Sen. Feinstein comes by her extraordinary political legacy not because of any single legislative achievement but because she was recognizably solid, powerful and strong.
, rushed into the hall and smelled the gunpowder. White brushed by her, ignoring her as she asked what was happening. More shots. She then headed to Milk’s office and found him on the floor. She groped to find a pulse and her finger slipped inside a bullet hole. “There’s no mistaking dead,” she told me in 2019, when I interviewed her about those events for a biography of her friend, Gov. Jerry Brown.
I was one of them. I was a high school sophomore at the time, growing up in the Bay Area. After Jonestown, the reports of gunfire at San Francisco City Hall sent an already chaotic world over the edge. I can vividly remember the feeling that something was badly broken, maybe beyond repair. And then Dianne Feinstein stepped up.With the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Gov. Gavin Newsom now must decide who will fill her U.S. Senate seat until the next election.
Feinstein projected poise that day and in the days that followed. She restored order by force of her personality. She brought San Francisco through grief and back to solid footing. And she did all of that for me, too.I had the chance to thank her for her leadership through that crisis when we spoke about those events and about Jerry Brown.
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