#CA :At the passing of Diane Feinstein, eyes on Gavin Newsom. Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 30 September 2023
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#CA :At the passing of Diane Feinstein, eyes on Gavin Newsom. Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/09/29/dianne-feinstein-california-senator-dead/
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| 0:32.0 | So Diane Goldman, Berman Feinstein, born June 22nd, 1933, left us September 28th, 2023. |
| 0:40.0 | An esteemed politician in the Senate? |
| 0:43.0 | A challenge to all of California to find a successor. |
| 0:48.0 | That now becomes a local story, California, and a national story, given the ambitions of the governor, Mr. Newsom. |
| 0:55.0 | The perfect man for this is Bill Weller and the Hoover Institution whose podcasts are both California |
| 1:01.0 | with his colleagues in video casts and TV shows and nationally. |
| 1:05.0 | So we begin with what Diane Feinstein means and meant to California and what her leaving us means to California. |
| 1:13.0 | Bill, a very good evening to you first, her legacy. |
| 1:16.0 | What is it that Diane Feinstein achieved for California? Good evening, too. |
| 1:21.0 | Good evening, John. Well, there's a saying about the Senate that there are two kinds of senators. |
| 1:25.0 | There are workhorses and showhorses and Diane Feinstein was the former and not the latter. |
| 1:30.0 | She very quietly went about her business, was very much about trying to get consensus. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm really doing heavy lifting. I worked for California, governor of the 90s, John, |
| 1:38.0 | who would go to Washington quite often because this is a very contentious time between California and federal government. |
| 1:43.0 | I remember looking as a tenor in DC and there was always a meeting with Diane Feinstein because there was some sort of piece of legislation |
| 1:49.0 | that he needed to get done and he could count on her to at least entertain it to work with it and maybe get it done. |
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