WAR PROFITEER and
her DADDY WARBUCKS
FEINSTEIN HAS SPENT
HER ENTIRE POLITICAL LIFE STALKING THE HALL OF CONGRESS SNIFFING OUT DEALS THAT
HAVE PUT MILLIONS IN HER HUSBAND, RICHARD BLUM’S BOTTOMLESS POCKETS!
IN
THE November 2006 election, the voters demanded congressional ethics reform.
And so, the newly appointed chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne
Feinstein, D-Calif., is now duly in charge of regulating the ethical behavior
of her colleagues. But for many years, Feinstein has been beset by her own
ethical conflict of interest, say congressional ethics experts.
*
“All in all, it was an
incredible victory for the Chinese government. Feinstein has done more for Red
China than other any serving U.S. politician. “ Trevor Loudon
FEINSTEIN SAYS ILLEGALS STEAL JOBS FROM AMERICANS.... So keep them coming!
“Senator Dianne Feinstein warned, at the time, they had to
solve this crisis now—of immigrants coming in illegally and getting these
jobs.”
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/05/senator-dianne-feinstein-looking-to-buy.html
“The Democrats had
abandoned their working-class base to chase what they pretended was a racial
group when what they were actually chasing was the momentum of unlimited
migration”. DANIEL GREENFIELD / FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
Senate Democrats: Americans ‘Have Obligation’ to Give Amnesty to Foreigners
2:27
A group of Senate Democrats say American citizens “have an obligation” to give amnesty to potentially millions of foreign nationals living in the United States who they say have “earned the right” to be in the country.
After House Democrats and seven House Republicans passed an expansive amnesty to any illegal alien claiming to have arrived in the U.S. as a child, Senate Democrats are now demanding the Senate do the same.
Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Tim Kaine (D-VA) are urging the GOP-controlled Senate to pass their amnesty plan, which gives nearly half a million foreign nationals living in the U.S. on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) a pathway to American citizenship.
Cardin said in a statement that Americans are obligated to give foreign nationals permanent legal residency and eventually U.S. citizenship via an amnesty. According to Cardin:
These individuals have lawfully lived and worked in the U.S. as our neighbors, as they sought refuge in the U.S. We have an obligation to take action and give needed predictability and safety to people who are in an uncertain status. We need to stand up for the American values of compassion and diversitythat have made this country stronger. [Emphasis added]
Feinstein said the 440,000 foreign nationals who would receive the amnesty have “earned the right” to permanently stay in the U.S.
“The Senate needs to follow the House’s lead and pass these important protections for immigrant families who have been living and working in the United States for decades,” Feinstein said. “After fleeing wars and natural disasters, these families have established deep roots in our communities and earned the right to remain together here in the United States.”
TPS has become a quasi-amnesty for otherwise illegal aliens created under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990 (INA) that prevents the deportation of foreign nationals from countries that have suffered through famine, war, or natural disasters. Since the Clinton administration, TPS has been transformed into a de facto amnesty program as the Bush, Obama, and now Trump administrations have continuously renewed the program for a variety of countries.
Every year, the U.S. admits more than 1.2 million mostly low-skilled legal immigrants who compete in the labor market for jobs against poor, working, and middle-class Americans. About 70 percent of legal immigrants enter through the process known as “chain migration,” where newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country with them. Chain migration, alone, has brought about 10 millionforeign nationals to the U.S. since 2005.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
“Our
entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become
a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This
is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen
McQuillan THEAMERICAN THINKER.com
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Profits from War and Post Office - Roots Action
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investigation.
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Senator Feinstein's War Profiteering
by Joshua Frank
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It happens all the
time. If the antiwar movement takes on the Democrats for their bitter
shortcomings, a few liberals are bound to criticize us for not hounding Bush
instead. It doesn't even have to be an election year to get the progressives
fired up. They just don't seem to get it. "How can you attack the
Democrats when we have such a bulletproof administration ruling the roost in
Washington?" somebody recently e-mailed me. "Don't you have
something better to do than write this trash?!"
Well, not really.
It's too cold in upstate New York right now to do anything other than fume
over the liberal villains in Washington. "Why do I write about the
putrid Democratic Party?" I responded, "I'll tell you, there's a
reason this Republican administration is so damn bulletproof – nobody from
the opposition party is taking aim and pulling the trigger."
And that's why the
Dems are just as culpable in all that has transpired since Bush took office
in 2000. They aren't just a part of the problem – the Democrats are the
problem.
I mean, who is
really all that surprised Bush and his boys wanted to conquer the Middle
East? Not me. That's just what unreasonable neocons do: they stomp out the
little guy, kill off the weak, and suffocate the voiceless. They only care
about the girth of their wallets and the number of scalps they can tack above
their mantles.
The Democrats
aren't just letting the Republicans get away with murder, however: some of
them are also reaping the benefits of the Bush wars. We constantly hear about
Dick Cheney's ties to Halliburton and how his ex-company is making bundles
off U.S. contracts in Iraq. But what we don't hear about is how Democratic
Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her husband are also making tons of money off the
"war on terror."
The wishy-washy
senator now claims Bush misled her prior to the invasion of Iraq. I don't
think she's being honest with us, though. There may have been other reasons
she helped sell Bush's lies. According to the Center for Public
Integrity, Feinstein's husband Richard Blum has racked in millions
of dollars from Perini, a civil
infrastructure construction company, of which the billionaire investor wields
a 75 percent voting share.
In April 2003, the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gave $500 million to Perini to provide services
for Iraq's Central Command. A month earlier in March 2003, Perini
was awarded $25 million to design and construct a facility to support the
Afghan National Army near Kabul. And in March 2004, Perini was awarded a
hefty contract worth up to $500 million for "electrical power
distribution and transmission" in southern Iraq.
Feinstein, who sits on
the Senate Appropriations
Committee as well as the Select
Committee on Intelligence, is reaping the benefits of
her husband's investments. The Democratic
royal family recently
purchased
a $16.5 million mansion in the flush Pacific
Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. It's
a disgusting display of war
profiteering, and
just like Cheney, the leading Democrat should
be called out for her offense.
And that's exactly
why the Bush administration
is so darn bulletproof. The Democratic
leadership in Washington is just as
crooked and just as callous.
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A war
profiteer is any person or organization that profits from warfare or by selling weapons and other goods to parties at war.
The term can have strong, negative connotations. General profiteering may
also occur in peace time. An example of war profiteers were the "shoddy"
millionaires who
allegedly sold recycled wool and cardboard shoes to soldiers during the American
Civil War. The ten
highest war profiteers are Lockheed Martin, Boeing, BAE Systems, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, European Aeronautic Defense and Space
Company EADS, Finmeccanica, L-3 Communications, and United
Technologies.[1] These corporations are all directly
connected with production of weapons, machinery, vehicles, aircraft,
electronics and artillery(including missiles) and as such have significant
political influence given their lobbying efforts and campaign contributions to
members of the United States Congress in the promotion of war efforts. In 2010,
the defense industry spent $144 million on lobbying and donated over $22.6
million to congressional candidates.[2]
In the United States[edit]
Companies
such as Halliburton have been criticized in the context
of the Iraq War for their perceived war profiteering.[24]
Steven
Clemons, a senior
fellow at the New America Foundation think tank, has accused former CIA Director James
Woolseyof both
profiting from and promoting the Iraq War.[25]
The Center
for Public Integrity has reported that US Senator Dianne Feinstein, who voted in favor of the Iraq Resolution, and her husband, Richard Blum, are making millions of dollars from Iraq and
Afghanistan contracts through his company, Tutor
Perini Corporation.[26][27]
Indicted
defense contractor Brent R. Wilkes was reported to be ecstatic when
hearing that the United States was going to go to war with Iraq. "He and
some of his top executives were really gung-ho about the war," said a
former employee. "Brent said this would create new opportunities for the
company. He was really excited about doing business in the Middle East."[28]
The War
Profiteering Prevention Act of 2007 intended to create criminal
penalties for war profiteers and others who exploit taxpayer-funded efforts in
Iraq and elsewhere around the world.[29] This act was introduced first on
April 25, 2007, but was never enacted into law.[30] War profiteering cases are often
brought under the Civil False Claims Act, which was enacted in 1863 to combat war
profiteering during the Civil War.[31]
Major
General Smedley
Butler, USMC,
criticized war profiteering of US companies during World War I in War Is a Racket. He wrote about how some companies and
corporations increase their earnings and profits by up to 1,700 percent and how
many companies willingly sold equipment and supplies to the US that had no
relevant use in the war effort. In the book, Butler stated that "It has
been estimated by statisticians and economists and researchers that the war
cost your Uncle Sam $52,000,000,000. Of this sum, $39,000,000,000 was expended
in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16,000,000,000 in profits."[32]
In
the American Civil War, concerns about war profiteering were not limited to the
activities of a few "shoddy" millionaires in the North. In the Confederacy,
where supplies were severely limited, and hardships common, the mere suggestion
of profiteering was considered a scurrilous charge. Georgia Quartermaster General Ira Roe Foster attempted to increase the supply of
material to the troops by urging the women of his state to knit 50,000 pairs of
socks. Foster's sock campaign stimulated the supply of the much needed item,
but it also met with a certain amount of suspicion and backlash. Either the result of a Union disinformation campaign, or the work of suspicious
minds, rumors, which Foster denied as a "malicious
falsehood!",[33] began to spread that Foster and
others were profiteering from the socks.[33] It was alleged that contributed socks
were being sold, rather than given freely to the troops. The charge was not
without precedent. The historian Jeanie Attie notes that in 1861, an
"especially damaging rumor" (later found to be true) had circulated
in the North, alleging that the Union Army had purchased 5,000 pairs of socks
which had been donated, and intended for the troops, from a private relief
agency, the United States Sanitary Commission.[34] As the Sanitary Commission had done
in the North, Foster undertook a propaganda campaign in Georgia newspapers to
combat the damaging rumors and to encourage the continued contribution of
socks.[35] He offered $1,000.00 to any
"citizen or soldier who will come forward and prove that he ever bought a
sock from this Department that was either knit by the ladies or purchased for
issue to said troops."[33]
Unacceptable! Senator Profits from War and Post Office
Although Feinstein lost a gubernatorial bid to Republican Pete Wilson, she soon took his seat in the U.S. Senate. Working across the aisle, her power rapidly grew along with her husband's diversified investments and their mutual wealth.1
• As Chair and ranking member of the Military Construction and Appropriations Subcommittee, Senator Feinstein appears to have steered contracts to companies controlled by her husband.2 Blum has profited handsomely from military contracts.3
• In 2009, Senator Feinstein introduced legislation to provide $25 billion in taxpayer money to the FDIC after it gave Blum's CBRE real estate company a contract to sell foreclosed properties at unusually high rates.4
• As a Regent of the University of California, Blum appears to have profited from contracts with the UC-run nuclear weapons laboratory at Los Alamos.5
• In the summer of 2012, the U.S. Postal Service awarded Blum's CBRE company the exclusive contract to sell its portfolio of public properties. Feinstein's office denies any influence in the awarding of the contract.6
Ask your Senators to
request an Ethics Committee investigation of Senator Dianne Feinstein now.
Background:
1. MetroActive: Senator Feinstein's Iraq Conflict
Z Magazine: The Power Couple of California
2. Bohemian: Senator Warbucks
3. San Francisco Chronicle: War Brings Business to Feinstein Spouse
San Francisco Chronicle: SF Firm Awarded Contract in Iraq
4.Washington Times: Senator's Husband's Firm Cashes in on Crisis
5. San Francisco Chronicle: Amid Loud Dissent, Panels Urge Los Alamos Bid
Santa Cruz Indymedia: Conflict of Interest for Vice Chair of the UC Regents, Richard C. Blum?
6. San Francisco Chronicle: Grim Outlook for Post Office Buildings
LaJolla Light: Berkeley Preservationists Question Senator's Ties to Post Office Sales
Truthout: The USPS Media #FAIL
Z Magazine: The Power Couple of California
2. Bohemian: Senator Warbucks
3. San Francisco Chronicle: War Brings Business to Feinstein Spouse
San Francisco Chronicle: SF Firm Awarded Contract in Iraq
4.Washington Times: Senator's Husband's Firm Cashes in on Crisis
5. San Francisco Chronicle: Amid Loud Dissent, Panels Urge Los Alamos Bid
Santa Cruz Indymedia: Conflict of Interest for Vice Chair of the UC Regents, Richard C. Blum?
6. San Francisco Chronicle: Grim Outlook for Post Office Buildings
LaJolla Light: Berkeley Preservationists Question Senator's Ties to Post Office Sales
Truthout: The USPS Media #FAIL
richard blum huckstered and voted in the senate for any and all that would benefit red china and richard blum, america's war profiteers!
Steven Mosher on Trade Deficit: China ‘Might as Well Have Carpet
Bombed the American Heartland’
Joshua Lott/Getty Images
Richard
Nixon had “created a monster” by opening America and the West to China, said
bestselling author and Asia expert Steven Mosher in a Wednesday interview on
SiriusXM’s Breitbart News
Tonight with Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour.
“I think allowing China into
the World Trade Organization must rank as one of the greatest strategic
blunders made by any great power in human history,” said Mosher, framing the
37th president’s policy towards China as sowing the seeds of a rival state’s geopolitical
ascendance.
Mosher, the author of Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to WorldOrder, explained that the Chinese
state does not operate in good faith in trade arrangements.
“[China] had no intention of playing
by the rules,” said Mosher. “The Chinese communist party thinks that rules are
for fools and that political power grows out of the barrel
of a gun. It’s basically a matter of our power politics.
They pretended to be a weak developing country in order to get favorable terms
in the World Trade Organization, and when they joined, they broke all the rules
and have been behaving in a predatory fashion ever since.”
Chinese theft of intellectual
property amounts to $600 billion per year in value, said Mosher: “Everyone is
getting sick of the fact that China cheats, that China signs agreements
only to violate them, that China steals $600 billion — according to the FBI —
in intellectual property every year.”
Decades of trade with China
have decimated America’s manufacturing base, said Mosher.
“China’s been committing economic hate crimes against the
American people for a long time,” said Mosher. “By stealing technology and so
forth, they might as well have carpet bombed the industrial heartland of
America into rubble. The end result has been the same. You need a defense industrial base. You need hard industry. There
are only four countries that really make things, in any number and that is the
united States, Japan, Germany, and China. We need to make things. Manufacturing
is still the basis of a strong economy. How would we be able to be
the arsenal of democracy if we allow our steel factories to be shuttered by
Chinese steel dumping on our markets?”
“We’ve not only lost our jobs to
them and built a middle class in China while we decimated our own, we have also
lost all sorts of technological know-how,” said Mansour. “We no longer
manufacture, here. It’s horrifying how we have crippled ourselves to this.”
The Chinese government seeks to
displace America as the world’s primary superpower through economic designs
across Eurasia, said Mosher.
“China is already becoming the
dominant power in East Asia, and now it’s reaching with its One Belt One Road [project] across the Eurasian
continent,” said Mosher. “Its purpose is quite clear. It wants to draw the
economy of all Asian and European countries into China’s orbit. It wants to
reorient the world’s economy around China, and with that economic dominance
will come strategic dominance.”
“If they come to dominate
Eurasia with four billion people and sixty percent of the world’s economy, I
think it’s game over,” warned Mosher.
Following the Cold War, China
became America’s primary adversary, said Mosher.
“China declared war on us in 1991,
and has been at war with us in cyberspace, stealing intellectual property, on
trade by devaluing its currency, on espionage of all kinds, and by making great
territorial claims in the South China Sea,” said Mosher.
America’s “generous American spirit”
is taken advantage of by bad faith negotiations on China’s part, with the
latter deploying realpolitik.
“If your enemy says you’re at war,
you’re probably are war whether you want to be or not,” said Mosher.
China’s political ascendance will
expand illiberalism, as the authoritarian state seeks to “replicate” its system
abroad, said Mosher.
“I have seen China’s growing
economic and military might, and I know they’re going to use it not for good
purposes, not to promote democracy and freedom, they’re going to use it for
illiberal purposes, to destroy democracy, to destroy freedom around the world,
to replicate themselves and of course what they are is a one-party dictatorship
dominated now by the new red emperor Xi Jinping,” said Mosher.
“As China grows more powerful, it
will seek to replicate itself,” he continued. “But the countries that replicate
themselves after China will come to resemble Cambodia, Zimbabwe, and North
Korea, because China will move in, will give them low interest rate loans, will
extract their resources, will corrupt their governments, and will leave strong
men in place over a countries whose economies have been gutted. So you’re not
going to see the rise of China contribute to the rise of other countries,
you’re going to see it contribute to the colonization of other countries, the
extraction of their resources, the devastation of their political systems, and
disrespect for human rights. They will spread their mistakes around the world.”
“Gary Cohn is not interested in
putting tariffs on China or in any way curbing China’s appetites when it comes
to trade,” said Mosher of President Donald Trump’s chief economic adviser.
Peter Navarro, the
president’s assistant on matters of trade an industrial policy, shares
Trump’s desire to “get tough on trade with China,” said Mosher.
Mosher is the president of
the Population Research Institute and an internationally
acclaimed expert on China. In 1979, he was the first American social scientist
to visit and conduct research in mainland China, where he he witnessed
firsthand the communist regime’s human rights violations vis-à-vis the forced
abortions under their “one-child policy.” His latest book is Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order.
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JUDICIAL WATCH RANKS SEN. DIANNE
FEINSTEIN ONE OF THE 10 MOST CORRUPT.
SHE HAS AMASSED A HUGE FORTUNE FROM
DEALS SHE HAS PUSHED IN THE SENATE THAT ULTIMATELY PUT MILLIONS INTO HER
HUSBAND’S POCKETS.
SHE LIVES IN A $16 MILLION DOLLAR
MANSION IN SAN FRANCISCO ONLY MILES FROM HER S.F. HOTEL WHERE SHE HIRES
ILLEGALS.
HER BIGGEST (LEGAL) DONORS ARE
UTILITIES MONOPOLY PACIFIC, GAS & ELECTRIC AND CRIMINAL BANKSTERS WELLS
FARGO and BANK of AMERICA.
SHE VOTES FOR ANYTHING THAT WOULD
BENEFIT RED CHINA, AND RED CHINA THANKS HER BY CUTTING DEALS WITH HER HUSBAND
RICHARD BLUM.
FEINSTEIN IS THE BIGGEST WAR
PROFITEER IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
FEINSTEIN IS AN ADVOCATE FOR OPEN
BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY, NO ENGLISH ONLY, AND NO ID REQUIRED OF ILLEGALS VOTING.
FEINSTEIN, ALONG WITH HER
SISTERS-IN-CORRUPTION, PELOSI AND BOXER, ARE A MAJOR CAUSE FOR THE MELTDOWN AND
COLONIZATION OF CA BY MEXICO!
Feinstein’s net worth
is partially explained by her marriage to investment banker Richard Blum, who
also sits on the University of California’s Board of Regents. Blum has been a
strong supporter of privatization and fee hikes. Feinstein also reported owning
homes in the Lake Tahoe area, the Coachella Valley, the Hawaiian Island of
Kauai, and San Francisco.
House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ranks as the thirteenth wealthiest member of Congress, with
a net worth of $26.4 million. Much of Pelosi’s fortune comes from her husband Paul
Pelosi, a land developer. Pelosi’s fortune actually declined since 2010, but
this can largely be explained by $6 million in mortgages on two properties in
Washington, D.C. and San Francisco that are now counted as liabilities.
US “Fifty Wealthiest Lawmakers” list:
A Congress of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich
By Eric LondonLast week’s report by Washington,
D.C. political blog The Hill details the vast wealth of the
nation’s legislative representatives and serves as an indictment of the
anti-democratic nature of the American political system. The “50 Wealthiest
Lawmakers” list shows that dozens of congressional politicians have amassed
huge fortunes while simultaneously slashing the wages, benefits and social
services of the American people.
In other words, not only are these
members of Congress overseeing a massive transfer of wealth from the working
class to the ruling class; they are also profiting from this transfer.
The report reveals the bipartisan composition
of the extremely wealthy in congress. Seven of the top 10 richest members of
congress are Democrats; overall, Republicans make up 60 percent of the list.
According to The Hill, 17
members of Congress have amassed fortunes of over $20 million, and a total of
35 members of Congress have a net worth valued at over $10 million.
These numbers are slightly skewed
compared with past surveys. Due to the passage of the STOCK Act, members of
Congress now are legally required to report mortgages as liabilities. The STOCK
Act was passed after revelations were made regarding banks giving members of
Congress and their staffs “friendly” deals on their personal mortgages in
return for favorable legislation.
The list also sheds light on the
nature of wealth accumulation amongst the super-rich in America. Among the
elite today, wealth accumulation has less to do with productive work than it
does with parasitism, inheritance, and family ties.
Rep. Michael McCaul (Republican of
Texas) tops the list with a total fortune of $290.5 million. McCaul’s wealth
comes in part from his marriage to the daughter of Lowry Mays, the founder of
radio giant Clear Channel Communications. Belying the claim that these fortunes
come from productive hard work, McCaul’s 2011 financial report explained that
“certain assets owned by spouse were acquired via gift from spouse’s parents.”
Democratic Party leadership is
featured prominently at the top of the list.
Sen. John Kerry (Democrat of
Massachusetts), the party’s nominee for president in 2004, is second, with a
net worth of $198.8 million. Like McCaul, much of this wealth comes from
family. His wife Theresa Heinz’s “numerous family trusts” have helped push
Kerry’s fortune up $5 million in the last year.
Democratic Senators Jay Rockefeller
(West Virginia), Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut), and Dianne Feinstein
(California) are also featured in the top 10. The respective fortunes of these
three senators ($83.1 million, $80.1 million, and $47.2 million) come in large
part from family inheritances and trusts.
Feinstein’s net worth is partially
explained by her marriage to investment banker Richard Blum, who also sits on
the University of California’s Board of Regents. Blum has been a strong
supporter of privatization and fee hikes. Feinstein also reported owning homes
in the Lake Tahoe area, the Coachella Valley, the Hawaiian Island of Kauai, and
San Francisco.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
(D-CA) ranks as the thirteenth wealthiest member of Congress, with a net worth
of $26.4 million. Much of Pelosi’s fortune comes from her husband Paul Pelosi,
a land developer. Pelosi’s fortune actually declined since 2010, but this can
largely be explained by $6 million in mortgages on two properties in
Washington, D.C. and San Francisco that are now counted as liabilities.
Republican Rep. James Sensenbrenner
of Wisconsin reported a net worth of $10.2 million. Among other reported
assets, “his prized stamp collection … is now worth at least $150,000.”
Maine Senator Olympia Snowe, a
Republican, ranks 35th on the list. A portion of her $9 million fortune comes
from investments in Education Management Corporation, a for-profit
post-secondary education company. Snowe’s husband, former Maine governor John
McKernan Jr., sits on the company’s board of directors.
All of the Congressional members on
the list amassed their vast sums of money on the backs of the working people
they purport to represent.
The web site OpenSecrets.org reports
that land speculation is the industry in which members of Congress make the
most money. Financial speculation, securities and investments, oil and gas
production, and commercial banking are also featured in the top 10 profitable
industries for members of Congress.
The report from The Hill underlines
what was already clear about American politics: the vast majority of Americans
are given no representation in government. Their “elected” representatives are
chosen from the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.
The lives of these members of
Congress compare starkly with the realities that their constituents face on a
day-to-day basis. In the years following the financial crisis, the average
American family has lost 40 percent of its net worth. Half of America lives
either under the poverty line or one paycheck away from it. In some states, a
quarter of the population struggles to afford food. Meanwhile, Congress cuts
unemployment benefits, funding for health care, education, and housing. Both
parties have agreed that slashing pensions and food stamps are next on the agenda.
For the richest members of Congress,
these cuts will result, as they evidently have already, in an increase in net
worth. For their working class constituents, the cuts pose a more urgent
threat: hunger, disease, poverty, and a loss of life.
I love the way FEINSTEIN’S office,
mostly a group of politician white collar criminals servicing BLUM-FEINSTEIN’S
interest above our own state’s...... keep denying that FEINSTEIN is the biggest
war profiteer in history....
SO HOW THE HELL DID SHE ACQUIRE 40
MILLION IN MANSIONS? Even that phony tax supported used computer school scam
she and Blum worked up only made them about 10 million in ill gotten profits
extracted from the tax payer’s pockets.
Now FEINSTEIN-BLUM are the biggest
profiteers in AMERICAN HISTORY off BUSH’S WAR. Unfortunately that’s only a drop
in the bucket of money she’s made off her husband’s pimp of her.
Ever hear of FEINSTEIN speaking out
on the WAR? But if you want a laugh, google Feinstein’s comment on awful WAR
PROFITEERS! Reminds me of her comment “Illegals are good citizens!”
The only thing you will ever hear
FEINSTEIN speaking out on is something that will put money in her filthy
pockets.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN IS THE MOST CORRUPT
SELF-SERVING POLITICIAN IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
SHE SHOULD SPEND THE REST OF HER LIFE
IN PRISON.................................
Google:
FEINSTEIN, BLUM AND CHINA
FEINSTEIN, BLUM WAR PROFITEER
FEINSTEIN, BLUM AND 17
MILLION DOLLAR MANSION, only one of a dozen.
FEINSTEIN AND WELLS FARGO and the
BANKRUPTCY BILL
FEINSTEIN, BLUM AND
MEDICARE billing profits
FEINSTEIN – BLUM AND TARP CORRUPTION
FEINSTEIN – BLUM AND BOARD OF REGENTS
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WITH VIEWS TO DIE FOR.... Feinstein’s
war profits mansion
Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her
mega-millionaire husband, Richard Blum, are pulling up stakes on their quiet
Presidio Terrace home and moving uptown to a Pacific Heights mansion -- with
views to die for.
The $16.5 million mansion -- which
sits at the foot of Vallejo Street, between the Presidio and some of the city's
most hoity-toity addresses -- offers a sweeping view of the bay.
It's right off what Herb Caen
christened the "Gold Rush" -- the final two blocks of upper, upper
Broadway, where the residents include Ann and Gordon Getty, Oracle founder
Larry Ellison, and Mimi Haas -- as in the Levi Strauss Haases.
"And everyone is extending a
warm welcome,'' said former Mayor Willie Brown, who hangs with the hill crowd.
"They figure it will mean better homeland security."
The very hush-hush house sale, we're
told, was finalized within the past three weeks. Workers are busy fixing up the
place and installing new recessed lighting before Feinstein and Blum move in.
For the past two decades, San
Francisco's top power couple has lived in the shadow of Temple Emanu-El -- on
the very private and swank Presidio Terrace, just off Arguello Boulevard --
where they've hosted everyone from reporters to presidents.
The house, which has yet to go on the
market, comes complete with a flagpole.
So why the big move?
"We've never had a view, and
this was an opportunity to get one,'' Feinstein said Friday. "We also have
an expanding family -- five grandchildren and soon to be a sixth -- and we
needed some more space.''
Their new, 9,500-square-foot mansion
-- once owned by the former wife of "Star Wars" creator George Lucas
and featured as the 1995 San Francisco Decorator's Showcase -- offers much more
than just picture-postcard vistas.
The four-story abode, which has sat
empty for the past couple of years, has five bedrooms (including two master
suites), three fireplaces, an elevator, a wine cellar and an in-law apartment.
"It's a very gorgeous, gorgeous
property -- a very special home,'' says Sotheby's agent Pattie Lawton, who
represented the sellers, a couple she declined to name.
The sellers never actually lived in
the house, which they bought in 2004. The price then wasn't disclosed, but real
estate industry sources said they believe it was close to its appraised value
of $12 million.
One big curiosity is the garden just
off the front entrance that is actually part of the Lyon Street steps, a
favorite of joggers, walkers and camera clickers.
At night, the 332 steps are also a
popular hangout for teenagers to sneak a drink or two.
This is hardly Blum and Feinstein's
only real estate undertaking in recent years. Five years ago, they traded in
their five-story townhouse in Washington, D.C., for a nearly $6 million, French
Renaissance-style estate in the Spring Valley neighborhood, just down the
street from American University.
A couple of years earlier, they built
themselves a $7.4 million ski retreat on 30 acres in Aspen, Colo., just down
the road from the 15-bedroom pleasure palace of a Saudi prince.
No word yet on if -- or where -- the
flagpole will go up on the new digs.
More home views: Speaking of home,
Sen. Feinstein was undoubtedly feeling heat from the West Coast before
announcing Friday that she would support a floor filibuster against Supreme
Court nominee Samuel Alito after all.
Just a couple of weeks back,
Feinstein said she probably wouldn't support a move to block the nomination,
unless Alito turned out to be guilty of some "moral turpitude” LIKE BEING
A BUSH WAR WHORE OR SELLING OUT HIS COUNTRY TO RED CHINA, OR DENYING MEDICARE
BENEFITS TO SICK AND DISABLED FOR PROFITS a la BLUM. That kind of crap that has
made Feinstein filthy rich!
But by Friday, Feinstein apparently
had heard the message loud and clear from constituents urging her to support
the filibuster.
"It was very strong
in terms of Californians contacting us in support of the filibuster,''
Feinstein spokesman Howard Gantman told us.
SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN,
AND HER LAP BITCH BARBARA BOXER, HAVE VOTED FOR ANY AND ALL WARS FOR MUSLIM
DICTATORS, WHILE THEY DEMAND THAT OUR OWN BORDERS BE LEFT OPEN AND UNDEFENDED
AGAINST NARCOMEX.
KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT
ABOUT MY WAR PROFITEERING WHORE WIFE’S MANSIONS! HERE’S A BRIBE TO DO SO!
“Since the 2000 election
cycle, Blum has contributed over $75,000 to the Democratic Senatorial
Committee, and thousands more to individual Democrats, including John Kerry,
Robert Byrd, Joe Lieberman, Ted Kennedy, and Barbara Boxer.”
March 1, 2006
The Democrats' Daddy Warbucks
The Democrats' Daddy Warbucks
Feinstein family war
profits, part II
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's
husband, Richard Blum, could well be called the Democrats' Daddy Warbucks. He's
scored bundles from war contracts. He has recently purchased a $16.5 million
crib in San Francisco and along with his wife has handed hundreds of thousands
of dollars over to fellow Democrats. Since the 2000 election cycle, Blum has
contributed over $75,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Committee, and thousands
more to individual Democrats, including John Kerry, Robert Byrd, Joe Lieberman,
Ted Kennedy, and Barbara Boxer. Richard Blum's history as an entrepreneur began
at the ripe age of 23 when he began to work for the San Francisco brokerage
firm Sutro & Company. Blum quickly climbed the ranks and became a partner
by the age of 30. According the San Francisco Chronicle, "Blum proved that
he had an eye for fixer-upper properties when he led a partnership that
acquired the struggling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for $8
million – then sold it to Mattel Inc. four years later for $40 million."
In 1975, Blum went out on his own and formed a brokerage agency. Today, Blum's
lofty firm, Blum Capital, holds positions in more than 20 companies, including
real estate giants, credit bureaus, and yes, even military contractors. Blum
sees himself as an altruistic capitalist, claims one of his ex-employees:
"He likes to go after companies that are down and out, and bring their
stock back to life. He thinks he's doing good." Blum shares a large stake
in Perini, a civil construction company that is happily employed in Iraq and
Afghanistan. But not all of Blum's war profits come from Perini. In 1975, his
venture capital firm went after fledging construction and design company URS
when the business was about to be bought out by another corporation. Since
then, Blum has increased his stock in URS, capitalizing on its recent military
contracts. Unlike Blum's dabbling with Barnum & Bailey, his current profits
aren't so safe for child consumption. Here are the basics to date: Blum
currently holds over 111,000 shares of stock in URS Corporation, which is now
one of the top defense contractors in the United States. Blum is an acting
director of URS, which bought EG&G, a leading provider of technical
services and management to the U.S. military, from The Carlyle Group in 2002.
Carlyle's trusty advisers, past and present, include former President George
H.W. Bush, James Baker, and ex-SEC Commissioner Arthur Levitt, among other
prominent neoconservatives and Washington power brokers. URS and Blum have
since banked on the Iraq war, scoring a phat $600 million contract through
EG&G. As a result, URS has seen its stock price more than triple since the
war began in March 2003. Blum has cashed in over $2 million on this venture
alone and another $100 million for his investment firm. "As part of
EG&G's sale price," reports the San Francisco Chronicle, "Carlyle
acquired a 21.74 percent stake in URS – second only to the 23.7 percent of
shares controlled by Blum Capital." The Carlyle Group has long been
accused of exploiting its political connections to turn a profit. And if
Carlyle can come under the microscope for its government ties and war
profiteering, as it did in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, than surely Blum's
URS ought to be subject to the same scrutiny. Owen Blicksilver, Blum's
spokesman, claims his boss and Sen. Feinstein have never talked shop at home in
their gated mansion: "Mr. Blum and Sen. Feinstein have never had any
discussions about outsourcing, government contracts, or URS." If this were
a Republican senator's spouse scoring bundles off the spoils of war and passing
it along to fellow Republicans, the liberals would be up in arms. But since
Dianne Feinstein is a leading Democrat, mum's the word. Partisanship trumps
ethics. The Byrne Report Hawk Tale By Peter Byrne ON JAN. 18, California
senator Dianne Feinstein introduced Dr. Condoleezza Rice at a Senate nomination
hearing for Secretary of State in terms so saccharine that molasses seemed to
ooze out of her mouth. She was a precocious child, Feinstein purred. She has skill,
judgment and poise. She loves football. Bush loves her. "The problems we
face abroad are complex and sizable. If Dr. Rice's past performance is any
indication, though, we can rest easy." That very same day, Feinstein's
husband, Richard Blum, took advantage of a spike in the price of his URS
Corporation stock. He sold a third of his holdings in the defense contractor
for $57 million, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission. With Rice confirmed, the business of death and occupation looks
rosy as hell for Feinstein, who--let's get real--benefits tremendously from
sharing community property with Blum. URS' largest customer is the U.S. Army,
which accounted for 17 percent ($587 million) of its cash revenue in 2004. In
2001, URS enjoyed a mere $169 million in defense contracts. Now, its war
contracts total more than $2 billion. According to its annual report, the San
FranciscoÐbased URS anticipates that profits will rocket up in 2005, because
"operations in the Middle East are expected to generate increased work
related to the development of weapons systems, the training of military pilots
and the maintenance, upgrade and repair of military vehicles." Provided,
of course, that our hawkish leadership remains as poised and lovable as the new
Secretary of State. Feinstein, who sits on the Defense Appropriations
Subcommittee, is an advocate of first-strike warfare, even though it flouts
international law and the standards of common decency. Interestingly, her
Financial Disclosure Report for 2003 was more than three times the size of her
2002 disclosure (Feinstein's 2003 disclosure numbers 133 pages, compared to
Sen. Barbara Boxer's six-page report). The Feinstein-Blum portfolio is crammed
with multimillion dollar investments in the military-industrial-financial
complex and corporations that heavily exploit Third World peoples. The senator
has a lot to lose should the neoconservative war machine falter. Hubby holds a
controlling interest in another engineering firm, Perini Corporation of Framingham,
Mass. Perini ranks No. 6 by dollar amount in war-related government contracts
in the Middle East. According to its annual report, "Perini proudly
supports the U.S. government with global rapid response capabilities for
defense, reconstruction and security." Perini builds military facilities
and roads in Afghanistan, electrical infrastructure in Iraq and U.S. embassies
around the world. After the Senate, Feinstein included, approved Bush's war
plans in 2002, Perini's defense contract awards soared from negligible to $2.52
billion. But, as with many of the sole-source, open-ended contracts awarded to
politically connected firms, there are problems with accountability. Last
summer, Department of Defense auditors determined that Perini could not adequately
justify its costs in Iraq as fair and reasonable. That's government-speak for:
They're gouging the #!$% out of us. Perini is heavily engaged in military and
municipal public works projects inside the United States; at least two are also
under investigation for contract fraud. For example, the city of San Francisco
has sued general contractor Perini--which was in a joint venture with the
Tutor-Saliba construction firm--for $100 million in cost overruns at a San
Francisco International Airport project. The lawsuit alleges that the joint
venture engaged in "a sophisticated pattern of fraud," including
inflating costs, fabricating delays and setting up minority front companies to
exploit affirmative-action preferences. The attorney general of Massachusetts is
looking into alleged false claims made by a Perini joint venture in the
"Big Dig" urban highway construction boondoggle in Boston. Ron Tutor,
owner of Tutor-Saliba and CEO of Perini, bought into the latter company, along
with Blum, as it teetered on the edge of solvency in the mid- 1990s due to a
bad real estate investment. It rebounded, thanks to the firm's sudden ability
to obtain lucrative U.S. military and government contracts, which, of course,
had nothing to do with the fact that Blum's powerful wife has her hands on the
military's purse strings. Remarkably, Perini grossed $1.37 billion in 2003, up
27 percent from the previous year, before the U.S. invasion and occupation of
Iraq. Perini attributes its rocketing profits to "increased volume of work
in Iraq and Afghanistan." As a risk factor, the firm notes that continued
demand for its military services depends upon "the political situation in
Iraq," which, logically, means that it desires the bloody war and useless
occupation to continue indefinitely--a wish that hawktails with the foreign
policy positions of Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld and Feinstein. I almost forgot: Perini
Corp. is the nation's most active builder of Indian-fronted casinos. That
explains a few things about Sen. Feinstein and the politics of gambling, soon
to be revealed in greater detail in this space.
Husband's
investments entangle Feinstein
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LATEST FLAP OVER
MEDICARE PAYMENT DENIALS
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By David
WhitneyMcClatchy NewspapersSan Jose Mercury News
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Article Launched:05/19/2007
01:36:54 AM PDT
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WASHINGTON -
California lawmakers are questioning whether an auditing company in which San
Francisco investor Richard Blum, the husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, has a
major financial stake is rejecting Medicare claims at California
rehabilitation hospitals in order to reap millions of dollars in profits at
the expense of patient care.
The company,
PRG-Schultz International, has a contract with the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services, the overseer of the Medicare program, to check payments in
California for mistakes. Its only pay is a bounty of up to 30 percent on the
"overcharges" it identifies.
The California
Hospital Association first raised concerns in November that PRG-Schultz was
targeting rehabilitation hospitals that cared for Medicare patients after
knee or hip replacement surgery. The hospital association said PRG-Schultz
has reviewed thousands of cases dating as far back as 2002 and has rejected
nearly all as medically unnecessary. Melinda Staveley, president of the
38-bed Rehabilitation Institute at Santa Barbara, said more than 100 such
cases from her non-profit institution had been rejected. The facility could
face having to repay more than $2 million.
Elderly patients
As difficult as
that would be financially for a small hospital with a $12 million annual
budget, she said the bigger concern is future patient care. The frail and
elderly surgery patients with compound medical problems no longer will have
access to rehabilitation hospitals and will have to rely on home or
outpatient services.
"This is
devastating," Staveley said of the audits.
Her husband's
business interests in PRG-Schultz have proved awkward for Feinstein, the
state's Democratic senior senator, as the hospital association turns to
Congress for relief.
This is not the
first time Blum's business interests have collided with his wife's job. Blum
Capital Partners is a major investor in Northwest Airlines, which
in 1995 won the first contract by an American air carrier to fly to Beijing.
Feinstein had been friends with a former Chinese political leader since she
was mayor of San Francisco.
More recently,
concerns have been raised in Republican circles about some of Blum's
investments benefiting from defense contracts at a time when the senator was
serving on the Senate military construction appropriations committee.
Feinstein's press
aide, Scott Gerber, said the senator played no role in the legislation
creating the auditing program and did not intervene with program
administrators to help PRG-Schultz get the three-year contract in 2005.
Serious concerns
“FEINSTEIN SENT A
LETTER EXPRESSING HER CONCERNS....”
THIS IS TYPICAL
WHORE FEINSTEIN. SHE LIES THROUGH BOTH SIDES OF HER MOUTH AND STILL COUNTS
HER DIRTY MONEY.
THE OLD WHORE HAS
BEEN SENDING OUT THE SAME OLD FORM LETTER FOR A DECADES EXPRESSING HER
“CONCERN” OVER THE INVASION BY MEXICO. ALL THE WHILE SHE’S IN THE BACK ROOM
WORKING OUT NEW BIT BY BIT AMNESTY WITH HER LA RAZA WHORES, PELOSI. BOXER,
WAXMAN, ESHOO, LOFGREN, HARMAN, FARR, SANCHEZ, ET AL.
THE OLD WHORE HAS
PUBLICALLY MADE COMMENTS ABOUT EVIL WAR PROFITEERS AND THEN WENT TO TOWN
SERVICING BUSH WITH HER !NO! IMPEACHMENT, FOR WAR PROFITS. ENOUGH TO BUY
HERSELF ANOTHER MANSION, THE 17 MILLION SAN FRANCISCO PLACE.IT’S TIME FEINSTEIN
WENT TO PRISON!
On Thursday,
after questions from McClatchy Newspapers, Feinstein sent a letter to the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that called the hospital
association's concerns "potentially serious." She asked program
administrators to investigate, saying the concerns are spreading beyond its
determinations on rehabilitation hospitals to other aspects of
Medicare-financed hospitalizations for the elderly, including short-stay
hospital admissions.
Feinstein made no
mention of her husband's interest in PRG-Schultz, which she lists in her
annual financial disclosure reports. According to PRG-Schultz, Blum's
investment companies own 10.5 percent of its outstanding common stock, 53
percent of its outstanding preferred stock and 28 percent of its notes and
securities.
California House
members soon will follow with a joint letter of their own asking for an
investigation.
Rep. Lois Capps,
D-Santa Barbara, is taking the lead among Democrats. Her press aide, Emily
Kryder, said 15 members - more than a quarter of the state's congressional
delegation - have agreed to sign the letter so far.
"The review
and collection practices of PRG-Schultz threaten access to rehabilitation
services in California," the letter said. "We urge you to examine
the actions taken by PRG-Schultz International, Inc."
The auditing
program was set up as a demonstration project initially focusing on the three
highest-cost Medicare states - California, New York and Florida. Separate
contractors are used for each state. PRG-Schultz is the only for-profit
contractor among them, and Medicare administrators believe it has been the
most controversial because it alone has been zeroing in on rehabilitation
hospitals.
Highly lucrative
On the brink of
financial collapse when it won the contract two years ago, PRG-Schultz has
found the job to be enormously lucrative. Government figures indicate that it
had rejected $105 million in California Medicare overcharges as of Sept. 30,
the end of the 2006 fiscal year.
Medicare managers
said they could not release figures for how much PRG-Schultz was claiming as
commissions for finding the alleged overcharges, saying the information was
proprietary. But based on bounties of 28 percent that were used in
establishing the program, PRG-Schultz's entitlement could be as much as $29
million.
The California
Hospital Association said in a letter to Medicare administrators in November
that PRG-Schultz should be suspended for improperly applying Medicare rules
and using unqualified personnel.
PRG-Schultz
declined to comment. But officials of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services steadfastly defended PRG-Schultz, saying it's applying rules on
medically necessary admissions that probably have been ignored in California
for years.
PRG-Schultz
"coming to town is probably the first real look at these hospitals in
many, many years," said Melanie Combs, senior technical adviser for the
federal program.
"These rules
have been on the books since 1985," Combs said. "Maybe it's
possible some have been overlooking them. Maybe there have been consultants
out there helping hospitals to, quote, maximize reimbursements. And maybe
perhaps some of that has entailed looking the other way."
A call to Blum
Capital Partners - of which Blum is board chairman - asking for comment was
not returned.
PRG-Schultz
reported a first-quarter profit this year of $1.5 million, compared to a $10
million loss for the same period in 2006.
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THERE ARE THREE MAJOR
REASON FOR THE FALL OF CALIFORNIA INTO A BANKRUPTED, MEXICAN LOOTED DUMPSTER.
THESE ARE 1.) DIANNE FEINSTEIN, 2.) BARBARA BOXER, 3.) NANCY PELOSI!
ALL THREE ARE AS CORRUPT
AS THE DAY IS LONG. ALL HAVE GOTTEN FILTHY RICH OFF ELECTED OFFICE. ALL THREE
WORK FOR ANY SPECIAL INTEREST THAT WILL TUCK A BUCK INTO THEIR POCKETS. ALL
THREE VOTE HELL NO ON ANY ETHICS REFORM, AND LOVE THE SMELL OF A BRIBE!
FEINSTEIN’S BIGGEST
DONORS ARE RED CHINA, CRIMINAL BANKSTERS WELLS FARGO & BANK of AMERICA,
UTILITIES MONSTER P.G.&E., AND BIG AG DONORS THAT WANT HORDES MORE
ILLEGALS.
THE VERY SMELL OF MONEY
GETS FEINSTEIN HIGH AS A KITE!
Voters less enthused
about Sen. Dianne Feinstein's re-election
Published Tuesday, Jun.
21, 2011
Democratic Sen. Dianne
Feinstein's public approval rating remains positive, but enthusiasm for re-electing
her is far less than in previous years, according to a Field Poll released
today.
As Feinstein prepares to
run for re-election next year, California voters are inclined to support her,
43 percent to 39 percent, according to the poll.
That four-point margin –
the same as Feinstein posted in a Field Poll earlier this year – is her
smallest ever in a pre-election year. First elected to the Senate in 1992, her
margins of pre-election year support ranged from 19 percentage points to 29
percentage points before, the poll said.
Yet Feinstein's public
approval rating remains favorable, with 46 percent of voters approving of the
job she is doing, according to the poll. Thirty-one percent disapprove, and 23
percent have no opinion.
"Her job ratings
are still holding up, so it's not something that she's actually done that's
angered the voting public," Field Poll director Mark DiCamillo said.
"I just think they're in the mood for some change."
The poor economy has
dimmed the electorate's view of many incumbents, and Bill Carrick, Feinstein's
longtime political consultant, said Feinstein's numbers may reflect that
frustration. But he said her still-high public approval rating is an indication
of her continued popularity.
"It's tough
economic times," Carrick said. "In this environment, I think it's
good that so many people express more positive feelings about her than
negative."
Feinstein's softening
support may be inconsequential. It is unclear if she will face any serious
opposition next year.
Enthusiasm about a
Feinstein re-election divided along partisan lines. Sixty-six percent of
Democrats are inclined to support Feinstein's re-election, while 70 percent of
Republicans are not inclined to do so, according to the poll.
Independent and
minor-party voters are a tossup, with 38 percent inclined to vote for Feinstein
and 37 percent inclined not to, according to the poll.
Among Democratic voters
who do not plan to support Feinstein next year is Jessie Guardado, 52, of
Bakersfield, who said she is disturbed by reports of politicians' excesses,
though not about anything Feinstein specifically has done.
Guardado said she is
"looking for positive changes" in Washington.
Wayland Jackson, 80, of
Fresno, is keeping his support behind Feinstein. "I just like her
personally," said Jackson, a Democrat. "I think she's a good
leader."
*
IN THE November 2006
election, the voters demanded congressional ethics reform. And so, the newly
appointed chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.,
is now duly in charge of regulating the ethical behavior of her colleagues. But
for many years, Feinstein has been beset by her own ethical conflict of
interest, say congressional ethics experts.
*
AMERICANS SEE &
SPEAK ON THE STAGGERING CORRUPTION OF SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN, ONE OF OBAMA’S
BIGGEST DONORS!
*
Read more:
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/21/3715389/voters-less-enthused-abou-sen.html#ixzz1PvDmAkhu
Multitude of reasons
Feinstein should be a retired professional politician. She's been on public
payroll in one political office or another since early 1960s. If she gets yet
another term in US Senate she would be 85 years old by the time she's done.
Like Pelosi, her over $100 million net worth has increased substantially over
past few year with corrupt, secretive, slimy deals an endless devious calling
card. On the day latest Congress convened, Feinstein introduced legislation to
route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just
awarded her husband Richard Blum's real estate firm a lucrative contract to
sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry
norms. During recent fellow Jewish-American Rep. Anthony Weiner fiasco she
provided no leadership in ever calling once for the lying pervert to resign
when asked about it on TV. Mostly silent or obstructing 2nd Amendment rights,
Feinstein is a pathetic hypocrite, since she packs personal heat with her own
CCW permit. FEINSTEIN MUST BE RETIRED - FINALLY!
*
Diane Feinstein is
CORRUPT! She advocates for legislation that makes her husband, Richard Blum
benefit and get RICH!
HERE'S A LINK TO ALL THE
CORRUPTION:
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/21/3715389/voters-less-enthused-abou-sen.html#ixzz1PvCtXnjk
Our two Senators have
been almost worthless along with the rest of the California congressional
delegation.
Senator Boxer has
written and lead the passage of exactly zero point
zero critical pieces of
legislation. As the junior Senator she has
accomplished less than
any other Senator that has served as long. Quite
a distinction of
futility from the largest and should be most powerful
state in the Congress.
California receives
approximately $.15 for every federal dollar in tax
paid by our citizens.
That dismal work is squarely on the heads of all
Members of Congress from
the state. Senator Feinstein has not fared
much better, never
reaching the upper levels of Senate leadership
besides having tenure
that should have positioned her for even majority
leader at one point. We
never saw that from Feinstein, instead wiling
to take whatever
committee seats are passed out by the real leaders.
Our two Senators have collectively
been in those seats for nearly 40
years and all the while
conditions in California have dramatically
worsened, the expense we
pay for providing services to illegals due to a
leaky border have grown
exponentially, the economic climate in the
state has deteriorated
and neither Senator has done nearly enough to
right the ship and
improve our state.
Both should be retired
along with all of our Congresspeople. Simply,
until a California
delegation can succeed in bringing federal funds into
our state that match
what we pay into the federal government, they have
failed the people they
represent.
*
When Pat Leahy
introduced a bill to impose some very mild and inadequate safeguards on Patriot
Act powers (some of which the DOJ has voluntarily accepted), those efforts were
thwarted by the Democrats' Senate Intelligence Committee Chair, Dianne
Feinstein -- easily one of the most implacable enemies of civil liberties in
the Congress and one of the most loyal servants of the National Security State
which enriches her husband; just as she did last year, Feinstein has demanded a
full extension of the Patriot Act with no reforms of any kind.
*
Hilarious statement.
Your Lt. Guv you just elected couldn't keep off his best friend's wife(for
months) - no problem as he's been elected. Your Attorney General had a whopping
58% conviction rate for murderers, but won the statewide election. Your guv was
a unon hack, again purchased by your union hacks.
Please. Feinstein was
voting on the pentagon appropriatons committee while her husband has been
raking in millions on contract awards. Oh we found out about it? Where's
Feinstein been? Hidden away by the Dems and ignored by the liberal media, just
like the ignore the 2 illegal wars, the fleecing of Boeing, etc.
Forget it, you Dems will
vote D no matter what. Extremeists? Go look in a mirror. Like Carly who ran HP
- that kind of extremist? Please. Your party is extremist central.
*For the record, she
will be 78 tomorrow. Time to step down.
Feinstein has always
courted the image ofthe thoughtful, reserved, moderate Senator as a
counterbalance to the hot headed, hard left-winger and dim-witted junior
Senator Barbara Botoxer.
In fact as her voting
record shows she votes hard left on every big issue every time whether it is
Obamacare, illegal immigration or second amendment rights.
Just another liberal,
big spender. She will be remembered as ruining the country by supporting
unchecked illegal and legal immigration, enriching herself and her hack husband
and all the while stealing our childrens futures while bankrupting the nation
with her votes on spending.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/06/obama-his-culture-of-dem-corruption-war.html
WHO HAS PUSHED FOR WAR
MORE THAN OBAMA, FEINSTEIN, BOXER and CLINTON? EVER WONDER WHY?
FEINSTEIN IS THE BIGGEST
WAR PROFITEER IN HISTORY. SOME OF THOSE WAR PROFITS WENT TO BUY HER $16 MILLION
MANSION IN S.F. …. SOME WENT TO BUY CROOKED DEMS, SO THEY KEEP THEIR FAT MOUTHS
SHUT ABOUT FEINSTEIN’S CORRUPTION, WAR PROFITEERING AND PUSH TO EXPAND THE
HORDES OF ILLEGALS FOR MUCHO CHEAP LABOR. FEINSTEIN HAS BOUGHT OBAMA, BOXER,
CLINTON, KERRY, AND THE OTHER WAR , JOE LIEBERMAN.
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HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT
OBAMA TENDS TO LIKE THE MOST CORRUPT OF BUSH’S ADMINISTRATION, OR THAT OF
HILLARY BILLARY’S?
IN THE November 2006
election, the voters demanded congressional ethics reform. And so, the newly
appointed chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.,
is now duly in charge of regulating the ethical behavior of her colleagues. But
for many years, Feinstein has been beset by her own ethical conflict of
interest, say congressional ethics experts.
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February 21-27, 2007
The Byrne Report
Blum's Plums
By Peter Byrne
I have reported recently
in these pages the history of United States senator Dianne Feinstein's
2001-2005 conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum's former
stake in two war contractors, URS and Perini corporations. Unfortunately, the
senator is not the only one in her family with an ethics problem. In March
2002, Gov. Gray Davis appointed Blum to a 12-year term as a regent of the
University of California. For the next three years, both URS and Perini
benefited from construction contracts awarded by the Regents.
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Husband's investments
entangle Feinstein
LATEST FLAP OVER
MEDICARE PAYMENT DENIALS
By David Whitney
McClatchy Newspapers San
Jose Mercury News
Article Launched:05/19/2007
01:36:54 AM PDT
WASHINGTON - California
lawmakers are questioning whether an auditing company in which San Francisco
investor Richard Blum, the husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, has a major
financial stake is rejecting Medicare claims at California rehabilitation
hospitals in order to reap millions of dollars in profits at the expense of
patient care.
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January 24-30, 2007
Senator Feinstein's Iraq
Conflict
As a member of the
Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Feinstein voted for
appropriations worth billions to her husband's firms.
By Peter Byrne
IN THE November 2006
election, the voters demanded congressional ethics reform. And so, the newly
appointed chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.,
is now duly in charge of regulating the ethical behavior of her colleagues. But
for many years, Feinstein has been beset by her own ethical conflict of
interest, say congressional ethics experts.
As chairperson and
ranking member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee
(MILCON) from 2001 through the end of 2005, Feinstein supervised the
appropriation of billions of dollars a year for specific military construction
projects. Two defense contractors whose interests were largely controlled by
her husband, financier Richard C. Blum, benefited from decisions made by
Feinstein as leader of this powerful subcommittee.
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DIANNE FEINSTEIN’S LONG
PUSH TO EXPAND THE LA RAZA OCCUPATION
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DID FEINSTEIN PROMISE
BUSH 2 (BOXER’S) NO VOTES ON IMPEACHMENT FOR ACCESS TO PROFITEERING OFF BUSH’S
WAR TO PROTECT SAUDIS – BUSH – CARLYLE GROUP INTERESTS?
FOLLOW THE MONEY:
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WHY BIG AG BIZ ARE SO
GENEROUS TO FEINSTEIN & BOXER – IT’S THEIR OPEN BORDERS, AMNESTY, NO
E-VERIFY, LA RAZA AGENDA!
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Friday, May 16, 2008
Some in Congress are
once again trying to push piecemeal immigration reform through the back door.
Sen. Diane Feinstein of California attached a farm worker program to the
multi-billion dollar Iraq war funding bill yesterday which would grant temporary
amnesty to 1.3 million farm workers and their families over the next five
years.
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