Kay Granger’s Senior Living Revelation Draws Fresh Scrutiny to Aging Congress https://www.diningandcooking.com/1786447/kay-grangers-senior-living-revelation-draws-fresh-scrutiny-to-aging-congress/ #Age #CharlesE #Chronological #Dianne #Elderly #Feinstein #Granger #Grassley #HouseCommitteeOnAppropriations #HouseOfRepresentatives #Kay #Recipes #RecipesTopics #Texas #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment
To be clear, there is a strong thread of authoritarianism also woven into the fabric of the #DemocraticParty. This is the cancer at the heart of #SocialLiberalism in America.
This is why the #DemocraticParty is such an ineffective opposition. This is how we got #Biden, #Harris, #Pelosi, #Feinstein, #Lieberman, #Lautenberg, and #Schumer, among many other #Democrats who have carried and still carry the torch for the military/security/police/prison-industrial complex, while claiming to be "left".
#JonathanCook | Who will champion Gaza's bombed and starved children in the UK elections?
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/who-will-champion-gazas-bombed-and
#Skwawkbox | #Feinstein campaign holding ‘super weekender’ Saturday and Sunday
https://skwawkbox.org/2024/06/21/feinstein-campaign-holding-super-weekender-today-and-tomorrow
Some ageing musicians have spoken in support of some of the independent candidates this #GeneralElection:
We have #RogerWaters supporting #Feinstein,
and, um, #EricClapton perhaps still trying to prove he's not a racist.
#SkwawkBox | #Starmer challenger calls for new left mass movement outside Labour Party
"Andrew #Feinstein, former ANC MP under Nelson Mandela and leading critic of the global arms trade, will use a speech this weekend to endorse a new political alliance billed as the foundation of the first organised mass movement of the left outside of the #Labour Party."
#Skwawkbox | Adviser to Nelson Mandela to stand against #Starmer in Holborn and St Pancras in the next #GeneralElection.
Today in Labor History November 27, 1978: Former cop and supervisor Dan White assassinated San Francisco’s mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk. A jury later acquitted White on the Twinkie Defense, claiming that he had gone temporarily insane from junk food. This travesty of justice led to the White Night Riot, after decades of police harassment and physical abuse of San Francisco’s LGBTQ community. People attacked the windows of City Hall. When the cops tried to protect the building, people hurled rocks and bottles at them, forcing them to run inside. Where ever the cops showed up, people threw rocks at them. At least a dozen cop cars were torched. They busted windows in the financial district and in government buildings. Many people were injured. The riot caused hundreds of thousands of dollars-worth of property damage to City Hall. And when the riot was finally subdued, the cops made a retaliatory raid on the Elephant Bar, in the Castro District. Cops in riot gear beat patrons. They arrested 24 people.
The double assassination of Moscone and Milk dramatically altered the political landscape of San Francisco. Under Moscone and Milk, the city was moving in a progressive, pro-neighborhood direction. With the new mayor, Diane Feinstein, city politics returned to the traditional, conservative, pro-Chamber of Commerce, law and order framework that preceded Moscone and Milk. And Feinstein parlayed her success as SF mayor into a long and sordid career in Congress, where she was a strong proponent of Capital Punishment, vitriolic opponent of the Green New Deal, supporter of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, and generally supported U.S. imperialist policy abroad.
Laphonza Butler Will Not Run for Senate in 2024
Ms. Butler, who was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom just weeks ago to fill Dianne #Feinstein’s seat, said she had realized that “this is not the greatest use of my voice.” https://nyti.ms/3FqSjwQ
Via Kyle Griffin: Sen. Laphonza Butler has been assigned to fill the late Sen. Dianne #Feinstein's seat on the Judiciary Committee
Los Angeles newscaster Christina Pascucci announced Wednesday morning that she is running for the U.S. #Senate vacancy created by the death of Dianne #Feinstein.
The 38-year-old Democrat is the latest entrant to join an increasingly crowded field for California’s 2024 Senate contest. The San Fernando Valley native argues that she offers a centrist option for voters tired of polarization in the nation’s politics.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-10-18/los-angeles-newscaster-christina-pascucci-senate-schiff-porter-lee-garvey-feinstein
“After nearly two decades of statewide Republican candidates being rejected by California’s left-leaning electorate, former Dodger All-Star #SteveGarvey hopes to drag the GOP back toward political relevance.
Garvey announced Tuesday that he is running for the U.S. #Senate seat held by the late Dianne #Feinstein”
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-10-10/dodgers-star-steve-garvey-senate-race-feinstein-schiff-porter-lee
@TruthSandwich @timberwraith This is a more accurate picture of Feinstein - oblivious to the poor & the tenants who are the majority in SF, prudish, stubborn, occasionally correct on the issues, politically astute, way too far right for this city & state, but not corrupt. Hagiographies of her as a pro-LGBTQIA+ trailblazer are bullshit & that BayView piece distorts the facts beyond recognition. https://48hills.org/2023/10/the-local-record-and-legacy-of-dianne-feinstein/
This is a fitting tribute to the lat Sen. #Feinstein who always tried to do her work away from the prying eyes of the public and her constituents.
QT: https://journa.host/@w7voa/111182455945998102
It seems like some shadiness went down at #EMILYsList, even beyond malapportioning its resources primarily to white candidates with access to funding networks, vs. helping more working class/WOC get elected.
Remember:
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That's what EMILY means. The founding goal of the org was to get as many pro-choice women elected as possible.
But as President of #EMILYsList, #LaphonzaButler shut down Run to Win & channeled resources to VP #Harris.
Senator Feinstein lying in state at City Hall #SanFrancisco #feinstein
In line to pay our respects to Senator Feinstein at City Hall #SanFrancisco #feinstein
MCCARTHY MAYDAY: OUSTED AS SPEAKER! AND WON’T RUN AGAIN
FIRST SPEAKER IN HISTORY TO BE REMOVED...
Acting Speaker #McHenry ordered former #House #Speaker # to vacate her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday,
McHenry’s demand comes as Pelosi grieves the loss of her friend, Sen #Feinstein
“Please vacate the space tomorrow, the room will be re-keyed,” an aide said in the email, explaining that the room was being reassigned “for speaker office use.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kevin-mccarthy-vote-speaker-live-updates_n_651c40c0e4b0c3956253b614
#Butler sworn in to replace late California Sen. #Feinstein, third Black female senator in US history
#California Democrats are saying Speaker Kevin #McCarthy ignored a request from lawmakers to postpone scheduled Thursday votes to accommodate the funeral of the late Sen. Dianne #Feinstein.
“So far he has not responded. And all indications are that he's just going to keep on with the votes,” said Rep. Judy Chu. “Of course, he may not be the speaker by that time.”
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/10/03/congress/california-dems-postponement-ask-00119698
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