Feinstein voted with repukes making class action lawsuits harder to start

[yurbud]

Feinstein again shows her Chamber of Commerce true colors. She's to the right of Harry Reid on this.

We don't need politicians who put corporations ahead of the people, especially at a time when we have an administration that is exercising only as much regulatory control over corporations as the corporations themselves approve.

Drop her a line and let her know that we are still paying attention to her betrayals of those who voted for her.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/10/politics/10cnd-class.html?ex=buzzflash&oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=


February 10, 2005

Senate Passes Overhaul of Rules for Class-Action Lawsuits

By DAVID STOUT

One Democrat who voted yes, Dianne Feinstein of California, said afterward that the bill was "not perfect" but that it addressed problems in the legal system.

But critics of the bill have said it may effectively create an impossible situation for many plaintiffs, since federal courts are barred under a 1985 Supreme Court ruling from considering class actions in which there are "material" differences in the laws among the affected states.

Thus, the critics say, the law may create a "Catch-22" in which class-action plaintiffs find both federal and state courthouse doors locked.

"This bill is one of the most unfair, anticonsumer proposals to come before the Senate in years," Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, the minority leader, said just before the vote. "It slams the courthouse doors on a wide range of injured plaintiffs." Many deserving cases will be dismissed, he predicted, and those that are not may have to go "to the back of a very long line in the overburdened federal court system."

"Before I came to Congress, I was proud to call myself a trial lawyer," he said. "Lawyers are often the voice of people who cannot otherwise be heard."

The Association of Trial Lawyers of America issued a statement calling the bill "a shameful attack on Americans' legal rights."

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. somebody has to run aginst her

I am getting tired of her... or rather gotten tired of her.

She is on the ballot, during the general election I will vote for somebody else.

[genius]

12. She's an elitist upper class witch. Why would anyone expect otherwise?

How about Martin Sheen?

[UdoKier]

2. NO! Not the "San Francisco Liberal" Feinstein!

Oh, you mean the one whose husband makes all his money off of arms production? Oh well, then it all makes sense.

I bet she gets along well with the gorilla in Sacramento, too.

[peacetalksforall]

3. What has she done for the people lately?

Can't think of a thing!

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. She voted against and spoke out agianst Alberto Gonzales

[doodadem]

4. It does no good to "drop Feinstein a line"

No matter if you email her about environmental issues, Social Security, or voting fraud, you eventually get back the same old canned response. She apparently represents the Republican Lite side of Calif. Democrats. Or else that helmet hair is just spray painted on too tightly.....
I was really starting to like Harry Reid, until I found out he co-sponsored that addition to the omnibus bill to open up western mustangs to be sent to slaughter.

[yurbud]

9. It's not what she writes back, it's how she acts

I think the Gonzales vote was the result of public pressure. We need to keep pressing.

Even a sentence or two could let her know she needs to watch her ass or lose her seat.

[EFerrari]

6. Freddie is right, she did right on the Abu Graib Gonzales thing but

She's outta here. She's up to her eyeballs in Big Pharma, Defense Contracts and increasing our trade deficit with China, for pete's sake.

I want to find one good (wo)man to take her on. And my friends in the Green Party are on board. We can put a coalition together to get this done.

Names? We've got two years, right? We need to start now.

I'll keep writing her pointed notes but the bigger picture is that she's become a shill for the Bu$h agenda at the very moment California needs her to protect our interests.

We need names. Who's out there?

[Freddie Stubbs]

7. Of course she supports defence contractors

Many of the people who work for those companies are her constituents.

[EFerrari]

8. Ah, her husband's co built Centcom. nt

[genius]

13. 95% of her calls came in against the war and she didn't care.

She probably things a consitutent is the dollar amount her husband makes off wars.

[naniwa]

10. Representative from the 9th District....

Barbara Lee.

I would not mind seeing Maxine Waters give it a shot either.

[EFerrari]

11. Both are really attractive to me. Barbara has the higher profile.

Maybe I'll just have to give her a call.

Remember when she voted against the war? She got death threats.

[genius]

14. They are great. I would love to see either of them in the Senate.

[jfern]

15. We need someone who can win

Barbara Lee is great, but she can't win a statewide general election.