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Laphonza Butler, who will be sworn in Tuesday as California’s senator, called smart and savvy

The Press Enterprise 03 Oct 2023
A Mississippi native, she spent little more than a decade here before moving to Washington, D.C., two years ago to lead the non-profit that works to elect women to political office ... “She’s a younger woman, a Black woman, a lesbian and an out lesbian,” Walsh said ... “He knows that Black women will never raise their voices against another Black woman.
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California governor chooses labor leader and Democratic insider to fill Feinstein's Senate seat

Bowling Green Daily News 03 Oct 2023
Once she is sworn in, Butler will be the only Black woman in the Senate and the first openly LGBTQ+ California senator ... Newsom faced intense pressure from Black political leaders and advocacy groups to appoint Lee to the seat after he pledged to name a Black woman should Feinstein be unable to finish her term.
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California governor chooses labor leader and Democratic insider to fill Feinstein’s Senate seat

Wtop 03 Oct 2023
Once she is sworn in, Butler will be the only Black woman in the Senate and the first openly LGBTQ+ California senator ... Newsom faced intense pressure from Black political leaders and advocacy groups to appoint Lee to the seat after he pledged to name a Black woman should Feinstein be unable to finish her term.
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Mississippi native Laphonza Butler chosen to fill Dianne Feinstein's U.S. Senate seat

Hattiesburg American 03 Oct 2023
Once she is sworn in, Butler will be the only Black woman in the Senate and the first openly LGBTQ+ California senator ... Newsom faced intense pressure from Black political leaders and advocacy groups to appoint Lee to the seat after he pledged to name a Black woman should Feinstein be unable to finish her term.
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Calif. governor chooses labor leader, Democratic insider to fill Feinstein's Senate seat

The Day 03 Oct 2023
Once she is sworn in, Butler will be the only Black woman in the Senate and the first openly LGBTQ+ California senator ... Newsom faced intense pressure from Black political leaders and advocacy groups to appoint Lee to the seat after he pledged to name a Black woman should Feinstein be unable to finish her term.
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Healthcare Advocate and Former Assemblymember Mary Hayashi Announces the Upcoming Release of Her New Book ...

Longview News-Journal 03 Oct 2023
3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Former California State�Assemblymember Mary Hayashi has announced the upcoming release of her new book Women in Politics ... Mary's political and other achievements are significant not because she is a woman, but because she worked tirelessly to ensure their importance.
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Column: Democrats should be putting Black women like Laphonza Butler on the ballot

The Los Angeles Times 03 Oct 2023
Gavin Newsom pledged to have a Black woman fill the seat that was vacated when Sen ... Qualifications were never the primary barrier for Black women in Congress or any other station in politics, were they? We could celebrate the fact that there’s a Black woman in the Senate or bemoan the fact that the only one had to be appointed rather than elected.
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LZ Granderson: Democrats should be putting Black women like Laphonza Butler on the ballot

The Eagle-Tribune 03 Oct 2023
Gavin Newsom pledged to have a Black woman fill the seat that was vacated when Sen ... Qualifications were never the primary barrier for Black women in Congress or any other station in politics, were they? We could celebrate the fact that there's a Black woman in the Senate or bemoan the fact that the only one had to be appointed rather than elected.
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Mark Z. Barabak: A solid Senate pick and a craven move by Gavin Newsom

The Eagle-Tribune 03 Oct 2023
Gavin Newsom was in his element, hand-feeding dishy commentary to an eager political press corps ... the flipping and flopping, the wilting under political heat, is all a product of his own ham-fisted making ... Seeking to make amends — and shore up his political base — Newsom rashly promised to appoint a Black woman if Feinstein's seat came open.
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How Laphonza Butler could reshape California’s U.S. Senate race

Californian 03 Oct 2023
Politics can wait.” ... A poll released Monday, but conducted Sunday before Butler’s appointment was announced, suggests that California voters generally favor appointing a Black woman to Feinstein’s seat, said Christian Grose, professor of political science and public policy at the University of Southern California.
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APC Tasks Security Agents to Fish Out Killer of Woman Member in Kogi

This Day 03 Oct 2023
Spokesman/Director, Media and Publicity, Kogi APC Governorship Campaign Council, Kingsley Fanwo, made this call while addressing newsmen in Lokoja  yesterday over the death of a woman member of the party who was allegedly killed by SPD thugs at a political rally in Koton Karfe, Kogi Local government area of the State.
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Coomi Kapoor writes: Euphoria over women's reservation Bill should be tempered with scepticism

Indian Express 03 Oct 2023
The Modi government\u2019s introduction of the Bill in a five-day special session at the fag end of a 10 year-term, taking everyone by surprise, was no doubt a political coup ... In our highly patriarchal rough-and-tumble political milieu, it is difficult for an aspiring woman politician to break through without the help of male mentors.
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Meanwood crash: Polite Moyo's family pay tribute to 'beautiful soul'

BBC News 03 Oct 2023
Polite Moyo and a woman, 19, were passengers in a car which crashed into a telegraph pole in Leeds. .
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Artist Roya Karbakhsh On Capturing Turmoil and Hope

New York Observer 03 Oct 2023
A nude wheat-skinned woman closes her eyes tightly ... In addition to spotlighting the artwork of these women and Karbakhsh’s Being a Woman series, the show will also serve as a response to the Iranian political crisis sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, while in the custody of the morality police.
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In portraying Gandhi and Ambedkar at odds with each, RSS is trying to further its agenda of exclusionary hyper-nationalism

Indian Express 03 Oct 2023
The ability of the Sangh Parivar to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds has to be discussed in political circles ... In the current context of sharp polarisation in political positions, it is worth exploring the RSS\u2019s handpicking of discord rather than unity when remembering Mahatma Gandhi.

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