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[–] septimasexta ago 

"She raced to Milk's office, saw the fatal wound, tried to take his pulse, but knew immediately he was dead.

Only nine days earlier, 913 people, mostly former Bay Area residents, had committed mass suicide with Reverend Jim Jones in Guyana. The same year, her second and much loved husband, neurosurgeon Dr. Bertram Feinstein, had died of colon cancer. Though she had been contemplating retirement after returning the day before from a trip to the Mt. Everest area where she met the Dalai Lama, on that November day it fell to Dianne Feinstein not only to tell the world of the assassinations, but to step into Moscone's shoes as acting mayor." http://www.jewishachievement.com/bios/feinstein.html

"A year later, they went to dinner so that Blum could update her on the city's economic situation. By then, Bert Feinstein had died and Blum was divorced from Andrea Blum, a doctor with whom he had three daughters. A romance soon blossomed.

Late in 1978, Feinstein accompanied Blum on a trip to India and Nepal. She caught a stomach ailment, and the two flew home.

The day Feinstein returned to work, Mayor Moscone was assassinated, and she was suddenly thrust into the city's top job. When Feinstein and Blum married in 1980, local wags called it a "marriage of the public and private sectors."

Blum's business clearly has benefited from the union and the networking opportunities. Accompanying Feinstein on a city-sponsored trip to China a decade ago, Blum met T. C. Chang, a San Francisco businessman. They soon formed a consulting firm and became partners in a Shanghai development. Blum's office is in a building owned by the Chang family. By the same token, many observers attributed Feinstein's pro-business stance as mayor to Blum's influence." http://articles.latimes.com/1990-05-27/business/fi-426_1_richard-blum/3

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After inquiries about his China-related business, Blum pledged this week that he "will not invest in mainland China or Hong Kong as long as Dianne Feinstein is a U.S. senator to avoid even the appearance of conflict."

Blum's AMERICAN HIMALAYAN FOUNDATION Hmmmmm. "He said profits from Hong Kong investments, like those from the mainland, would go to charities he established to benefit impoverished Himalayan people. He specifically committed about $400,000 from a Hong Kong real estate investment sold this year.

Through a spokesman, Blum said any money he receives from managing the investments of others in China also will go to charity.

"We have done everything we possibly can," Feinstein said in exasperation. "I can't tell my husband to die. I can't tell him to give up what he does. . . . I don't know what more I can do. I mean, get divorced and live in sin, I suppose."" http://articles.latimes.com/2000/oct/20/news/mn-39450

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[–] Vindicator 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

That story sounds like a made-for-TV-movie script. WTF!