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Oprah Winfrey could replace Dianne Feinstein in Senate, report says
San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | May 23, 2023 | Eric Ting , SFGATE

Posted on 05/23/2023 9:55:26 PM PDT by thecodont

Among the many plot lines in the Dianne Feinstein saga is Gov. Gavin Newsom's pledge to appoint a Black woman to replace the 89-year-old should a vacancy arise before her term expires in January 2025.

He made that promise during his 2021 anti-recall campaign, and a new article from the Associated Press' Michael R. Blood conveys the extent to which the governor may have boxed himself in. While many Black Democrats expect the governor to follow through on his pledge, the two candidates who seemed the most likely at the time of the pledge — Reps. Barbara Lee and Karen Bass — may no longer be options. Lee is running against Rep. Adam Schiff to succeed Feinstein, so Newsom may want to avoid tilting the scales in that race. Meanwhile, Bass just began her tenure as mayor of Los Angeles.

That leaves the “caretaker” route, in which Newsom appoints someone who doesn't enter the Senate race, and the Associated Press story provided just one name that has been “floated in California circles” as a caretaker pick: celebrity talk show host Oprah Winfrey. exp-player-logo Read More

For whatever it's worth, people in “California circles” often float a ton of unsubstantiated gossip that's more “Hey, I’m just spitballing myself here” versus “Hey, a person close to the actual decision-maker told me this thing.” On the Oprah rumor specifically, however, there's reason to believe it may be closer to the latter than the former.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; diannefeinstein; ericting; feinstein; frankenfeinstein; newsom; oprah; oprahwinfrey; rumors; sanfrancisco; ussenate; winfrey
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To: thecodont

Democrats always replace someone with someone else even more extreme.

Whoever replaces Feinstein will make us wish Feinstein were still in office.


21 posted on 05/24/2023 12:01:49 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: thecodont

“Where Is Oprah’s Main Residence
Oprah’s main home is in Montecito, California. It is an estate called Promised Land, and is said to be worth more than $100 million. The estate covers 70 acres, and incorporates neighboring properties that Oprah has bought over time. “

https://www.homesandgardens.com/news/oprah-winfrey-buys-montecito-home-from-jeff-bridges


22 posted on 05/24/2023 12:29:18 AM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: lee martell

Hillary is still a carpetbagger


23 posted on 05/24/2023 12:59:17 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: lee martell

I thought the Obamas lived mostly out of Mass? If so, Michelle isn’t likely to be the ‘one’.

On Oprah, I doubt if she’s worked more than 10 hours a week in the past decade.

I’m more likely to believe that Harris is offered the seat, and leaves the VP position for Biden to fill with Governor Newsom of California.


24 posted on 05/24/2023 1:16:55 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: thecodont

Meghan Markle (Princess Yoko) lives in California.


25 posted on 05/24/2023 2:14:01 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: thecodont

Wiffy is too friggin’ stupid to work in Congress. Too stupid for even the Senate.


26 posted on 05/24/2023 2:33:09 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Since O'Bama was ruling the roost, America has gone from melting pot to septic tank of the world.)
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To: thecodont; Chode; SkyDancer; Salamander; Carriage Hill; Lockbox; MtnClimber; nascarnation; ...
Thanks, I just pukeburped My breakfast. 🤢 🤮

There's already way too many racist demonratcommieblmantifaterrorscumfeminazipedophilegoatrapers in congress* as it is.

okra can go to }{€££ and stay there !!!

*See My Tagline.

27 posted on 05/24/2023 2:55:08 AM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: lee martell

I thought it was, “carpetmuncher”..


28 posted on 05/24/2023 3:18:01 AM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: thecodont

will everybody get a car?


29 posted on 05/24/2023 3:39:59 AM PDT by ronniesgal (friends don't let friends be Kardashians)
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To: metmom

Job description for the average US Senator:

1). Mouth the party line and vote as the party leadership directs.
2). Operate a pay to play scam. In return for campaign money, insider trading tips, private financial deals, speaking fees, book deals, and high paying board seats and consulting gigs in retirement the Senator will insert special provisions benefiting patrons into bills numbering thousands of pages that no one reads.
3). Enjoy government paid junkets around the world, vacations on billionaire private islands, rubbing shoulders with celebrities, great sex, and lobbyist paid dining at the most expensive restaurants.

Even if Oprah was a California resident why would she want a job that is far below her social status, much less one that cannot enhance her lifestyle? Now Meghan Markle would probably jump at the chance to play the placeholder role.


30 posted on 05/24/2023 4:33:22 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it)
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To: thecodont

Orca Whalefree


31 posted on 05/24/2023 4:36:14 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: thecodont

I think they should pick Rob Reiner or Robert DiNero. They are perfect exemplars of adherents to the ideology.


32 posted on 05/24/2023 4:37:57 AM PDT by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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To: John S Mosby
Residents of Hawaii cannot be appointed Senator from California, or any other State for that matter.

Since leftists are no longer required to follow the law, the racist Oprah can be a senator for any state.

33 posted on 05/24/2023 4:41:32 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: thecodont
That leaves the “caretaker” route, in which Newsom appoints someone who doesn't enter the Senate race, and the Associated Press story provided just one name that has been “floated in California circles” as a caretaker pick: celebrity talk show host Oprah Winfrey.

OFS! Newsom should just be done with it and appoint a horse.

34 posted on 05/24/2023 5:04:06 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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To: lee martell

Good choice. Oprah could end her career in a good way—as long as she keeps her nose clean and votes the way she is told.


35 posted on 05/24/2023 5:05:53 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: thecodont

Oprah Winfrey? Only in California could you get someone dumber then DiFi. Dealing with her as a waiter when she visited GAYle King in Hartford, she was rude.


36 posted on 05/24/2023 5:07:13 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: thecodont

Pretty much anybody from Illinois can replace the California Senator.

But, just so you know, Adam Schitt has seen undeniable proof that Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama are colluding with the Russians . . .


37 posted on 05/24/2023 5:47:17 AM PDT by MCSETots (at)
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To: thecodont

There is probably smoke coming out of her checkbook


38 posted on 05/24/2023 5:50:32 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: thecodont

One braindead for another. Who would notice?

Of course, as corrupt as she was Feinstein never dabbled in child trafficking. So, this would be a step backward.


39 posted on 05/24/2023 5:51:22 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: BenLurkin

Caligula’s horse. Pennsylvania voters elected someone who is Caligula’s horse’s ass...🤓


40 posted on 05/24/2023 6:03:21 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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