“Laphonza Butler was in Colorado for a work trip late Saturday when she spoke with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s team for the first time about filling the U.S. Senate vacancy left by the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein,” the Los Angeles Times reports.
Said Butler: “I had not talked to anyone: Not the governor, not the governor’s team. I was unaware that my name was even seriously being considered. And it’s been a sort of whirlwind ever since.”
As for whether she will run for the seat next year: “I have no idea. I genuinely don’t know.”
Playbook: “Butler officially has two months to make up her mind: California’s filing deadline is Dec. 8, but even that is a stretch: If she runs, she might have the advantage of incumbency, but she’d be playing catch-up in just about every other way imaginable — particularly money.”
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