LOS ANGELES (KABC) — As her time in the Senate winds down, California Sen. Laphonza Butler says she’s proud of what she’s accomplished.
“There are days when I still wake up and pinch myself,” Butler told Eyewitness News. “As a kid growing up in a small town in Mississippi who has been able to find her way in California and do good work and make such an impression on Californians that they would be so trusting of the governor’s appointment to one of the most prized positions in our government.”
In that position, Butler co-sponsored a piece of legislation with Alabama Republican Sen. Katie Britt on maternal health and worked on climate resiliency with Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford. She hopes the next California senator will do more to create affordable housing.
“What are the actual plans that HUD and role that HUD can be playing to help to break down some of the historic barriers to build up housing and do public investment in communities across the state of California,” Butler said.