Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said that he will not seek reelection, putting an end to speculation about his plans for next year and adding to the uncertainty that Democrats will be able to retain control of the Senate.
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Laphonza Butler, the first Black LGBTQ+ U.S. senator, won’t run in 2024 for the California seat to which she was recently appointed. Photo: Power Summit 2022
Laphonza Butler, the first Black LGBTQ+ U.S. senator, won’t run in 2024 for the California seat to which she was recently appointed.
Butler made the statement Thursday in an interview with The New York Times.
Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed her to serve the remainder of Dianne Feinstein’s term after Feinstein’s death Sept. 29.
“Butler said that she intended to be ‘the loudest, proudest champion of California’ in the 383 days remaining in her term in office, but that she had realized ‘this is not the greatest use of my voice’,” the Times reported.
“I believe leaders should have real clarity about why they’re in office and what they want to do with the power they hold,” she said.
Before taking the Senate seat, Butler had been president of EMILY’s List, which works to elect pro-choice Democratic women to office, since 2021. She was the first Black woman to head the group. She is a former president of Service Employees International Union Local 2015, the largest union in California and the largest union for home-care workers in the nation.
She had worked on Kamala Harris’s and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns as well.
When Newsom appointed Butler, he said she was free to run for a full term if she chose. Several others have announced they’re running, including current U.S. Reps. Adam Schiff, Barbara Lee, and Katie Porter, all Democrats, and former Major League Baseball player Steve Garvey, a Republican.
Several months before she died, Feinstein announced that she would not run for reelection in 2024. Newsom opted not to appoint one of the declared candidates because
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said that he will not seek reelection, putting an end to speculation about his plans for next year and adding to the uncertainty that Democrats will be able to retain control of the Senate.
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