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Pressure is on Newsom to quickly appoint Feinstein’s temporary replacement
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If I were placing a bet, it would be on Shirley Weber, a black woman who Newsom appointed to be SoS when he named Alex Padilla to the US Senate. She's a former state legislator, and at age 75 a 15 month appointment to the US Senate would be a fine way to cap off her political career, while making good on Newsom's promise to name a black woman and to appointment a "caretaker" who wouldn't run for the post.
Perfect. It’s not overthinking it, while keeping a promise, and not rebuffing anyone who wants to or is already running for the seat. I hope he doesn’t fuck this up.
And then she stays for next 30+ years...
I'm joking, that sounds reasonable and would also fit his statement that he won't pick up either of the running candidate to not tip the scale and to not tip it would have to be somebody who won't run next year. So as long as she guarantees that she won't run, then indeed she sounds like a great choice.
love it
I'd rather we stop putting geriatrics in the senate, even temporarily
Ageism is wonderful. Maybe we should just shoot everyone over 30?
If we're going to do something like that can we go full Logan's Run and have a Carousel and orgies and everything?
The children in this thread don't know what Logan's run is. 😆
Yeah, I think their version was called 'The island', which was a decent movie, but definitely no Logan's Run.
Let's not pretend that anyone over the age of 70 immediately becomes mentally incompetent. That's not only ridiculous it's insulting. These things should be taken on a Case by case basis.
It's also Ageist.