very influential politician
***I tried to work with senator Feinstein’s office on an issue with a small federal bureaucracy blocking my access to benefits — to no avail. So how ‘influential’ is someone like that? The bureaucracy had more power, is still in operation today [even though we haven’t used their services since 1975] and she’s about to be gone.
The closest thing to eternal life is a federal program.
Did you give her the “secret handshake”? If not, there ya go.