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GOP lawmaker Issa demands answers from Newsom, Senate leaders on Laphonza Butler's Maryland residency
Fox News ^ | October 2, 2023 | By Jamie Joseph

Posted on 10/02/2023 3:24:43 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is expected to send a letter to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Monday afternoon expressing concern over Newsom’s recent appointee to replace the late Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

Newsom tapped Laphonza Butler, the president of EMILY's List – a Democratic political action committee (PAC) dedicated to electing pro-abortion Democratic women to office – for the vacant interim Senate seat late Sunday evening.

However, Butler's home address is listed in Silver Spring, Maryland, and Issa is questioning the constitutionality of her ability to take office while residing in a different state than the one she will represent.

"We're not talking about the question of majority, we're talking about 38 million Californians who have an absolute right to have somebody who puts California first – not who puts the District of Columbia first or Maryland, where she's a resident, first," Issa told Fox News Digital in an interview Monday.

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TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: laphonzabutler; laughapaloozabutler
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

*Everyone’s missing the point in that this is just the continuation of purging Whites from government and inevitably from society itself.*

U R rong. Y would I say this when I agree?

You see the left will always push our button on issues that get us to waste our time pursuing. Think the Kenyan’s birth certificate or Bill Clinton’s black son. No DNA comparison. Benghazi witnesses? None came forward so it didn’t happen. Now the cigar in the Oval Office was worth it. There was too many ways to find out.

Pick our battles my friends. Then do it for effect. Just remember the democrats are smarter than us. There are no Lee Atwater out there.


21 posted on 10/02/2023 4:01:11 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

As long as she promises to hate white people she is in...


22 posted on 10/02/2023 4:07:40 PM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

She’s a stinking commie. She’ll give Sanders a run for the money for insane liberalism. Just what the country needs.


23 posted on 10/02/2023 4:14:31 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

But she was a Community Organizer and head of the SEIU Union. Plus it’s another first! Black homo female senator. What else matters.

She’ll vote the straight “C” ticket (Commie).


24 posted on 10/02/2023 4:16:49 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: MinorityRepublican

What state is her Driver’s License issued from??

What address is on her insurance???

Her mail?

Her bank accounts?

Her investments?


25 posted on 10/02/2023 4:23:47 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Round Earther

I lived in Wisconsin before I moved to Calif.....

I lived in Calif before I moved to Nevada


26 posted on 10/02/2023 4:24:52 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: qaz123

OSSoff ended up “winning” the US Senate seat in the “not stolen” 2020 election.


27 posted on 10/02/2023 4:26:17 PM PDT by Ragnar54 (Obama replaced Osama as America's worst enemy and Al Qaeda's financier)
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To: MinorityRepublican; All

Where does she pay state taxes?

If she has a Maryland house does she claim it as her primary residence to get a reduced property tax for homestead exemption?

Figure this out and you figure out residency


28 posted on 10/02/2023 4:35:28 PM PDT by silverleaf (Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: cgbg
As long as she promises to hate white people she is in...

They all do. All the black leftists who hold power despises Whites. Even black Republicans will make a statement about the "need for Whites to atone for their history" or some other garbage.

29 posted on 10/02/2023 4:38:38 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (NO WHITE GUILT - ABSOLUTELY NONE)
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To: silverleaf
A resident of Maryland is an individual:

(1) whose permanent home (domicile) is or was in Maryland,
or
(2) your permanent address is outside Maryland but you
maintained a place of abode in MD for more than 6 months.
You were physically present in the state for 183 days or
more. (also known as a statutory resident)

30 posted on 10/02/2023 4:54:48 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: Ragnar54

I know. I live in Georgia.

But before that, the guy whose only job was as a staffer for Hank Johnson, because his parents are Dem donors, almost won a state senate seat. And he didn’t live in the Senate district.


31 posted on 10/02/2023 4:56:22 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: MinorityRepublican

Evan Bayh claimed to live in a $50k Condo in Indiana with his lawyer wife who worked at Eli Lilly at one time and their twins.


32 posted on 10/02/2023 5:00:47 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

btw, when bayh was asked for his address he even gave the wrong address when revealing the address on his drivers license.


33 posted on 10/02/2023 5:02:58 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

I think this is the less than 1000 square foot condo that Evan Bayh said was his home address. It has gone up in value

https://www.redfin.com/IN/Indianapolis/1142-Canterbury-Sq-S-46260/unit-C/home/82253232


34 posted on 10/02/2023 5:05:23 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: MinorityRepublican

That’s refreshing.


35 posted on 10/02/2023 5:08:54 PM PDT by MarMema (Eat your bananas, enjoy the decline)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Jamie Raskin and family must be loving this choice.


36 posted on 10/02/2023 5:10:41 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: StormEye

Like I said
Check the tax records
Esp the prop tax for homestead exemption which can only be claimed if your Maryland home is your primary residence

Some Senator from California pulled this scam years ago
Claimed homestead break on his “ primary MD residence”

His “California residence” was, I believe, his in-laws house

She either paid state tax in MD, or California


37 posted on 10/02/2023 5:12:59 PM PDT by silverleaf (Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Seruzawa

RE: Is it a strongly worded letter?

Scorchingly, blisteringly hot. 📝🔥


38 posted on 10/02/2023 5:20:56 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: silverleaf

Maybe 99% of her income is said to be from an address in Antigua?🙂
Antigua residents benefit from no capital gains tax, no wealth or inheritance taxes, as well as no personal income taxes.


39 posted on 10/02/2023 5:25:22 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: MinorityRepublican

BLM riots, Fire Alarm, living in the State you represent, wiping with a cloth...what difference does it make to Libs! Rules and Laws are just tools to destroy Conservatives...l.


40 posted on 10/02/2023 5:26:30 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting….)
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