We do Sen. Dianne Feinstein and ourselves a disservice if we remember only the failing, memory-impaired figure of the past couple of years, writes Julie Wittes Schlack. Her career is marked by conviction, tenacity and a willingness to live with compromise.
Ranking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein arrives for a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing concerning firearm accessory regulation and enforcing federal and state reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System on Capitol Hill, December 6, 2017 in Washington, DC.
I only just recently went back to hear the rest of her comments to those young climate activists; the portion of her remarks thatgo viral. She spoke slowly to the earnest gathering, explaining that the resolution couldn’t be paid for and wouldn’t pass in the Senate. Then she held up a document that she identified as her own climate resolution — one that she thought could be passed — and promised to distribute it to them.
Dianne Feinstein’s initial foray into politics was unremarkable at best. In 1960, based on a report on criminal justice that she’d written while an intern for the Coro Foundation in the San Francisco District Attorney’s office just after her graduation from Stanford, Edmund G. “Pat” Brown, the governor of California, offered her a $600-per-month post on the state parole board for women. Newly divorced and a single mother, she gladly accepted.
From 1978 to 1988 she served as San Francisco’s mayor. Though re-elected twice, her tenure was marked by controversy. In 1983 she survived a recall drive initiated by opponents of the city’s brief but pioneering ban on handguns. And as the“… leading from the center cost her. Gay rights advocates praised her support of programs to fight AIDS and protect employment and housing, but were infuriated when she vetoed early domestic partner legislation that conservatives opposed.
in the past two decades testify, it wasn’t. But to her great credit, Feinstein never abandoned that fight, trying and failing yet again in 2022 to get the ban reinstated.
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