I just emailed her in the hope that she would support the post office.

The post office near my old work has been sitting empty for years. Nice property near the beach. Totally overrun with weeds now.

There is something hinky going on with those sales. I think that some pressure has happened to preserve at least some of them. Or I'm dreaming. I will write her as well.

She's no differently positioned than idiot Clarence Thomas. They're apparently allowed conflict of interest operations.

Something very questionable about his involvement and her position. She should be against selling off those historic buildings and against loss of jobs at the PO!

grrrr ville

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/01/1165912/-Selling-off-the-Post-Office-Berkeley-calls-out-Richard-Blum#

Angered by the proposed sale of their historic Downtown Post Office, citizens of Berkeley, California are going to San Francisco on Tuesday, December 4th. They have two demands. The first is that investment bankers stop profiteering from the sale of public property assigned to the Postal Service. And the second demand is that Congress stop bleeding the Postal Service dry.

Led by Citizens to Save the Berkeley Post Office, community members will assemble at 11:30 a.m. for a rally at 909 Montgomery in front of the offices of Blum Capital Partners. Blum Capital is a private equity firm founded in 1976 by Richard Blum, a current regent of the University of California. Commercial real estate giant Coldwell Banker Richard Ellis (CBRE) is among the many investments of Blum Capital. In fact the Chairman of CBRE is Richard Blum.
Poster: Citizens to Save the Berkeley Post Office
"The hand of Richard Blum" Graphic by Sances & Hazelwood
The Postal Service is eager to sell properties in their control to raise quick cash. CBRE advises the USPS on what properties to sell. The properties are advertised on a joint CBRE/ USPS website and as a general rule CBRE profits again as the listing agent.

After the rally in front of Blum Capital, the marchers intend to proceed down Montgomery Street to One Post Street, the office of California Senator Dianne Feinstein. Senator Feinstein's husband is Richard Blum.

Newspaper headlines read "The Post Office is Going Broke". Truth: The Postal Service is being bled dry by a law passed in the 2006 lame duck session of Congress.

when it's federal property. What a Catch 22. Screwn

and will likely be transferred to private hands below cost.

So disgusting that Blum is behind this grrrrrr

against some low-level schmuck, usually one trying to do something decent.

while she sat on the defense appropriations committee.

These two are not our friends. Great OP!

I have never heard Richard Blum's name without the prefix of "war profiteer". I don't know what that's all about, but I've seen more than enough of his wife over the years, a big-money DINO. California deserves better.

It's a shame we can never mount a serious primary against a powerful senator like Feinstein. It would be a worthwhile fight.

I am very pissed off about this and will let her know!

When is she retiring!?

for the REAL ESTATE and the assets.

shades of the russian oligarchs.

He started this push as detailed in a post on the saveourpostoffice.com site.

Always reagan.

There are not that many professions where one can expect a 40 year lucky streak that can propel an upper-middle class housewife to a personal fortune in excess of $70M, and a spouse that can successfully avoid several federal investigations for mind-bogglingly lucky foreign investments, particularly when one's primary wealth comes from government contracts.

Truly, their story is a tribute to the wonder that is the American system.

Lets see, war, the surveillance issue, ahh, more $$$ for war, allowing wire-tapping to take place from a switching station in San Francisco, uhhh, should I continue?

She should have been voted out long ago.

Di-Fi is a fake. Fuck her.

I avoid hearing about her

Or potato.

wanking off.

voted against filibuster reform. Suprprise, surprise, surprise (not)

no way can I vote for that crook.

I voted for her when she ran in the special election in 1992 (that was the very first election I ever participated in). Haven't voted for her since. That box stays blank.

Feinstein's political power came out of the same cabal that put Willie Brown in charge of California politics for so many years. Willie Brown was implicated not-so-long ago as being one of the string-pullers that put Arnold into office. There is no ideological or party loyalty with these people...it's all about power and money.

This is one of the reasons that I also dislike Gavin Newsom. He's Willie Brown's protege and has too many connections into Feinsteins political network.