already convicted. None of those things apply to President Clinton, to myself, to the Governor, to the nominee to replace the Senator etc etc.
Respect is something we all ought to keep in mind folks, ok?
We all know you sympathize with and vote for Democrats. You don’t get my respect for that very reason. I cannot respect Democrats. Respect must be earned, and Democrats deserve contempt.
“The disrespectful tone of the comments on this page are appalling.” I think the comments are spot on. Gavin Newsome’s political machinations are worthy of contempt just as the man is worthy of contempt. President Biden ranks among the most incompetent and morally repugnant presidents of all time. Trump was a seriously competent president whom the Democrats fear more than anyone else; that’s why they want to destroy him. Clinton was a mixed bag but rises to Mount Olympus compared to Obama and Biden. YFC, politicians have to earn the people’s respect, IMO.