Far-right pundits already saying Laphonza Butler was only appointed because she’s a Black lesbian

Ben Shapiro
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This past weekend, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) appointed longtime union organizer, feminist activist, and political advisor Laphonza Butler to fill the Senate seat left open after the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) passed away last week.

It didn’t take long for conservative pundits to notice that she is not a straight, cisgender white man and use that to attack her, saying that she is unqualified and was only picked because of her identity, despite the fact that she is the current president of the reproductive freedom organization EMILY’s List – one of the biggest political advocacy groups in the country – a former advisor to several of Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaigns, a former member of the University of California Board of Regents, and the former president of…

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