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Open Letter to Sen. Feinstein
Senator Feinstein:
In the current edition of Out Magazine, there is a feature by Michael Joseph Gross on his experience on the set of MILK and his interaction with the actors portraying the characters in the film. There is one paragraph that stood out HUGELY to me:
Milk was the Barack Obama of his time and place. When he ran for the board of supervisors, Milk made grand promises to heal deep social tensions in his city. At his swearing-in, he said, "A true function of politics is not just to pass laws, but to give hope." Dianne Feinstein, then president of the board, responded, "Hope is fine, but you can't live on hope."
That pessimism seems to still be a large factor in your leadership style, even when it is desperately needed. At a time when Prop 8 hangs in the balance and threatens to deal an enormous setback to the fight for equality for the LGBT community, politicians have been silent for far too long. One of those politicians is you.
Your statement opposing Prop 8 is insufficient and borders on disrespect to our community. You announced the murder of Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone to the world from the steps of San Francisco City Hall. You have not only seen first-hand the horror that results from discrimination, but have had to deal with its aftermath.
That you have not joined with the campaign to actively and vocally oppose this awful assault on civil equality is shameful. At a time when a film about Harvey Milk is about to be released to the widest audience ever and is generating a significant amount of Oscar buzz, I hope you will find it within your soul to actively join the fight to defeat Prop 8.
Your political career was catapulted by the death of one of our icons and heroes. It's time you honored Harvey Milk and your own place in history by giving voice to what he would say about Prop 8 if he were not savagely taken from us that fateful day in 1978. Paraphrasing your own words, we can't just hope Prop 8 won't pass... we need 'all hands on deck' to defeat it, including you.
Humbly submitted with Hope and Respect,
Lane Hudson
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Di Fi no longer supports good jobs in California. I have written her many times to stop outsourcing. I got a form letter back each time. She and her husband have really enjoyed$ these last eight Bush years.
I have just found out that Fienstien's husband promotes shipping our jobs aboard and outsourcing.
I lost my old job years ago(2003) to India outsourcing. If I had know these two were stabbing me in the back I NEAR WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR HER. Fienstien is greedy and a protectionist of her husband's bloody work!
She will only speak out on issues that won't effect her husband's multi-million arms dealing businesses$.
She is compromised and now more worthless than ever!
California issues are changing and she is NOW on the wrong side of a lot of them. That being good JOBS for California residents and war profiteering. Good salaried jobs equal good homes, schools, tax base;etc. She is against all this and has done hardly anything to help us.
Please read these articles. She is no longer working for us, but against! She is a two face Bush with lipstick! Diane pleasee retire and enjoy your ill gotten wealth! Choke on that blood money your husband has earned.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/11/BU18813.DTL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/898280/posts
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_/ai_89137734
DiFi is only concerned with feathering her own nest. Why Californians didn't dump her years ago is beyond me.
Diane Feinstein has disappointed me since 2000 when I wrote her to stand with the Black Caucus to dispute the validity of the anointed Repub, Bush as pResident when the Electoral College came together in Washington.
Her answer?
"Now is the time to come together to heal and to support our President."
She has disappointed me again when she voted for Bush's Iraq War and then added insult to injury when I learned that her husband got a $7 billion dollar contract as consultant with only a few months after, buying a $13 million dollar mansion in some posh district in Northern California.
She disappointed the Democrats again when she refused to support a censure on Bush for lying us into war but stood up front with the Repubs to support impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, and when the Senate failed to remove him from office, she turned around and supported a censure on him!
This woman is NO Democrat, not even a conservative Democrat. There are Republicans in Congress that are more progressive than she. The only distinction between her and her conservative Republican allies is her claim that she's pro-choice yet enthusiastically supported every anti-choice judge Bush dumped on the Senate.
I won't waste my vote on that woman again. If there is no other Democratic candidate to challenge her when she's up for re-election, I'd rather have a progressive Republican take her Senate seat and not vote.
Please, everyone, chip in to stop the H8!
all donations made by Sunday night will be matched by Steve Bing and EQCA
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/18/205759/31/777/634858
Just mailed in my vote YESterday!
Sen Feinstein will almost certainly be primaried next time around. there are too many qualified progressives in California who could make better use of that senate seat.
From a distance it seems to me that Feinstein very rarely supports the side of the democrats. She seems to capitulate and vote for bush most of the time. Is her spouse in the Oil business? I think it is time she is voted away.
Her spouse makes money off the military industrial complex. I for one will not vote for her again, years ago I admired her. She has of late been backing most of Bush's policies. AND she should indeed come out strongly against prop 8. By the way where is Hollywood with this the only star I have seen be vocal on this is Brad Pitt.
Don't hold your breath waiting for Dianne Feinstein to take a progressive position on anything. Look up DINO ("Democrat In Name Only") in the dictionary and you'll see her picture.
"gay marriage" is an oxymoron.
don't give any money to NCLR or EQCA, their brainless leadership is the reason gay couples don't have the same rights under the law as man-and-woman couples.
The real term is "marriage."
Just that.
There's no reason to denying same-sex couples the same rights as opposite-sex couples.
We lost Feinstein years ago. I recently wrote a letter (although I don't know why I bother) telling her I was AGAINST the bailout. I received a letter back from her explaining that she got something like 64,000 calls and of those 64,000 - 61,000 were AGAINST the bailout but that she felt like she had to vote for it because she knew best.
I don't know about y'all but I'm DONE with politicians who do not represent their constituents. Can we all put our heads together and come up with a candidate to run against her?
I can top you on this one.
I wrote a letter to Feinstein asking her to support marriage equality.
The response said that she understood that I opposed same-sex marriage, but that it was a states' right issue.
That's right. Her office didn't even read my e-mail closely enough to determine my true position.
Sounds like democracy at work to me.
I'm a Californian, and I'd vote for a Republican before I'd ever vote for Feinstein. Why not have someone who admits their true ideology?
Indeed, Ms. Feinstein:
STEP UP.
OR STEP DOWN.
So whom can we Californians tap to challenge her in her next run?
They're all lining up for the soon-to-be-vacant governor's chair.
Otherwise, I'd say Gavin.
newsom is the reason prop 8 will pass.
His days in politics are over, wake up!
Wow some of the comments posted sound similar to the things being shouted at Mc cain/Pa lin rallies. Divisive and hateful language.....I guess that's the American way!
Yes, unfortunately I must agree with you.
I always gave her benefit of the fact that her holding office as a Democrat in a RED oriented district
was a factor in her holding to the middle on all issues. (Even though I voted for her censure!)
However, her not opposing this bigoted proposition is over the line : she's gotta go.
Hey Senator: How about a tax exempt status check on the LDS church (Mormons) flooding CA with the anti Gay crap. Do something for once!!!
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