The late senator is being remembered as an indefatigable public servant who fought to improve the lives of women, members of the LGBTQ community and racial minorities.
By Janie Har, Associated PressNancy Pelosi stands with her husband Paul, left, and the family of Senator Dianne Feinstein before a public viewing at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023.
She was San Francisco’s first female mayor and one of California’s first two women U.S. senators, a job she first won alongside Barbara Boxer in 1992, dubbed the “Year of the Woman.” Former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, also of San Francisco, and Mayor London Breed were among the officials who paid their respects.
“We were all mourning together, holding candles. If memory serves me, Joan Baez sang,” Otterson said of an impromptu march that night from the historically gay Castro District to City Hall. “And she held us up.”] Breed recalled looking up to Feinstein when she was the mayor and he was a Black kid growing up in public housing and playing the French horn in a middle school band that performed regularly at mayoral events.
“She championed and fought for the rights of so many people,” Donovan said. “I’m so grateful. And I really just wanted her family to know how much she meant to me.” “She asked, ‘How long has this scaffolding been up?’ And my dad said ‘Maybe 10 years,’ and the next day it came down,” said Konstin, 59. “It was half a block of scaffolding.”
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