Honoring Sen Diane Feinstein. Her long fight for Women & LGBTQ & more which..

[Budi]

..I hope will be the focus as she retires.

From LGBTQ to women's rights, Diane Feinstein was a leader when the Senate & House was run solidly by men.

I detest the focus of this woman's career being one of mocking & demoralizing as a disease of aging that touches most everyone's life in some way, now takes hold in one of our most accomplished women of our legislature.

I find it utterly disgusting that articles are now being written critiqing Sen Feinstein's health & with the focus on her incapacities with scant honor towards her lifelong works.

I am still waiting for some actual journalist to write a tribute of honor for all the barrier breaking & hard fought successes Sen Feinstein has clawed her way through to hand dignity to women, LGBTQ & so much more.

Media can & should do far better for our aging heros, whether it be celebrities, Politicians or our own blessed Parents & Grandparents.

The comments denigrating Sen Feinstein I've been seeing is a damned shame on this society.


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I am posting this thread to honor her works, her commitment, & as a tribute to those women of the US Legislature who stood for something bigger than themselves or their own self-promotion, popularity.

SEN Diane Feinstein is one of those relentless & brave leaders who stood up when it came time to embrace a demographic of our society when others turned away.

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*Education- Bachelor's
Stanford University, 1955

*Personal Religion-Jewish


Dianne Feinstein (Democratic Party) is a member of the U.S. Senate from California. She assumed office in 1993. Her current term ends on January 3, 2025.

Feinstein (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the U.S. Senate to represent California. She won in the general election on November 6, 2018.

Feinstein and Barbara Boxer (D) became the first women to serve as U.S. senators from California. Feinstein was also the first female member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.[1] Feinstein's areas of focus have included firearms legislation and environmental policy.

Feinstein began her political career in 1970, serving on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors until 1978. She then served as mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988. Prior to her election to the Senate in 1992, she unsuccessfully ran for governor of California in 1990.

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Gov't Credentials:
https://www.congress.gov/member/dianne-feinstein/F000062?searchResultViewType=expanded

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From FEMNIST MAJORITY:
https://feministmajoritypac.org/candidates/dianne-feinstein/

Positions on Key Issues
*Champion of women's rights and reproductive rights
*Strong supporter of the Violence Against Women Act
*Strong supporter of LGBTQ rights and same-sex marriage
*Voted no against Trumpcare in all of its forms
*Pro-public education and making higher education more affordable and accessible
*Advocate against wage discrimination based on gender
*Supporter of Afghan women’s human rights
*Strong supporter of immigrant reform and the DREAM Act
*Pro-environment voting record
*Supports rehabilitative criminal justice reform
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Endorsements
*Feminist Majority
*EMILY's List
*California National Organization for Women
*Human Rights Campaign
*NARAL Pro-Choice America
*Planned Parenthood Action Fund
*Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

Feinstein's history of Women & Human rights also holds a special place in history within our LGBTQ Community.
Her fight begins back in the days of Harvey Milk..

Contributions to this thread honoring Sen Diane Feinstein are welcome ~

[mcar]

1. She has a long, impressive history

of fighting for all of us!

[George II]

2. Note also (I didn't catch it in your highlights) that almost 2,000 people have served in the Senate

Of them, only 57 have been women, and of those 57 Dianne Feinstein was only the 18th when she first served in 1992.

In 210 years only 18 women sat in the Senate! Unbelievable.

[niyad]

4. This supposedly advanced nation lags behind so many other countries in gender parity, just in

government and politics.

[niyad]

3. Thank you for this wonderful tribute to one truly amazing warrior for equality and justice.

Although I was not in CA when it happened, I remember her amazing, calming presence after the murders of Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone.

She was, and is, a true inspiration for those of us on the front lines for human rights.

And fitting, I think, that you should honour her on UN Human Rights Day.

[brer cat]

5. Thank you, Budi.

Sen. Feinstein deserves our respect and support.

[Gothmog]

6. Thank you Senator Feinstein for your service

[Budi]

7. From CNN interview: Feinstein is 1st to find Harvey Milk after his assasination

https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/06/politics/dianne-feinstein-badass-women-of-washington/index.html

SNIP of a most interesting story of her life in politics

Feinstein's trajectory to the Senate began with a double murder inside San Francisco City Hall.
Feinstein rarely talks about the day 40 years ago when Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician in America, were shot and killed. But she opened up with us in excruciating detail.

She was on the San Francisco board of supervisors then, and assassin Dan White had been a friend and colleague of hers.
"The door to the office opened, and he came in, and I said, 'Dan?'"
"I heard the doors slam, I heard the shots, I smelled the cordite," Feinstein recalled.
"He whisked by, everybody disappeared. I walked down the line of supervisors' offices. I walked into one and found Harvey Milk -- put my finger in a bullet hole trying to get a pulse.
But you know, it was the first person I'd ever seen shot to death, and you know when they're dead," she said.
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Senate Intelligence & defying President Obama:


Editor's Note: This series was born during a lunch in early 2017, when we wondered what Hillary Clinton's loss meant for women.
Our answer: Women are already breaking barriers in a man's town, muscling their way into power and staying there. Their stories show there are Badass Women all around Washington.
— Dana Bash, Abigail Crutchfield & Rachel Smolkin
Washington (CNN)

I will never forget standing outside Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office in December 2014 and seeing her husband, Richard Blum, coming down the hallway. As he walked in, I asked him, "You know your wife is a badass, right?" He looked at me, surprised and a bit confused, until I quickly assured him that was a compliment.

It was the first time I used the term "badass" to refer to a woman in Washington, especially to her husband, but it was well-deserved. He had come to support his wife as she was about to do something courageous and controversial: defy the leader of her party, President Barack Obama, by publicly releasing a classified summary of a report she spearheaded as Senate intelligence chairwoman on post-9/11 enhanced interrogation tactics by the US government.
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Good Read..