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"Investigative journalists doing their jobs should dig deep, into Pelosi's role in the controversial, $280-million, federal-funded Hunters Point Shipyard affair - in relation to her alleged role as an investor in a real estate investment called PRESIDIO PARTNERS. Look past the fact that the 936-acre site, of which about 443 acres are not polluted - Hunter Point is the largest tract of undeveloped land in San Francisco. Roll Call stated that in early 2004, Murtha “reportedly leaned on U.S. Navy officials to sign a contract to transfer the Hunters Point Shipyard to the City of San Francisco” and that “Laurence...

amarcus Purley, a staffer who was recently fired from Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) office, said in a Wednesday interview the senator “cares more about her dog than black people.” Breitbart News reported that Purley, after he was fired from Feinstein’s office for performance-related issues, entered the U.S. Capitol and smoked a marijuana blunt in the California Democrat’s office. Now, the disgruntled staffer spoke to Latino Rebels about his experience with Feinstein’s office, alleging the senior Democrat senator from California cares little for black Americans. When he joined Feinstein’s job as a staff assistant, an entry-level job on Capitol Hill, Purley...

Richard Blum, the husband of Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, died Sunday at age 86 after a years-long battle with cancer, the senator announced. “My heart is broken today. My husband was my partner and best friend for more than 40 years. He was by my side for the good times and for the challenges. I am going to miss him terribly,” she said in a statement. Blum, a private equity executive and member of the University of California Board of Regents, married Feinstein in 1980, shortly after she became mayor of San Francisco in the aftermath of the assassination...

Nearly 200 Rocklin Unified School District educators called in sick or took leave Monday, protesting their district’s last-minute defiance of state-imposed K-12 mask mandates. An angry Rocklin Teachers Professional Association in a statement Monday afternoon said its teachers learned the district’s board held a special Feb. 23 meeting ahead of its regularly scheduled March 2 meeting on a day’s notice and during the district’s President’s Week break to adopt a new mask enforcement policy. “While there are varying opinions on masking in our community and our schools, the issue teachers are most concerned about is the lack of respect for...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Richard Blum, husband of California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was 86. Feinstein announced her husband’s death in a statement Monday morning that said her “heart is broken today.” She said her husband, a wealthy San Francisco investor, “left things better than he found them” and was devoted to his family. She described his work for the people of the Himalayas and noted he was a longtime friend of the Dalai Lama. “My husband was my partner and best friend for more than 40 years,” Feinstein said in the statement....

Peter Schweizer, President of the Government Accountability Institute, spent a year-and-a-half with his team researching government corruption as it pertains to China. What they discovered is so loaded with bombshells, it’s no wonder that his book, Red-Handed, has been the NY Times #1 Bestseller for three straight weeks.He joined me on the latest episode of The JD Rucker Political Report on America Out Loud Talk Radio to discuss some of the things he found. It was an amazing hour of blockbuster news that hit both Democrats and Republicans. One particular story in the book that we hadn’t heard much about...

Political writer Peter Schweizer’s latest book reportedly accuses 20 current and former GOP members of having essentially sold out to China. Released late last month, “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win” has attracted attention thus far mainly for its bombshells about President Joe Biden and his extremely wealthy family. But also contained within the book is a treasure trove of bombshells about elected Republicans, ranging from current Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell to former President George H.W. Bush. Regarding McConnell, Schweizer reportedly writes that the Senate leader and his wife both “enjoy some of the deepest and...

Peter Schweizer’s new book Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win tells the story of how Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) husband Richard Blum was part owner of a Chinese firm that allegedly sold computers with spyware chips to the U.S. military. The military has never been able to calculate how much sensitive data these computers allowed China to steal. A hefty chapter of Red-Handed is devoted to tracking Feinstein’s long and expensive relationship with Communist China. In a total coincidence that could not possibly have been related in any way to Feinstein’s friendship with the tyrants of Beijing,...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein is headed back to Washington on Tuesday evening after spending a week away in San Francisco while her husband was hospitalized. The California Democrat’s return comes as Congress continues to look for a solution for keeping the government open and raising the debt limit ahead of Thursday’s federal funding deadline. Republicans blocked Democratic efforts on Monday — a vote Feinstein missed. “Senator Feinstein is returning to Washington this evening after staying in San Francisco while her husband was hospitalized,” a Feinstein spokesperson said in a statement to POLITICO. “Her husband is now recovering at home.” The Hill...

A coalition of nearly 70 California progressive grassroots groups urged Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) either to call for the "swift passage" of both the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act by the end of this month or to resign. In a letter released on Tuesday, the 69 civic and environmental groups asked that Feinstein call for the two pieces of legislation to be passed and express her willingness to "abolish or create an exception to the filibuster" in order to get them through the Senate. "If you are unwilling to take these steps to...

A senior CIA official has died in an apparent suicide this week from injuries sustained after jumping off a building in northern Virginia, according to sources close to the CIA. Sen. Diane Feinstein (D., Calif.), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has said the CIA has blocked efforts by the committee to investigate harsh interrogation of terrorists. Committee staff members working at a CIA facility in Northern Virginia to investigate agency interrogation practices also have charged that the CIA covertly searched the agency’s computers that were being used in the investigation. The agency subsequently reported that several Senate...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on Wednesday proposed legislation which would require proof of a coronavirus vaccination or a negative coronavirus test in order to fly domestically ahead of the holiday season. “We know that air travel during the 2020 holiday season contributed to last winter’s devastating COVID-19 surge. We simply cannot allow that to happen again,” Feinstein, 88, said in a statement.

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein missed a Monday vote to suspend the federal debt limit and avoid a government shutdown, which could happen as soon as Friday if a new spending bill is not passed. Forty-nine of 50 Republicans voted against the bill, which needed 60 votes to pass. Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse also missed the vote, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer switched his vote from "yes" to "no" to preserve a procedural ability to bring the legislation to the floor again. Feinstein, 88, has missed Senate votes for a week now, and in a statement to The Hill, Forbes...

The Democratic Party is rolling out its left-wing big guns to go to California to support Gov. Gavin Newsom in the recall election scheduled for Sept. 14. In California, the bluest of blue states, where, in 2020, challenger Joe Biden defeated incumbent President Donald Trump by a margin of almost 2-1, the polls are within the margin of error showing Newsom holding on in the recall. Why are Vice President Kamala Harris and Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar putting it on the line to campaign for Newsom? They know that what is going on in California is a laboratory...

Larry Elder, a gubernatorial candidate in California’s Gavin Newsom recall election, said he would replace U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, with a Republican – if Elder becomes governor and Feinstein were to step down during his term. "God forbid Gov. Elder should replace Dianne Feinstein who nobody’s seen in weeks," Elder told Mark Levin on his radio show Friday. "I'm told she has a worse mental condition than even Joe Biden. They're afraid I'm would replace her with a Republican — which I most certainly would do and that would be an earthquake in Washington D.C." Feinstein, now 88...

Larry Elder, a gubernatorial candidate in California’s Gavin Newsom recall election, said he would replace U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, with a Republican – if Elder becomes governor and Feinstein were to step down during his term. "God forbid Gov. Elder should replace Dianne Feinstein who nobody’s seen in weeks," Elder told Mark Levin on his radio show Friday. "I'm told she has a worse mental condition than even Joe Biden. They're afraid I'm would replace her with a Republican — which I most certainly would do and that would be an earthquake in Washington D.C." Feinstein, now 88...

I just heard an unconfirmed report that Diane Feinstein passed away in her sleep last night.

A multihome compound in Lake Tahoe with connections to Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her investment banker husband Richard C. Blum is up for sale according to Realtor.com. The waterfront property on Rubicon Bay is listed for $41 million, a price cut from its original listing price of $46 million in October 2020. It includes a private sand beach, a 172-foot pier, a boat lift and four buoys. There are three separate homes on the 4.75-acre estate. The property was purchased for $9.7 million in 2007, according to public records. It is owned by an LLC tied to Blum’s investment management...

The housing market is hot and it’s looking like Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her banker husband, Richard Blum, are taking advantage of it — listing their Lake Tahoe, California, estate for a whopping $41 million. In October 2020, the waterfront compound briefly graced the market with a $46 million asking price. The property is listed under the LLC, Lucky Bluff, which is tied to Blum’s investment management firm, Blum Capital, according to Realtor. Comprising three separate properties — the main house and two guest houses – the compound spans nearly 5 acres.

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who has grown unpopular in the state due to several policy stances at odds with the Democratic base, appeared to contradict a statement her own office released Monday on voting rights. Ahead of the Senate's Tuesday vote on the "For the People Act" — a broad-sweeping elections bill unlikely to draw any Republican support — Feinstein's office released a statement announcing the senior senator's strong support for the package, which is intended to counteract Republican election laws passed at the state level following the 2020 presidential election. Feinstein was previously criticized by liberals for not wanting...