Rest in Peace Senator Feinstein
 

'Dianne Feinstein, centrist stalwart of the Senate, dies at 90'

"It was the morning of Nov. 27, 1978, and Dianne Feinstein, a future powerhouse of the U.S. Senate, had decided she was done with politics. After nine years on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, two failed bids for mayor and the recent death of her husband from colon cancer, she wanted out.

Hours later, gunshots rang out in City Hall. A former supervisor, Dan White, had fatally shot Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States. Mrs. Feinstein rushed to Milk and felt for a pulse. “My finger,” she later told the Los Angeles Times, “went into a bullet hole in his wrist.”

Then serving as board president, Mrs. Feinstein, who died Sept. 28, had the duty of announcing the deaths. The image of her standing before television cameras amid the panic, solemnly promising that just as the city had recovered from the devastation of the 1906 earthquake, “so too can we rebuild from the spiritual damage” of the killings, propelled her to the national spotlight.

By the city’s succession laws, Mrs. Feinstein was elevated to mayor, an office she held for nine years before losing a bid for California governor in 1990. Two years later, she won election to the Senate, where she rose to become chairwoman of the Intelligence Committee and the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. During more than three decades in office, she delivered muscular support as well as withering criticism of the CIA, helped mold the federal bench, championed an assault weapons ban, and held down the center of the Democratic Party as it moved swiftly to the left." Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obitu...-senator-dead/

Thank you for your service and rest in peace, Senator Feinstein.

Edit - This is a 'RIP' thread. It would be greatly appreciated if you could direct any bellyaching, gripes, pissing and moaning about my esteemed and recently deceased senator elsewhere. Start a thread of your own instead of depositing your desiccated angry droppings here. Thanks.

"Di Fi" was a big part of my cultural coming of age, tho not a Californian myself.
R. I. P. , a well-deserved peaceful rest for your service to your fellow citizens.

She was from a time when Public Service was seen as just that. For the public not personal gain.

This she attempted to do with great successes and benefits for everyone in city state and country.

Farewell dear lady.

https://apnews.com/article/dianne-fe...807b77fea72d12

Dianne Feinstein was at the center of a key LGBTQ+ moment. She's being lauded as an evolving ally

Really.