The Vote That Made Dianne Feinstein’s Career

In January of 1978, Feinstein put a conservative coalition together to become President of the Board of Supervisors by one vote.

When Senator Dianne Feinstein died last week at the age of 90 a number of obituaries and other memorials including one that I wrote discussed how she became mayor of San Francisco in the aftermath of the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk on November 27th 1978. At that time, she was the President of the Board of Supervisors and therefore n…