{"id":1437458,"date":"2022-04-14T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1437458"},"modified":"2022-04-14T11:01:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T15:01:13","slug":"colleagues-say-sen-feinstein-may-be-mentally-unfit-to-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colleagues-say-sen-feinstein-may-be-mentally-unfit-to-serve\/","title":{"rendered":"Colleagues Say Sen. Feinstein May Be \u2018Mentally Unfit To Serve\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcolleagues-say-sen-feinstein-may-be-mentally-unfit-to-serve%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1437458&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/01\/diane-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is 88 and still serving in the Senate. Some colleagues are beginning to question whether she is still fit for office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a California Democrat in Congress recently engaged in an extended conversation with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, they prepared for a rigorous policy discussion like those they\u2019d had with her many times over the last 15 years,\u201d The San Francisco Chronicle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/politics\/article\/dianne-feinstein-senate-17079487.php\">reported<\/a>. \u201cInstead, the lawmaker said, they had to reintroduce themselves to Feinstein multiple times during an interaction that lasted several hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than delve into policy, Feinstein, 88, repeated the same small-talk questions, like asking the lawmaker what mattered to voters in their district, they said, with no apparent recognition the two had already had a similar conversation,\u201d the paper said.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, lawmakers don\u2019t like to simply retire and fade away. They\u2019ve spent their lives in the limelight and disappearing is their big fear. What\u2019s more, when lawmakers die in office, they sometimes lay in state in the U.S. Capitol, a high honor.<\/p>\n<p>But there is concern now that Feinstein is \u201crapidly deteriorating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour U.S. senators, including three Democrats, as well as three former Feinstein staffers and the California Democratic member of Congress told The Chronicle in recent interviews that her memory is rapidly deteriorating. They said it appears she can no longer fulfill her job duties without her staff doing much of the work required to represent the nearly 40 million people of California,\u201d the Chronicle said in a piece headlined \u201cColleagues worry Dianne Feinstein is now mentally unfit to serve, citing recent interactions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Feinstein won\u2019t be up for re-election until 2024, but she has filed paperwork indicating she might run again. In January 2021, she filed the initial re-election paperwork with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) last week, L.A. Magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamag.com\/citythinkblog\/dianne-feinstein-has-filed-initial-paperwork-to-run-again-in-2024\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Feinstein rep reached out to L.A. Magazine to clarify what the FEC filings allegedly mean. \u201cTo be clear, Senator Feinstein has had a campaign committee since she took office, as all senators must. In order to keep this account active, the senator has to maintain filings with the FEC. Yesterday\u2019s filings merely reflected an updated address,\u201d the rep said. They also claimed that they didn\u2019t have any \u201cannouncement\u201d regarding a 2024 Feinstein run.<\/p>\n<p>The Chronicle cited other unnamed people, including senators, who said it\u2019s clear Feinstein is deteriorating.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s bad, and it\u2019s getting worse,\u201d one Democratic senator told the paper. \u201cThis person said that within the Senate, Feinstein has difficulty keeping up with conversations and discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a joke on the Hill, we\u2019ve got a great junior senator in Alex Padilla and an experienced staff in Feinstein\u2019s office,\u201d said a staffer for a California Democrat.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is 88 and still serving in the Senate. 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