Dianne Feinstein

[Juvenal]

Dianne Feinstein, centrist stalwart of the Senate, dies at 90
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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. Dan White, a disgruntled former supervisor, 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.

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California dies at age 90, sources tell the AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 1992 in the “Year of the Woman” and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics, has died. She was 90.

Three people familiar with the situation confirmed her death to The Associated Press on Friday.

Feinstein, the oldest sitting U.S. senator, was a passionate advocate for liberal priorities important to her state -- including environmental protection, reproductive rights and gun control -- but was also known as a pragmatic lawmaker who reached out to Republicans and sought middle ground.

[rogue06]

Dianne Feinstein, centrist stalwart of the Senate, dies at 90
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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. Dan White, a disgruntled former supervisor, 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.

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California dies at age 90, sources tell the AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 1992 in the “Year of the Woman” and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics, has died. She was 90.

Three people familiar with the situation confirmed her death to The Associated Press on Friday.

Feinstein, the oldest sitting U.S. senator, was a passionate advocate for liberal priorities important to her state -- including environmental protection, reproductive rights and gun control -- but was also known as a pragmatic lawmaker who reached out to Republicans and sought middle ground.

Was just reading about this.

[Juvenal]

Was just reading about this.

I'm still trying to find information about her personal religious beliefs.
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Dianne Emiel Goldman, the oldest of three daughters, was born in San Francisco on June 22, 1933. Her father, whose own father was a Jewish refugee of pogroms in Poland, was a respected surgeon and professor at the University of California at San Francisco medical school. Her mother, born in St. Petersburg, was Russian Orthodox.

Parsing from this the real possibility she believed in an afterlife, I wish her eternal peace.

[rogue06]

I'm still trying to find information about her personal religious beliefs.
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Dianne Emiel Goldman, the oldest of three daughters, was born in San Francisco on June 22, 1933. Her father, whose own father was a Jewish refugee of pogroms in Poland, was a respected surgeon and professor at the University of California at San Francisco medical school. Her mother, born in St. Petersburg, was Russian Orthodox.

Parsing from this the real possibility she believed in an afterlife, I wish her eternal peace.

Best I could find was this: With retirement on the horizon, a look at Dianne Feinstein’s Jewish legacy

Her passing is going to put increased attention on other octogenarian politicians

[Faber]

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[KingsGambit]

Best I could find was this: With retirement on the horizon, a look at Dianne Feinstein’s Jewish legacy

Her passing is going to put increased attention on other octogenarian politicians

She should have had the opportunity to at least spend some of her time in retirement. She was a victim of elder abuse.

[rogue06]

She should have had the opportunity to at least spend some of her time in retirement. She was a victim of elder abuse.

OTOH, she was refusing to retire -- or that's what we've been told.

[NorrinRadd]

OTOH, she was refusing to retire -- or that's what we've been told.

It's sad. There were several recent occasions where she pretty clearly didn't understand where she was, why she was there, and what was going on.

[rogue06]

It's sad. There were several recent occasions where she pretty clearly didn't understand where she was, why she was there, and what was going on.

Such as when people welcomed her back to Washington and a confused Feinstein said she never left.