Will Adam Schiff challenge Diane Feinstein?

[james_1957]

It appears the California Democratic dinosaurs are being challenged. First Pelosi & now Feinstein.

SACRAMENTO — There are two questions that California Democrats whisper incessantly, yet no one can answer definitively. The first: Is Sen. Dianne Feinstein running for re-election next year?

And only the bravest officeholders and party operatives dare to tackle — publicly, at least — the thornier question that’s rife with ageist implications and the potential for disrespecting a longtime senator:

Should Feinstein, who turns 84 next month and was first elected in 1992, run?

She should, her supporters say, because she offers gravitas at a time when the Trump administration is threatening to deconstruct government and social programs dear to Democrats.

It’s hard finding a name Democrat willing to take her on. But rising Democratic Party star Rep. Adam Schiff of Burbank told the Chronicle — prefaced by a long disclaimer saying he hoped Feinstein would run — that he would consider running for her seat if she didn’t.

But others, usually more progressive, grassroots Democrats, say she should retire, because she too often she sides with corporate interests and hasn’t been vocal enough in opposing President

One of them was Schiff, a soft-spoken, once obscure congressman who is now the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. He’s become a party darling for his dogged pursuit of allegations that Trump campaign officials colluded with Russian operatives to meddle in last year’s presidential elections. He’s become ubiquitous on cable news and Sunday morning political shows, sought out for his measured yet pointed critiques of the Trump administration.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics...whether-Feinstein-should-run-for-11165481.php

 

[Rightguide]

It appears the California Democratic dinosaurs are being challenged. First Pelosi & now Feinstein.



http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics...whether-Feinstein-should-run-for-11165481.php

Schiff in the Senate will replace one wild-eyed radical with another. He's a goofball conspiracy theorist.

 

[KingOrfeo]

84 is pretty old.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Schiff in the Senate will replace one wild-eyed radical with another. He's a goofball conspiracy theorist.

What conspiracy theories?

 

[Conager]

What conspiracy theories?

You know...

The things you call facts with loads of "evidence" supporting them that no one has actually reported seeing...

YET!

Amirite??

 

[KingOrfeo]

You know...

The things you call facts with loads of "evidence" supporting them that no one has actually reported seeing...

YET!

Amirite??

But there are so many CTs -- which ones does Schiff subscribe to?

 

[Conager]

But there are so many CTs -- which ones does Schiff subscribe to?

Like you, all of them that make a Republican look bad, and none that dispatage a Democrat.

 

[Rightguide]

What conspiracy theories?

Breathless fantasies about collusion between Trump and Russia.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Breathless fantasies about collusion between Trump and Russia.

No one who takes that seriously is a "goofball conspiracy theorist."