GOP lawmaker Issa demands answers from Newsom, Senate leaders on Laphonza Butler's Maryland residency

Fox News ^ | October 2, 2023 | By Jamie Joseph

[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.

[SecondAmendment]

Hey non-impeached TX AG Paxton, time to go to work and file a lawsuit blocking this nomination !

[fieldmarshaldj]

C’mon, with Laughapalooza Butler, Maryland will have three Sinators.

[Leaning Right]

Questions about residency?

[lightman]

Following the grand tradition and precedent by former NY Senator Hillary Clinton and Utah Senator Mitt Romney.

Rules are meant for the ruled.

[Seruzawa]

Is it a strongly worded letter?

[qaz123]

Is there a law in California that says its Representatives or Senators have to be citizens of the state?

I’m pretty sure Georgia doesn’t and that’s how the House ended up with Lucy McBath, who was living in Chattanooga, I think.

Same goes for Ossoff, who ran for a state seat. State Senate, I think and didn’t live in the district. And no one in Georgia cared. And he almost won.

[anton]

And, a strongly worded statement to Fox News.

[Round Earther]

She has a house in California and changed her voter registration to her California address.

As long as that is the case before she takes the oath of office, I don’t think there is a law to prevent her becoming a senator representing California.

[MinorityRepublican]

She has a house in California and changed her voter registration to her California address.

When did she buy the house?

[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. This woman has zero qualifications, she is a leftist stooge, she has no understanding of the Constitution or the concerns of Legacy Americans. All she’s going to do is rubber-stamp the leftist agenda.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Is it a strongly worded letter?

Indeed. With the promise of an even more strongly worded second letter if needed.

[Round Earther]

Is Fox News Digital a local, state, or federal court?

[Round Earther]

The article states she lived in her California house before to took the gig with Emily’s List.

[MinorityRepublican]

https://emilyslist.org/our-leadership/ capture on internet archive 6 Mar 2023 ABOUT EMILYS LIST Meet the team dedicated to electing Democratic pro-choice women: EMILYs List’s Board of Directors and Senior Leadership. Jump to… Board of Directors Laphonza Butler is the president of EMILYs List. As a leader in Democratic politics, campaign strategy, and the labor movement for two decades, she has dedicated her life to empowering women and supporting them in finding their voice, and using it to make meaningful change. Prior to joining EMILYs List, Butler served as Director of Public Policy and Campaigns in North America for Airbnb. She also was a partner at SCRB Strategies, a political consulting firm where she was a strategist for candidates running up and down the ballot and a senior advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. With nearly 20 years in the labor movement, Butler has served as the president of the biggest union in California, and the nation’s largest homecare workers union, SEIU Local 2015. She was elected to this position at just 30 years old, one of the youngest to take on this role. As president, Butler was the leading voice, strategist, and architect of efforts to address pay inequity for women in California and a top advocate for raising the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour – the first state in the nation to do so, benefiting millions of working women in low wage jobs. That effort also gave hundreds of thousands of home workers access to paid time off. She also served as an SEIU International Vice President and President of the SEIU California State Council. Throughout her career, Butler has been highly regarded as a strategist working to elect Democratic women candidates in political offices across California and nationally. A long-time supporter of Kamala Harris in her California runs, Butler was a key leader in Vice President Harris’s presidential campaign. She served as a senior advisor to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in California during the primary and general elections. Most recently, Butler was a campaign operative behind the campaign to make the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors all-women for the first time in its history with the election of Holly Mitchell. She has been a member of the University of California Board of Regents and a member of the board of directors for the Children’s Defense Fund and BLACK PAC. Laphonza grew up in Magnolia, MS, and attended one of the country’s premier HBCUs, Jackson State University. She lives in Maryland with her partner Neneki Lee and their daughter Nylah.

[Reily]

If there ever was an example as to why the 17th Amendment should be repealed this is it!

The California State legislature would likely choose an ass but at least it would be a California ass.

[RetiredTexasVet]

The Jackal strikes again.

[tsowellfan]

When did she buy the house?

Probably tomorrow the DNC will buy it for her.

[ConservativeInPA]

Wow! A letter, that will show them. Maybe it will be strongly worded too.

[DIRTYSECRET]

*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.