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"content": "\u003cp>U.S. Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946670/dianne-feinstein-californias-longest-serving-us-senator-dies-at-age-90\">Dianne Feinstein’s death\u003c/a> creates a vacancy in the Senate at a time when her Democrats hold the slightest majority in the chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein, a centrist Democrat who had represented California since 1992, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/dianne-feinstein-medical-bills-senate-health-trust-42cdcaa61134f2597458d54a62e2437c\">had medical struggles in recent months\u003c/a> that already prompted questions about whether she’d resign and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957755/sen-dianne-feinstein-back-home-from-hospital-after-falling\">who might replace her\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/feinstein-replacement-newsom-democrat-death-528b55aa50d06aa3901b16c129aa3fe0\">is expected to pick a replacement soon\u003c/a>. An election to pick the state’s next senator serving a full six-year term is scheduled for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a look at what Feinstein’s death means for the Senate at a critical time on Capitol Hill:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How does it impact control of the Senate?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before Feinstein’s death, Democrats held a 51–49 majority. They had control of 48 seats, plus three independent members who generally vote with Democrats. Until her seat is filled, Democrats will be at least one vote short of a majority as they try to advance their priorities. There are no major votes currently looming in the Senate that are expected to fall totally along party lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will Feinstein’s seat be filled?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom, a Democrat, has the power to appoint a replacement for the rest of Feinstein’s term, which ends in January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race to replace her in the fall 2024 election is already underway, with a primary scheduled for March. Reps. Katie Porter (Irvine) , Adam Schiff (Burbank), and Barbara Lee (Oakland) are among the top Democrats vying for the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Newsom is expected to select a Democrat to fill the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How long will her seat be vacant?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s not immediately clear how quickly Newsom will move to pick a replacement. No timeline is set forth in state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When then-Sen. Kamala Harris left her seat after being elected vice president in 2020, it went vacant for about two weeks until Newsom appointed then-Secretary of State Alex Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who will replace Feinstein?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris’ departure from the Senate left Black women without any representation in the chamber. Newsom was under dual pressures to name either a Black woman or a Latino person to replace her, and he chose Padilla, who became California’s first Latino U.S. senator. After that, Newsom said that if Feinstein’s seat became vacant, he’d appoint a Black woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who is seen as a potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, will face pressure to make good on his promise. He has already said he does not plan to select one of the Democratic candidates currently running for Feinstein’s seat, including Lee, who is a Black woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom may choose merely a caretaker to hold the seat as a short-term replacement until someone is elected in November 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who is Black, shied away from directly answering a question Friday about whether she would consider serving as a replacement if Newsom chose her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom could also appoint himself, though that is seen as unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is there any impact on the looming government shutdown?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The biggest issue Congress is currently facing is the near-certain shutdown. Unlike in the bitterly divided House of Representatives, there has so far been overwhelming bipartisan support for Senate spending bills so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, if Newsom doesn’t appoint a replacement quickly, Senate Democrats could have a more difficult time winning enough votes as they try to keep the government open over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unlikely that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his Republican caucus in the Senate will suddenly side with House Republicans pushing for a shutdown, but if that were to happen, it could make it tougher for Democrats, with their razor-thin majority, to bring in the votes they need to stave off a shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick in Washington contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Follow live ongoing coverage: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/dianne-feinstein-dies\">Senator Dianne Feinstein dies at 90: Live Updates\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dianne Feinstein, a champion of gun control who broke glass ceilings for women in local, state and national politics, died Thursday night, KQED has confirmed. She was 90 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sadly, Senator Feinstein passed away last night at her home in Washington, D.C.,” Feinstein’s chief of staff James Sauls wrote in a statement Friday. “Her passing is a great loss for so many, from those who loved and cared for her to the people of California that she dedicated her life to serving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein was elected to the U.S. Senate from California in 1992 on a wave of support for female candidates nationwide known as the “Year of the Woman” and went on to become the longest serving U.S. Senator in California history. But her rise in politics began in 1978 when the city was jolted by two assassinations at City Hall. As president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, it was left to Feinstein to announce the stunning news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing before a crowd of reporters outside the mayor’s office in San Francisco City Hall on November 27, 1978 — long before news traveled around the world instantaneously — Feinstein’s announcement was delivered with both anguish and self-control, an image that would define her political reputation as a strong leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946694\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 683px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1298948404.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1298948404.jpg 683w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1298948404-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dianne Feinstein bows her head for a moment of silence in memory of slain Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, just before the supervisors meeting on the day of the killings, Nov. 27, 1978. \u003ccite>(Jerry Telfer/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Milk have been shot and killed,” she said as cries of shock and dismay rang out. “The suspect is Supervisor Dan White.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes earlier, Feinstein found Milk’s body down the hall from her office. It was a day seared into her memory. “I remember leaning over his body. … this is San Francisco, how can this be? How can this be? But it was,” Feinstein \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701374/i-get-things-done-dianne-feinstein-on-her-history-political-style-and-the-future-of-compromise-in-the-senate\">recounted to KQED in 2018.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon Mayor George Moscone’s death, Feinstein became mayor — a job she held for nearly a decade, first as acting mayor before being elected twice to full four-year terms. Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown — a longtime political ally of hers — said Feinstein’s handling of the assassinations crisis cemented her reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a dramatic demonstration of how, in the face of total and complete disaster, somebody could stand up to settle the ship,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s really a healer,” said Bay Area Council CEO Jim Wunderman in 2023 after Feinstein announced her retirement from the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wunderman, who worked for Feinstein at City Hall when she was mayor, said “she first and foremost sees the opportunities to be able to bring people together in very difficult situations to solve extremely challenging problems. And she doesn’t shy away from it. You know, she kind of runs at the problem rather than running away from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946782\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman in a red suit dress speaks at a press conference.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634-160x113.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) speaks as Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) looks on at a news conference on gun control at the US Capitol June 20, 2016 in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As mayor, Feinstein governed from the center — winning support from business groups, law enforcement unions and the city’s more moderate-to-conservative voters. In a 2001 interview with C-SPAN, Feinstein attributed her political philosophy to her upbringing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother was a Democrat. My father was a Goldwater Republican. So we had a split family. It made for some very interesting dinner conversations,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dianne Goldman was born in San Francisco in 1933, the oldest of three girls. Her father Leon Goldman was a surgeon and her mother, Betty, was a Russian immigrant who worked as a model. She did not have a particularly happy childhood. Years later Feinstein recounted how her mother would fly into fits of alcohol-fueled rage.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dianne Feinstein\"]‘You have to rise from your own ashes. You have to learn in the process. And you have to really care. Really care that the government serves the people. That the government is honest. And I really believe that to my depth.’[/pullquote]Feinstein graduated from Stanford University in 1955 after studying political science. She eloped with her first husband, attorney Jack Berman, but they soon divorced. The two had a daughter, Katherine, who took the name of Feinstein’s second husband Bert Feinstein, who died of cancer in 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein’s first foray into elected office came in 1969 when she ran a successful campaign for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. By then she had established policy credentials as a member of state and local boards focused on criminal justice issues. In a crowded field of candidates, Feinstein finished first and became the first woman to be president of the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein tried to parlay that early success into higher office, running for mayor of San Francisco in 1971. She came in third. In 1973 she once again became president of the board of supervisors after topping the field. Two years later she waged a second campaign for mayor, but once again finished a disappointing third in an election that was eventually won by State Senator George Moscone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1978, just hours before the City Hall assassinations, Feinstein mentioned that she was thinking of leaving politics altogether. The murders changed everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As mayor, Feinstein focused largely on the nuts and bolts of running a city. She took a hands-on interest in the workings of local government, regularly showing up at major fires and monitoring police radio calls. When the city’s renowned but aging cable cars were faced with extinction, Feinstein successfully rallied the business community to raise funds to refurbish them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then the AIDS epidemic was ravaging her city. The federal government under President Ronald Reagan mostly ignored it. As a young physician at San Francisco General Hospital, Dr. Paul Volberding often briefed Mayor Feinstein on what was needed to fight the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t recall any moment in the early epidemic when I was told, ‘No, we can’t do that because we don’t have the resources.’ And that really goes to her leadership and a great credit to her,” said Volberding, who has since retired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1984, San Francisco hosted the Democratic National Convention. Feinstein landed on the cover of \u003cem>Time Magazine\u003c/em>, making the short list to become presidential nominee Walter Mondale’s running mate, a position that ultimately went to Geraldine Ferraro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946698\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946698\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204.jpg\" alt='A white woman speaks to supporters at a convention with signs around her that read \"Dianne\"' width=\"1024\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dianne Feinstein, then mayor of San Francisco, addresses the Democratic National Convention. She would be elected to the Senate in November of 1992. \u003ccite>(Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1990, after leaving the mayor’s office, Feinstein ran for governor. She won the Democratic primary but lost narrowly in November to Republican U.S. Senator Pete Wilson. But a year later, the political climate changed with the Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When law professor Anita Hill accused Thomas of sexual misconduct when they worked together, the Judiciary Committee questioned Hill’s integrity and motivation, as did Democratic Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you a scorned woman? Do you have a militant attitude relative to the area of civil rights?” Heflin said in one of many out-of-touch comments by senators that infuriated women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein used those widely criticized hearings as a springboard to the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people took a look at that all-male Judiciary Committee and frankly felt they badly botched the job,” Feinstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaigning for the Senate in San Diego in 1992, Feinstein championed legislation to codify a woman’s right to an abortion into federal law.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11941047,news_11941247,news_11942511\"]“The Congress must pass it and the president must sign it. And if he vetoes it, we must override that veto,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein rode the moment to victory, part of a wave that tripled the number of women in the U.S. Senate from two to six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, she championed gun control, overcoming stiff odds to pass a federal ban on assault weapons in 1994. Later that year she almost lost reelection to a self-funded millionaire, Michael Huffington, a Republican member of Congress from Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, D.C., Feinstein developed a reputation as a workhorse, someone who did her homework and wasn’t afraid to rock the boat. She sponsored the Desert Protection Act, which successfully protected 9.6 million acres of open space in California, creating among other things the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her career Feinstein had to deal with men who underestimated and talked down to her. In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence in 2013, Feinstein chastised Texas Senator Ted Cruz who belittled her understanding of guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a sixth grader. Senator, I’ve been on this committee for 20 years. I was a mayor for nine years. I walked in. I saw people shot. I’ve looked at bodies that have been shot with these weapons,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, over objections from the Obama administration, she took to the Senate floor to release a comprehensive report on torture by the CIA following the 9/11 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946700\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman in a red suit opens her arms to embrace an African American man in a blue suit on a runway.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former US President Barack Obama is greeted by Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) upon arriving at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, on Nov. 25, 2013. \u003ccite>(JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Releasing this report is an important step to restore our values and show the world that we are, in fact, a just and lawful society,” Feinstein said on the Senate floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 500-page summary report by the Senate Intelligence Committee Feinstein chaired revealed in stark detail CIA mistreatment of prisoners, things like waterboarding and sleep deprivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Blanton, who heads the National Security Archive at George Washington University, says the investigation Feinstein directed made the intelligence community accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the Senate torture report was probably the high point of Senator Feinstein’s entire Senate career,” Blanton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman smiles while surrounded by journalists holding microphones to her.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, talks with reporters after sharing a report on the CIA and its torture methods, Dec. 9, 2014. \u003ccite>(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite that leadership, Feinstein was often regarded as too conservative, especially for the Democratic Party, especially in California. And the election of Donald Trump in 2016 put Feinstein’s brand of bipartisanship even further out of step within her own party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the summer of 2017 Trump’s pattern of lies and racist comments was well established. During an onstage interview at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, when Feinstein was asked about how Democrats should deal with Trump, her response triggered audible gasps in the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, this man is going to be president most likely for the rest of this term. I just hope he has the ability to learn. And if he does, he can be a good president. And that’s my hope,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her comments prompted critics to say that Feinstein was hopelessly out of touch with her state, which voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947243\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947243\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman with a pink blazer jacket and red scarf seated in front of a microphone with a middle aged in a shirt and tie standing but bent over beside her saying something into a microphone.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) during recordings at the KQED studios for tapings of KQED Newsroom and Political Breakdown on Oct. 23, 2018. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democrats who hoped Feinstein would step aside for a new generation of candidates were disappointed — even angry — when she sought and won another six-year term in 2018 at the age of 85. During her final term in office it was clear to many that Feinstein was not fully up to the task of representing 40 million Californians in the U.S. Media reports detailed concern among her colleagues that Feinstein, who was once a formidable presence in Washington, was losing her short-term memory and her effectiveness as a Senator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this year, a serious bout of shingles forced Feinstein to miss nearly a hundred votes while she recovered at home in San Francisco. When she returned to Washington three months later, she appeared even more frail with lingering side effects from shingles that limited her ability to work. Feinstein might have hoped her return to work would silence calls for her to resign, but her obviously diminished state only fueled concerns that she was unable to do the job. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former aide Jim Lazarus believes her reasons for staying in office, rather than enjoying retirement, were intensely personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t think she could see what else to do on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. She felt well enough and alert enough and strong enough to serve,” Lazarus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2001 interview with CSPAN, Feinstein compared herself to the city’s symbol of resilience — the phoenix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to rise from your own ashes. You have to learn in the process. And you have to really care. Really care that the government serves the people. That the government is honest. And I really believe that to my depth,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947240\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/gettyimages-1466074311_720.jpg\" alt=\"An older white woman with a blue dress suit seen from the right profile, waist up.\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/gettyimages-1466074311_720.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/gettyimages-1466074311_720-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) leaves the Senate Chamber following a vote in the US Capitol on Feb. 14, 2023 in Washington, DC, the day Feinstein announced that she will not seek reelection in 2024. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Feinstein’s most enduring legacy may be that she opened more doors for women in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malia Cohen, who served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors before becoming State Controller in 2022, remembers meeting Feinstein at City Hall on a third grade field trip, where Feinstein told her class one of \u003cem>them\u003c/em> could be mayor one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that I’m standing on her shoulders. And I wouldn’t be here without her leadership,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some Democrats felt Feinstein was too moderate and stayed in office too long, she’ll also be remembered as a woman who led her city through moments of extraordinary grief and crises, and became an effective champion for important national issues in the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Follow live ongoing coverage: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/dianne-feinstein-dies\">Senator Dianne Feinstein dies at 90: Live Updates\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dianne Feinstein, a champion of gun control who broke glass ceilings for women in local, state and national politics, died Thursday night, KQED has confirmed. She was 90 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sadly, Senator Feinstein passed away last night at her home in Washington, D.C.,” Feinstein’s chief of staff James Sauls wrote in a statement Friday. “Her passing is a great loss for so many, from those who loved and cared for her to the people of California that she dedicated her life to serving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein was elected to the U.S. Senate from California in 1992 on a wave of support for female candidates nationwide known as the “Year of the Woman” and went on to become the longest serving U.S. Senator in California history. But her rise in politics began in 1978 when the city was jolted by two assassinations at City Hall. As president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, it was left to Feinstein to announce the stunning news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing before a crowd of reporters outside the mayor’s office in San Francisco City Hall on November 27, 1978 — long before news traveled around the world instantaneously — Feinstein’s announcement was delivered with both anguish and self-control, an image that would define her political reputation as a strong leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946694\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 683px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1298948404.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1298948404.jpg 683w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1298948404-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dianne Feinstein bows her head for a moment of silence in memory of slain Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, just before the supervisors meeting on the day of the killings, Nov. 27, 1978. \u003ccite>(Jerry Telfer/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Milk have been shot and killed,” she said as cries of shock and dismay rang out. “The suspect is Supervisor Dan White.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes earlier, Feinstein found Milk’s body down the hall from her office. It was a day seared into her memory. “I remember leaning over his body. … this is San Francisco, how can this be? How can this be? But it was,” Feinstein \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701374/i-get-things-done-dianne-feinstein-on-her-history-political-style-and-the-future-of-compromise-in-the-senate\">recounted to KQED in 2018.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon Mayor George Moscone’s death, Feinstein became mayor — a job she held for nearly a decade, first as acting mayor before being elected twice to full four-year terms. Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown — a longtime political ally of hers — said Feinstein’s handling of the assassinations crisis cemented her reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a dramatic demonstration of how, in the face of total and complete disaster, somebody could stand up to settle the ship,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s really a healer,” said Bay Area Council CEO Jim Wunderman in 2023 after Feinstein announced her retirement from the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wunderman, who worked for Feinstein at City Hall when she was mayor, said “she first and foremost sees the opportunities to be able to bring people together in very difficult situations to solve extremely challenging problems. And she doesn’t shy away from it. You know, she kind of runs at the problem rather than running away from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946782\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman in a red suit dress speaks at a press conference.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634-160x113.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) speaks as Sen. 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She sponsored the Desert Protection Act, which successfully protected 9.6 million acres of open space in California, creating among other things the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her career Feinstein had to deal with men who underestimated and talked down to her. In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence in 2013, Feinstein chastised Texas Senator Ted Cruz who belittled her understanding of guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a sixth grader. Senator, I’ve been on this committee for 20 years. I was a mayor for nine years. I walked in. I saw people shot. I’ve looked at bodies that have been shot with these weapons,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, over objections from the Obama administration, she took to the Senate floor to release a comprehensive report on torture by the CIA following the 9/11 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946700\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman in a red suit opens her arms to embrace an African American man in a blue suit on a runway.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former US President Barack Obama is greeted by Sen. 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Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, talks with reporters after sharing a report on the CIA and its torture methods, Dec. 9, 2014. \u003ccite>(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite that leadership, Feinstein was often regarded as too conservative, especially for the Democratic Party, especially in California. And the election of Donald Trump in 2016 put Feinstein’s brand of bipartisanship even further out of step within her own party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the summer of 2017 Trump’s pattern of lies and racist comments was well established. During an onstage interview at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, when Feinstein was asked about how Democrats should deal with Trump, her response triggered audible gasps in the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, this man is going to be president most likely for the rest of this term. I just hope he has the ability to learn. And if he does, he can be a good president. And that’s my hope,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her comments prompted critics to say that Feinstein was hopelessly out of touch with her state, which voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947243\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947243\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman with a pink blazer jacket and red scarf seated in front of a microphone with a middle aged in a shirt and tie standing but bent over beside her saying something into a microphone.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. 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When she returned to Washington three months later, she appeared even more frail with lingering side effects from shingles that limited her ability to work. Feinstein might have hoped her return to work would silence calls for her to resign, but her obviously diminished state only fueled concerns that she was unable to do the job. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former aide Jim Lazarus believes her reasons for staying in office, rather than enjoying retirement, were intensely personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t think she could see what else to do on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. She felt well enough and alert enough and strong enough to serve,” Lazarus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2001 interview with CSPAN, Feinstein compared herself to the city’s symbol of resilience — the phoenix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to rise from your own ashes. You have to learn in the process. And you have to really care. Really care that the government serves the people. 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And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who also was recently in the hospital — for a concussion — and just returned to the Senate Monday after more than a month’s absence, has not yet indicated whether he will cooperate with Schumer’s request to replace Feinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among California’s Democratic congressional delegation, only Ro Khanna, from Fremont, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946577/feinsteins-prolonged-absence-frustrates-senate-democrats\">publicly called on Feinstein to retire\u003c/a>. “Because Sen. Feinstein has been absent since February, I said enough is enough,” Khanna said last week. “We’ve got to tell the truth that Sen. Feinstein simply hasn’t been doing her job. And that’s why I called on her to resign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other high-profile Democrats, including House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, have stood by her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s interesting to me. 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"content": "\u003cp>With a growing backlog of unconfirmed judicial nominees bottled up in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941047/sen-dianne-feinstein-wont-seek-reelection-ending-groundbreaking-political-career\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein\u003c/a> issued a statement Wednesday saying she’s asked Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to temporarily name another Democrat to the panel until she is able to return to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was first diagnosed with shingles, I expected to return by the end of the March work period. Unfortunately, my return to Washington has been delayed due to continued complications related to my diagnosis,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that my absence could delay the important work of the Judiciary Committee, so I’ve asked Leader Schumer to ask the Senate to allow another Democratic senator to temporarily serve until I’m able to resume my committee work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pressure on Feinstein to step aside more permanently is mounting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area Democrat Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) on Wednesday called on Feinstein to give up the seat she has held for more than 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna, who has endorsed East Bay U.S. Rep. 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Crowds of people and children are pictured behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Rep. Ro Khanna of California’s 17th District on Aug. 24, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We need to put the country ahead of personal loyalty. While she has had a lifetime of public service, it is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties,” Khanna said on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna noted the recent decision from a Trump-appointed judge to reverse the FDA’s 2000 approval of the drug mifepristone, which is used in medical abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ruling by an extremist judge in Texas has made it clear that Democrats must act with speed and urgency to confirm judicial nominees who will protect the right to an abortion. Senator Feinstein is unable to fulfill her duties and for the good of the people, she should resign,” Khanna said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"US Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont)\"]‘Senator Feinstein is unable to fulfill her duties and for the good of the people, she should resign.’[/pullquote]Even if Schumer appoints another Democrat to take Feinstein’s spot on the Judiciary Committee, it’s by no means certain that would fix the problem with confirming judges. Senate rules require unanimous consent from all senators to change a committee member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem with that is that any Republican can object to that,” said Khanna. “I anticipate they will object to that. And that is what is my concern. Now, what happens if they object to it and we have the same problem, that we don’t have our judges being confirmed?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without unanimous consent to replace Feinstein on the committee, Democrats would need to pursue another track, which would require 60 votes, meaning several Republicans would need to cooperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna is often out of lockstep with his party. In 2021, he was the last Democrat in California’s congressional delegation to endorse U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, who was up for election after being appointed to the job by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked for her thoughts on Feinstein’s status and whether she should step aside, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi pushed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s interesting to me, I don’t know what political agendas are at work that are going after Senator Feinstein in that way,” Pelosi said in San Francisco Wednesday. “I’ve never seen them go after a man who was sick in the Senate in that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Khanna is the first elected Democrat from California to openly call on Feinstein to step down, he is unlikely to be the last. Her absence from the evenly divided Senate Judiciary Committee blocks Democrats’ ability to move President Joe Biden’s nominations for the federal bench to a confirmation vote of the full Senate floor.[aside label='More on California' tag='california']Feinstein’s legacy as a groundbreaking Democrat — she was the first woman to serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee — has kept most Democrats from speaking out. But for more than a year, there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940460/long-before-feinstein-another-california-senator-faced-questions-about-mental-fitness\">whispers from her Senate colleagues\u003c/a> — mostly unnamed — that the 89-year-old senator has been losing her mental acuity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been some deterioration in her mental acuity. Many senators, many of her colleagues, have mentioned that to me,” said congressional scholar Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot force her to resign,” he added. “You cannot expel her. But what you can do is move her off the [Judiciary] committee. Replace her with another Democrat to get that necessary one-vote margin to begin to move these confirmations through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein has missed most of the Senate votes this year, which includes more than two dozen for judicial nominations with some of those from California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be very, very difficult to fill those vacancies,” said Jessica Levinson of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. “So for the Democrats, I think it makes every sense in the world to take the steps necessary to be able to move these judicial nominations,” especially given that “there’s this looming clock that just is starting to tick faster and faster and faster\u003ci>” \u003c/i>as the 2024 election approaches.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Norman Ornstein, congressional scholar, American Enterprise Institute\"]‘We need to have judges confirmed so that we can recapture some of the balance of the federal judiciary. And right now, Dianne Feinstein, not because of her own choosing, nonetheless, is an obstacle.’[/pullquote]“We need to have judges confirmed so that we can recapture some of the balance of the federal judiciary,” Ornstein said. “And right now, Dianne Feinstein, not because of her own choosing, nonetheless, is an obstacle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Constitution Society (ACS) tracks vacancies in the federal judiciary and the progress of judicial nominations. According to the ACS, there are now 36 pending vacancies awaiting a vote by the Judiciary Committee and 18 awaiting a vote on the Senate floor. Six more nominees are waiting for a hearing by the Judiciary Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ongoing absences are impairing not only the Senate’s ability to confirm judges, but the Senate Judiciary Committee’s ability to advance nominations,” said ACS President Russ Feingold, a former U.S. senator from Wisconsin who served with Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee before he was defeated in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946594 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684.jpg\" alt=\"An older white woman with light, brown hair and a blue business suit stands next to another man with gray hair and a gray suit. He holds a yellow folder and is showing the woman a document inside a government building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) chats with a staffer as she leaves the Senate chamber following a vote at the US Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, in Washington, DC. Feinstein, California’s longest-serving senator, announced she will not run for reelection next year, marking the end of one of the state’s most storied political careers. Despite ongoing health concerns, she plans to remain in office through the end of her term. \u003ccite>(Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If Senator Feinstein expects to be unable to participate in Judiciary Committee activities much longer, she could significantly help the situation by taking the necessary steps to enable another senator to take her seat on the Committee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Feinstein is vowing to return to work in Washington, it’s by no means certain that she’ll be able to. If she decides to resign before her term ends, Newsom could choose someone to fill out her term. In 2021, Newsom said he would name a Black woman to the seat if he had the opportunity. At the time, Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein is retiring after more than 30 years in Washington. Her retirement has gotten many people talking about her legacy and career in the U.S. Senate.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But before that, Feinstein was a local official in her hometown of San Francisco. In 1969, she won a seat on the Board of Supervisors and eventually became Board President. In 1978, she became mayor after the shocking assassinations of Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. Feinstein would serve in that role until 1988.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guest: \u003c/strong>Scott Shafer, senior editor of KQED’s California politics and government desk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC4000481943&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/about/17653/help-make-the-bay-even-better\">The Bay Survey\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to The Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. By now, you probably know that Senator Dianne Feinstein is retiring at the end of her term next year after representing California in the US Senate since 1992. But before she was in Washington, Feinstein was known best for her time in San Francisco in the seventies and eighties. She led the city through some difficult and turbulent times. She also became well known across the country for being one of just a few women in elected office. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003cb>Dianne Feinstein: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I look to building San Francisco’s future through leadership, honesty and creativity. So, let’s end once and for all the nonsense that a woman is not capable of providing the strength and toughness necessary to do this. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[00:01:39][16.6] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today: when Dianne Feinstein was mayor of San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dianne Feinstein was born Dianne Goldman in 1933 in San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scott Shafer is senior editor of KQED’s California Politics and Government Desk. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her father was a well-known surgeon. Her mother was an immigrant from Russia, a former model. Her parents were both Jewish, but she went to Sacred Heart, which is a Catholic school, very disciplined, you know, very academic. She did not have a happy childhood. She had two younger sisters. Her mother was known to drink a lot. She would fly off into a rage for no particular reason. She learned to be an adult as a young kid because she had to take care of her younger sisters. And I think you can see some of that behavior in her as a political figure, somebody who was sort of in charge. She went to Stanford. She focused on political science. She got involved in student government. Found out she was pretty good at \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">it and liked it. And obviously, that’s what she pursued in 1969. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She decides to run for the board of supervisors. I believe this is her first run for office. What are her big issues when she decides to run citywide? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s always been focused on sort of the nuts and bolts of government. And that was certainly what she was looking at when she was running that first time. She was closely aligned with business groups. She cared a lot about the economy of the city, the level of taxation, services like Muni. It raised a lot of money. She was on television, the very first candidate running for the Board of supervisors in San Francisco that ever actually advertised on TV. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Interviewer: \u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What do you think that the new people can do that the old ones haven’t? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dianne Feinstein: \u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, I don’t think the board has really done their homework when it comes to taxation. There are other kinds of taxes which are fair. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, seeing her in those early, early clips, you know, in 1969, I always think of her as a serious-minded politician, somebody who really had her nose to the grindstone and was looking at the budget and reading bills and legislation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dianne Feinstein: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think we can come up with law enforcement programs that really can afford a greater degree of public protection. And I, for one, intend to speak out very loudly about this pollution of our Bay with our sewage. As you know, when it rains, all of our raw sewage is dumped into the Bay.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She very much appealed to sort of the center of San Francisco politics. And she came in first place, which – and then she became the [San Francisco] Board of Supervisors president – the first woman to do that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This was also a time, as you mentioned, where there were just way, way way fewer women in elected office. You mentioned she was the only woman who ran in that supervisor’s race in 1969. How much did that come up when she was campaigning and how did she talk about it at that time? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t think she made a big deal of it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News anchor: \u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[00:05:18] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dianne Feinstein is the kind of woman many ladies could dislike if she wasn’t so appealing. She does everything well. She is bright, poised, attractive and capable. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t think she wanted to draw attention to the fact that she was a woman. If she was asked about it – and she was, you know, later, after she got elected – she would say things like, well, you know, as long as a woman can maintain her femininity and be proper, I think that she can still be a good politician. Just very not wanting to color too far outside the lines.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News anchor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mrs. Feinstein, how do you feel about being a woman involved in politics? Do you think that that’s an asset or a liability, or do you think it’s a factor perhaps in your victory or in your effectiveness? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dianne Feinstein: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, I think it’s an asset, actually. I think if a woman is able to retain her femininity, if she’s able to use it with taste and wisely, if she also has a good brain and common sense and uses these ingredients as well, I think she can be enormously effective. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that was something that later in her career, even though she was breaking these glass ceilings, I think a lot of women felt that she didn’t lean into the feminist movement enough. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[00:06:28][8.3] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Feinstein gets elected to the board in 1969, eventually becomes the board president. She does run for mayor in ’71 and ’75 and loses both times. In 1978, she does become the mayor, but kind of through one of the darkest moments in San Francisco history. I’m talking, of course, about the assassinations of Harvey Milk and George Mosconi. Remind me, walk me through the lead up to that day. What was going on in San Francisco?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wow. I mean, 1978 as a year was a traumatic year for Dianne Feinstein, personally and professionally. Her husband, Bert, who was the love of her life, by all accounts, died. We had the horrible spectacle of hundreds of people dying in Jonestown. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News anchor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I also have to warn you, as we begin this special report, that what you’re about to see almost defies description. And some of you may not want to watch it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer:\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">…which was a compound down in Guyana in South America. It was led by Jim Jones, who was a preacher in San Francisco, very politically connected. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News anchor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As soon as these pictures from Jonestown cleared our newsroom, everybody, even a lot of hardened news people reacted in horror and disbelief. The word on everybody’s lips was shades of Auschwitz. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And so the city was reeling. And then just like ten days or so later, shots rang out in city hall. The mayor, George Mosconi, who was a beloved progressive, [was] shot and killed by Dan White, who was a member of the Board of Supervisors. He then walked down the hall, shot and killed Harvey Milk, the first openly gay member of the Board of [Supervisors], and Feinstein found his body. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s, of course, this very well known clip of Acting Mayor Feinstein having to essentially break this news to the public. What do you remember from that footage? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every time I see that footage, it sends a chill up and down my spine. And I’ve seen it many times. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News anchor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Crowd: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[HORRIFIED GASPS FROM CROWD]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her self-control, her looking straight out into the middle distance and breaking the news. I mean, nowadays we all find out about news instantaneously on our phones. But the idea \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">that you could have, you know, an assassinated mayor and an assassinated supervisor in the building and no one knew. So, she delivered the news to a press corps and others who were assembled outside the mayor’s office. And so, what really stands out was just her shock, you know, her grief, but also holding it together and being strong in a moment when the wheels were falling off the city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Does Feinstein ever kind of open up later in life about what that day was like for her? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She does. She talked with me and Marisa Lagos on Political Breakdown about it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dianne Feinstein: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s still very traumatic for me to look back on candidly. And I would give up anything if they had not happened.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ironically, hours before the assassinations, Dianne Feinstein had mentioned to people that she was thinking of getting out of politics. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dianne Feinstein: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I had run for mayor, and I was defeated. And I was convinced I would never be mayor. My husband had died. I had a daughter. And I just thought enough was enough. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And Dianne Feinstein herself had been the subject of attempted violence. In 1976, there was a radical anti-capitalist group that planted a bomb outside her house in Pacific Heights. It didn’t go off. She wasn’t hurt. They also shot out her windows in a beach house that she had in Marin. So, she was, you know, no stranger to violence. But I think the level of violence was just too much for so many people in San Francisco to bear. But she held it together. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, Dianne Feinstein becomes the mayor in 1978 in the wake of this horrific tragedy. You’ve already mentioned that this was an extremely chaotic time in San Francisco. I mean, what does she inherit as she steps right into the job? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, the first thing she has to do is to begin to heal the city, bring the city back together after the assassinations, after Jonestown. And she really focused on the nuts and bolts of city government. One of her big campaigns as mayor early on was to save the cable cars. They needed a lot of repair. They were old. And she said, no, we can’t shut these down. These are an iconic symbol of San Francisco. And she led, you know, a group of businesspeople to raise the money to renovate the cable cars. The other thing I should point out, in terms of taking over as mayor, 1978 was a big year in politics in that voters in November of that year had passed Proposition 13, which was the so-called property tax revolt. And so the finances of cities and counties and state \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">government were sort of thrown up into upheaval. And so mayors, including Feinstein, had to deal with this sort of huge disruption in revenue sources. And that was the kind of thing she focused on. It was those, you know – really meat and potatoes, you know, make sure the potholes are filled, make sure the police department has enough staffing and that sort of thing, make sure the buses are running on time. And it was in that environment that we saw the dawn of the AIDS epidemic, which was landed right on her desk. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News anchor:\u003c/b> T\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">his depression of the immune system can lead to a rare form of cancer, Kaposi’s sarcoma, which shows up as those purple spots. This cancer has a death rate of 80% two years after diagnosis. This is not a benign disease.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[00:12:28] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, let’s talk about that. Tell me more about Dianne Feinstein’s response to the AIDS crisis in San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer:\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dianne Feinstein really stepped up during the AIDS epidemic. I mean, it didn’t even have a name at that point. They called it GRID: Gay Related Immune Deficiency. At that point, there were a couple, just a very small number of these mysterious illnesses that had broken out among gay men. It was very troubling. And it, you know, quickly became clear that this was spreading rather fast. And at that time, Ronald Reagan was president. We had a Republican governor, George Deukmejian. And especially the Reagan administration did literally nothing helpful. And so it fell to San Francisco and Mayor Feinstein. And from the very beginning, as early as 1981-82, she put money in the city budget to investigate what was happening and put together the infrastructure of what became known as the San Francisco Model.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Paul Volberding: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco got a lot of credit for the San Francisco model of response to the AIDS epidemic. And really, a lot of that can be traced back to Dianne Feinstein’s leadership. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People like Paul Volberding, who was a young AIDS doc at San Francisco General Hospital, would go to her and brief her on what was happening. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Paul Volberding: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We were learning a lot very quickly and she wanted to, and I think she wanted to have policies that reflected the best knowledge at the time. In contrast to some places in the country, she really let that science lead her to her approach to this. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She came from a medical background. She had been married to a doctor. Her father was a doctor. She was very interested in data. But when others, like Mayor Koch in New York, were doing nothing or not enough, she really, really embraced it and took the lead on putting together the system that got the city through a very, very dark time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Paul Volberding: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When we needed money to, you know, hire more doctors to develop more space at San Francisco General Hospital to bring people together, to look at research questions in the community, that support for that seemed to me to be always easy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The one big thing that she did that was very controversial is San Francisco had gay bathhouses, and even though the virus hadn’t been discovered yet, it wasn’t clear what was causing AIDS, there was a sense among public health people that whatever it was was being spread by sexual contact among men, and she wanted to close down the bathhouses, and it became a big mess. Ultimately, she got her way. The bathhouses shut down, which I think many would say was the right thing to do. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What was her relationship with the gay community like when she was mayor? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, you have to, I think, look at it in the context of her time. You know, in the late seventies, there weren’t a lot of openly gay elected officials. You know, Harvey Milk had been shot and killed. It was somewhat risky in many places to even align yourself politically with the gay community. She did that, you know, and so she won support in her early campaigns for supervisor and later, you know, for mayor. However, she wasn’t beloved universally. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News anchor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Feinstein is often criticized by gays for not feeling comfortable with the whole subject of homosexuality. Gays attack her for what they consider her inability to control alleged police harassment of gays. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She vetoed a piece of legislation that would have created domestic partnerships in San Francisco for same sex couples. She never rode in the gay Pride parades to this day because I think she’s just so proper. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News anchor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here, she proclaims Lesbian Gay Freedom Week and boosts the gay parade in which she has never personally participated. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was a well-known, civic, gay activist who said once about Dianne Feinstein, she doesn’t care what we do in bed as long as we’re in bed by 11 o’clock. So, I would say it was very mixed. And also, the gay community tends to be a lot more liberal on issues. She was for the death penalty. She was very pro-business. But at the same time, I think looking back, she gets, you know, total credit for how she handled the AIDS epidemic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the end, was she a popular mayor? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Absolutely. I mean, I would say there were people who really disliked Dianne Feinstein. I think there were people who felt she was too conservative, that she was kind of a prude. You know, in a city that is known for kind of outrageousness. But I think her time as mayor has aged well. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How and when does she eventually kind of make the leap from the local to the national stage? We know her now as a senator, but how does that leap happen? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, in some ways, 1984. San Francisco hosted the Democratic National Convention, where Walter Mondale nominates Geraldine Ferraro to be the first woman on a major party ticket. And just before the convention, Dianne Feinstein and Geraldine Ferraro are on the cover of Time magazine. Their photos, or pictures of them are there with the title “Why Not a Woman for Vice President?” So, by then, she was already developing a national profile. Everything changes in 1991, when Clarence Thomas is nominated by President Bush to be on the U.S. Supreme Court and there are allegations of sexual harassment and worse from Anita Hill.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Anita Hill: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He talked about pornographic materials depicting individuals with large penises or large breasts involved in various sex acts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Judiciary Committee, which held hearings into the confirmation of Thomas and which also talked with and i\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">nterviewed Anita Hill, was all white males, mostly older, including Joe Biden, who was the chair. And they treated Anita Hill disrespectfully. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Joe Biden:\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is appropriate to ask Professor Hill anything any member wishes to ask her to plumb the depths of her credibility. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Simpson: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why in God’s name would you ever speak to a man like that the rest of your life?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Howell Heflin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’ve got to determine what your motivation might be. Are you a scorned woman? Are you interested in writing a book? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clarence Thomas barely got confirmed. I think he got 51 [or 52] votes. And Feinstein and many others saw that as an indication that we needed to get more women into government in Washington.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dianne Feinstein: \u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[00:19:13] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tonight, history is being made. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[00:19:15][2.3] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dianne Feinstein, this Jewish woman from San Francisco becomes senator along with Barbara Boxer, who had been in the house of representatives from Marin.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dianne Feinstein: \u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We will be the Cagney Lacey one-two punch for the state of California. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And so, 1992 was really the year that she and others broke through in the so-called “Year of the Woman.” The number of women in the Senate went from 2 to 6. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tripling. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, tripled. Yes, exactly. It’s much higher now, thankfully. But nonetheless, that was really her big splash, I think, on the national scene. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dianne Feinstein: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, Washington, ready or not, here we come. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re talking about this because, of course, Senator Feinstein is retiring. This marks more than 50 years of public service. A lot of the conversation now, understandably, is about her time as a U.S. senator. But when you look back at her time \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">in San Francisco in the ’70s and ’80s, what stands out to you the most? And what do you want to make sure people don’t forget as they think about her long career? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dianne Feinstein broke glass ceilings. She was a pioneer. She went places that no other woman had. She opened the door to a lot of other women running for office. She was somebody who steadied the ship at a time when the city was in crisis. She guided the city through a terrible, almost unimaginable – today – AIDS epidemic. HIV AIDS was a death sentence for everyone who got it at that time. And she got the city through that. She managed to hold the city together. And someone who was, you know, very competent, not always beloved, not always in line with the liberal values of the city, but someone who tried to do the right thing and broke a lot of glass ceilings along the way. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scott, thanks so much. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You’re welcome. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That was Scott Shafer, senior editor of KQED’s California Politics and Government Desk. This conversation was cut and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. I added the music and the tape. The audio you heard in this episode was courtesy of San Francisco State’s Bay Area TV Archive, KQED archives and C-SPAN. If you haven’t yet, please consider filling out our listener survey. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to The Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. By now, you probably know that Senator Dianne Feinstein is retiring at the end of her term next year after representing California in the US Senate since 1992. But before she was in Washington, Feinstein was known best for her time in San Francisco in the seventies and eighties. She led the city through some difficult and turbulent times. She also became well known across the country for being one of just a few women in elected office. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003cb>Dianne Feinstein: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I look to building San Francisco’s future through leadership, honesty and creativity. So, let’s end once and for all the nonsense that a woman is not capable of providing the strength and toughness necessary to do this. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[00:01:39][16.6] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today: when Dianne Feinstein was mayor of San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dianne Feinstein was born Dianne Goldman in 1933 in San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scott Shafer is senior editor of KQED’s California Politics and Government Desk. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her father was a well-known surgeon. Her mother was an immigrant from Russia, a former model. Her parents were both Jewish, but she went to Sacred Heart, which is a Catholic school, very disciplined, you know, very academic. She did not have a happy childhood. She had two younger sisters. Her mother was known to drink a lot. She would fly off into a rage for no particular reason. She learned to be an adult as a young kid because she had to take care of her younger sisters. And I think you can see some of that behavior in her as a political figure, somebody who was sort of in charge. She went to Stanford. She focused on political science. She got involved in student government. Found out she was pretty good at \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">it and liked it. And obviously, that’s what she pursued in 1969. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She decides to run for the board of supervisors. I believe this is her first run for office. What are her big issues when she decides to run citywide? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s always been focused on sort of the nuts and bolts of government. And that was certainly what she was looking at when she was running that first time. She was closely aligned with business groups. She cared a lot about the economy of the city, the level of taxation, services like Muni. It raised a lot of money. She was on television, the very first candidate running for the Board of supervisors in San Francisco that ever actually advertised on TV. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Interviewer: \u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What do you think that the new people can do that the old ones haven’t? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dianne Feinstein: \u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, I don’t think the board has really done their homework when it comes to taxation. There are other kinds of taxes which are fair. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, seeing her in those early, early clips, you know, in 1969, I always think of her as a serious-minded politician, somebody who really had her nose to the grindstone and was looking at the budget and reading bills and legislation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dianne Feinstein: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think we can come up with law enforcement programs that really can afford a greater degree of public protection. And I, for one, intend to speak out very loudly about this pollution of our Bay with our sewage. As you know, when it rains, all of our raw sewage is dumped into the Bay.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She very much appealed to sort of the center of San Francisco politics. And she came in first place, which – and then she became the [San Francisco] Board of Supervisors president – the first woman to do that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This was also a time, as you mentioned, where there were just way, way way fewer women in elected office. You mentioned she was the only woman who ran in that supervisor’s race in 1969. How much did that come up when she was campaigning and how did she talk about it at that time? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t think she made a big deal of it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News anchor: \u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[00:05:18] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dianne Feinstein is the kind of woman many ladies could dislike if she wasn’t so appealing. She does everything well. 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I think if a woman is able to retain her femininity, if she’s able to use it with taste and wisely, if she also has a good brain and common sense and uses these ingredients as well, I think she can be enormously effective. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that was something that later in her career, even though she was breaking these glass ceilings, I think a lot of women felt that she didn’t lean into the feminist movement enough. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[00:06:28][8.3] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Feinstein gets elected to the board in 1969, eventually becomes the board president. She does run for mayor in ’71 and ’75 and loses both times. In 1978, she does become the mayor, but kind of through one of the darkest moments in San Francisco history. I’m talking, of course, about the assassinations of Harvey Milk and George Mosconi. Remind me, walk me through the lead up to that day. What was going on in San Francisco?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wow. I mean, 1978 as a year was a traumatic year for Dianne Feinstein, personally and professionally. Her husband, Bert, who was the love of her life, by all accounts, died. We had the horrible spectacle of hundreds of people dying in Jonestown. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News anchor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I also have to warn you, as we begin this special report, that what you’re about to see almost defies description. And some of you may not want to watch it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer:\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">…which was a compound down in Guyana in South America. It was led by Jim Jones, who was a preacher in San Francisco, very politically connected. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News anchor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As soon as these pictures from Jonestown cleared our newsroom, everybody, even a lot of hardened news people reacted in horror and disbelief. The word on everybody’s lips was shades of Auschwitz. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And so the city was reeling. And then just like ten days or so later, shots rang out in city hall. The mayor, George Mosconi, who was a beloved progressive, [was] shot and killed by Dan White, who was a member of the Board of Supervisors. He then walked down the hall, shot and killed Harvey Milk, the first openly gay member of the Board of [Supervisors], and Feinstein found his body. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s, of course, this very well known clip of Acting Mayor Feinstein having to essentially break this news to the public. What do you remember from that footage? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every time I see that footage, it sends a chill up and down my spine. And I’ve seen it many times. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News anchor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Crowd: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[HORRIFIED GASPS FROM CROWD]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her self-control, her looking straight out into the middle distance and breaking the news. I mean, nowadays we all find out about news instantaneously on our phones. But the idea \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">that you could have, you know, an assassinated mayor and an assassinated supervisor in the building and no one knew. So, she delivered the news to a press corps and others who were assembled outside the mayor’s office. And so, what really stands out was just her shock, you know, her grief, but also holding it together and being strong in a moment when the wheels were falling off the city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Does Feinstein ever kind of open up later in life about what that day was like for her? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She does. She talked with me and Marisa Lagos on Political Breakdown about it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dianne Feinstein: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s still very traumatic for me to look back on candidly. And I would give up anything if they had not happened.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ironically, hours before the assassinations, Dianne Feinstein had mentioned to people that she was thinking of getting out of politics. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dianne Feinstein: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I had run for mayor, and I was defeated. And I was convinced I would never be mayor. My husband had died. I had a daughter. And I just thought enough was enough. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And Dianne Feinstein herself had been the subject of attempted violence. In 1976, there was a radical anti-capitalist group that planted a bomb outside her house in Pacific Heights. It didn’t go off. She wasn’t hurt. They also shot out her windows in a beach house that she had in Marin. So, she was, you know, no stranger to violence. But I think the level of violence was just too much for so many people in San Francisco to bear. But she held it together. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, Dianne Feinstein becomes the mayor in 1978 in the wake of this horrific tragedy. You’ve already mentioned that this was an extremely chaotic time in San Francisco. I mean, what does she inherit as she steps right into the job? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, the first thing she has to do is to begin to heal the city, bring the city back together after the assassinations, after Jonestown. And she really focused on the nuts and bolts of city government. One of her big campaigns as mayor early on was to save the cable cars. They needed a lot of repair. They were old. And she said, no, we can’t shut these down. These are an iconic symbol of San Francisco. And she led, you know, a group of businesspeople to raise the money to renovate the cable cars. The other thing I should point out, in terms of taking over as mayor, 1978 was a big year in politics in that voters in November of that year had passed Proposition 13, which was the so-called property tax revolt. And so the finances of cities and counties and state \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">government were sort of thrown up into upheaval. And so mayors, including Feinstein, had to deal with this sort of huge disruption in revenue sources. And that was the kind of thing she focused on. It was those, you know – really meat and potatoes, you know, make sure the potholes are filled, make sure the police department has enough staffing and that sort of thing, make sure the buses are running on time. And it was in that environment that we saw the dawn of the AIDS epidemic, which was landed right on her desk. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News anchor:\u003c/b> T\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">his depression of the immune system can lead to a rare form of cancer, Kaposi’s sarcoma, which shows up as those purple spots. This cancer has a death rate of 80% two years after diagnosis. This is not a benign disease.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[00:12:28] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, let’s talk about that. Tell me more about Dianne Feinstein’s response to the AIDS crisis in San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer:\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dianne Feinstein really stepped up during the AIDS epidemic. I mean, it didn’t even have a name at that point. They called it GRID: Gay Related Immune Deficiency. At that point, there were a couple, just a very small number of these mysterious illnesses that had broken out among gay men. It was very troubling. And it, you know, quickly became clear that this was spreading rather fast. And at that time, Ronald Reagan was president. We had a Republican governor, George Deukmejian. And especially the Reagan administration did literally nothing helpful. And so it fell to San Francisco and Mayor Feinstein. And from the very beginning, as early as 1981-82, she put money in the city budget to investigate what was happening and put together the infrastructure of what became known as the San Francisco Model.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Paul Volberding: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco got a lot of credit for the San Francisco model of response to the AIDS epidemic. And really, a lot of that can be traced back to Dianne Feinstein’s leadership. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People like Paul Volberding, who was a young AIDS doc at San Francisco General Hospital, would go to her and brief her on what was happening. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Paul Volberding: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We were learning a lot very quickly and she wanted to, and I think she wanted to have policies that reflected the best knowledge at the time. In contrast to some places in the country, she really let that science lead her to her approach to this. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She came from a medical background. She had been married to a doctor. Her father was a doctor. She was very interested in data. But when others, like Mayor Koch in New York, were doing nothing or not enough, she really, really embraced it and took the lead on putting together the system that got the city through a very, very dark time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Paul Volberding: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When we needed money to, you know, hire more doctors to develop more space at San Francisco General Hospital to bring people together, to look at research questions in the community, that support for that seemed to me to be always easy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The one big thing that she did that was very controversial is San Francisco had gay bathhouses, and even though the virus hadn’t been discovered yet, it wasn’t clear what was causing AIDS, there was a sense among public health people that whatever it was was being spread by sexual contact among men, and she wanted to close down the bathhouses, and it became a big mess. Ultimately, she got her way. The bathhouses shut down, which I think many would say was the right thing to do. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What was her relationship with the gay community like when she was mayor? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, you have to, I think, look at it in the context of her time. You know, in the late seventies, there weren’t a lot of openly gay elected officials. You know, Harvey Milk had been shot and killed. It was somewhat risky in many places to even align yourself politically with the gay community. She did that, you know, and so she won support in her early campaigns for supervisor and later, you know, for mayor. However, she wasn’t beloved universally. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News anchor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Feinstein is often criticized by gays for not feeling comfortable with the whole subject of homosexuality. Gays attack her for what they consider her inability to control alleged police harassment of gays. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She vetoed a piece of legislation that would have created domestic partnerships in San Francisco for same sex couples. She never rode in the gay Pride parades to this day because I think she’s just so proper. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News anchor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here, she proclaims Lesbian Gay Freedom Week and boosts the gay parade in which she has never personally participated. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was a well-known, civic, gay activist who said once about Dianne Feinstein, she doesn’t care what we do in bed as long as we’re in bed by 11 o’clock. So, I would say it was very mixed. And also, the gay community tends to be a lot more liberal on issues. She was for the death penalty. She was very pro-business. But at the same time, I think looking back, she gets, you know, total credit for how she handled the AIDS epidemic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the end, was she a popular mayor? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Absolutely. I mean, I would say there were people who really disliked Dianne Feinstein. I think there were people who felt she was too conservative, that she was kind of a prude. You know, in a city that is known for kind of outrageousness. But I think her time as mayor has aged well. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How and when does she eventually kind of make the leap from the local to the national stage? We know her now as a senator, but how does that leap happen? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, in some ways, 1984. San Francisco hosted the Democratic National Convention, where Walter Mondale nominates Geraldine Ferraro to be the first woman on a major party ticket. And just before the convention, Dianne Feinstein and Geraldine Ferraro are on the cover of Time magazine. Their photos, or pictures of them are there with the title “Why Not a Woman for Vice President?” So, by then, she was already developing a national profile. Everything changes in 1991, when Clarence Thomas is nominated by President Bush to be on the U.S. Supreme Court and there are allegations of sexual harassment and worse from Anita Hill.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Anita Hill: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He talked about pornographic materials depicting individuals with large penises or large breasts involved in various sex acts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Judiciary Committee, which held hearings into the confirmation of Thomas and which also talked with and i\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">nterviewed Anita Hill, was all white males, mostly older, including Joe Biden, who was the chair. And they treated Anita Hill disrespectfully. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Joe Biden:\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is appropriate to ask Professor Hill anything any member wishes to ask her to plumb the depths of her credibility. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Simpson: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why in God’s name would you ever speak to a man like that the rest of your life?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Howell Heflin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’ve got to determine what your motivation might be. Are you a scorned woman? Are you interested in writing a book? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clarence Thomas barely got confirmed. I think he got 51 [or 52] votes. And Feinstein and many others saw that as an indication that we needed to get more women into government in Washington.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dianne Feinstein: \u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[00:19:13] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tonight, history is being made. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[00:19:15][2.3] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dianne Feinstein, this Jewish woman from San Francisco becomes senator along with Barbara Boxer, who had been in the house of representatives from Marin.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dianne Feinstein: \u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We will be the Cagney Lacey one-two punch for the state of California. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And so, 1992 was really the year that she and others broke through in the so-called “Year of the Woman.” The number of women in the Senate went from 2 to 6. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tripling. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, tripled. Yes, exactly. It’s much higher now, thankfully. But nonetheless, that was really her big splash, I think, on the national scene. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dianne Feinstein: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, Washington, ready or not, here we come. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re talking about this because, of course, Senator Feinstein is retiring. This marks more than 50 years of public service. A lot of the conversation now, understandably, is about her time as a U.S. senator. But when you look back at her time \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">in San Francisco in the ’70s and ’80s, what stands out to you the most? And what do you want to make sure people don’t forget as they think about her long career? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dianne Feinstein broke glass ceilings. She was a pioneer. She went places that no other woman had. She opened the door to a lot of other women running for office. She was somebody who steadied the ship at a time when the city was in crisis. She guided the city through a terrible, almost unimaginable – today – AIDS epidemic. HIV AIDS was a death sentence for everyone who got it at that time. And she got the city through that. She managed to hold the city together. And someone who was, you know, very competent, not always beloved, not always in line with the liberal values of the city, but someone who tried to do the right thing and broke a lot of glass ceilings along the way. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scott, thanks so much. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Shafer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You’re welcome. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That was Scott Shafer, senior editor of KQED’s California Politics and Government Desk. This conversation was cut and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. I added the music and the tape. The audio you heard in this episode was courtesy of San Francisco State’s Bay Area TV Archive, KQED archives and C-SPAN. If you haven’t yet, please consider filling out our listener survey. It takes just 8 minutes and it’s a great chance to tell us directly what you like about the show and what you want to hear more of. The Bay is a production of KQED in San Francisco. I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Talk to you next time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee, a longtime advocate for progressive issues and a leader in social justice and anti-war causes, on Tuesday formally announced her run for Dianne Feinstein’s highly coveted U.S. Senate seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TX25hZ42FY\">video\u003c/a> released by her Senate campaign, Lee leans on her biography: growing up in the segregated South, her successful fight to integrate her high school cheerleading squad, escaping a violent marriage, her time as an unhoused mother and her determination to attend college as a single mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To do nothing has never been an option for me,\" Lee says in the nearly three-minute video produced by the political consulting firm Left Hook. The veteran Democrat, who is 76, also addresses those who say her age might be a liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For those who say my time has passed, well, when does making change go out of style?\" she asks in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee has represented Oakland and neighboring East Bay cities in the U.S. Congress since 1998, when she won a special election to replace Ron Dellums — for whom she once worked as a staff member — after he resigned the seat. She has been easily reelected every two years since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before heading to Washington, Lee had a long history in public office, including stints in California’s state Assembly and Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is the third prominent Democratic member of Congress from California to join the increasingly crowded field of candidates seeking to replace Feinstein, who last week announced her plans to retire at the end of the current term after serving for more than 30 years. Even before Feinstein’s decision was made public, nationally recognized Reps. Katie Porter, of Orange County, and Adam Schiff, of Los Angeles, had already jumped into the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An aide to Lee says her campaign — launched during Black History Month — will emphasize the importance of representation in national government and remind voters that there are currently no Black women in the U.S. Senate. Kamala Harris, the last Black woman to serve in that chamber, resigned her seat in 2021 to become U.S. vice president. [aside label=\"More Stories on Sen. Dianne Feinstein\" tag=\"dianne-feinstein\"] \"[Lee] has been a lifelong champion and fighter for racial justice and equality,\" said Steve Phillips, founder of Democracy in Color, a San Francisco-based political organization, and author of the book \u003cem>How We Win the Civil War\u003c/em>. \"And there are very few people in politics in this country, period, who can put their resumes up against Barbara Lee’s on that front.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee was born in 1946 in El Paso, where her mother worked with the NAACP to integrate the University of Texas. After she and her family moved to Southern California in 1960, Lee picked up the mantle of civil rights warrior. As she told KQED’s Political Breakdown in 2018, she fought to integrate her high school cheerleading squad in the San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was literally 15 years old, and I said, 'I really want to be a cheerleader and I can't because I don't look right,'\" Lee said. She teamed up with the NAACP, which approached the school and urged them to change the process for selecting cheerleaders to make it more fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And guess what? I won. So I was the first African American cheerleader at San Fernando High,\" Lee recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, as a single mother on public assistance, Lee went on to attend Mills College in Oakland, where she headed up its Black Student Union. In 1972, she invited Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, who was running for president that year, to speak to students on campus. The experience helped fuel her interest in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She said, 'You have got to register to vote and get involved because you can't stay on the outside, you know, looking in and fighting from the outside,'\" Lee told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around that time, Lee also coordinated fundraising efforts for the Oakland mayoral campaign of Black Panthers’ leader Bobby Seale, and later went on to work for Rep. Dellums, whose seat she would eventually take over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Congress in 2001, Lee gained national recognition when she famously cast the lone vote against giving President George W. Bush the authority to go to war with Afghanistan just days after the 9/11 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our country is in a state of mourning,\" she said before casting her vote. \"Some of us must say, 'Let's step back for a moment. Let's just pause just for a minute and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does not spiral out of control.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just after casting the lone dissenting vote, Lee told KQED that some friends and colleagues had urged her to change her mind and support the war authorization. \"They said, ‘Barbara, you cannot let this one red light (signifying a no vote) stay up on that where you've got to change it. This is going to kill you literally, and your political life,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she stood her ground, and her vote against the war has stood the test of time, as the U.S. did in fact get mired in Afghanistan for nearly 20 years, costing thousands of lives, with little to show for it. In a blatant indication of defeat, Pres. Joe Biden in 2021 withdrew U.S. troops under violent, chaotic conditions, after the U.S.-backed president fled the country, leaving it under the control of the Taliban, much as it had been when the U.S. entered the conflict two decades earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her bid to replace Feinstein, who is 89 and has faced questions about her mental fitness, Lee, who will be 78 in November 2024, will also have to overcome the issue of age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think it's a question just of chronological age as much as attitude in relationship to the status quo,\" said Phillips of Democracy in Color. \"For young people, I think it's who's the biggest challenger to the status quo.\" [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Steve Phillips, founder, Democracy in Color\"]'For young people, I think it's who's the biggest challenger to the status quo.'[/pullquote] At times Lee has used her credibility with the Democratic Party’s most liberal members to build bridges with moderates. After the bitter Democratic presidential primary in 2016 left supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders angry toward the Democratic establishment and nominee Hillary Clinton, Lee helped mend the intraparty fissures that erupted at the Democratic National Convention that year, by hosting a unity event with Rev. Jesse Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps Lee’s biggest struggle of all will be raising enough money to compete with the likes of Schiff and Porter, who are both \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936335/california-politicians-stash-35-million-in-unused-campaign-funds-some-of-them-years-after-leaving-office\">prolific fundraisers\u003c/a>. According to campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00331769/\">Lee ended 2022 with just $52,353\u003c/a> in her account. By comparison, Schiff ended the year with nearly $21 million while Porter had $7.4 million left after an expensive reelection campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Lee formally announced her candidacy, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who served with Lee in the state Assembly decades ago, noted that fundraising was not her greatest strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has all kinds of problems raising money,\" he said. \"She never will ask people for money. She doesn’t even ask me for money!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ludovic Blain, director of the California Donor Table, a statewide fundraising organization that invests in communities of color, said he believes a variety of progressive donors will step forward to support her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the same folks who supported folks like Stacey Abrams (in Georgia) on the other side of the country,\" he said. \"So I think that there is money for her to raise both from larger donors and from regular folk around the state and around the country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips noted that while Schiff and Porter have larger national profiles than Lee does, she’ll stand out to many voters as the only well-known candidate of color currently in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the majority of voters in California are people of color,\" Phillips said. \"Whoever California elects needs to represent, in particular, the communities of color that are under attack in our state and nationally from some of their would-be Senate colleagues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the end of the day, Lee said in her 2018 KQED interview, \"You have to be authentic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to really be able to let people know that you're there on their side and bring them in. 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Early in her career, the Senate approved her amendment to ban manufacturing and sales of certain types of assault weapons as part of a crime bill that President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994. The ban expired 10 years later and was never replaced, but it remained a trademark issue in a career that was molded by gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was also known for reaching out to Republicans to find middle ground. While that may have helped her notch legislative accomplishments in Washington, it chafed some in a Democratic Party that has moved increasingly to the left in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That frustration was on display during her last reelection campaign in 2018. The California Democratic Party endorsed a liberal rival for her seat, with some delegates complaining Feinstein had been in Washington too long and hadn’t stood strong enough for immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also infuriated liberals in 2020 when she closed out confirmation hearings for Justice Amy Coney Barrett by embracing Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, a Republican, and thanking him for a job well done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liberal advocacy groups that had fiercely opposed Barrett’s nomination to replace the late liberal icon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called for Feinstein to step down from the Judiciary Committee leadership. A month later, she announced she would remain on the committee but relinquish her position as the top Democrat.[aside label=\"More on Dianne Feinstein\" tag=\"dianne-feinstein\"]But such tensions were laid aside on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, where Democrats praised her career. 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