I held my tongue, but yeah, I thought of this too. You best believe the vote would have gone the other way if THAT had happened.

Feinstein, who was president of the Board of Supervisors at the time, had failed on two previous occasions to be elected the mayor and whose political career was effectively dead because the city’s voters were not going to elect her to higher office, was appointed to fill out the remainder of Moscone’s term. The visibility that she gained as mayor of San Francisco is what provided her with the cachet to run for statewide office and then for the U.S. Senate.

Feinstein was at best a part of the city’s moderate to conservative wing of the Democratic Party. She was always the candidate and ally of the downtown business community. She was an ardent opponent of the district election of supervisors and other progressive efforts to reform city government.

Feinstein was never a friend or ally of the late Phil Burton, his brother John Burton or Willie Brown. If she had lived in a city where the number of Democratic and Republican voters had been more evenly divided then she would probably have been a Republican. Look. for example, at the record of the African Americans who have been on her staff since she was elected to the Senate. None of them have worked in a policy role in her office.

I am not surprised at all by her support of Southwick. Not at all.

I knew you would be on top of this! I can’t believe Feinstein would do this BS! What do you think the chances of Southwick getting out of committee were if the complaitant in the original case was Jewish and the slur was kike?