Nowhere was Dianne Feinstein's death felt as strongly as in her hometown of San Francisco.
Sen. Feinstein comes by her extraordinary political legacy not because of any single legislative achievement but because she was recognizably solid, powerful and strong.At Dianne Feinstein Elementary School in the city’s Sunset District — renamed for the senator in 2006 — Principal Salwa Zaki said flags were lowered to half-staff Friday as teachers held a moment of silence and shared memories of the lawmaker during a school-wide “community circle.
“It was this incredible visual of nurses in red pouring down the steps, but no one was home and she didn’t care,” he said. “Feinstein represented San Francisco’s version of our home-grown local liberal aristocracy,” he said, who “care about civility more than they care about accomplishing anything.” Toward the end of her life, calls for her to give up her seat were as much rooted in the notion that she no longer represented the values of liberal California as they were in concerns about her advancing frailty and — particularly during illness in the last year — her inability to be in Washington for crucial votes.
Originally from the Central Valley, Vandeveer said she is a longtime member of the League of Women Voters who worked in a can-making factory in jobs once reserved for men, but which women leaders like Feinstein helped open up for her.
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