Dianne Feinstein History and Connections
Dianne Feinstein was born as Dianne Emiel Goldman on June 22, 1933 in San Francisco. While attending Stanford University in early 1955, she supported a movement to bring Soviet student-newspaper editors to the U.S. for “guided tours.” Moreover, she hosted Soviet journalists who visited the Stanford campus on an exchange program and was a frequent speaker at events held by the Stanford Political Union, an organization that engaged prominent public officials in policy discussions. Feinstein graduated from Stanford University later in 1955 with a BS degree in history.
In 1960, then-Governor Pat Brown (father of Jerry Brown) appointed Feinstein to the California State Board of Parole, a post she held until 1966. In 1968 Feinstein became a member of the San Francisco Committee on Crime, and in 1969 she was elected to the city’s Board of Supervisors (SFBS), where she became president nine years later. While serving on SFBS, Feinstein, a Democrat, ran unsuccessfully for mayor of San Francisco in 1971 and 1975. In December 1973, Feinstein was one of three SFBS members to propose a resolution urging the San Francisco Retirement System Board to completely divest its assets from apartheid South Africa.
After San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were both assassinated at City Hall on November 27, 1978, Feinstein succeeded Moscone as acting mayor. And in January 1979, she appointed the well-known Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee member Harry Britt to succeed Milk. Feinstein went on to serve as mayor until 1988. In 1985, Mayor Feinstein issued a proclamation in support of that year’s World Festival of Youth and Students, a Moscow event that was organized by the Soviet front group World Federation of Democratic Youth, and was supported as well by the Communist Party USA. That December, Feinstein traveled to Moscow to attend a trade council meeting that called for the removal of restrictions on trade between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In February 1986, Feinstein was a sponsor of a testimonial dinner in Los Angeles honoring Harry Bridges, a longtime anti-capitalist and suspected Communist who had served as founder and president of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union. In the late 1990s, Feinstein endorsed a project to create a plaza (with a statue) in honor of Bridges and his legacy.
In a 1990 campaign endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, Feinstein ran unsuccessfully for governor of California. In 1992 she won a special election for the U.S. Senate (representing her home state) and has been re-elected every six years since then. In November 2011, Feinstein praised the Los Angeles chapter of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for its “unwavering” and “truly praiseworthy” efforts to “educate and introduce Americans to positive aspects of the Muslim community.” In early 2013, Feinstein and a number of fellow elected officials and political activists — most of whom were aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America — endorsed a proposal urging President Barack Obama to award a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom to the late Fred Ross Sr., a radical who had been trained by Saul Alinsky and had served as a mentor to both Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.
In December 2014, Feinstein issued a statement harshly critical of CIA detention and interrogation measures such as sleep deprivation and waterboarding, characterizing those tactics as a “stain on our values and our history.” In 2015, Feinstein supported the Iran nuclear deal whereby the Obama administration and the governments of five other nations agreed to allow the Islamist regime in Tehran to enrich uranium, build advanced centrifuges, purchase ballistic missiles, fund terrorism, and have a near-zero breakout time to a nuclear bomb approximately a decade down the road. Characterizing the accord as evidence that Iran’s president and foreign minister “do want to move the country in a more moderate direction,” Feinstein in 2017 asserted that “the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran was finally blocked” by the “historic” deal. Feinstein has received strong political and financial support fromJ Street. Feinstein is one of the wealthiest senators in Washington, with a net worth of approximately $94 million, much of it coming from her husband, Richard Blum.Feinstein is one of the wealthiest senators in Washington, with a net worth of approximately $94 million, much of it coming from her husband, Richard Blum.
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