On Fri, May 16, 1997 at 11:07:32AM -0400, Duncan Frissell wrote:
Feinstein had been a friend of his when he was on the Board of Supes and it is possible that one of the reasons he lost it during the crisis over his resignation and attempt to get back on the Board was because Feinstein was in Nepal on her honeymoon (millionaire second husband) and wasn't there to support him.
BTW, do you remember what happened to her first husband? [...]
Feinstein want to grab your guns because she is an authoritarian. Not because of any particular experiences she's had with guns.
You are in denial. Her firsthand experience with gun violence has clearly been a serious formative factor in her values and opinions. However, I agree that she has authoritarian tendencies. Furthermore, she is, in my opinion, pretty lightweight intellectually -- not quite to the Reagan level, perhaps, but (as Reagan demonstrated) one doesn't need intelligence to succeed in politics.
She has shown equal contempt for the First Amendment and the Second. She's ma woman and a ^^^^^^^^ Please translate? commie liberal. What can one expect.
While mayor of San Francisco, she indulged in a number of famous suppressions of free speech:
1) She cancelled the appearance of the Turkish Folklorico Ballet because of demonstration threats from the (no longer starving) Armenians.
2) She tried to ban the showing of whatever that dumb New York gang movie was after a stabbing at one of the theaters showing it.
3) She pressured a clothing store to pull its billboard ad campaign "Feinstyle" which featured a (fully clothed) reclining, look-alike model wearing her sort of scarf and business attire.
Oh, give me a break, Duncan. These are absolutely pathetic examples. Much more indicative of her "caliber", I think, was her mind-numbing efforts to get a new stadium built. ... -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html