How much did Senator Dianne Feinstein and her husband pay for the mansion in San Francisco?
Senator Feinstein, who sits on the Appropriations Committee as well as the Select Committee on Intelligence, is reaping the benefits of her husband’s investments. The Democratic royal family recently purchased a 16.5 million dollar mansion in the flush Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. It’s a disgusting display of war profiteering and the leading Democrat, just like Cheney, should be called out for her offense. Many are saying that its the price of war. Joshua Frank provides the following commentary: It happens all the time. If the antiwar movement takes on the Democrats for their bitter shortcomings a few liberals are bound to criticize us for not hounding Bush instead. It doesn’t even have to be an election year to get the progressives fired up. They just don’t seem to get it. “How can you attack the Democrats when we have such a bullet-proof administration ruling the roost in Washington,” somebody recently emailed me, “Don’t you have something better to do than write th
Sen. Feinstein and her investment banker husband Richard Blum paid $16.5 million for a mansion in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. Richard Blum has earned millions of dollars from his ownership stake in Perini, a civil infrastructure construction company that had contracts with the US military. Dianne Feinstein recently resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. Sources: http://www.counterpunch.org/frank02282006.html, http://www.metroactive.com/metro/03.21.07/dianne-feinstein-resigns-0712.
