SHE COULDN'T BE MORE CORRUPT THAN FEINSTEIN WHO RANKS ONE OF TOP TEN MOST CORRUPT IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY.... OR COULD SHE?
She also was tight with Kamala Harris, acted as an "advisor" to her during her failed presidential candidacy and remains one of Harris's few open boosters. Once again, the old California machine politics, particularly with Newsom a close friend of Harris's.
Cronies: Laphonza Butler defended fallen Los Angeles political kingpin at his sentencing for corruption
On the right, much has been made of newly appointed Sen. Laphonza Butler's non-residence in California, being a union official living and being registered to vote in the state of Maryland.
She may be a non-resident swiftly changing her voter registration, as reported, but she's not an outsider.
Actually, she is an insider, right there in the inner circle of all the worst blue-state cronies.
When Los Angeles's most powerful machine pol, Mark Ridley-Thomas, was indicted for impossible-to-ignore corruption charges, Butler was right there to tell the judge to go easy on her "mentor":
Which tells us a lot about her insider status in the one-party blue state of California.
Corruption breeds when there's no chance of any change of power, no opposition looking over one's shoulder, no checks or balances.
Butler, obviously, was part of this tight group that runs California given her insistence on defending Ridley-Thomas instead of calling for clean government.
She also was tight with Kamala Harris, acted as an "advisor" to her during her failed presidential candidacy and remains one of Harris's few open boosters. Once again, the old California machine politics, particularly with Newsom a close friend of Harris's.
Her usefulness to these California Democrats as an important fundraiser, through her recent leadership position at Emily's List, is yet another indicator that money flows from her direction and can continue to flow based on the old cronyism.
Anybody think to ask Butler what Ridley-Thomas did for her and how she "owes" him based on that letter?
This tells us a lot about the narrow little inner circle of California politics, which is all about protecting and defending its own.
Look for some skeletons to emerge from Butler's closet given this one-hand-washes-the-other dynamic of these cronies.
It all but seems inevitable.
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