When they Go Low, We Go Toe to Toe - PG:CC with Laphonza Butler

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

President of Emily’s List Laphonza Butler joins me on the day the Supreme Court strips women of their constitutional right to bodily autonomy. We were going to talk all the positive actions Emily’s List has been taking to get pro-choice women candidates elected up and down the ballot, and the importance of supporting pro-choice candidates in this political environment but, for obvious reasons, the day’s events took us on another journey…Join us as we get fired up for the fight ahead. These people have no idea what they’ve unleashed. Hell hath no fury… Guest social: Emily’s List: https://www.emilyslist.org Connecting women and electing women to make progressive change. Text JOIN to 47717 to join us. Twitter: @emilyslist Twitter: @LaphonzaB Insta: emilys_list Linktree: https://linktr.ee/EMILYsList Please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All PG show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl Don’t forget to send questions via email, video or audio for the ASK PG Episode to: [email protected] Thank you to today’s sponsor! www.blinkist.com/politicsgirl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're amazing. I love you.
0:03.3	God damn woman. I'm so glad you're in charge right now. I was like,
0:07.4	I am so glad you're doing politics girl. I saw you on MSNBC. I was like, hey!
0:13.5	I know!
0:14.4	I don't know!
0:15.5	They want to talk to me. And I think it's so great because I talk like normal people,
0:19.0	right? I'm like, I don't know if I believe that, like, but most people, that's how they think.
0:23.6	So they go like, yeah, that, that. And I think that's how you are. I think you're like, listen,
0:28.1	you know, I had a completely different podcast planned for you. Totally different. And then
0:32.0	this happened. I was like, well, let's do this one. We just are raw with it. We are just going to
0:36.4	raw with it because that's what we have to do every day in our lives anyway.
0:51.2	Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host, Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.
0:55.7	Today's pod is a candid conversation with Lafons of Butler, the President of Emily's List,
1:00.8	the Political Action Committee dedicated to helping elect pro-choice women to office.
1:05.4	At 30 years old, Lafons was elected president of the biggest union in California,
1:09.6	and the nation's largest home care workers union. She spent over a decade in the role and was
1:14.0	a leading voice in the American labor movement, leading the campaign for California's $15 minimum wage,
1:19.4	first in the nation, and equal pay for women in home care. Lafons was a partner at SCRB
1:24.9	Strategies, a political consulting firm where she was a strategist for candidates running up and
1:29.2	down the ballot. Most recently, she served as senior advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris'
1:33.7	presidential campaign. Tap to run Emily's List in 2021, Lafons was quoted saying,
1:39.3	as someone who has spent her entire career empowering women, I am excited to continue that work,
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