“Employers cutting hours is a good thing. It then gives that person time to pursue their dreams and passions.” - Turning Point USA on Thursday, December 8th, 2016 in a Facebook post.
“You don't need God anymore, you have us democrats.” Nancy Pelosi in 2006.
Nancy Pelosi botches attempt to honor Willie Mays by posting photo of wrong black baseball legend, May 08, 2021
4-20-21 Pelosi says a 5 times felon that had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his blood and was trying to pass a counterfeit bill dying in the act of his 6th felony, was a saint.
Nancy Patricia Pelosi (/pəˈloƱsi/; née D'Alesandro born March 26, 1940). A member of the Democratic Party, Pelosi is in her 17th term as a congresswoman, representing California's 12th congressional district (since 2013), which consists of four-fifths of the city and county of San Francisco.
January 3, 2019. Alexandra Pelosi (Nancy's daughter) bluntly told CNN in an interview Wednesday morning. “She'll (Nancy Pelosi)cut your head off and you won't even know you're bleeding, That's all you need to know about her.”
Pelosi has 150-year-old sign removed from house chamber entrance. The Sign: "IN GOD WE TRUST".
Pelosi Admits She Sold Out Americans, Small Business on COVID Relief for Political Purposes
If you ever wanted to gauge just how heartless and despicable Progressive-Democrats can be you need look no further than what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), admitted to during her weekly news conference.
As odious cockwomble Pelosi stood in front of the media during her weekly press conference Friday, she confirmed that she purposely obstructed the passage of a COVID relief bill because of politics.
Pelosi stunned even liberals among the press corps when she announced that she was now open to a smaller and less inclusive relief package than the one she and other House Democrat leaders had been seeking prior to the election.
When reporters asked the San Francisco Progressive, what changed between the pre-election months where there was a stalemate, she first rebuked the reporter for even asking the question and then thought better to not respond.
“Joe Biden, committed to ending and crushing the virus and having a Build Back Better America initiative, Build Back Better,” Pelosi lectured the media. “A vaccine – answer to our prayers, an answer to our prayers – of 95 percent effectiveness in terms of Pfizer and Moderna, and there may be others coming forward. That makes – that is a total game-changer: a new President and a vaccine.”
Nancy Pelosi admits it was her “decision” to block coronavirus relief for small businesses getting crushed by Democrat lockdowns.pic.twitter.com/S2ub8Q5tz3
— Cassandra (@CassyWearsHeels) December 4, 2020
Her statement tantamount to admitted that she and fellow House Democrats and Progressives refused to come to the aid of the American people during a time when government itself was causing them to lose the businesses, livelihoods, and – for some, everything they owned.
The Trump administration was critical in the fast-tracking of a COVID vaccine instituting Operation Warp Speed. It was reported shortly after the election that the Big Pharma company Pfizer slow walked its vaccine until after the election so that the President couldn't acknowledge his administration's success.
“So, there's nothing to – these are different,” Pelosi stammered. “What was then, before, was not more of this. This has simplicity. It's what we've had in our bills. It's for a shorter period of time, but that's okay now, because we have a new President.”
Nancy Pelosi's Chief of Staff Is Chief Executive and Feinstein's Husband a Major Shareholder at Dominion Ballot Counting Systems With Ties to the Clinton Foundation
by Steven Ahle in Politics, Viral 11-20
Sidney Powell, Gen Flynn's lawyer revealed information on Dominion Voting that supplies the voting machines for 47 counties in Michigan and in every swing state from this year's election. During the interview, she claims that Richard Blum, the husband of Dianne Feinstein and who has been tied to many scandals with Feinstein, owns a large bloc of Dominion stock.
She also made the claim that a long time chief of staff for Nancy Pelosi is a top executive for Dominion.
April, 2019
Dominion Voting Systems — which commands more than a third of the voting-machine market without having Washington lobbyists — has hired its first, a high-powered firm that includes a longtime aide to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Dominion Voting even has ties to the Clinton Foundation:
In 2014, Dominion Voting committed to providing emerging and post-conflict democracies with access to voting technology through its philanthropic support to the DELIAN Project, as many emerging democracies suffer from post-electoral violence due to the delay in the publishing of election results. Over the next three years, Dominion Voting will support election technology pilots with donated Automated Voting Machines (AVM), providing an improved electoral process, and therefore safer elections. As a large number of election staff are women, there will be an emphasis on training women, who will be the first to benefit from the skills transfer training and use of AVMs. It is estimated that 100 women will directly benefit from election technology skills training per pilot election.
[ Boy there is a surprise <sic> major dirt on the Clinton's has disappeared. djhjmedia dot com slash steven/nancy-pelosis-chief-of-staff-is-chief-executive-and-feinsteins-husband-a-major-shareholder-at-dominion-ballot-counting-systems-with-ties-to-the-clinton-foundation Nancy Pelosie's chief of staff and her husband are major stock holders at dominion (ballot counting manufacture) with ties to the Clinton Foundation.
02-02-20
The Russian owned company that Paul Pelosi was a board member of appears to be directly connected with the Russian government.
The Ana Shell company Softan PTE. LTD. has the EXACT same office number as Gazprom, the state–owned Russian oil and gas company. @HowleyReporter
Nancy Pelosi's ‘COVID relief’ bill is mainly just a left-wing wish list
By Betsy McCaughey October 6, 2020
opinion I happen to agree with
On Tuesday, President Trump postponed negotiations on a stimulus bill until after Election Day. The move is politically risky for the president and delays much-needed assistance to struggling Americans. But the ultimate blame belongs to Nancy Pelosi.
The House speaker has been badgering the GOP to pass her $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill to “crush the virus, so that we can reopen the economy and our schools safely.” Yet her bill would do almost nothing to achieve those goals.
Instead, though Pelosi never mentions it, her bill would rewrite election law for 2020, barring voter ID requirements, forcing states to count absentee ballots that arrive as late as 10 days after Election Day and imposing same-day voter registration everywhere, though currently only 21 states allow it. These changes don't belong in a stimulus bill.
There is almost no disagreement between Republicans and Democrats over sending every American adult a $1,200 check. But that's a small part of the total bill. Pelosi's version would fritter away hundreds of billions of dollars closing state and city budget gaps, with nothing long-term to show for it. We won't be any more prepared for the next pandemic.
Pelosi's bill promises school districts $225 billion, but only $5 billion, or 2 percent, would go to making schools safer by improving air quality or installing sinks and other hygiene upgrades.
The rest is a teachers union protection plan. Astonishingly, school districts that economize and reduce per-pupil spending or change labor contracts are automatically ineligible for stimulus funding.
The bill allocates $417 billion to state and local governments, with no strings. This is a lost opportunity to rescue cities that are turning into ghost towns because employees fear the virus and are working remotely.
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Pelosi's Son Now Involved In Ukraine Scandal
Nancy Pelosi's son Paul Pelosi Jr. (who went to Ukraine in 2017) was a board member of Viscoil and executive at its related company NRGLab, which DID ENERGY Business in UKRAINE!
And Nancy Pelosi appeared in a promotional video for the company!”
BOTH Biden's and Pelosi's sons have strong ties to Ukraine?
Who goes to Ukraine?
I'm sure most people reading this have sent their sons to Ukraine at some point.
I'm probably just being paranoid.
(Washington Free Beacon) The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged a company co-founded by Paul Pelosi Jr. with fraud on Wednesday after learning that two convicted criminals were running the business.
Paul Pelosi Jr., the son of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), was the president and chief operating officer of Natural Blue Resources Inc., an investment company he co-founded that focuses on “environmentally-friendly” ventures.
The SEC charged four individuals with fraud, including former New Mexico Gov. Toney Anaya, and suspended trading in the company's stock. Pelosi owned over 10 million shares in the company in 2009.
he SEC said Wednesday the company was “secretly controlled” by James E. Cohen and Joseph Corazzi, both of whom had previous fraud convictions.
[…]
The SEC suspended trading in Natural Blue stock. A notice filed in the Federal Register on Wednesday by Jill M. Peterson, assistant secretary of the SEC, revealed that the company has not filed any periodic reports, which are required by law, with the SEC in four years.
“It appears to the Securities and Exchange Commission that there is a lack of current and accurate information concerning the securities of Natural Blue Resources, Inc. because it has not filed any periodic reports since the period ended September 30, 2010,” Peterson said, in the order announcing suspension of trading.
The Free Beacon reported that Pelosi was still listed with The New Mexico Office of the Secretary of State Business Service Division as the president of Natural Blue at the time it filed the report.
The New Mexico Office of the Secretary of State Business Service Division had designated Natural Blue as a company “not in good standing.”
How do corrupt people like this get into congress?
02-12-09
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appointed Somali Congressmuslim Ilhan Omar to the Foreign Affairs Committee
01-29-09
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's home district includes San Francisco.
Star-Kist Tuna's headquarters are in San Francisco, Pelosi's home district.
Star-Kist is owned by Del Monte Foods and is a major contributor to Pelosi.
Star-Kist is the major employer in American Samoa employing 75% of the Samoan work force.
Paul Pelosi, Nancy's husband, owns $17 million dollars of Star-Kist stock.
In January, 2007 when the minimum wage was increased from $5.15 to $7.25, Pelosi had American Samoa exempted from the increase so Del Monte would not have to pay the higher wage. This would make Del Monte products less expensive than their competition's.
Last week when the huge bailout bill was passed, Pelosi added an earmark to the final bill adding $33 million dollars for an ‘economic development credit in American Samoa’.
Pelosi has called the Bush Administration “CORRUPT”? How do you spell “HYPOCRISY”?
EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD GET THIS E-MAIL. IT IS ENOUGH TO MAKE A HOLY PERSON ANGRY ENOUGH TO GO THROW THEM ALL OUT ON THEIR BEHINDS.
Pelosi,
Obama Hawaiian Vacations Come to an End, But Taxpayers Left with the Bill
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN
– Nancy Pelosi’s final days as previous Speaker of the House were spent at the exotic Four Seasons Resort Hualalai at Historic Ka’upulehu in Kona on the island of Hawaii.
Escorted throughout her trip by a mini security motorcade that included Secret Service and Hawaii County Police officers, Pelosi was seen at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Kailua-Kona, where she received Communion. Parishioners greeted her warmly, Hawaii Reporter was told. Two police SUVs were on guard outside the hotel during her week long stay.
Pelosi, who traveled to Hawaii by private plane, spent the holidays in Kona last year at the same hotel in an elaborate suite that reportedly rents for $10,000 a night.
The Four Seasons Resort Hualalai’s details its luxurious setting and amenities on its web site: “Gloriously revitalized, this natural tropical paradise offers more than ever to explore – with a newly expanded Spa, beach front dining, fashion boutiques and new Deluxe Suites, in addition to Jack Nicklaus signature golf. Set on the Big Island’s exclusive Kona-Kohala Coast, this showpiece resort captures the essence of Hawaiian design, culture and tradition.”
Pelosi has her share of allies in Hawaii, including Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie, who she defended during his successful campaign for governor in 2010. Pelosi, a Democrat who will be replaced as House Speaker by GOP Congressman John Boehner in a matter of days, served in
Congress with Abercrombie. When Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Mufi Hannemann claimed during the primary that Abercrombie was not effective in Congress, Pelosi issued a statement calling Abercrombie
“outstanding, effective and courageous.”
01-07-11
“Hawaii Reporter” has requested information from the Police on taxpayers’ costs to guard her. Last year, Hawaii county taxpayers paid more than $21,000.
This year, the county estimates have not yet been provided to “Hawaii Reporter”; the request is pending. However, the Hawaii Police Department does not release the number of police officers escorting Pelosi, how many hours they dedicated to Pelosi’s security detail, or whether they were being pulled from other duties. No figures could be obtained for her Secret Service escorts.
Laura Loomer Brings Illegal Immigrants To Nancy Pelosi's Home. Pelosi Has Police Remove Them.
Freelance journalist Nick Monroe reported that Pelosi - who has been unwavering in her opposition to funding the Southern Border wall, which she's declared an "immorality" - personally ordered police to remove the migrants from her property.
personally ordered police to remove the migrants from her property.
Judicial Watch: Documents Detail Nancy Pelosi's $185,000 CODEL to Italy and Ukraine in 2015
Total Air Force Expenses $184,587.81
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it obtained documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Air Force detailing $134,587.81 plus $50,000 for an advance of funds for an “escort officer” for a total of $184.587.81 for then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) Congressional delegation (CODEL) to Italy and Ukraine in 2015.
Newsom has four young children with his second wife, film-maker Jennifer Siebel Newsom. Newsom's aunt was married to Ron Pelosi, the brother-in-law of Nancy Pelosi.
Eight elite San Francisco families funded Gavin Newsom's political ascent. A coterie of San Francisco's wealthiest families has backed him at every step of his political rise, which in November which lead to his election as governor of California.
Eight elite San Francisco families funded Gavin Newsom
12-29-18
Nancy Pelosi was asked about the murder of Officer Singh and she replied, “no comment”
The leader of the democrat party refuses to condemn a cop killer because he's an illegal immigrant. Why am I not surprised?
October 17, 2018
Nancy Pelosi Rejects Borders, Saying Trump Wants a Wall Due to a ‘Manhood Issue.’
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi said in an interview that building a border wall is expensive, ineffective and “not something people do between countries.” She went on to state that Trump”s proposed border wall was a “manhood issue.” However, Nancy Pelosi lives in the prestigious Presidio Terrace neighborhood in San Francisco behind a guarded gate.
Nancy Pelosi lives in the prestigious Presidio Terrace neighborhood in San Francisco behind a guarded gate
In the 2018 midterm elections, the Democrats won control of the House. Afterward, when the 116th Congress convened on January 3, 2019, Pelosi was elected Speaker for the second time, becoming the first former speaker to return to the post since Sam Rayburn in 1955.
In Her Own Words
“You don't need God anymore, you have us democrats.” Nancy Pelosi in 2006.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said of the Affordable Care Act, in 2010: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it. — away from the fog of the controversy.” Although the last part is often left off, it is still and idiotic statement, a quote still defended by pelosi and the left. It is true that the bill was so large and complicated and it was being rammed through by obama and the left, that no one was able to read it before it was voted on. Something obama specifically promised would never happen in his campaign for the presidency.
“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it..”
By the way, passing something before you can see what it is, is the definition of a stool sample.
Good luck finding this quote, I do remember her saying it however: (something like): In regards to people losing jobs under the obama administration “it will give them the opportunity to find a ‘new’ job.”
Remember her remark that the diseases the immigrants are bringing to this country (that is never mentioned on any major news outlet) was a good thing because it allowed our doctors to study them? She said that or something very similar but good luck finding that with our liberal biased search engines.
Pelosi the HYPOCRITE
It appears that some of the politicians who jumped to the defense of Jussie Smollett, the “Empire” actor who now faces allegations of making a false hate crime report, might have some explaining to do.
There are now reports that Smollett may have taken part in an alleged hate crime hoax to both make supporters of President Donald Trump look bad and give his career a boost.
Pelosi wasn't the only politician who tweeted outrage and support for Smollett, she was just the only one to delete her original statement.
A House GOP aide confirmed to The Hill that one of the amendments set to be unveiled Tuesday evening is dubbed the “Pelosi Provision”, and would restrict members of Congress from gaining special access to initial public offerings of stock. ☠ ☠ My question is, why in hell do they even have “special access” it the first place?
A 5,000-share Visa stock purchase she made with her husband as the House was considering credit card regulations. She made a “killing” off the highly sought-after initial public offering. The stock holdings more than doubled in a few weeks; the credit card regulations were put on ice somewhere in the back of Pelosi's refrigerator. Then, as Speaker of the house {read here, inside information} bought between $50,000 and $100,000 of stock in Pickens CLNE Corp. in May 2007 on the day of the initial public offering. As I reported in a column three years ago, Pelosi's 2007 financial disclosure form listed “assets and ‘unearned income’ of between $100,001-$250,000 from Clean Energy Fuels Corp. _ Public Common Stock.” If the natural gas giveaway passes, Pelosi profits.
‘60 Minutes’ Uncovers Pelosi’s Insider Stock Trades, By Newsmax Wires | Sunday, 13 November 2011
Did members of Congress exempt themselves from complying with the health care reform laws? January 16th, 2013
Pelosi Tries to Extend $137,000 Tax Break for Two of Her Multi-Million-Dollar Homes Congress's wealthiest woman plays the tax game too: Pelosi rushed to pre-pay property taxes after decrying GOP tax overhaul as middle-class tax hike and corporate giveaway
Friday, 15 November 2013 Reid, Pelosi — If ObamaCare”s So “Wonderful” Why Aren”t YOU Joining?
May 26, 2017 | 9:55 AM EDT
Pelosi Complains Trump's Trip Wasn't Even
“Alphabetical”
On Thursday, House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) questioned President Donald Trump's failure to visit countries in alphabetical order.
Asked at a press conference to comment on Trump's trip abroad, Pelosi expressed concern that Trump didn't start with Canada (with the letter “C”) like previous presidents:
“I thought it was unusual for the President of the United States to go to Saudi Arabia first. Saudi Arabia?” Pelosi said.
“It wasn't even alphabetical. I mean, Saudi Arabia.”
September 23, 2013
“I don't think [Obama’s] Ever Done Anything For Political Reasons”
“ ObamaCare Is Lowering Costs And The Deficit”
“Just because they are illegal doesn't mean they have done anything wrong.”
“Unemployment means you have this wonderful chance to explore a new occupation.”
Dem Hakeem Jeffries: Pelosi Is a ‘Legislative Mastermind’
Pelosi: Trump's Whole Thing Is “Make America White Again”. 12 Aug 2018,
Democrat hits Pelosi over ‘make America white again’ comment ... Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WVa., criticized House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for her response to President Trump's immigration plan that she called a blue print to “make America white again.”
Pelosi: Mitch McConnell Does Not Call Out Trump”s Racism Because of His Own, 12 Aug 2018
WaPo Columnist: Republicans Attack Nancy Pelosi Because She Is a Woman, 12 Aug 2018
?? Trump: Nancy Pelosi ‘Should Definitely Be Given a 4th Chance”, 10 Aug 2018
House Dem torches Pelosi as ‘aloof, frenetic and misguided ... A Democratic congressman from New York state torched Nancy Pelosi this week, calling her aloof, frenetic and misguided, as he joined a growing group of rebel Democrats who say they won't back the Californian for another term as the party's leader in the House.
Kim Jong Un More Popular Than Pelosi Among Republicans ... And yet Pelosi isn't the most unpopular member of Congress.
“Refugees from Terrorist Countries Have a ‘RIGHT’ to Come to America.”
According to ‘I Have The Truth,’ Pelosi is claiming that the best way to keep America safe is to bring unvetted Islamic refugees into our country(?)…
According to PolitiStick ‘During her CNN Town Hall on Tuesday night, House Democrat minority leader Nancy Pelosi told a questioner asking how she planned to keep America safe that refugees coming from terrorist countries have a ‘right’ to come to America.
According to Chicks On the Right, “As far as sanctuary cities is concerned, our city of San Francisco is a sanctuary city. And we see it as a place where it makes us safer. It makes us safer because people can go to school, get driver’s license[s]- they can be witnesses against other violence they see in the community,” she said.
What can you do for ‘dreamers’ who fear they will be separated from their families?
February 7, 2017 During a press conference on Monday, Nancy Pelosi thought George W. Bush was still the president. The video of it was pulled by the liberal media.
February 1, 2017 12:22pm Nancy Pelosi held a town hall last night, and it was chock-full of stupid. She said sanctuary cities make us all safer. That particular file seems to be gone.
It gets worse. Pelosi actually spoke with a mother whose son was killed by an illegal immigrant. Pelosi tried to pretend to care, but a phony looks doubly so when they try to act phony.
Pelosi Votes Against Tax Cut for the U.S., Pushes $137,000 Tax Cut for Herself
A review of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's financial records appears to suggest that the real reason she voted against the GOP's tax reform bill last month was not to protect working class Americans, as she claimed, but to protect her own interests.
According to The Washington Free Beacon, Pelosi's records show that she owns three multi-million-dollar homes, two of which are in liberal California. Moreover, the combined 2017 property tax bill for these homes was reportedly $137,000.
This brings us to the tax reform bill that the GOP-led House and Senate passed in mid-December and President Donald Trump signed promptly afterward.
Pelosi got her training from her father
The answer is, her iron fisted daddy and some of his friends.
Her daddy was Thomas "Big Tommy" D'Alesandro, Jr., a five term Democrat US Congressman from Maryland and three term Mayor of Baltimore for whom I gofered for a time while in high school.
D'Alesandro wanted to be Governor of Maryland, but had to get out of the 1954 race after revelations he had received undeclared money from a business man convicted of fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
The friends of "Big Tommy" included the man who got him elected mayor, Maryland political kingpin James H. "Jack" Pollack. Pollack was a former prizefighter.
Pollack became a bootlegger and street enforcer who was arrested multiple times for payoffs, bribery, corruption and a murder. That charge never went to trial because the case file disappeared. At the height of his power, Pollack raised the dead to vote, lined voter's pockets with "walking around money" and held sway over Maryland's legislature. The New York Times noted that Pollack "would stand in the hallways of Annapolis literally controlling the General Assembly through his handpicked henchmen." One of those was his own son, "Morty." Jack would much later help the oldest son of "Big Tommy" become Baltimore's mayor.
Mangano answered to Lucchese mobster Frankie Carbo, a former Murder, Inc killer.
Carbo was a "constant companion" of Mayor "Big Tommy," in addition to other known mobsters, according to FBI reports obtained via the Freedom of Information Act.
Organized crime cannot exist without public corruption, and for decades the Mafia operated as the fourth branch of government in many cities. United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi often recounts learning about politics as a little girl during the 1950s when her father Thomas D'Alesandro ran the Democratic machine in Baltimore, Maryland. D'Alesandro was a Congressman for five terms from 1938 to 1947, and Baltimore mayor for three terms from 1947 to 1959. The Honorable D'Alesandro allegedly was a 'constant companion' of notorious mobster Benjamin 'Benny Trotta' Magliano and other underworld figures according to the FBI file on the old-school politician. The mob ties and other corruption allegations against Mayor D'Alesandro curiously have remained absent in the accounts by Speaker Pelosi about her political family.
Nancy Pelosi's husband buys land with federal grants for a high speed rail system from Sacramento to San diego. Land he couldn't buy was stolen via eminent domain. Pelosi's husband sell's the land purchased with federal funds to Diane Feinstein's husband who got federal grant funds to purchase the land from Pelosi's husband. Then he sells the land to the actual developer of the High Speed rail system who purchased it with federal grants. The people of California and the United States purchased the land 3 time making millions of dollars for both the Pelosi and Feinstein families.
This appears to have been a text message via cell phone initially
Pelosi's disclosure belated in husband's land deal
The Washington Times Front Page
February 5, 2021By Chuck Neubauer - The Washington Times - Monday, October 10, 2011
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's husband, a real estate developer and investment banker, stands to make millions of dollars in a previously undisclosed residential real estate project in California as a partner with the father of a woman Mrs. Pelosi helped become ambassador to Hungary, records show.
Paul F. Pelosi's investment in Russell Ranch is worth at least $5 million and possibly as much as $25 million in a deal put together by his friend and longtime business associate, Angelo Tsakopoulos, patriarch of a multimillion-dollar real estate development firm, according to Mrs. Pelosi's latest personal-disclosure statement.
Mr. Pelosi said in an email from his wife's spokesman that initially he invested between $1 million and $5 million in the project a dozen years ago, although its value has shot up recently as the undeveloped land moves closer to being annexed by a nearby city. He said the Russell Ranch investment had increased in value less than 5 percent per year over the last dozen years.
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Washington Free Beacon
Pelosi Subsidies Benefit Husband's Investment in Dem Mega-Donor's Company
CEO donated to Pelosi, bundled for Obama, as Dem leader boosted his real estate holdings
Lachlan Markay - August 15, 2014 12:00 PM
The top Democrat in the House of Representatives steered more than a billion dollars in subsidies to a light rail project that benefitted a company run by a high-dollar Democratic donor and in which her husband is a major investor.
When cloud computing giant Salesforce sold a large plot of land to the Golden State Warriors in April, it had House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) to thank for helping to swell real estate prices in the area.
Pelosi has worked for more than a decade to steer taxpayer funds to a light rail project in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood, where Salesforce had planned a new campus. Experts say the project boosted the value of Mission Bay real estate.
The company's CEO, Marc Benioff, is a high-dollar Democratic donor. Pelosi and her leadership PAC are among the recipients of his generous campaign contributions. Pelosi's husband is also a major Salesforce investor.
Pelosi's tireless advocacy for federal support for San Francisco's light rail system has come under scrutiny for potentially enriching another liberal billionaire, hedge fund manager Tom Steyer.
In Salesforce's case, Pelosi's work appears to have financially benefitted not just a Democratic mega-donor, but also a company in which Pelosi's direct family owns a large stake as well as valuable real estate holdings in her husband's portfolio.
Salesforce paid $278 million for 14 acres in Mission Bay in 2010. It bought the land from a group called Alexandria Real Estate Equities, which had purchased it from FOCIL-MB, a division of Democratic financier Tom Steyer's hedge fund.
The exact dollar figure of its sale to the Warriors was not released. "We paid a very pretty penny," the team's co-owner said.
Real estate values in Mission Bay have skyrocketed over the past decade as the city works to transform the former industrial neighborhood.
"From a decrepit and seemingly abandoned old rail yard 15 years ago, Mission Bay has sprouted into San Francisco's fastest-growing neighborhood," the San Francisco Business Times reported last year.
San Francisco real estate is some of the most expensive in the nation, and Mission Bay has seen some of the fastest-growing property values in the city in recent years.
Contributing to that rise has been the expansion of the city's Third Street Light Rail line. Studies on the financial effects of public transit projects, including one that looked specifically at the Third Street expansion, have found that they increase property values in surrounding areas.
Pelosi has been the expansion's champion at the federal level. Since 2003, she has secured well over a billion dollars for the project in the form of earmarks, federal funding agreements, and stimulus disbursements.
That work has come under scrutiny since it was revealed that Farallon was a major landholder in Mission Bay as Pelosi, a recipient of Steyer campaign contributions and an ally of the billionaire environmentalist, steered taxpayer money to the light rail extension.
A 2004 real estate deal gave Farallon ownership of roughly two million square feet of commercial space in Mission Bay. Salesforce's planned campus in the area was a bit smaller, but still significant: according to documents submitted to San Francisco Planning Department, its four buildings would have comprised nearly 1.5 million square feet.
An increase in value of Salesforce's real estate from 2010 to its sale this year would mean a financial gain for the company and its investors, one of whom is Pelosi's husband.
According to her most recent personal financial disclosures, filed in May of this year, Paul Pelosi owns a stake in Salesforce worth between $500,000 and $1 million.
Pelosi first invested in the company in 2000, when he purchased between $15,000 and $50,000 in stock. According to financial news service Motley Fool, "Pelosi seems to have acquired shares in a private offering" prior to the company's 2004 initial public offering.
Its stock has soared since then. It debuted at $3.75 a share on June 23, 2004. As of Thursday, it was trading near $53.
Pelosi's office did not respond to questions about whether that might constitute a conflict of interest.
The Democratic leader's investments in companies with business before the House came under intense scrutiny in 2011 and 2012 when Congress debated measures governing "insider trading" by members of Congress.
An eventual law imposing stricter regulations on members financial activities even included language informally dubbed the "Pelosi provision" due to her and her husband's participation in IPOs of companies actively lobbying for or against federal legislation.
Much of the information and Pelosi's and other members' "insider trading" came to light in Hoover Institution fellow Peter Schweizer's book Throw Them All Out, which investigated cronyism and self-serving financial deals by members of Congress.
In addition to his reporting on Pelosi's IPO participation, Schweizer revealed that her husband owns property in San Francisco that will likely benefit from the Third Street light rail extension.
Two stops on the extended light rail line are about three blocks from a four-story office building owned by Paul Pelosi.
According to disclosure forms, the property, at 45 Belden Place, is worth between $1 million and $5 million. He made between $100,000 and $1 million in rent from the property last year.
"The National Association of Realtors says that high-quality mass transit (like [the Third Street light rail]) can increase property values by ‘over 150 percent,’" Schweizer noted. "There's a sweet spot for obtaining the maximum transit premium: two to four blocks away is ideal."
That was roughly the distance from Salesforce's planned campus to a Mission Bay stop on the light rail line as well.
In addition to the potential financial benefits of that "transit premium" for investors such as Pelosi, the light rail extension worked to the advantage of Salesforce itself. The company, which would not say whether it realized a gain on its sale to the Warriors, is helmed by a high-dollar Democratic donor.
CEO Marc Benioff bundled half-a-million dollars for President Barack Obama's reelection campaign. He has donated an additional $300,000 to Democratic candidates, party organs, and interest groups, according to data compiled by CQ Moneyline.
Benioff is more bipartisan in his contributions than many prominent Obama supporters, but his Democratic donations dwarf the $62,000 he's given to Republicans.
Among the most recent recipients of Benioff contrubtions is Pelosi, to whom the Salesforce CEO maxed out with two $2,500 contributions on Jan. 31 of last year. He gave another $5,000 to Pelosi's leadership PAC and $15,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee the same day.
Those contributions came just four months after Pelosi secured $967 million in federal funding for the Third Street light rail project.
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San Fran Billion $$ Deal Helps Husband Make Millions—From YOUR Taxes
August 15, 2014 By Stephen Frank
Pelosi Subsidies Benefit Husband's Investment in Dem Mega-Donor's Company
CEO donated to Pelosi, bundled for Obama, as Dem leader boosted his real estate holdings
BY: Lachlan Markay, Washington Free Beacon, 8/15/14
The top Democrat in the House of Representatives steered more than a billion dollars in subsidies to a light rail project that benefitted a company run by a high-dollar Democratic donor and in which her husband is a major investor.
When cloud computing giant Salesforce sold a large plot of land to the Golden State Warriors in April, it had House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) to thank for helping to swell real estate prices in the area.
Pelosi has worked for more than a decade to steer taxpayer funds to a light rail project in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood, where Salesforce had planned a new campus. Experts say the project boosted the value of Mission Bay real estate.
The company's CEO, Marc Benioff, is a high-dollar Democratic donor. Pelosi and her leadership PAC are among the recipients of his generous campaign contributions. Pelosi's husband is also a major Salesforce investor.
Pelosi's tireless advocacy for federal support for San Francisco's light rail system has come under scrutiny for potentially enriching another liberal billionaire, hedge fund manager Tom Steyer.
In Salesforce's case, Pelosi's work appears to have financially benefitted not just a Democratic mega-donor, but also a company in which Pelosi's direct family owns a large stake as well as valuable real estate holdings in her husband's portfolio.
Salesforce paid $278 million for 14 acres in Mission Bay in 2010. It bought the land from a group called Alexandria Real Estate Equities, which had purchased it from FOCIL-MB, a division of Democratic financier Tom Steyer's hedge fund.
The exact dollar figure of its sale to the Warriors was not released. “We paid a very pretty penny,” the team's co-owner said.
Real estate values in Mission Bay have skyrocketed over the past decade as the city works to transform the former industrial neighborhood.
“From a decrepit and seemingly abandoned old rail yard 15 years ago, Mission Bay has sprouted into San Francisco's fastest-growing neighborhood,” the San Francisco Business Times reported last year.
San Francisco real estate is some of the most expensive in the nation, and Mission Bay has seen some of the fastest-growing property values in the city in recent years.
Contributing to that rise has been the expansion of the city's Third Street Light Rail line. Studies on the financial effects of public transit projects, including one that looked specifically at the Third Street expansion, have found that they increase property values in surrounding areas.
Pelosi has been the expansion's champion at the federal level. Since 2003, she has secured well over a billion dollars for the project in the form of earmarks, federal funding agreements, and stimulus disbursements.
That work has come under scrutiny since it was revealed that Farallon was a major landholder in Mission Bay as Pelosi, a recipient of Steyer campaign contributions and an ally of the billionaire environmentalist, steered taxpayer money to the light rail extension.
A 2004 real estate deal gave Farallon ownership of roughly two million square feet of commercial space in Mission Bay. Salesforce's planned campus in the area was a bit smaller, but still significant: according to documents submitted to San Francisco Planning Department, its four buildings would have comprised nearly 1.5 million square feet.
An increase in value of Salesforce's real estate from 2010 to its sale this year would mean a financial gain for the company and its investors, one of whom is Pelosi's husband.
According to her most recent personal financial disclosures [pelosi-pfd.pdf], filed in May of this year, Paul Pelosi owns a stake in Salesforce worth between $500,000 and $1 million.
Pelosi first invested in the company in 2000, when he purchased between $15,000 and $50,000 in stock. According to financial news service Motley Fool, “Pelosi seems to have acquired shares in a private offering” prior to the company's 2004 initial public offering.
Its stock has soared since then. It debuted at $3.75 a share on June 23, 2004. As of Thursday, it was trading near $53.
Pelosi's office did not respond to questions about whether that might constitute a conflict of interest.
The Democratic leader's investments in companies with business before the House came under intense scrutiny in 2011 and 2012 when Congress debated measures governing “insider trading” by members of Congress.
An eventual law imposing stricter regulations on members' financial activities even included language informally dubbed the “Pelosi provision” due to her and her husband's participation in IPOs of companies actively lobbying for or against federal legislation.
Much of the information and Pelosi's and other members' “insider trading” came to light in Hoover Institution fellow Peter Schweizer's book Throw Them All Out, which investigated cronyism and self-serving financial deals by members of Congress.
In addition to his reporting on Pelosi's IPO participation, Schweizer revealed that her husband owns property in San Francisco that will likely benefit from the Third Street light rail extension.
Two stops on the extended light rail line are about three blocks from a four-story office building owned by Paul Pelosi.
According to disclosure forms, the property, at 45 Belden Place, is worth between $1 million and $5 million. He made between $100,000 and $1 million in rent from the property last year.
“The National Association of Realtors says that high-quality mass transit (like [the Third Street light rail]) can increase property values by ‘over 150 percent,’” Schweizer noted. “There's a sweet spot for obtaining the maximum transit premium: two to four blocks away is ideal.”
That was roughly the distance from Salesforce's planned campus to a Mission Bay stop on the light rail line as well.
In addition to the potential financial benefits of that “transit premium” for investors such as Pelosi, the light rail extension worked to the advantage of Salesforce itself. The company, which would not say whether it realized a gain on its sale to the Warriors, is helmed by a high-dollar Democratic donor.
CEO Marc Benioff bundled half-a-million dollars for President Barack Obama's reelection campaign. He has donated an additional $300,000 to Democratic candidates, party organs, and interest groups, according to data compiled by CQ Moneyline.
Benioff is more bipartisan in his contributions than many prominent Obama supporters, but his Democratic donations dwarf the $62,000 he's given to Republicans.
Among the most recent recipients of Benioff contrubtions is Pelosi, to whom the Salesforce CEO maxed out with two $2,500 contributions on Jan. 31 of last year. He gave another $5,000 to Pelosi's leadership PAC and $15,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee the same day.
Those contributions came just four months after Pelosi secured $967 million in federal funding for the Third Street light rail project.
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Paul Pelosi, Nancy's Husband: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
By Effie Orfanides
Updated Jan 18, 2019 at 5:13pm
Nancy Pelosi has been married for more than 50 years. Her husband, Paul Pelosi, is a wealthy businessman from San Francisco. He and Nancy have five children and eight grandchildren together.
1. He Owns a San Francisco Investment Firm
Paul Pelosi owns and operates Financial Leasing Services, a real estate and venture capital investment firm based in San Francisco, California.
According to San Francisco Gate, Paul Pelosi lives and works in San Francisco, but he spends about a week each month with his wife Nancy in Washington, D.C. According to National Review, Nancy and Paul's vineyard in California is worth somewhere between $5 million and $25 million.
Paul Pelosi's exact net worth is not known, but in 2014, Nancy reported between $43.4 million and $202 million in assets.
2. He Has Invested in Apple, Disney & Facebook
He also invested about $10 million in the United Football League, a football league that began in 2009 but ended in 2012. He owned the Sacramento Mountain Lions football team. According to Politico, Paul lost up to $5 million on his football investments.
In 2013, Paul and Nancy's wealth rose by about $4 million thanks to their investments in Russell Ranch LLC, a real estate company in California, according to The Hill.
3. He & Nancy Have Participated in Many Initial Public Offerings
In 2011, 60 Minutes aired a piece detailing Paul and Nancy Pelosi's participation in initial public offerings while having access to insider information. One example the report goes into is the fact that Nancy and Paul profited from an initial public offering from Visa at the same time regulations on the credit card industry were being considered in Congress. In total, 60 Minutes reported that Nancy and Paul participated in at least eight IPOs.
This was not illegal because, at the time, insider trading laws did not apply to members of Congress.
“… Insider trading on the stock market. If you are a member of Congress, those laws are deemed not to apply,” The Hoover Institution's Peter Schweizer told Newsmax. “The fact is, if you sit on a healthcare committee and you know that Medicare, for example, is — is considering not reimbursing for a certain drug that's market moving information. And if you can trade stock on — off of that information and do so legally, that's a great profit making opportunity. And that sort of behavior goes on.”
In 2012, Congress passed the STOCK Act (Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge), which was aimed at stopping insider trading among members of Congress. House Republicans pushed for an amendment to restrict members of Congress from receiving special access to initial public offerings, and they referred to that as the “Pelosi provision,” according to The Hill.
4. He Tries to Maintain a Low Profile But Frequently Stands in for Nancy at Fundraisers
Paul Pelosi said in 2004 that he has very consciously tried to keep a low profile and stay out of the world of politics.
“I've made a conscious effort to not be involved or give the appearance of being involved in her political career,” he said, according to SFGate. “People should realize that she's the one.”
However, he was very much involved in his wife's first election in 1986; that year, Nancy ran for the House of Representatives to represent California's 5th district.
“He was very helpful in the campaign and helped raise the money,” Clint Reilly, Nancy Pelosi's campaign consultant, told SFGate. “He took an interest in how the campaign was being run … and attended meetings with me to make sure the campaign was on the right track.”
SFGate also reports that Paul frequently appears at campaign events in California and that “If he's in the room, it's about like Nancy is in the room. He's a very effective surrogate.”
5. He Has 5 Kids With His Wife
Nancy and P aul Pelosi have five children together; Nancy Corinne, Christine, Jacqueline, Paul, and Alexandra.
Christine Pelosi is a Democratic strategist who has worked for the California Democratic Party and who served as chief of staff to California Representative John F. Tierney. She has also been a Superdelegate at the Democratic National Convention.
Paul Pelosi Jr. is an investor and co-founder of Natural Blue Resources, which in 2014 was charged with securities fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to Free Beacon. Pelosi was no longer working with the company by that point.
Alexandra Pelosi is a journalist and documentary filmmaker who directed the films Diary of a Political Tourist and Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi, both of which aired on HBO.
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Richard Blum, the husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein, obtained a contract to broker sales of USPS facilities, but not due to his wife's influence.
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To the surprise of absolutely no one familiar with the ways of Corruptifornia, the one-party state completely in the hands of the Democrats, a consortium whose lead firm is controlled by Richard Blum, husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, was awarded a nearly billion-dollar contract for the construction of the first phase of the so-called high-speed rail line to link San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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"Nancy Pelosi's husband buys land with federal grants for a high speed rail system from San Diego to Sacramento. Land he couldn't buy was stolen via eminent domain. Pelosi sells the land purchased with federal funds to Diane Feinstein's husband who got federal funds to purchase the land from Pelosi's husband.
