Oh yeah, watch the lying collusive media vomit up fake news. It's the only way you'll ever know what people want!
Posted on 01/30/2017 4:49:31 PM PST by markomalley
On Sunday afternoon, as about 2,000 protesters were picketing at SFO against President Trump’s sudden ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries, about 200 demonstrators headed in the opposite direction, to Senator Dianne Feinstein’s mansion in Pacific Heights. They were there to express their displeasure at the senator’s unexpectedly pro-Trump voting record. So far, she has voted in support of four of the president’s cabinent nominees: James Mattis for Secretary of Defense, Mike Pompeo for CIA director, John Kelly for Secretary of Homeland Security, and Nikki Haley for U.N. ambassador. By FiveThirtyEight's calculation, Feinstein has fallen in line with the president's positions and cabinet nominees 100 percent of the time, earning DiFi a pro-Trump score higher than some Republicans, including Texas senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. “It’s disgusting,” says organizer Ben Becker, who is a Democratic Party assembly delegate for District 17. “It’s completely inexcusable.”
The protest began at 3 p.m., as marchers filed into the public park abutting Feinstein’s property, chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, Jeff Sessions—just say no!” The proceedings were structured as an impromptu citizens’ town hall, with demonstrators taking turns speaking to the crowd for about two minutes each. Addressing Senator Feinstein—who did not appear to be home—a protester named Julie took the floor. “If you keep following this agenda, I will register as an Independent,” she vowed, holding a sign reading “Stop collaborating with fascists.” She added: “If you don’t know what people want, you haven’t been watching the news; you haven’t been to the airport; you haven’t been to the women’s march. You are ingoring everyone that is trying to talk to you.”
Becker and fellow organizer Michael Petrelis decided to rally in response to what they see as Feinstein's unresponsiveness to voters. “We attempted to get through to her through her office lines in California and D.C.,” says Becker. “I tried to call about 50 times over this past week, and I wasn’t able to get through. I wasn’t able to leave a message because her machine was full and wasn’t being emptied. We got the impression that the opinions of her constituency were not important to Senator Feinstein.”
Feinstein’s office hasn’t yet responded to emailed questions about the protesters’ concerns.
San Francisco recently included Feinstein in a photo feature on the local resistance to Trump, though she rejected the term "resistance" with interviewer Randy Shandobil, host of the podcast This Golden State. “My view is you work with him where you can and you oppose where you can’t,” Feinstein told Shandobil in December.
Petrelis, who emceed yesterday’s unofficial town hall, wants to see regular forums with Feinstein—or at least her staffers—and her constituents. “It was great that we practiced town hall methods,” says Petrelis. "It was wonderful—about 200 people showed up on a Sunday at her home." The organizers have set up a Facebook page, People's Town Hall, to promote more unsanctioned town halls in the future.
Brown Shirts.
I bet she had to change her Depends ,Twice
Yep, her “crime” in the eyes of liberal radical types, is not being liberal enough.
SOROS LOSERS!
Raises a question in my mind: Where does these people hang out so that hundreds can be called up with a moment’s notice? Do they have coffee houses where they hang together to nurse each others’ grievances and build up their general resentments until a phone call arrives telling them where to go next?
Leftists LOVE protesting. They love a good reason to protest. Trump will be generous to them in that regard.
This is cool. Perhaps she’ll be so intimidated by her left-of-communist nipping at her that she’ll do stupid things. Oh, wait...
They appear well-organized.
Or....this is theater and she wants the protest......so if she votes against, she’ll say she was ‘answering her constituents ‘.
I’m sure her house was terrified.
While DiFi was 3000 miles away in DC.
She still has to change her Depends no matter where she is , or does she ,Sniff Sniff
“Raises a question in my mind: Where does these people hang out so that hundreds can be called up with a moment’s notice?”
Hundreds of people around town get a ping on some social media and off they go. They can move from location to location practically en mass on a moments notice.
DiFi was a pretty good Mayor. Kept all the loonies at arms length. SF went downhill since she left city hall. Being a Senator allowed her to hang out with the loonies. Problem is they eat each other. Just ask the protesters-her friends.
Not really. She was inexperienced, and messed up a bunch of stuff. The only thing she was successful at, was keeping the Blue Angels flying over the City during Fleet Week, when some on the Board of Supervisors wanted to do away with Fleet Week. The only reason she became mayor was due to a rule that the largest vote getter among the Board of Supes would take over as interim mayor if the mayor was incapacitated. Mayor Moscone and Supe Harvey Milk were killed, and she became mayor. She coddled illegal alien criminals and did not support federal law regarding turning them over. She was also anti-gun, while herself carrying a concealed handgun in her purse. One time she was walking out the basement door of City Hall and tripped, and my co-worker caught her preventing her from being injured. I told him he should have let her fall. But he was being a gentleman. When it came to mayors, and I've been around a few, I think Willie Brown was the best. I didn't like his politics but he got things done.
Oh yeah, watch the lying collusive media vomit up fake news. It's the only way you'll ever know what people want!
As for the airports, how dare the local officials leave them wide open to attack. They should have been locked down, printed itinerary of departure/arrival only to get into airport property. What if some real wacko had shown up???
200?
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