Boxer said she walked a couple of blocks to a Verizon store after the robbery to call police.Ī Verizon worker, Joseph Hauken, said Boxer went into his store to get help and wait for police. The 80-year-old Boxer later told KPIX 5 she was shaken up, but otherwise unhurt. She said she did not see a weapon on the teenage boy. She was out walking and talking on her new iPhone that she bought two days ago. The strong-armed robbery happened near her home around 1:15 p.m. She is thankful that she was not seriously injured."- Barbara Boxer July 26, 2021 The assailant pushed her in the back, stole her cell phone and jumped in a waiting car. This is Dianne.” Former United States Senator Barbara Boxer listens to United States Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi during the 2022 Barbara Boxer Lecture given by the Institute of Governmental Studies at Hertz Hall in Berkeley, CA on Monday, April 18, 2022.Earlier today former Senator Barbara Boxer was assaulted in the Jack London Square neighborhood of Oakland. “I’ve told her many times that it’s wonderful to be in California, to do the work you want, to teach, to speak. “I left at the top of my game,” said Boxer, who left the Senate when she was 76. We will respect each other because this partnership is too important for our state.”īoxer has exchanged emails and letters with Feinstein but hasn’t spoken to her directly since shortly after Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum, died of cancer a year ago at age 86, a loss that Feinstein told her was “harder than she ever thought it would be.”īoxer said she has often told Feinstein how much she is enjoying her post-Senate life and recently returned from Florida where she gave a speech to Planned Parenthood. One night, Boxer remembers, they had dinner together and discussed that while they may disagree, “we will do no harm. Feinstein fought for Central Valley water interests. The two California senators are both Democrats, but their philosophies and policies diverged with Boxer more progressive and Feinstein more moderate. Is Dianne Feinstein coming back? Democrats ‘panicking’ over her ongoing Senate absence
While she has had a lifetime of public service, it is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties.” She made the announcement hours after Khanna tweeted: “We need to put the country ahead of personal loyalty.
To appease her critics, she announced this week that she would temporarily step back from her role on the Judiciary Committee, which - without Feinstein’s deciding vote - has built a backlog of President Biden’s judicial nominations to advance to the federal bench. Scott Applewhite, File)įeinstein already had announced that she would not seek a sixth term in 2024. Feinstein’s vote is critical to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominees to the federal courts, but Feinstein is away from the Senate indefinitely as she recovers from the shingles. Feinstein’s months-long absence from the Senate has become a growing problem for Democrats. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., arrives for the Senate Democratic Caucus leadership election at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. “But I guess it was Pete Seeger who wrote there’s a season for everything … turn, turn, turn.” Sen. That’s why I’m saying it’s really hard,” Boxer said. “She so loves the work, the ability to make a difference. She has missed more than 60 votes so far this year, leading a number of her fellow Democrats to call for her resignation, including Bay Area Congressmember Ro Khanna.Īlthough Boxer said it’s Feinstein’s decision, she said she has reached out to those close to the ailing senator and made it clear that if she were in Feinstein’s place, “I would call together the people who love me the most, and I would call my doctors and I would call my colleagues who I trust the most and make a decision.”īut Boxer stopped short of saying what that decision should be while acknowledging that it would be difficult for Feinstein to leave because she has always seen her job “as a calling.” “But having said that, you’ve got to be able to do the job.”įeinstein has been unable to do that job for the past two months as the 89-year-old and oldest member of the U.S.
There’s no question about it,” Boxer told the Bay Area News Group on Friday. The longer you stay, the better you’ll feel, the more you’ll get done.”īoxer took the advice to heart and stayed in office 24 years before retiring in 2017. senators from California in 1992 - a historic victory for women - Feinstein sat Boxer down and told her, “You’ve got to stick with this. When Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein were first elected U.S.
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