CHANGE can take small steps when REAL change becomes clearly overdue. California Dems find the sensible wherewithal to suggest an adaptive capability not prevalent enough, nationwide. A/k/a an overdue Feinstein reality awakening.

Strib carrying an AP feed:

OAKLAND, Calif. — The California Democratic Party snubbed U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Saturday by handing its official endorsement and a badly needed boost to state Sen. Kevin de Leon, her longshot Democratic challenger.

In backing de Leon, a majority of the party's 360-member executive board ignored Feinstein's calls to stay neutral in the race.

[...] "Today's vote is a clear-eyed rejection of politics as usual in Washington, D.C.," de Leon said in a statement after the vote. "We have presented Californians with the first real alternative to the worn-out Washington playbook in a quarter-century."

A total of 217 delegates voted for de Leon, of Los Angeles, while 22 cast ballots for Feinstein and 94 voted for no endorsement.

Party members and activists are typically more liberal than the wider California electorate that has sent Feinstein to Washington five times.

Feinstein serves moneyed interests; not the public's good. She's one of the multimillionaire roadblocks, and traffic is always better when roadblocks are pushed aside.

UPDATE: CNN coverage.