Colleagues Worry Dianne Feinstein Is Now Mentally Unfit To Serve Citing Recent Interactions
Instead, the lawmaker said, they had to be re-introduced to Feinstein several times during an interaction that lasted several hours. Instead of delving into politics, Feinstein, 88, repeated the same short-talk questions, such as asking the legislator what mattered to voters in their constituency, they said, without apparently acknowledging that the two had already had a similar conversation. The incident was so disturbing that the lawmaker – who spoke to The Chronicle on condition that he would not be named because of the sensitivity of the issue – began to express concern with his colleagues to see if any intervention was possible to persuade Feinstein to withdraw....