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Carrying a fire coat in the trunk of her automobile is just one sign of Feinstein's highly involved, hands-on governing style. She also has a police call number (1-M-600) and keeps a navy blue, civil defense jumpsuit in her car in case she ever needs to assume command after a major earthquake. In the day-to-day affairs of San Francisco, which she has run with increasing sureness for the past five years, virtually no detail is too minor to claim her attention. For her efforts, she can point to some impressive results: San Francisco...
...local success has thrust Feinstein (pronounced Fine-stine) onto the national stage as an articulate representative of women and a forceful advocate of cities. She is preparing to serve as host of the Democrats' 1984 presidential convention in July, amid flattering speculation that the party nominee just might turn to her when the time comes to pick a running mate. "I would never ask for that job, and I would never run for that job," she insists. But if the nominee telephones to offer her a spot on the ticket, she adds coyly, "I wouldn't turn down...
...Feinstein, 50, came to prominence under the most harrowing circumstances. On the morning of Nov. 27, 1978, while working in her city hall office as president of the board of supervisors, she heard a commotion down the hall and discovered the body of Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first avowed homosexual elected to a city-wide office in San Francisco. He had been gunned down by an ex-colleague and political enemy on the board, Dan White. Moments later she heard the news that White had also shot and killed Mayor George Moscone in another part of the building. That automatically...
...mayor's principal challenge was to refill a municipal till that had been seriously depleted by the restrictions imposed by California's tax-cutting Proposition 13. Feinstein formed a fiscal advisory committee, composed of executives from many of the city's major corporations, and directed it to apply the efficiencies of private industry to city government. One example: instead of letting each of the city's 52 departments handle its own insurance needs, a single centralized unit was formed to negotiate policies...
...proudest accomplishments was the introduction four years ago of corporate-style "management by objective." Twice a year, Feinstein and her department heads set largely numerical goals for everything from water-department revenues to police response times. These are subjected to rigorous reviews, with failures duly noted and usually rectified. Another priority has been the rebuilding of San Francisco's cable-car system, a $58.2 million project due to be completed by late June, three weeks before Democratic conventiongoers start pouring in. She wheedled 80% of the funds from Washington and cajoled private citizens to donate the rest. Says Harold...