“She was totally out of touch when the whole debate happened on encryption,’’ that occurred between Apple and law enforcement officials in the wake of the San Bernardino terrorist massacre, he said. “She didn’t even understand some of those issues." "
She hasn’t been a strong advocate on privacy, she hasn’t been strong on civil liberties, she hasn’t been strong in terms of standing up to our foreign policy interventions around the world,’’ he said, describing her views as
“hawkish.”“And most recently,
she has not embraced a move toward 'Medicare for All,’ and bold economic policies,’’ he said.
Khanna, 41, who defeated eight-term Rep. Mike Honda, 75, to win the Silicon Valley seat last year, said he is not interested in running for the Senate seat himself. “
I love my job, I really do, and I hope I’ll be re-elected to it,’’ he said, but, “I do hope other progressive voices will look at it.’’
“I asked (Rep.) Barbara Lee to run,’’ he said, of the East Bay representative considered one of the House’s most liberal members. He said he has contacted Reich, the former Clinton Cabinet member who has a presence as a regular media commentator and as a University of California-Berkeley professor, but “I don’t think he’s necessarily interested,’’ Khanna said. But “there are other voices in our state who are far more in touch with the values” of the progressive grassroots than Feinstein, he argued. While fundraising could be a challenge, he said, both of them “could catch fire nationally,’’ and generate plenty of money online from the progressive base.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/09/dianne-feinstein-primary-challenge-ro-khanna-243605
