Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Our Candidate for "Primarying"

Dianne Feinstein (who, per Wiki&c. has never held a "real" job in her life, just gummint jobs & elected offices that somehow allow one to amass money) has US$5,000,000.00 to give to her campaign treasury.

POLITICO claims:
Feinstein is one of the wealthiest members of Congress, with a minimum net worth of at least $45 million, according to her latest annual financial disclosure report. She is married to investor Richard Blum, a hugely successful investment manager. The couple jointly own an interest in the Carlton Hotel in San Francisco worth $5 million to $25 million, and Feinstein herself has several trust funds with at least $1 million in cash.

The couple also owns a Kauai, Hawaii, condominium worth $1 million to $5 million.
It would appear Sen. Mrs. Moneybags made "her" money the old fashioned way, by marrying it. There's a word for that. Several words, actually. Yet certain groups will get pissy if we mention any of them, even if this sort of prostitution is far from any feminist ideal.
Feinstein easily won reelection in 2000 and 2006 after a difficult 1994 race against Republican Michael Huffington. But recent polls have shown her to be vulnerable next year, despite no big-name Republican challenger yet. Feinstein is expected to raise at least $20 million to $25 million for the reelection race.
And let's get ageist: Sen. Feinstein will be 84 at the end of her term if she's reëlected & lives to the end of that term. We don't need one more old & rich-by-marriage person in the Senate, do we?

Especially not a corrupt crony capitalist one:
In 2009 Feinstein was accused of corruption when her husband's real estate company was awarded a lucrative federal agency contract.[26][27]
Dump Dianne '12!

2 comments:

John said...

I would love it if Feinstein were primaried. I've been voting Green for Senate when she's been up for election. She's loathsome. Her husband is even worse.

M. Bouffant said...

Incumbency Editor:

Almost three mos. for anyone to notice this: We can feel the groundswell.

She can't possibly run again six yrs. from now.