Laphonza Butler will serve just 13 months in office, but she is defying expectations that she would simply keep California’s Senate seat warm. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Butler, appointed to the Senate in October, has hired new staff, proclaimed her own priorities and bucked her party in a key vote over Gaza.
SCOOP: OpenSecrets, a critical source for understanding how money influences U.S. politics, says it is auditing its foreign lobbying database after correcting several errors found by the Chronicle and a UC Berkeley researcher. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Lovely and sweet story that I got to write about bread and politics with a surprise appearance by one of the most stylish people of 2023 (at least according to the NYT). www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Kamala Harris just broke through another barrier: She has now cast the most tie-breaking votes of any vice president in history. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Love when other reporters legit copy my article...
Apropos of nothing, today's phrase is "a shanda for the goyim" It's when a Jew does something shameful in the presence of non-Jews which embarrasses the Jewish people by association. א שאנדע פאר די גוים (Yiddish)
LOL at the dude who literally cherry-picked clips for a video admitting he did so in a tweet, then calling me an anti-Zionist and taking it "out of context." (it's on the other, bad place)
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi served as one of two legal witnesses when Sen. Dianne Feinstein gave her daughter, Katherine Feinstein, limited power of attorney over her affairs in July, legal filings show. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
A clip of Monday’s Oakland City Council meeting posted by @yasharali.bsky.socialwww.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...