Like many of the most powerful people in Washington, DC, Nancy Pelosi is in her 80s and unwilling to retire gracefully.
On Friday, the former House Speaker, who is 83, officially announced she is running for reelection for the seat she has held for 36 years, explaining to a gushing Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC how San Francisco still allegedly needed her after all this time.
Incredibly, Pelosi tried to portray herself as a crime fighter, willing to go to the mat for her home city in the midst of its growing crime problems, which she boiled down to being an “isolated situation“:
The needs that our city has right now really call for me to stay another term,” Pelosi told Wallace.“I have agreed to stay on another term in order to help meet the needs that we have now,” she said. “We’re a resilient city — we’ve had AIDS, we’ve had earthquakes, of course we’ve all had the pandemic. We intend to come out of this — resilient city that we are — even better.”The only local issues that Pelosi addressed in her first interview since launching her re-election campaign earlier Friday were crime and homelessness — arguing that while the issues aren’t as bad as portrayed in the media, they still require action.“We do have an isolated situation in downtown San Francisco, in the Tenderloin district and the rest,” Pelosi said. “We have just said to the people there and the rest, who are very much concerned about it, that if there is crime and there is violence and there are drugs, there will be arrests and that’s the way it is.”
Amazingly, she also insinuated that the New York Times is turning right-wing considering they’ve stepped up coverage of San Francisco’s crime and business woes as well in recent months.
“Let me just say that these attacks [on San Francisco] are not unusual from the right,” Pelosi declared. “We have the New York Times having a field day about one thing or another in San Francisco, and we wonder about them, too,” she also said in the video below.
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Pelosi’s claim of an “isolated” crime “situation” in the Tenderloin neighborhood doesn’t square with the facts. Over the summer, the Mission district was rocked by a series of violent crime incidents including a mass shooting that wounded nine, crimes that had some residents talking about packing up and leaving. Others complained of a rise in homeless encampments, gang problems, and drug use.
A similar situation is also playing out in the South of Market neighborhood, which is home to the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building.
As Legal Insurrection noted last month, the Health and Human Services Dept. has advised some workers in the Pelosi building to keep working from home until further notice due to safety concerns stemming from crime problems including open-air drug use.
Video taken from outside the building tells the story:
With all of that in mind, you will be fascinated (or maybe not) to find out that Pelosi thinks San Francisco’s “values” should become America’s values:
Now more than ever our City needs us to advance San Francisco values and further our recovery. Our country needs America to show the world that our flag is still there, with liberty and justice for ALL. That is why I am running for reelection — and respectfully ask for your vote. -Nancy
I mean at this point Pelosi is almost literally writing the campaign ads for GOP Congressional candidates going into the 2024 election year.
Keep talking, Nancy. Just keep on talking.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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