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THE D.C. BRIEF

ianne Feinstein had already made history back in 1978, when she became the first woman elected to lead the San Francisco board of supervisors, effectively setting the agenda for the legislative arm of the country’s eighth largest economy at the time. She was, in practice, the Speaker of the S.F. House. But when a former colleague turned assassin returned to city hall

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