SF Politics Orange County Rep. Katie Porter Announces Run For Dianne Feinstein's Senate Seat Fresh on the heels of her latest meme-worthy display at the Capitol — quietly reading The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck for the cameras while the Kevin McCarthy speaker-vote drama raged — Rep. Katie Porter says she is running for the Senate.
SF Politics Another Story Comes Out About Dianne Feinstein Sounding Confused, This Time About Stopgap Spending Bill Aides to elderly Senator Dianne Feinstein appeared to be having some difficulty debriefing her on Thursday on a routine vote, and the confused discussion was overheard by a reporter and has now become news.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein Defends Herself as Chronicle Editorial Board Calls on Other Democrats to Get Her to Retire The Chronicle Editorial Board says the time is drawing nigh for tough talk with Feinstein, and "denial is a hallmark of those suffering from memory loss and attendant illnesses."
SF Politics Kamala's Senate Replacement Alex Padilla Files Papers to Run Again, Will Likely Sleepwalk to Victory Appointed last year to fill Kamala Harris's Senate seat, new California Senator Alex Padilla will have to run twice in 2022 to keep the seat, yet both races will likely be among the least compelling in the country.
SF Politics Local Man Can Be Criminally Prosecuted For ‘Slash Your Throat’ Message to Mitch McConnell, Court Rules A federal appeals court has ruled that criminal charges can apply to a Bay Area man who emailed Mitch McConnell saying “the resistance is coming to DC to slash your throat,” and “You will die in the street,” along with some other choice profanities.
SF Politics Yikes! Feinstein Could Be In Line of Presidential Succession If Dems Hold Senate Next Year A key Senate retirement could move 88-year-old Dianne Feinstein into the No. 3 spot in the presidential line of succession if Democrats keep control of the Senate — except she would be 89 if and when this happens.
SF Politics Senate Passes Infrastructure Bill That Includes Money for Blackout Prevention, Lake Tahoe Restoration The Senate on Tuesday passed the $1 trillion infrastructure spending bill in a bipartisan 69-30 vote, handing President Biden a win. But how much of that money is going to funnel to Bay Area projects?
SF Politics Feinstein Says She’s Totally Cool With Senators Who Helped Incite Capitol Riot Former SF mayor and 87-year-old senator with a $94 million net worth Dianne Feinstein is finding ever new ways to infuriate her constituents, this time sticking up for the bogus Electoral College challenges from Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley.
SF Politics As Predicted, Alex Padilla Will Replace Kamala Harris in Senate Governor Gavin Newsom has put an end to all the palace intrigue and any backroom wrangling that may have been going on and he's tapped California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to be the next senator from California, to take Senator Kamala Harris's seat.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg and Dorsey Return to Testify Before Congress About Misinformation, Liberal Bias Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey were once again taking part in the political theater of a congressional hearing on Tuesday, this time testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Ted Cruz got a chance to yell and Dianne Feinstein got to frown at them both.
SF Politics London Breed Is On Short List To Take Kamala's Senate Seat It's an old joke in politics: "Every time you make an appointment, you make 20 enemies and one ingrate." And that's what Newsom is facing.
Business & Tech Twitter Is Talking About Jack Dorsey's Goat Beard, As Seen During Today's Congressional Hearing No one should be surprised that he showed up for a bit of Republican political theater today with a truly guru-esque goat beard, and a nose ring.
SF Politics Who Will Gavin Pick to Take Kamala's Senate Seat? The Palace Intrigue Begins If all goes well this November, Governor Gavin Newsom will get to appoint a new Democratic Senator to take Vice President-elect Kamala Harris's seat. And the pressure will be on to select a woman — and a woman of color.
SF News Facebook, Twitter, And Google Testimony Leaves Senators Visibly Dissatisfied To put it in the simplest terms: Senators are unhappy with what they've been hearing from Facebook, Twitter, and Google executives, who are currently being questioned about how their platforms were exploited by
SF News Twitter Details 'Industry-Leading' Changes To Increase Transparency In Political Advertising On Its Platform In response to several US Senators announcing potential legislation to regulate advertising on Twitter, the tech company revealed that they have a new plan to greatly increase transparency for all advertisements on their
SF News Dianne Feinstein Unfazed By Opposition To Her Fifth-Term Campaign Following an announcement earlier this month that she would indeed seek a fifth term in the US Senate, former SF Mayor Dianne Feinstein appears to be undaunted by the challengers that may rise
SF News Senators Aim To Regulate Political Ads On Social Media With 'Honest Ads Act' A group of United States senators is looking to lead the charge on creating legislation that would ensure full transparency when it comes to buying political ad space on the internet. Senators Amy
SF News Sen. Dianne Feinstein Confirms She Will Run Again In 2018, At Age 85 Senator Dianne Feinstein confirmed for reporters Monday that she will be running for her fifth term in the Senate next year, and she is "all in." As the Associated Press notes, Feinstein is
SF News Dianne Feinstein Rocks Seersucker At Comey Hearing, Is Cheered The nationally televised congressional hearing Thursday morning, with former FBI Director James Comey answering questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee, has one particular fashion highlight that's been widely noted on Twitter: Sen. Dianne
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink At Least Three SF Bars Will Be Showing Comey's Testimony At 7 AM Thursday Former FBI Director James Comey has already handed over his prepared remarks for Thursday morning's hearing with the Senate Intelligence Committee, which subsequently made them public BuzzFeed has pulled out the 18 main
SF News Is Schwarzenegger Seriously Eyeing Feinstein's Senate Seat? Perhaps wanting to take his ongoing Twitter war with the President to the Senate floor, former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger may be mulling a run for Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat in 2018 though
SF News Feinstein To Vote No On Sessions For Attorney General JUST NOW: On Sessions attorney general nomination: “I must vote no.” pic.twitter.com/lfQnX5Khug— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) January 31, 2017 Though it was unclear if Senator Dianne Feinstein was going to
SF News New 'Non-Binary' Gender Option Proposed For California Driver's Licenses A bill introduced in California's state senate Thursday would allow residents to choose a third, “nonbinary” gender option on driver’s licenses and birth certificates, as well as allowing parents of transgender kids
SF News Video: Senator Barbara Boxer Gives Farewell Address California Senator Barbara Boxer's long career in politics is coming to an end. She announced in January of last year that she did not intend to run for reelection, and will soon be
SF News Bill To End Daylight Saving Time In California Is Dunzo (Or Is It?) San Jose Assemblyman Kansen Chu had a dream, a dream to end Daylight Saving Time in California and to keep the state on the same time year round. But that dream was crushed
