After the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, concerns surfaced throughout the Cuban exile community that California Gov. Gavin Newsom could replace the longtime legislator with Rep. Barbara Lee.
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif speaks at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022. Lee filed paperwork Wednesday, Feb. 15, to enter the race for the seat held by long-serving Sen. Dianne Feinstein, adding another Democrat …After the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, concerns surfaced throughout the Cuban exile community that California Gov. Gavin Newsom could replace the longtime legislator with Rep.and praised Fidel Castro.
In 2001, in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, Ms. Lee distinguished herself as the sole member of Congress to vote against authorizing the president to use necessary force against terrorism, and instead continued her push to create a new “Department of Peace.” “We need to stop and pause and mourn his loss,” she soon told the San Jose Mercury News of the Cuban dictator, adding: “I was very sad for the Cuban people. He led a revolution that led social improvements for his people.”, a dictatorship that millions of its citizens have fled to escape torture, forced labor, and orchestrated starvation to control its population. On Jan. 29, 2018, Ms.
Shortly after the U.S. invaded Grenada in 1983, freed a group of American medical students and deposed a Marxist regime that was building an airfield with Cuban personnel, Dellums and his staff conducted a “fact-finding mission” to the island, aimed at proving the airfield could not be used for military purposes.
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