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RESIST AND DISSENT: What Next for Senator Dianne Feinstein?

4/28/2017

 
Mother Jones just published a lengthy profile of the most senior member of the Senate (and the second wealthiest), Dianne Feinstein. The article is titled, "The Lioness in Winter." (Feinstein is 83 years old or is the reference to OUR Winter of Discontent?) The piece is definitely timely what with the calls to "primary her" for a more progressive, more Trump-resisting replacement. The story is also provocative with details on the challenges in her personal life, but the third paragraph stopped me:

"I am old enough to remember what it was like before" Roe v. Wade, she said, recalling how, as a member of the California Women's Parole Board in the 1960s, she had sent women to prison for 10-year sentences for terminating pregnancies. "And they still went back to it because the need was so great."

Granted the times were different, very different, but still. The interviewer did not record whether Feinstein expressed regrets now or debated whether to protest then.

Feinstein's work on the CIA's torture methods might have changed the future of the country if the details from her Senate Intelligence Committee discoveries were ever fully revealed.

The take-away question for me is what political and personal risks is she willing to take before she faces voters in 2018? More specifically, what can the resistance movement do to encourage,or demand, Senator Feinstein to be not just the most senior and 2nd-most wealthy but to be the most powerful member determined to rescue the nation from the existential threat of Trump and his cronies?
Mother Jones just published a lengthy profile of the most senior member of the Senate (and the second wealthiest), Diane Feinstein. The article is titled, "The Lioness in Winter." (Feinstein is 83 years old or is the reference to OUR Winter of Discontent?) The piece is definitely timely what with the calls to "primary her" for a more progressive, more Trump-resisting replacement. The story is also provocative with details on the challenges in her personal life, but the third paragraph stopped me:
"I am old enough to remember what it was like before" Roe v. Wade, she said, recalling how, as a member of the California Women's Parole Board in the 1960s, she had sent women to prison for 10-year sentences for terminating pregnancies. "And they still went back to it because the need was so great."
Granted the times were different, very different, but still. The interviewer did not record whether Feinstein expressed regrets now or debated whether to protest then.
Feinstein's work on the CIA's torture methods might have changed the future of the country if the details from her Senate Intelligence Committee discoveries were ever fully revealed.
The take-away question for me is what political and personal risks is she willing to take before she faces voters in 2018? More specifically, what can the resistance movement do to encourage,or demand, Senator Feinstein to be not just the most senior and 2nd-most wealthy but to be the most powerful member determined to rescue the nation from the existential threat of Trump and his cronies?
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/dianne-feinstein-versus-donald-trump





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