Nancy Pelosi At The HRC Annual Dinner
One of our best hopes going forward for federal LGBT legislation in the Republican controlled House is Nancy Pelosi. As a home town San Franciscan, I know she has done more than most in Congress for the gay community. She is also pro environment. This means in turn she is pro health. The LGBT community faces many health challenges because of our oppression...HIV( where is the cure?), Breast cancer, and stress related disease. All of this is mitigated by clean air, and in general, the curbing of global warming. I am pleased to see Nancy is hanging in and will run for leadership of the Dems in the House to deal with all of these issues, and clean tech job creation as well.
Her quotes here in Playbook/Politico are spot on.
"--NO APOLOGIES -- E.J. Dionne interviewed Pelosi: "[E]verything she said made clear that she's not ready to allow millions of dollars in Republican attack ads to drive her from public life. She wants another crack at winning electoral vindication for a record she believes stands well on the merits. ... Republicans always look for a liberal they can target, she said, and for decades, the choice was the late Edward M. Kennedy. ... 'Now they didn't have him,' she adds. 'To some extent they did this with Mrs. Clinton for a while. ... Now you take a woman and a progressive and you put it together. ... Because I'm effective. ... It's why they had to do it. They had to put a stop to me because we were effective in passing health-care reform, which the health insurance industry wanted to stop; Wall Street reform, which Wall Street wanted to stop; [reforms of] students loans ... I'm one of the most effective fundraisers that the Congress has had . . . because I believe in something. ... What made a difference in the election is the fact that they said we are spending money, and where are the jobs?" "
- Kathleen Connell, M.A.
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