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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4446183.html
Nancy Pelosi basks in historic day
By ERICA WERNER Associated Press Writer
© 2007 The Associated Press
Video Report WASHINGTON — Surrounded by kids as well as cheering lawmakers, Nancy Pelosi marveled aloud at her long journey "from the kitchen to the Congress."
Six times a grandmother, now second in line to the presidency, Pelosi said her ascension to become the first female House speaker in history was the culmination of 200 years of struggle for women as well as a personal victory.
"We have made history, now let us make progress for the American people," she said.
It was her coming-out to the nation, and Pelosi, 66, sought to introduce herself not only as the San Francisco liberal decried by Republicans, but as Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi, Italian-American Catholic, mother of five and native of gritty Baltimore, where her father was mayor.
She arrived on the House floor Thursday with all six grandchildren in tow, including baby Paul Michael Vos, born to her daughter Alexandra in early November.
"I was raised in a large family that was devoutly Catholic, deeply patriotic, proud of our Italian-American heritage, and staunchly Democratic," Pelosi said. "My parents taught us that public service was a noble calling."
After her election by a vote of 233-202, the chamber's Democratic-Republican breakdown, a beaming Pelosi stood holding her sleeping infant grandson _ who did not stir _ and shook hands as she accepted congratulations from her fellow House members.
Minutes later, cheers erupted in the chamber as House Republican leader John Boehner handed her the speaker's gavel. Pelosi always has said she wants to be judged by her abilities, not her gender, but she happily acknowledged the importance of her achievement.
"By electing me as speaker you have brought us closer to the ideal of equality that is America's heritage and America's hope," Pelosi said. "This is an historic moment _ for the Congress, and for the women of America. It is a moment for which we have waited more than 200 years. Never losing faith, we waited through the many years of struggle to achieve our rights."
"For our daughters and granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling," she said. "For our daughters and our granddaughters now, the sky is the limit."
Boehner, in handing her the gavel, said: "For more than 200 years, the leaders of our government have been democratically elected. And from their ranks, our elected leaders have always selected a man for the responsibility and honor of serving as speaker of the House. Always, that is, until today."
Onlookers in the packed visitors' galleries included actor Richard Gere and singer Tony Bennett, crooner of "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," along with hometown partisans.
"We look forward to the rest of the country appreciating the real San Francisco values, of diversity and a city of dreamers," said San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. "You can only exploit the gay community so much. ... They're going to see there's so much more to San Francisco."
Everywhere Pelosi went Thursday supporters marveled at her achievement, especially other women.
Outside the Library of Congress, leaders from the National Organization for Women greeted her with a giant congratulation card. The message: "Way to Go!"
Newly elected Democratic Rep. Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania brought his wife, Kelly, and daughters Natalie, 8, and Grace, 5, to witness Pelosi's swearing-in and pose for photos with her.
"I'll make sure they understand the significance of it," Kelly Altmire said of her daughters. "I don't know if they get it yet, but they will."
Pelosi began her history-making day at a prayer service with her husband, Paul, at St. Peter's Catholic Church near the Capitol. She was met by a small knot of anti-abortion protesters carrying signs reading, "You can't be Catholic and pro-abortion." She walked by without acknowledging them.
Attending the service with her were Boehner and other Republican leaders her party put into the minority in the November election. Also there was new House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland, a one-time Pelosi rival elected by House Democrats to be her No. 2 over her protests.
She later attended a ceremonial swearing-in of the Congressional Black Caucus, where the incoming leader of the 43-member group, Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich., made clear the pressure the new speaker will face. "She must deliver because black people delivered that we might have this majority," Kilpatrick said.
Thursday evening, Pelosi was being feted at a $1,000-a-head concert hosted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee at the National Building Museum with performances from Carole King, Bennett, Wyclef Jean and others.
Pelosi attended Mass on Wednesday at Trinity University, where she's an alumna, and dined that night at the Italian Embassy.
Friday begins with an open house event across from the Capitol. Then she heads to Baltimore, where part of the street where she grew up in Little Italy is being dedicated in her honor: Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi Via.
Pelosi was raised there, the daughter of New Deal Maryland Rep. Thomas D'Alesandro, who later became the city's mayor. She didn't run for the House herself until 1987 after marrying Paul Pelosi, a wealthy businessman, moving to San Francisco and raising her children.
In Congress Pelosi displayed the tough politicking of her childhood environment. She wrung loyalties, counted votes and muscled aside Hoyer to become the Democrats' second-in-command, and then Democratic leader in 2002.
Nancy Pelosi basks in historic day
By ERICA WERNER Associated Press Writer
© 2007 The Associated Press
Video Report WASHINGTON — Surrounded by kids as well as cheering lawmakers, Nancy Pelosi marveled aloud at her long journey "from the kitchen to the Congress."
Six times a grandmother, now second in line to the presidency, Pelosi said her ascension to become the first female House speaker in history was the culmination of 200 years of struggle for women as well as a personal victory.
"We have made history, now let us make progress for the American people," she said.
It was her coming-out to the nation, and Pelosi, 66, sought to introduce herself not only as the San Francisco liberal decried by Republicans, but as Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi, Italian-American Catholic, mother of five and native of gritty Baltimore, where her father was mayor.
She arrived on the House floor Thursday with all six grandchildren in tow, including baby Paul Michael Vos, born to her daughter Alexandra in early November.
"I was raised in a large family that was devoutly Catholic, deeply patriotic, proud of our Italian-American heritage, and staunchly Democratic," Pelosi said. "My parents taught us that public service was a noble calling."
After her election by a vote of 233-202, the chamber's Democratic-Republican breakdown, a beaming Pelosi stood holding her sleeping infant grandson _ who did not stir _ and shook hands as she accepted congratulations from her fellow House members.
Minutes later, cheers erupted in the chamber as House Republican leader John Boehner handed her the speaker's gavel. Pelosi always has said she wants to be judged by her abilities, not her gender, but she happily acknowledged the importance of her achievement.
"By electing me as speaker you have brought us closer to the ideal of equality that is America's heritage and America's hope," Pelosi said. "This is an historic moment _ for the Congress, and for the women of America. It is a moment for which we have waited more than 200 years. Never losing faith, we waited through the many years of struggle to achieve our rights."
"For our daughters and granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling," she said. "For our daughters and our granddaughters now, the sky is the limit."
Boehner, in handing her the gavel, said: "For more than 200 years, the leaders of our government have been democratically elected. And from their ranks, our elected leaders have always selected a man for the responsibility and honor of serving as speaker of the House. Always, that is, until today."
Onlookers in the packed visitors' galleries included actor Richard Gere and singer Tony Bennett, crooner of "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," along with hometown partisans.
"We look forward to the rest of the country appreciating the real San Francisco values, of diversity and a city of dreamers," said San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. "You can only exploit the gay community so much. ... They're going to see there's so much more to San Francisco."
Everywhere Pelosi went Thursday supporters marveled at her achievement, especially other women.
Outside the Library of Congress, leaders from the National Organization for Women greeted her with a giant congratulation card. The message: "Way to Go!"
Newly elected Democratic Rep. Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania brought his wife, Kelly, and daughters Natalie, 8, and Grace, 5, to witness Pelosi's swearing-in and pose for photos with her.
"I'll make sure they understand the significance of it," Kelly Altmire said of her daughters. "I don't know if they get it yet, but they will."
Pelosi began her history-making day at a prayer service with her husband, Paul, at St. Peter's Catholic Church near the Capitol. She was met by a small knot of anti-abortion protesters carrying signs reading, "You can't be Catholic and pro-abortion." She walked by without acknowledging them.
Attending the service with her were Boehner and other Republican leaders her party put into the minority in the November election. Also there was new House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland, a one-time Pelosi rival elected by House Democrats to be her No. 2 over her protests.
She later attended a ceremonial swearing-in of the Congressional Black Caucus, where the incoming leader of the 43-member group, Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich., made clear the pressure the new speaker will face. "She must deliver because black people delivered that we might have this majority," Kilpatrick said.
Thursday evening, Pelosi was being feted at a $1,000-a-head concert hosted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee at the National Building Museum with performances from Carole King, Bennett, Wyclef Jean and others.
Pelosi attended Mass on Wednesday at Trinity University, where she's an alumna, and dined that night at the Italian Embassy.
Friday begins with an open house event across from the Capitol. Then she heads to Baltimore, where part of the street where she grew up in Little Italy is being dedicated in her honor: Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi Via.
Pelosi was raised there, the daughter of New Deal Maryland Rep. Thomas D'Alesandro, who later became the city's mayor. She didn't run for the House herself until 1987 after marrying Paul Pelosi, a wealthy businessman, moving to San Francisco and raising her children.
In Congress Pelosi displayed the tough politicking of her childhood environment. She wrung loyalties, counted votes and muscled aside Hoyer to become the Democrats' second-in-command, and then Democratic leader in 2002.
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Pelosi's Hypocrisy
But a look behind the scenes exposes Pelosi as a Democratic leader who passionately fights for liberal policies, yet goes to great lengths to avoid applying those policies in her personal life.
Best-selling author Peter Schweizer's book "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy" first revealed the glaring contradictions between Pelosi and other prominent liberals' public stances and their real-life behavior. [Check out our free offer for this book. Go Here Now.]
Pelosi claims to be a staunch union supporter, and along with her husband has received the Cesar Chavez award from the United Farm Workers Union, notes Schweizer.
Unions are, in her words, "fighting for America's working families" and battling "the union-busting, family-hurting" Bush administration. But Schweizer uncovered that a $25 million Northern California vineyard the Pelosis own is a non-union shop!
Pelosi's hypocrisy doesn't stop there.
The congresswoman is the top recipient among members of Congress in campaign contributions from labor unions, and has received more money from the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union than any other member of Congress in the last several election cycles.
But in addition to the wine business, the Pelosis own a large stake in the exclusive Auberge du Soleil hotel in Rutherford, Calif. The hotel has more than 250 employees, but once again, Schweizer found, it is strictly a non-union shop.
The Pelosis are also partners in a restaurant chain called Piatti, which has 900 employees.
"But a union card is not required to work there bussing tables, washing dishes, serving guests or preparing food," Schweizer wrote in NewsMax Magazine.
"As with Auberge du Soleil, at Piatti the Pelosis' commitment to organized labor ends at the front door."
Pelosi has also demonstrated hypocrisy on the environment. "With us," she proclaims, "the environment is not an issue – it's an ethic. It's a value."
That's what she says. Schweizer exposed what she does: One of her largest investments is a private partnership called Lions Gate Limited, which operates the CordeValle Golf Club and Resort in San Martin, Calif. "
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10450
Celebrant number 31 was the late Harry Hay. Harry, it seems, was quite the guy. In fact, it is not too much to say that he was famous in San Francisco. He was famous not only as a founder of the gay rights movement, for his one-time relationship with actor Will Geer (who played Grandpa Walton on The Waltons TV series,) he was also known for being featured in the 1976 documentary film of gay life titled Word Is Out. When he died the following year after the parade, at 90, the New York Times Magazine featured him in "The Lives They Lived," its annual pictorial salute to famous Americans who had passed away during the preceding year. In addition to laudatory obits in both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, the Chronicle did a considerably flattering obituary. "Harry Hay, gay rights pioneer, dies at 90." The paper favorably notes a number of things in Harry's life, including his left-leaning politics, his connection with the Communist Party in the 1930s and his founding of "The Mattachine Society," a group the Chronicle calls "the first sustained homosexual rights organization in the United States."
Fair enough. The Chronicle, however, left something else out of the obituary entirely. It was a very strong belief held by Harry Hay that, if one is to believe all the attention devoted to Harry on the Internet, was common knowledge in San Francisco.
Harry Hay was a fierce advocate of man/boy love. While The Chronicle simply ignored Harry's views, the North American Man/Boy Love Association was only too delighted to put up a collection of Harry's views on the need for young boys to have older men as sexual partners. Here's just a sample taken from a talk at a New York University forum sponsored by a campus gay group in 1983.
Said Harry: "Because if the parents and friends of gays are truly friends of gays, they would know from their gay kids that the relationship with an older man is precisely what thirteen-, fourteen-, and fifteen-year-old kids need more than anything else in the world."
In short, San Francisco's beloved Harry Hay was a vigorous and well-known advocate of older men having sex with young boys. He was a fearless and quite famous advocate for Congressman Mark Foley's behavior.
Which makes one curious about the presence of marcher number 34 in the 2001 Pride Parade. Marching a mere three spots away from the famous Harry Hay, no doubt waving and smiling to the crowd, was, as the Chronicle logged her in the Official Guide and Program Parade Lineup: "U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi."
That would be now Democratic leader of the U.S. Congress and the candidate of the Democratic Party to be the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, the official third in line to be President of the United States.
Surely this is a different Rep. Nancy Pelosi from the one who currently has on her website as Minority Leader the following statement:
"Republican leaders admitted to knowing about Mr. Foley's abhorrent behavior for six months to a year and failed to protect the children in their trust. Republican Leaders must be investigated by the Ethics Committee and immediately questioned under oath."
Abhorrent behavior? If men having sex with children is "abhorrent behavior" then it seems it would be quite logical for a United States Congresswoman to stand up and protest the presence of one of its leading advocates having a place of honor in a civic parade -- a parade in which she herself would be marching mere steps behind him.
If Representative Pelosi took the time to condemn Harry Hay's presence in the Pride Parade, there is no evidence that I can find. Nor did she refuse to march in the parade as a protest of Mr. Hay. Nor did she issue a statement warning parents that they were bringing their kids to a parade where Mr. Hay was one of the featured attractions.
What Representative Pelosi chose to do instead -- as did much of civic San Francisco -- is blithely give a wink-and-a-nod to ole Harry and his interest in little boys."
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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
~sarcasm~Boy those are some real smoking guns!~/sarcasm~
The unbelievably scary truth hurts doesn't it.
I can't believe the labor union thing, what a piece of trash.
And Im sure thats only the tip of the iceberg as far as what a piece of shit this woman will prove to be. Keep singing her praises, fools.
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