Dianne Feinstein

Sen. Feinstein's Westwood Office To Be Target Of Pro-Immigrant Protest

For most intents and purposes, Dianne Feinstein is a fairly progressive and pro-immigrant senator from California. But immigrants' rights groups feel she hasn't gone far enough, fast enough, especially in light of President Obama's call for comprehensive immigration reform that would include a path ... More >>

Feds Shut Down Historic Northern California Oyster Farm

If you, like some of us, were in the vicinity of Point Reyes in Northern California last week and did not enjoy some fresh oysters, you, like us, will be kicking yourself. And possibly U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, too. Salazar just announced that he is shutting down a historic oyster farm al ... More >>

Record Gas Prices Fueled By Oil Manipulation? Senators Want Big-Time Investigation

If you felt reamed during October's California gas-price spike, in which records were set at the pump even though there was no real oil supply crisis at all, you have some powerful company. The U.S. senators from California, Washington and Oregon this week asked the U.S. Department of Justice to do ... More >>

Gas-Price Gouging Possible As Cost of a Gallon Reaches New Record High in L.A.

See also: *Gas Prices Could Reach All-Time High in L.A. Gas prices set a new record in California over the weekend. Is this a scam? Sen. Dianne Feinstein asked the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission to launch an "immediate investigation" into the price spikes because, she stated, "it does no ... More >>

Kinde Durkee Was Trusted by California's Top Democrats — Until Millions of Dollars Vanished

Sen. Dianne Feinstein's Suit Against Ex-Treasurer Kinde Durkee Delayed, As FBI Pursues Fraud Investigation

​Sen. Dianne Feinstein has sued her former treasurer, Kinde Durkee, alleging that Durkee embezzled millions from her campaign accounts. But as the FBI continues to build its criminal case against Durkee, Feinstein's lawsuit has been put on hold.This morning, Judge Richard Neidorf granted Durkee's ... More >>

Congress Insider Trading: L.A. County Senators, Representatives Respond (or Don't)

NorCal's Nancy Pelosi finds nothing shady about her convenient investment in Visa.​As we learned on "60 Minutes" last night, many of the politicians we've elected to U.S. Congress have clearly been using their backdoor V.I.P. passes to gather exclusive intel on when to buy and sell stocks, bon ... More >>

Sen. Dianne Feinstein Sues Kinde Durkee, Alleges Massive Theft, Accuses First California Bank of Cover-Up

Dianne Feinstein: Guns blazing​Sen. Dianne Feinstein filed a lawsuit today against Kinde Durkee, alleging that the disgraced treasurer took millions from her campaign accounts.Feinstein also sued First California Bank, alleging that bank officials intentionally overlooked red flags because they wa ... More >>

Kinde Durkee Scandal: Sen. Dianne Feinstein Warns Off Opponents With $5 Million Check

Sen. Dianne Feinstein​Sen. Dianne Feinstein is digging into her own pocket to warn off potential opponents who might think she's vulnerable because of the Kinde Durkee campaign finance scandal.Feinstein intends to write herself a check for $5 million, according to strategist Bill Carrick, confirmi ... More >>

Kinde Durkee, Democratic Treasurer Accused Of Pocketing Campaign Funds, Did Not Have Liability Insurance

Kinde Durkee​Democratic operatives are still trying to assess the financial damage left by Kinde Durkee -- the campaign treasurer who is accused of taking campaign funds for her personal use.The FBI alleges she took nearly $700,000 from Assemblyman Jose Solorio. But Durkee did the books for hundre ... More >>

Veteran Political Consultant Kam Kuwata Found Dead At Home

Kam Kuwata​Updated below with comments from former Mayor Jim Hahn at 1:56 p.m. Kam Kuwata, a veteran political consultant who worked for Sen. Dianne Feinstein and former L.A. Mayor Jim Hahn, has died. He was 57.Kuwata was found dead in his condominium on Main Street in Venice at about 9 a.m. this ... More >>

Meg Whitman Has Plenty Of Company In Hiring Undocumented Help (Guinier, Baird, Feinstein): Here's Our Look At Foreign Domestics Throughout Modern Political History

​Revelations Wednesday that California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman employed an illegal immigrant as a maid (a multimillionaire in California with an undocumented housekeeper -- shocking!) had us thinking: Not all politicos have been derailed for hiring foreign domestics (Dianne Feinst ... More >>

Sen. Diane Feintstein To Chair No On Prop 19

Nope. No on 19. ​Sen. Diane Feinstein, the Democratic former mayor of San Francisco, will co-chair the campaign to defeat Proposition 19, the marijuana legalization initiative on the ballot in November, according to a press release today. Her co-chair will be L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca. Th ... More >>

V.A. Homeless Housing Facility In West L.A. To Be Completed In 2012

foreversouls via Flickr​ The Department of Veteran Affairs plans to renovate a building at its West Los Angeles campus that will house homeless veterans, with completion scheduled for 2012, according to a statement from U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein's office. The housing structure, dubbed Bui ... More >>

Sen. Dianne Feinstein Bill Passes: Stiffer Penalties Possible For Pot Brownies

​ Sen. Dianne Feinstein, gettin' stuff done! The California Democrat's "Saving Kids From Dangerous Drug Act of 2010" passed the Senate last week. It sounds innocent enough -- who could be against saving kids from dangerous drugs? -- but also introduces new penalties on drugs made to resemble o ... More >>

Hoax Press Releases Falsely Report Deaths Of Two California Senators, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein

​Fake news releases emailed to various media outlets earlier this week falsely announced the deaths of California senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer along with the demise of senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, Kay Hutchison of Texas, and Patrick Leahy of Vermont. The releases ann ... More >>

Brentwood's Toxic Grave

Historic dumping grounds beneath the spectacular VA land finally get tested.

Villaraigosa won't run for governor, Jerry Brown must be thrilled

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa just announced he will not run for California governor on Wolf Blitzer's The Situation Room on CNN, with a backdrop of the Los Angeles Magazine cover emblazoned with the word "Failure." The mayor says he plans to focus on the major economic problems facing L.A. ... More >>

Bill Rosendahl drooling over Dianne Feinstein's U.S. Senate Seat

By Tibby RothmanResidents of Bill Rosendahl's 11th City Council District who lamented that their Los Angeles City Councilman's cojones vanished after he won office can rest assured--they've been found. Rosendahl tells LA Weekly that a really weird City Hall rumor that he's considering a run for U.S. ... More >>

Hollywood Joins Union Bill Drive -- Too Late?

A new online ad promoting the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) has been posted by a coalition of Hollywood labor guilds and the reviews (all right, my reviews) are mixed -- both as to the spot and the chances that Congress will pass the legislation this year in anything but a watered-down form. EFCA, ... More >>

Massive Cave-in -- Workers Abandoned

Well, EFCA got the rug pulled out from under it last week. That's when key Senate Democrats caved in and announced they couldn't support the Employee Free Choice Act in its current incarnation.  EFCA is -- or was -- a bill that would make it easier for workers to form unions and the looming fig ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

DiFi Says No to Alt-Energy Desert Corridor California Senator Diane Feinstein is readying legislation to keep a large swath of the state's desert region off-limits to solar- and wind-power projects. L.A. TimesKeach Returns to Do Nixon Actor Stacy Keach, whose mild stroke last week removed him from t ... More >>

Know This, America: Watching Obama With a Plate of Grits

The L.A. County Federation of Labor, to which I belong as a union delegate, threw an Inauguration Day viewing breakfast this morning. Like the Fed's annual Labor Day breakfast and other early morning rallies, this one showed some health-consciousness in the chicken sausage cakes and turkey bacon off ... More >>

The Bold and the Restless: Gavin & Antonio

 File it under Boys Will Be Boys, but with 2008 about to end (and no Obama appointments in sight), California's two swingin'est mayors are now only months from possibly declaring their intentions to run for guv in 2010. Both San Francisco's Gavin Newsom and L.A.'s Antonio Villaraigosa remain im ... More >>

Prolonged Battle over Proposition 8

It looks like the gay marriage ban won, but activists could upend the victory

No New Tax Cuts

Major Mud

With Bush providing nothing for his party to run on, 2006 shapes up as the year of the slimeball

Boxer's Match

A tale of two senators

Back to Baghdad

Dianne Feinstein’s just looking for a czar

People Whose Passing We Lament

On the Border of Hypocrisy

The unintended consequences of getting tough on illegal immigration

Ideologues Amok!

Right-wing zealots and our very own DiFi destroy Medicare, adjourn for turkey

Ecology of Fire

Why the empire wanted to burn so badly

Bugs and Politics

Two culprits for the Southland’s fires

True Lies

A week in the life of the Terminator, the candidate hiding in plain sight

Friend of the Workingman

They don’t like him and think he’s a loser, but labor’s leaders are down with Gray

Reign of Chaos

What a mess faces California politics and finances

The Burning Men

Forest fires rage in the West while politicians try to turn prevention into pork

The Recall’s Reach

Explaining California’s latest descent into madness to the rest of the country

Slow and Fatal Justice

The case against a Bush court nominee

DiFi’s Dilemma

That tax-cut vote is looking mighty bad

My Life as an Underdog

The Green-Republican front against DiF

Endorsements

The Weekly’s recommendations in the November general election

Olympic Anti-Doping an Uphill Battle

Endorsements

Being Ron Unz

The Genius Son of a Welfare Mother, He Made a Fortune in Computers. Now He's Spending it Trying to Reshape the World

Some Kind of Blue

Polls, Pols and Propositions

Twenty years of political coverage

Weapons of Mass Distraction

U.S. arms dealing leads Project Censored’s list of the Top 10 underreported stories of 1997

Feinstein Lite

Jane Harman tries out the open primary