Posted on 12/29/2011 5:08:22 AM PST by markomalley
Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of House Minority Leader and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, told Big Government this week that her mother wants to leave Congress–and that she remains in Washington only at the behest of her campaign donors.
During a telephone interview, Ms. Pelosi–speaking from a friend’s home in New York City–described her mother’s predicament:
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. 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 revelation is significant, given that her mother pushed to serve as Minority Leader after the Democrats’ historic losses in the 2010 midterm elections, and that many Democrats–including President Barack Obama–are campaigning on the expectation that she will be restored as Speaker if they can retake the House in 2012.
Alexandra Pelosi, 41, is a television producer and documentarian who won multiple Emmy awards for her work on Journeys with George (2002), an HBO documentary on George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign. The film was widely hailed as fair in its depiction of a president not used to sympathetic media portrayals.
In speaking to Big Government, Pelosi–who was polite and friendly throughout–also criticized CNN anchor Anderson Cooper:
Look, you guys are journalists, so you do what you have to do. I could give you chapter and verse on what’s going on in the media–and I’m not talking about Andrew Breitbart, I’m talking about Anderson Cooper–so as long as you guys tell the truth, just write whatever you want, and feel free to call me anytime.
In a follow-up exchange text message, Pelosi elaborated on her remarks about Cooper:
I make television-i know about editing! I worked at NBC for 10 years+ 11 for 11 – I edit for a living. I just I know for a fact that 60 minutes and cnn have edited NP [Nancy Pelosi] out of context! XO, A
Minority Leader Pelosi’s departure would make room for her deputy and former rival, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), who currently serves as Minority Whip.
Hoyer is widely seen as more moderate than Pelosi. She opposed his election to the party leadership in 2006, choosing instead to back the late Rep. Jack Murtha (D-PA), despite his ethical challenges.
Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out ....
Will she head west, like the Indians used to do?
Only problem is.....how does Congressman Sean Penn sound to ya?
It would be nice for her to stay in a Federal Facility for the rest of her natural life. May she have no less than what is given to Bernie Madoff.
She’s in her seventies. Most of the jerks in Congress should have retired years ago.
Not guilty.
yes let’s talk a little more about her kickbacks, errr, i mean, stock trades.......
She has her mother’s good looks.
A few years ago I remember seeing Alexandra Pelosi being interviewed on TV. Think it was Hannity. I found her in that interview to be surprisingly likable, given her thoroughly despicable, contemptible mother.
What, so she can sit back and gloat over having helped destroy ours?
That's her contribution to mankind?
Nancy Pelosi, rot in hell.
Is that a recent issue?
So in other words shes “beholden to the special interests”?
But of course! It’s only natural to want to get out while the getting’s good. One can only risk one’s ill-gotten gains for just so long. Getting out before the investigations start makes sense for criminals like this corrupt old baggage.
Your mother deserves the warmth and security of one cracked mirror and one dangling light bulb in a 9 x 6 prison cell and nothing more.
Just goes to show how much more tiring it is to have to travel with the common mob instead of being 2nd in the succession line and kowtowed to by everyone else.
Of course the fact that she had 4 years of spending nirvana and power only to see this heaven ripped from her with almost no hope of regaining it in 2012 must really suck rocks for her. Now she must stand to the microphones and claim with her botox face that unemployment increases jobs!
To quote Oliver Cromwell; “You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”
It is nice to see someone have such compassion for political donors!
Typical micro-manger,narcissistic, lefties like Nancy Pelosi actually believe society would disintegrate without THEIR wisdom,knowledge and expertise.
“She has very few days left. She’s 71”
Under her charge, many babies didn’t get to see their first birthdays.
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