Sunday, October 31, 2010

Thinking Ahead

Just received a 'phone call from some guy named Danny Glover (probably not his real name) urging us to vote for this proposition 19 thing. Tried to tell him we'd already voted, but he wouldn't shut up & listen, so we hung up on him.

Earlier we rec'd. a call from an anonymous human who urged us to vote for S.F. D.A. Kamala Harris, who's running against former L.A. D.A. Steve Cooley for A.G. (Suck it, rural Californians! Millions of you hicks in the Golden State, but not enough for any of you to matter!) That caller at least listened when we advised him we'd already voted, & had cast our ballot for Ms. Harris, though we did tell him we had to hold our nose while doing so, as Harris is opposed to Proposition 19. As is Dianne Feinstein, whom we will personally primary out on her married-to-investment-banker-scum ass if she dares run in 2012.

Hey! If, according to feminist theory, marriage is prostitution, can this be used to prove just what Sen. Feinstein is?
In 1956, she married Jack Berman (died 2002), a colleague in the San Francisco District Attorney's office. Feinstein and Berman divorced three years later. Their daughter, Katherine Feinstein Mariano (b. 1957), is a Superior Court judge in San Francisco.

In 1962, shortly after beginning her career in politics, Feinstein married neurosurgeon Bertram Feinstein; her second husband died of colon cancer in 1978.

In 1980, Feinstein married Richard C. Blum*, an investment banker. In 2003, Feinstein was ranked the fifth-wealthiest senator, with an estimated net worth of $26 million. By 2005 her net worth had increased to between $43 million and $99 million. Her 347-page financial-disclosure statement – characterized by the San Francisco Chronicle as "nearly the size of a phonebook" – draws clear lines between her assets and those of her husband, with many of her assets in blind trusts.
*No relation, we hope, to this Dick Blum.

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