Nancy Pelosi and corporate interests
The San Francisco Chronicle is running a three-party series of investigative articles on Nancy Pelosi. Yesterday, as part of this series, the Chronicle ran a story detailing her fundraising activities. It provides fascinating reading for those of us on the left who recognize the close ties that the Democratic Party maintains with wealthy and corporate interests. For example, the article points out
None of this should server as any surprise, of course. Pelosi is the epitome of the modern day liberal Democrat, who will certainly not do anything to rock the boat or otherwise offend her corporate contributors or her friends in big business; her husband, Paul Pelosi, is quite wealthy; the article reports that "Paul Pelosi's investments range from an ownership share in the Wine Country resort, Auberge du Soleil, to millions of dollars of stocks in companies such as Microsoft Corp. and Disney Co. to ownership of a three-story commercial building in downtown San Francisco." This she has in common with her fellow Democrat and San Franciscan Diane Feinstein, whose husband the war profiteer benefited from the Iraq war enough the couple could sell their old mansion and buy an even bigger $16.5 million mansion in Pacific Heights.
Once again we can see why progressives, leftists, and radicals should have nothing to do with the Democratic Party.
With the connections she gained through her investment banker husband, Paul Pelosi, her unfailing devotion to the Democratic Party and a lifelong propensity for building relationships with loyal supporters, Pelosi has been in an ideal position to recruit wealthy believers in the Democratic cause. "If you travel in upper socio-economic circles, it's always good to tap those people,'' said Agar Jaicks, a San Francisco Democratic activist, who was one of Pelosi's earliest political advisers. "She became very good at it, and the better she got, the more in demand she was."The Chronicle lists some of her top contributors, which include several northern California capitalists, including the owners of the Gallo Winery in Modesto, the heirs to the Levi Strauss Company, the owners of The Gap, and others.
None of this should server as any surprise, of course. Pelosi is the epitome of the modern day liberal Democrat, who will certainly not do anything to rock the boat or otherwise offend her corporate contributors or her friends in big business; her husband, Paul Pelosi, is quite wealthy; the article reports that "Paul Pelosi's investments range from an ownership share in the Wine Country resort, Auberge du Soleil, to millions of dollars of stocks in companies such as Microsoft Corp. and Disney Co. to ownership of a three-story commercial building in downtown San Francisco." This she has in common with her fellow Democrat and San Franciscan Diane Feinstein, whose husband the war profiteer benefited from the Iraq war enough the couple could sell their old mansion and buy an even bigger $16.5 million mansion in Pacific Heights.
Once again we can see why progressives, leftists, and radicals should have nothing to do with the Democratic Party.
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