Thread: Open Letter to Feinstein

Dear Senator Feinstein,

Now that the Amnesty bill has been soundly defeated in the Senate, please exercise your responsibility as a United States Senator to insist that our borders to the north and to the south are secured. If you cannot do that, please step down so that the people of California can find someone with the will do uphold the law of the land and the sovereignty of our country. I understand that a recall effort is now underway to underscore our disdain for your activities over the past several weeks. It happened to Gray Davis. It can happen to you.

As far as your attack on Talk Radio, I find it extremely repugnant and hypocritical of you to try to silence dissent both here and on the Senate floor and so that you could turn it into a one-sided debate. Shame on you. I will contain the words I would really like to express to you, but you are a lady. A morally bankrupt, misguided lady, but nonetheless a lady.

You tend to like back door deals and we need to find what else you're doing out of the public eye. This type of activity gives off the appearance of impropriety and smacks of outright corruption. I am also going to press my congressmen to ask for a full investigation into your participation on the Armed Services appropriation committee to find out how you and your husband have profited from the Iraq war.

Have a nice Fourth of July.

Dang!!! That's good stuff!

Right on! Expose her for profiting from the Iraq war!

Now she is going to push for an AgJobs bill. She is supporting these California fruit and wine growers who have been knowingly employing illegal aliens these past 20 years. These "farmers" (they are are really capitalists that employ cheaper labor at wages below what is acceptable to Americans) are guilty of illegal behavior and should be fined rather than rewarded with an AgJobs program.

If they can't find Americans willing to do the jobs at the wages they are willing to pay, then move the jobs to other countries. That's one way for poorer countries to develop! Don't outsource jobs to foreigners right in my own country in violation of the law!

We should seriously consider a RECALL.

Go here to see the procedure:

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/recall.pdf

I am currently gathering more information.

writestuffla,

That letter really hit the nail on the head.

Just last night Michael Savage was raving about her and her Husband profiting from the war.

Good Job!

You better watch out, Feinstein just might sic the Secret Service or the FBI on you for your comments. Some of these senators get real edgy when it comes to exposing their backroom dealings and other criminal activities. I'd be careful if you see a black sedan parked outside with some dark suited thugs wearing sunglasses.

I thank God that woman is on the opposite coast

Hot stuff!!! I love it. Great job. Keep on her. She needs oversight and close supervision.

March 2007
The Byrne Report

Feinstein Resigns

By Peter Byrne

Sen. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum's ownership of two major defense contractors who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein.

As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design. She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husband's companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp.

Perhaps she resigned from MILCON because she could not take the heat generated by the Bohemian's exposÈ of her ethics (which was partially funded by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute). Or was her work on the subcommittee finished because Blum divested ownership of his military construction and advanced weapons manufacturing firms in late 2005?

The MILCON subcommittee is not only in charge of supervising military construction; it also oversees "quality of life" issues for veterans, which includes building housing for military families and operating hospitals and clinics for wounded soldiers. Perhaps Feinstein is trying to disassociate herself from MILCON's incredible failure to provide decent medical care for wounded soldiers.

Two years ago, before the Washington Post became belatedly involved, the online magazine Salon.com exposed the horrors of deficient medical care for Iraq War veterans. While leading MILCON, Feinstein had ample warning of the medical-care meltdown. But she was not proactive on veteran's affairs.

Feinstein abandoned MILCON as her ethical problems were surfacing in the media, and as it was becoming clear that her subcommittee left grievously wounded veterans to rot while her family was profiting from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. It turns out that Blum also holds large investments in companies that were selling medical equipment and supplies and real estate leases--often without the benefit of competitive bidding--to the Department of Veterans Affairs, even as the system of medical care for veterans collapsed on his wife's watch.

As of December 2006, according to SEC filings and www.fedspending.org, three corporations in which Blum's financial entities own a total of $1 billion in stock won considerable favor from the budgets of the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs:

# Boston Scientific Corporation $17.8 million for medical equipment and supplies; 85 percent of contracts awarded without benefit of competition.

# Kinetic Concepts Inc. $12 million, medical equipment and supplies; 28 percent non-competitively awarded.

# CB Richard Ellis The Blum-controlled international real estate firm holds congressionally funded contracts to lease office space to the Department of Veterans Affairs. It also is involved in redeveloping military bases turned over to the private sector.

You would think that considering all the money Feinstein's family has pocketed by waging global warfare while ignoring the plight of wounded American soldiers, she would show a smidgeon of shame and resign from the entire senate, not just a subcommittee. Conversely, you'd think she might stick around MILCON to try and fix the medical-care disaster she helped to engineer for the vets who were suckered into fighting her and Bush's panoply of unjust wars.

Note to those feminist-minded liberals who hold-up Feinstein as a "role model" for women: She is not a feminist, she is not a liberal. She is every bit as patriarchal as the amoral neoconservatives who have militarized America for profit. Here is a sample from a speech the California senator made at the "Power of Women" Luncheon in Century City last March:

"We need more women in the House, in the Senate and in the boardroom as well. We are going to be in a war of terror for a considerable period of time. You can reposition men in Kuwait; we need more in Afghanistan where the Taliban has a resurgence. We know there are problems in the horn of Africa, and we know that Southeast Asia remains a place for terrorists and a place for insurgents. . . . There are terror cells operating in this country and in some 60 countries, so we are going to be fighting this war for some time to come."

Feinstein is chanting the mantra of endless terrorism and war without end in tandem with the neoconservative Heritage Foundation, which calls for increasing military spending until domestic programs for the poor are deader than an Iraqi baby run over by a Humvee filled with Halliburton engineers.

If "breaking the glass ceiling" means more power for Feinstein and her ilk, beware.

Contact Peter Byrne or send a letter to the editor about this story.


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ssjuanitaxx your URL applied to California STATE officials, not Federal officials such as a Senator. I would guess that the Senate has itself insulated from any legal actions on our part and that any removal would have to originate in the Senate. Fat chance of that happening.