Laphonza Butler

“While extremist Republicans actively choose to make quality health care coverage harder to come by, Democrats are standing on the side of American people - ready to fight and ready to deliver.”

“Broadband Internet is no longer a modern luxury. It's essential infrastructure to participate in the economy of today and tomorrow, and the lack of broadband creates perhaps the largest opportunity costs facing Americans who live in rural areas.”

“My life has always been an example for women and girls and their economic empowerment and I want to continue that.”

“Our state is known for standing on the right side of history and for our bold leadership on policies that strengthen California families.”

“The right wing has really been telling us exactly what their intentions were as it relates to Roe for years now. It's their intention to overturn Roe.”

“When we stand strong and united nothing can stop us.”

“I only know how to be a Black woman. I don't know anything else, and so I don't know how to lead any other way.”

“My grandparents were patriots who had to be urgent about the promise of America for their eleven children. The promise that if they worked hard and played by the rules that their children would never have to see sharecropping as their destiny.”

“Extremist attacks on reproductive freedom have strained financial resources and personnel at clinics in abortion-protected states, leaving them struggling to provide care for the influx of patients traveling from anti-abortion states.”

“With the apparent demise of Trumpcare, we have shown the power that ordinary people have to stop disastrous policy.”

“We think that every Republican running for office has to make their intentions known to voters about where they stand on a woman's right to make her own health care decisions and Roe v. Wade.”

“I'm the granddaughter to Carrie, a sharecropper from Louisiana, crippled at a young age by polio. The granddaughter to Lettie Ruth, a maid who had to take her children to the homes of the white families for whom she cleaned and children she cared for even as she worked to get her certificate as a nursing assistant.”

“Accessing mental health care and support has become increasingly difficult in nearly every state in the country. Barriers get even more difficult if you are a young person who lacks a supportive community or is fearful of being outed, harassed, or threatened.”

“They know the most intimate information about their care recipients, including what medications need to be taken and what foods work with specific diets. We count on them to clean trach tubes, care for wounds, and tend to personal grooming needs. They are nursing home and home care workers - they are caregivers.”

“I am dedicated to being the senator for all of California.”

“When I was in the third grade, I remember my mom was a CNA who worked the 11 P.M. to 7 A.M. shift.”

“While we keep pushing to codify the protections of Roe, steps like the ACCESS Act are necessary to meet the growing demands for quality reproductive care.”

“I am committed to doing the work in Washington to secure the funding needed to ensure clean water for current and future generations in California.”

“We must shape a restorative justice system that does not seek to criminalize whole communities, but instead creates opportunities for prevention and integration. Most importantly, this system must be grounded in the fundamental premise that all people are innocent until proven guilty and that all of us deserve a fair second chance.”

“Most Americans believe that women should have the right to make decisions about their own body. This stance crosses political lines, socioeconomic lines and color lines.”