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Newly Leaked Info About Dianne Feinstein’s Health Has People Urging Her to Resign ASAP

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It has been very tempting to say that Sen. Diane Feinstein has been extremely selfish in refusing to resign in the face of health problems that have prohibited her from casting a vote in Congress for three months and, unlike Senator John Fetterman, there is no indication that Senator Feinstein’s health will improve. She is 89 years old.

However, perhaps she isn’t to blame.

There is no mechanism to remove a senator for health reasons (only misconduct) and Senator Feinstein might not be aware of how bad her problems are. She has a much more serious cognitive decline than has been reported. From The Insider:

Dianne Feinstein’s office makes sure a staff member constantly follows the senator around the Capitol out of concern for what she might say to reporters amid her declining health and old age, multiple sources told Rolling Stone.

Feinstein returned to the Senate on Wednesday after spending nearly three months away from Washington due to a shingles infection. But her mental acuity has also faced scrutiny in recent years with reports revealing how the 89-year-old senator would at times forget conversations and struggle with her short-term memory.

“They will not let her leave by herself, but she doesn’t even know it,” Purley said.

Feinstein is rightly proud of all that she has accomplished and would otherwise have the right to finish her amazing career on her own terms (the first woman to represent California in the Senate and a Democratic trailblazer first elected to the Senate in 1992 when women were few and far between in the Senate).

But she may not be aware of just how much she’s declined. If she were, she might step down and allow Governor Newsom to appoint another Democrat… like Katie Porter or Adam Schiff, two declared candidates for the seat, to step in and start blazing.

It is a critical issue. Feinstein’s absence – and possible future absences – have held up important votes to confirm much-needed judges.

Based on the response on Twitter, people want her to resign, for the good of the country, and her own legacy:

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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman

Jason Miciak
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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