Memorial honors trailblazing senator Dianne Feinstein: ‘She was a lioness’

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Memorial honors trailblazing senator Dianne Feinstein: ‘She was a lioness’
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Kamala Harris and mayor London Breed make remarks in a private service as mourners pay their respects at San Francisco’s city hall

on Thursday, Joe Biden praised the late senator as a dear friend and a woman of deep integrity who fought to protect what was important to the US: freedom, civil liberties, security and the constitution.“She was always tough, prepared, rigorous, compassionate.

California’s governor Gavin Newsom, a former San Francisco mayor, and former governor Jerry Brown were in the audience. Feinstein was one of California’s first two women US senators, a job she first won alongside Barbara Boxer in 1992, dubbed the “Year of the Woman”. “We were all mourning together, holding candles. If memory serves me, Joan Baez sang,” Otterson said of an impromptu march that night from the historically gay Castro district to city hall. “And she held us up.”

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