CA gov Newsom picks resident of MARYLAND to replace Feinstein as CA senator!!
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T. A. Gardner
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Considering the state of California wants to continue to tax them, I'd say that's a possibility.
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Into the Night
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A resident of Maryland cannot be a Senator for any other State other than Maryland.
The SDTC cannot vote for Senator of Maryland (well, I suppose it CAN, it's just meaningless!).
Into the Night
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Indeed, the SDTC should not have any Senators or Representatives, since it is no longer a State of the Union. It no longer recognizes the Constitution of the United States nor the Constitution of the State of California. The current for of government in the SDTC is dictatorship.
Into the Night
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How do you know he supported it?
Into the Night
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Into the Night
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These taxes are illegal. The SDTC cannot collect taxes from people or business activity that is not within it's border. People do not have to pay this tax. Any attempt by the SDTC to seize property or money that is not in their territory is an act of war.
The current definition of illegal is "Not allowed by the Revolution".
The Constitution is over.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
I'll bet he still thinks the rest of us LIKE California......
Lightbringer
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Just a guess on my part but I'm guessing Newsom doesn't like Adam Schiff much.
This was a boss move.
T. A. Gardner
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Does anybody like Schiff much?
Lightbringer
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He is a solid Revolution performer.
floridafan
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YOU supported it.
T. A. Gardner
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Into the Night
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This isn't about the Constitution, dummy. Pay attention.
Into the Night
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I am not he. How do you know he supported it?
cawacko
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You are obviously free not to read these but here are two articles from the SF Chronicle about Newsom, his decision and how it will affect him. There first is from a progressive (from a couple of days ago)
Gavin Newsom is in a no-win situation with Dianne Feinstein replacement
The death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein puts Gov. Gavin Newsom in a no-win position politically.
No matter who he appoints on an interim basis to replace her before California’s March 5 primary, Newsom is going to tick off someone.
His decisions won’t just have a short-term effect on the Senate and on California politics. If Black activists feel that Newsom hasn’t fully fulfilled his promise to choose a Black woman to replace Feinstein, it could cripple Newsom’s potential plans to seek national office after his term expires in 2026 — just as the 2028 presidential campaign will be kicking into gear.
Newsom’s promise has backed him into a corner.
A top-level Feinstein staffer, for example, could probably take over the role temporarily without much friction. So, too, could former Sen. Barbara Boxer, former Rep. Jackie Speier or a long-serving member of Congress such as Rep. Doris Matsui. After the death of Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy in 2009, one of his former aides and former Democratic National Committee Chair Paul Kirk was appointed on an interim basis to replace him.
But they are now off the table, given Newsom’s promise.
Now that he’s committed to appointing a Black woman, he could pick someone who does not have high name recognition or a high-profile background but who could competently execute the job for a short period of time. On KQED’s “Forum” show Friday, Speier suggested appointing Angela Glover Blackwell, the founder of PolicyLink, an organization devoted to advancing racial and economic justice.
But there is mounting political pressure among many Black activists who want Newsom to appoint Rep. Barbara Lee, who has represented the East Bay in the state Legislature and the U.S. House for more than three decades.
Newsom won’t do that because Lee is running for Feinstein’s Senate seat, and he doesn’t want to tip the scales in her favor.
“It would be completely unfair to the Democrats that have worked their tail off. That primary is just a matter of months away, I don’t want to tip the balance of that,” he said earlier this month on “Meet the Press.”
An appointment would be a significant boost for Lee.
Lee is trailing in polls and will never be able to raise enough money to keep pace with her top Democratic rivals, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Burbank, and Rep. Katie Porter, D-Irvine, and build her statewide name recognition. Both Schiff and Porter are better known to voters, largely because they have built their profiles through their national TV exposure on cable news and have created viral moments on social media.
That’s never been Lee’s style. Plus, as Lee has told me on the Chronicle’s “It’s All Political on Fifth & Mission” podcast, it is harder for Black women to raise money nationally. Having “U.S. Senator” on the ballot next to her name could level the playing field for Lee.
But Newsom is not going to toss Lee the lifeline of an interim appointment. And that will put Newsom in a political quandary.
If he wants to run for president, one of his primary opponents is likely to be Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Black person, first Indian American and first woman to serve in that position. He needs to get some support from Black women to compete with Harris.
If he doesn’t appoint Lee, Newsom risks alienating Black women, among the most loyal voters in the party, if he is perceived as disrespecting them.
If they turn against him, his presidential ambitions will be badly damaged, said Aimee Allison, an Oakland resident who founded She the People, a national group that works to advance women of color in politics.
“If he doesn’t support a Black woman, he will hurt his legacy and push Black women voters — a significant and critical voting bloc — to view him as someone who is unwilling to support us when it counts,” Allison told me this year.
Boxer, who served with Feinstein for 24 years in the Senate after they were first elected in 1992, told me Friday that Newsom should stick with his promise to appoint a Black woman.
But Boxer doesn’t think that appointing Lee would level the playing field for Lee against her rivals. It would give her an inappropriate advantage.
“That doesn’t level anything — if he picked one of the three,” Boxer said. “You have to stay out of it. It’s ridiculous. This is a hotly contested race. Why on earth would the sitting governor do that?”
Boxer has told the top Democrats in the race that she doesn’t plan to endorse any of them before the primary.
And forget other names being floated around for the interim gig, including San Francisco Mayor London Breed, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly Mitchell. They all HAVE jobs. Why would they leave them for a temporary gig? Plus, they’ve all said that they don’t want to do it.
Secretary of State Shirley Weber has declined to comment on whether she would take the interim job. Weber has endorsed Lee for Senate.
Boxer said that because the interim gig would be a temporary one, Newsom doesn’t have to pick a political veteran. She declined to suggest any.
“This is a caretaker position. You don’t need someone who is super-experienced,” Boxer said. “This is an election year. What he needs to find is someone who will be a team player and get these bills across the line. I don’t think you need a seasoned person.”
Boxer said Newsom shouldn’t worry about getting blowback for his pick. Boxer said Bill Clinton once said that it is “better to be strong and wrong than weak and right.”
And he should be ready to accept the consequences.
“Whenever I had to make a tough decision,” Boxer said, “I knew that one-third of the people would love me for it, one-third of the people would hate me and one-third would say, ‘Who is Barbara Boxer? ’ ”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/newsom-feinstein-politics-18396515.php
cawacko
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This is a more moderate liberal columnist. This is from today's paper:
Newsom’s handling of Feinstein’s replacement was a highlight reel of his political flaws
Despite his many years in politics, Gov. Gavin Newsom still has an uncanny ability to shoot himself in the foot.
Newsom’s knack for backing himself into corners of his own making, issuing bold statements that crumble under the slightest pressure, and pursuing grand visions without much regard to details, has defined his response to his second U.S. Senate appointment.
Long before Newsom chose Laphonza Butler, president of the national organization Emily’s List that works to elect pro-choice Democratic women to political office, to replace Dianne Feinstein in the Senate following her death last week, he had already twisted himself into so many rhetorical pretzels that, unsurprisingly, some were no longer politically viable and had to be unwound.
So focused was Newsom on Butler’s biography — that she would be the first Black lesbian to serve in Congress in American history and the second Black woman to represent California in the Senate — that he appears to have deemed insignificant the significant fact that Butler has lived in Maryland since 2021.
The Newsom administration reassured reporters Sunday night that Butler, who for years lived in California, still owns a home in the state and will re-register to vote here. However, reporters noticed Sunday night that mentions of Butler living in Maryland had been scrubbed from her online biographies on X (formerly Twitter) and the Emily’s List website.
Republicans, naturally, had a field day with Newsom.
“Out of 40 million California residents, Gavin Newsom seriously couldn’t find one to serve in the Senate?” asked Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher of Yuba City (Sutter County), blasting the governor for choosing “Maryland’s third U.S. Senator.”
Newsom seems to have made the bet that Californians would care more about the fact that Butler would be the first openly LGBTQ+ person to represent them in the U.S. Senate than the fact that Butler doesn’t currently live in California.
Having diverse perspectives, backgrounds and experiences in the halls of power is of course important. Newsom deserves some praise for seeking to elevate the voices of those who traditionally haven’t had a seat in Congress.
But focusing on demographic characteristics above all else is reductive – and leads to tokenization. Indeed his entire approach to the prospect of Feinstein’s seat opening up has been filled with blunders of his own making.
In 2021, amid reports about Feinstein’s dwindling health and mental acuity, Newsom vowed to appoint a Black woman to her Senate seat if she were to resign before her term ended in 2024. The promise was apparently intended to placate Black women voters — often considered the backbone of the Democratic Party — angered that he didn’t choose a Black woman to replace Kamala Harris in the Senate when she was elected Vice President. (Newsom instead picked longtime ally Alex Padilla, highlighting the fact that he would be California’s first Latino U.S. Senator.)
Not only did many view Newsom’s actions as disrespectful to Feinstein — who had no intention of resigning — but they also came across as politically self-serving, as Newsom at the time was fending off a recall election.
“You don’t have to like Dianne Feinstein to see that pushing her out of her elected position for a Black woman appointment that you could have made when there is an actual vacancy to win a recall to push you out of your elected position is a very bad look,” tweeted Christine Pelosi, daughter of House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and former chair of the California Democratic Party Women’s Caucus.
Newsom quickly walked back his comments, saying he had “zero expectations” Feinstein would retire early.
But he clearly didn’t learn his lesson, because just a few weeks ago he said that if he had to pick someone for Feinstein’s seat, it would be an “interim appointment” who wouldn’t run in the 2024 election.
“That primary is just a matter of months away, I don’t want to tip the balance of that,” Newsom said.
His comments infuriated Rep. Barbara Lee, the only Black woman candidate for the Senate seat, and many other political onlookers.
“The idea that a Black woman should be appointed only as a caretaker to simply check a box is insulting to countless Black women across this country who have carried the Democratic Party to victory election after election,” Lee said in a statement.
The bad optics of Newsom’s patronizing box-checking were so blatant that on Sunday, a few days after Feinstein’s death, the governor walked back those comments as well and said his appointment would be free to run in 2024 if she wished.
How kind of him to allow a woman to make decisions about her own career!
Newsom then named a Black woman to the Senate seat — but one who lives in Maryland, not California.
The governor’s bumbling response to the Senate seat opening should serve as a cautionary tale for those who see him as the vanguard of the Democratic Party and as a presidential contender.
Eager to generate headlines and to make history, Newsom is great at making bold proclamations — even if he contradicts them moments later.
But a leader who puts good governance first wouldn’t have said anything about Feinstein’s seat unless and until the time came to make a decision.
Forgoing the spotlight, however, has never been Newsom’s strong suit.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion...nza-butler-feinstein-senate-pick-18401766.php
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