An aide to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is strongly denying a claim from her daughter that she is only staying in office because of her political donors.
Pelosi’s daughter Alexandra Pelosi told the conservative site Big Government that the former Speaker wants to retire from Congress but has faced pressure from campaign contributors to continue serving.
“She would retire right now, if the donors she has didn’t want her to stay so badly. They know she wants to leave, though,” Alexandra Pelosi said. “They think she’s destined for the wilderness. She has very few days left. She’s 71, she wants to have a life, she’s done. It’s obligation, that’s all I’m saying.”
Pelosi’s daughter cautioned in a text message, however, that she had not talked with the minority leader about her take on the situation.
“I have never talked to Nancy Pelosi about any of this,” she wrote in the text.
In a statement Thursday, Pelosi’s office said the report on Big Government is “totally untrue.”
“This may be wishful thinking on the part of a right wing blog but it is totally untrue. When the day comes and Leader Pelosi’s work is done, she won’t be announcing it there,” Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami said Thursday in a statement.
There has been no indication among Pelosi’s Democratic colleagues that they are expecting her to retire. In fact, Democrats have expressed optimism that they will retake the House majority in the 2012 election and restore Pelosi to her previous role as Speaker.
(Source: The Hill)
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There is no more unimportant issue for the Republicans than the selection by the Democratic members of the US House of Representatives of their party’s leader in the House. The demonization of Ms. Pelosi over the years by Republicans has been a remarkable waste of effort and reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of the party leaders in the legislatures of America. Each party’s legislative leader is generally a coalition builder whose principal function is to unite the disparate views and intersts of the party’s members. The party leader who failed in this task most blatantly was, of course, Newt Gingrich, who thought the position of party leader – and House Speaker – was a blank check to agrandize himself. This misunderstanding of the role of party leader reflected only Mr. Gingrich’s ego and self-absorption, and after 4 years as a misleading leader, his party chucked him aside. Many of the Republican Congressmen/women who did so remember his deficiencies as party leader and oppose his current bid for their party’s presidential nomination.
There will be nothing for Republicans to cheer about if Ms. Pelosi does retire, as her successor will no doubt represent the Democrats’ views as ably as she has done so far.
Doesn’t make sense. She’s from a safe Democratic destrict and is already at the end of her career. Her contributors would probably be urging her to line up a young successor who will have much upside politically.
The sooner this “witch” retires, the better off the whole country will be. She has done a terrible amount of damage, together with the (blank) in the White House!
We hope she retires too!!