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Pelosi, Harman Have Long History
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In 1998, Jane Harman left the House and spent tens of millions of dollars on a failed bid for governor of California. After that loss, Rep. Nancy Pelosi was one of the first people to encourage Harman to come back to Congress. And why wouldn’t she?
The two women had worked together for years, serving in the House and toiling in the trenches of California Democratic politics. Pelosi even helped recruit Harman to run for Congress in the first place in 1992.
But relations between the pair have soured since Harman returned to the Capitol in 2001, and the feud between her and Pelosi provides a fascinating backdrop to the current controversy that has engulfed Harman — her alleged willingness to intervene in the prosecution of two AIPAC officials in exchange for help in lobbying Pelosi to make Harman Intelligence Committee chair in 2006.
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Pelosi Tells of a Briefing by Officials on Harman
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She also said Ms. Harman was apparently not a target of the surveillance, and insisted that the incident did not factor in her decision to deny her colleague the top post on the House Intelligence Committee after Democrats won the majority in 2006.
That decision is still a source of friction between the two Californians, who are both powerful and wealthy women ....
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Their tussle over the committee post was back in the spotlight this week after reports that Ms. Harman had been secretly recorded agreeing to intercede on behalf of pro-Israel lobbyists, who were under investigation for violations of the Espionage Act, in exchange for help in pressing Ms. Pelosi to give her the intelligence job.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/us/politics/23rivals.html
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Might be ‘insider’ Pelosi bits in coming Newsweek issues. Nanzi, that Botox may yet crack.
My issue was actually with the “quality” part.