It’s a sad day for American politics: Sen. Dianne Feinstein has passed away at 90, after a trailblazing career. The San Francisco native was the first woman to serve as president of the city’s…
The San Francisco native was the first woman to serve as president of the city’s powerful Board of Supervisorsthe first to serve as its mayor — both offices won at a precociously young age in an era when high political opportunities for women were hugely limited.
Coming into the mayor’s office on the heels of the 1978 assassination of George Moscone, she served for a decade and survived a recall effort. That endurance prefigured her three-decade run as a senator, one which saw significant legislative accomplishments, including the landmark Federal Assault Weapons Ban.
She stayed in the game until the literal end, voting as the oldest serving senator the day before she died.have been voting is another question entirely — one that her fellow Democrats played a self-serving game of denial around.
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