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.
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