Trailblazing California Senator Dianne Feinstein Dies at 90

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🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Senator Dianne Feinstein died Thursday night. Her death was confirmed by family members Friday morning. The Senate’s oldest serving member, and California’s first female senator, Feinstein had announced that she would retire at the end of her term. Her long and storied political career began in San Francisco. She came to national prominence in the midst of tragedy: as the president of the Board of Supervisors, it was Feinstein who announced to the world that Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk had been assassinated. Feinstein served as mayor of San Francisco for 9 years. Feinstein was elected to the Senate in 1992. During her tenure she championed the 1994 assault weapons ban and in 2014, as chairperson of the Senate Intelligence Committee, issued a damning report on the use of torture by the CIA post 9/11. We’ll talk about Feinstein and her legacy. Guests: Jim Lazarus, longtime aide to Senator Feinstein Jackie Speier, former Democratic Congresswoman who represented California's 14th Congressional District (parts of San Francisco and most of San Mateo County) and served on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the House Armed Services Committee, and the House Oversight committee Jerry Roberts, author of "Dianne Feinstein: Never Let Them See You Cry" and former managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle Barbara Boxer, former Democratic Congresswoman who represented California's 6th Congressional District and also served as California Senator Willie Brown, former San Francisco Mayor Scott Shafer, senior editor, KQED’s California Politics and Government desk and co-host of Political Breakdown Marisa Lagos, politics correspondent, KQED and co-host of KQED's Political Breakdown show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:21.5	we hear your reactions to the death of California's longest serving U.S. Senator Diane
1:26.0	Feinstein. Former Congress member Jackie Speer describes her as a decades-long mentor.
1:31.2	She put California first, you know, whether it was protecting Lake Tahoe or setting aside
1:36.5	hundreds of thousands of acres for the desert national parks or protecting the cable cards.
1:42.2	We almost lost the cable cards without her.
1:44.3	Feinstein died at her home in Washington, D.C. at the age of 90.
1:48.3	We look back on her legacy and the impact of her passing while in office.
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2:08.6	An outpouring of tributes for the longest serving U.S. Senator in California history. Senator Diane Feinstein has died at 90 years old, leaving behind a legacy as a
2:19.2	gun control champion, a trailblazer, a connector, and a healer, especially after she had to announce
2:24.8	to the world the deaths of her colleagues and friends in 1978 as San Francisco supervisor.
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