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2/12 Why does Feinstein keep getting elected by California? She's like
our version of Lieberman.
http://tinyurl.com/34kexz
\_ Last chance to stop it:
link:secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=363
\_ because the democrats are too wimpy to run anyone plausible against
her. She's a serious sell-out. -tom
\_ What has she sold out on?
\_ Follow the URL. OP: thanks for the link -- I was looking
for that info myself yesterday.
\_ Patriot Act. DMCA. Iraq. Mukasey. FISA. Death penalty.
Flag burning, for chrissakes. -tom
\_ Who is your ideal office holder? (Among all national level
elected figures).
\_ how is that relevant? DiFi is inches away from being
a neocon. -tom
\_ Shows how far left you are. Ask your NRA friends
what they think of Feinstein.
\_ It's "far left" to be against the Patriot Act,
DMCA, and FISA? -tom
DMCA, FISA, and the flag burning amendment? -tom
\_ I wouldn't call Feinstein "far left" but
she's certainly not "inches away from
being a neocon". She's not even close to
a moderate right winger let alone a neocon.
\_ So she has a few votes you don't like. What
about the rest of her zillion year voting
record? No politician is going to agree with
you 100%. What politician has a 100% record
with you?
\_ ...? If you have perhaps a half-dozen hot-
button issues, and she screws you over on
all six, the rest of her record becomes
increasingly irrelevant.
\_ Her voting against one's personal HB
issues doesn't make her a sell-out. I'd
still like to know the candidate anyone
here agrees with 100%.
\_ How would you define "sell-out"? -tom
\_ What candidate has a 100% track
record with you?
\_ Someone who mostly votes
against party lines and/or
constituents' desires. Since
Feinstein keeps getting
re-elected it looks like the
voters are happy with her
record. I am. Not everyone who
votes 'D' is as far left as you.
\_ What credible liberal candidate
has run against Feinstein?
The fact that she can beat
a tool like Michael Huffington
by less than 2% (failing to
even get a majority) is
hardly an endorsement. -tom
\_ Someone would run
against her if they
thought they would win.
\_ prove it. Party politicos
tend to smack down
serious challenges
from within the party.
-tom
\_ Not if there's a
person in office
they dislike and
who opposes their
ideals.
\_ Medea Benjamin?
\_ Har. Oh, and DiFi is
also from Stanford. -tom
\_ Who do you consider to
be a credible liberal?
\_ Isn't that a plus?
That she's smart?
\_ Who do you consider to
be a credible liberal?
\_ executive summary: she voted against removing telecom immunity
for illegal wiretapping from the FISA Amemdments bill passed
by the senate.
\_ so?
\_ http://www.csua.org/u/krr
Summary: very pro-choice and anti-gun, but other than that,
mostly a moderate. |
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| tinyurl.com/34kexz -> www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=2&vote=00015 Votes > Roll Call Vote US Senate Roll Call Votes 110^th Congress - 2^nd Session as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate Vote Summary Question: On the Amendment (Dodd Amdt. |
| www.csua.org/u/krr -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein#Congressional_scorecards Feinstein has received scrutiny for husband Richard Blum's extensive business dealings with China and her past votes on trade issues with the country. Suburban newspaper Metroactive reported in 2007 that Feinstein's husband holds large investments in companies that have won large government contracts without competitive bidding. In April 2007, Feinstein's office denied there was a conflict of interest and stated that her departure from the subcommittee had nothing to do with the reports in the Metro weeklies. As of December 2006, according to SEC filings and Fedspending. Org, three corporations in which Blum's financial entities own a total of $1 billion in stock won considerable favor from the budgets of the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs. In late 1979 the system had to be shut down for emergency repairs, and an engineering evaluation concluded that it needed comprehensive rebuilding at a cost of $60 million. Feinstein took charge of the effort, and helped win federal funding for the bulk of the rebuilding job. Richard Ramrez, otherwise known as the Night Stalker, and in so doing angered detectives by giving away details of his crimes, including displaying actual evidence at the press conference. Because Feinstein was elected to an unexpired term, she became a senator as soon as the election was certified, hence she became California's senior senator even though she was elected at the same time as Barbara Boxer. In May 2007, Feinstein voted for an Emergency Supplemental Appropriations bill, which continued to fund the Iraq occupation without a firm timetable for withdrawal. The Senator said "I am deeply disappointed that this bill fails to hold the President accountable for his Administration's flawed Iraq War policy. The American people have made their voices clear that there must be an exit strategy for Iraq. Yet this President continues to stubbornly adhere to more of the same." Feinstein voted to give the attorney general and the director of national intelligence the power to approve international surveillance of the communications of Americans entirely within the executive branch, rather than through the special intelligence court established by FISA. In February 2008, Feinstein joined Republicans in the Senate in voting "Nay" to strike the provisions providing immunity from civil liability to electronic communication service providers for certain assistance provided to the Government. while the amendment was successfully added, the act itself failed. The act was then revived in 2005, and, despite Feinstein's best efforts, was passed without an extension of the assault weapons ban. internet broadcasters to pay fair market value for the performance of digital music. Additionally, the bill would require the use of readily available and cost-effective technological means to prevent music theft. United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, also known as the "MILCON" subcommittee. |