Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the Bay Area News Group and East Bay Times. He edits the Hills weekly Alameda Journal, Berkeley Voice, El Cerrito Journal, Montclarion and Piedmonter newspapers; Central Costa County's weekly Concord Transcript and Walnut Creek Journal papers; and East Contra Costa's weekly East County News.
A dream of some African American women in California for the last three years has been getting one of their own into the U.S. Senate.Black women have been there before, in the persons of Carole Moseley Braun, of Illinois, who served from 1993 to 1999, and California’s own Kamala Harris from 2016 until her 2020 election to vice president. For almost four years since the accession of Harris to the nation’s second-highest office, though, there were none.
Butler’s decision was a favor not only to Newsom but to all the other Democrats in this Senate race: That includes the three Democratic Congress members running with substantial poll leads over all Republicans in the field. What once appeared sure to be a general election race next fall of Democrat versus Democrat could easily have become any of the Democrats facing Garvey. Butler’s contribution to the splintering could have been to divide the Black-woman vote now considered Lee’s property and to further fracture “we-want-a-woman” voters, who still could split among Lee, Porter and Pascucci.
She also had to know that her fairly recent move to Maryland — one she reversed immediately upon getting Newsom’s nod — would harm her in a California Senate race. The political and mathematical reality is that by not running, Butler avoids diluting Democratic votes to the point where a Republican like Garvey would stand a good chance of making next November’s runoff and possibly squeaking into the Senate.
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