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Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein, born Dianne Emiel Goldman (/ˈfaɪnstaɪn/; born June 22, 1933), is the senior United States Senator from California. A member of the Democratic Party, she has served in the Senate since 1992. She also served as 38th Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988.
Born in San Francisco, Feinstein graduated from Stanford University in 1955 with a B.A. in history. In the 1960s she worked in city government, and in 1970 she was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She served as the board's first female president in 1978, during which time the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk drew national attention to the city. Feinstein succeeded Moscone as mayor. During her tenure as San Francisco's first female mayor she led a revamp of the city's cable car system and oversaw the 1984 Democratic National Convention.
After a failed gubernatorial campaign in 1990, she won a 1992 special election to the U.S. Senate. Feinstein was first elected on the same ballot as her peer Barbara Boxer, and the two became California's first female U.S. Senators. Feinstein has been re-elected four times since then and in the 2012 election, she claimed the record for the most popular votes in any U.S. Senate election in history, having received 7.75 million votes.
Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz (born December 22, 1970) is an American politician and the junior United States Senator from Texas. He is a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States, in the 2016 presidential election.
Cruz graduated from Princeton University in 1992, and from Harvard Law School in 1995. Between 1999 and 2003, Cruz was the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an associate deputy attorney general at the United States Department of Justice, and domestic policy advisor to President George W. Bush on the 2000 George W. Bush presidential campaign. He served as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to 2008, appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. He was the first Hispanic, and the longest-serving solicitor general, in Texas history. From 2004 to 2009, Cruz was also an adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation.
Cruz ran for the Senate seat vacated by fellow Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison, and in July 2012 defeated Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst during the Republican primary runoff, 57%–43%. Cruz then defeated former state Representative Paul Sadler in the November 2012 general election, winning 56%–41%. He is the first Hispanic American to serve as a U.S. senator representing Texas, and is one of three Senators of Cuban descent. Cruz chairs the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, Federal Rights and Agency Activities, and is also the chairman of the United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness. In November 2012, he was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
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Dianne Feinstein On Moscone, Milk Deaths
Actors: Peter Jason (actor), Sean Penn (actor), Tim Halpin (actor), Lucas Grabeel (actor), Denis O'Hare (actor), Sean Paul Lockhart (actor), James Franco (actor), Victor Garber (actor), Jimmy Carter (actor), Walter Cronkite (actor), Diego Luna (actor), Tom Brokaw (actor), Josh Brolin (actor), Howard Rosenman (actor), Ronald Reagan (actor),
Plot: Using flashbacks from a statement recorded late in life and archival footage for atmosphere, this film traces Harvey Milk's career from his 40th birthday to his death. He leaves the closet and New York, opens a camera shop that becomes the salon for San Francisco's growing gay community, and organizes gays' purchasing power to build political alliances. He runs for office with lover Scott Smith as his campaign manager. Victory finally comes on the same day Dan White wins in the city's conservative district. The rest of the film sketches Milk's relationship with White and the 1978 fight against a statewide initiative to bar gays and their supporters from public school jobs.
Keywords: 18-year-old, 1970s, 39-year-old, 40-year-old, 40th-birthday, activist, african-american, altoona-pennsylvania, american-dream, angerActors: John 'Frenchie' Berger (miscellaneous crew), Michael Singer (miscellaneous crew), Kenneth McGregor (actor), Peter Coyote (actor), Tim Daly (producer), Ralph Berge (miscellaneous crew), Bruce McFee (actor), Tim Daly (actor), Gerry Mendicino (actor), Louis Di Bianco (actor), Mark Camacho (actor), Richard Fitzpatrick (actor), Tyne Daly (actress), Daniel Licht (composer), Doug Lennox (actor),
Plot: The true story of the assassination of San Francisco Mayor 'George Moscone' (qv) and City Supervisor 'Harvey Milk (I)' (qv) on November 27, 1978. The case of assassin 'Dan White (III)' (qv) has become known as the "Twinkie defense" after his sentence was reduced from first-degree murder to voluntary manslaughter. White served five years in prison and committed suicide in 1985. This film is based on 'Emily Mann''s play.
Keywords: 1970s, asphyxiation, baseball, based-on-play, based-on-true-story, chinatown-san-francisco, church, controversy, crossdresser, fireman