U.S. Senate nominee Laphonza Butler is a longtime political operative with ties to Vice President Kamala Harris, failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom — the man who nominated her to fill the seat of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).
A New York-based consulting firm called the Mintz Group said on Friday that Chinese police raided its offices in Beijing for unclear reasons and arrested all five of the Chinese nationals who worked there. Mintz said the Chinese government has “closed our operations there” and will not allow the company to contact its imprisoned employees.
Authentic, a Democrat digital consulting firm, dropped Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) as a client after she changed her party affiliation to Independent on Friday, according to a person close to the firm, who told Politico.
A plan by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) would ban China-linked consulting firms from receiving contracts from the United States federal government.
