Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic powerbroker who served California and her political party for 30 years, died Thursday night, a family member has told The New York Times. She was 90. Feinst…
, the Democratic powerbroker who served California and her political party for 30 years, died Thursday night, a family member has told The New York Times. She was 90.
Feinstein had been in ill health recently, suffering from memory issues that prompted widespread calls, even within her own party, to step down.Feinstein, considered by some to be a centrist Democrat and to the Right a far-left advocate, was the oldest sitting U.S. senator at the time of her death.
Feinstein, who found Milk’s lifeless body, became a central figure in the fight for LGBTQ rights, as well as for environmental issues, gun control and reproductive rights.
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