I can’t find the pic of him and some other dude holding their wireless vibrator controllers....
Posted on 07/06/2025 6:26:30 AM PDT by DFG
State Senator Scott Wiener, a progressive representing San Francisco who is likely too radical for most moderate Democrats, has decided to run for a seat in the US House of Representatives. This could be a gift to President Donald Trump. He was already handed a halfway-to-Christmas present when self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor, helping the chief executive frame the opposition as dangerous fringe radicals. Now, Wiener’s announcement will probably help the president solidify his argument and seal the deal.
On June 27, Wiener filed paperwork to run for Congress in 2028, when term limits will force him out of his seat in the California legislature. And, in a potentially delicious scenario for Republicans, the seat he is unabashedly eyeing belongs to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
Natural Successor to Pelosi Fiefdom?
“I’ve been clear that I intend to run for this seat whenever the race opens up, whether in 2026 or 2028. This filing is a critical step to prepare for the serious work of running to succeed one of the icons of American politics,” Wiener declared after the filing.
For better or worse, Pelosi has indeed been an icon of Democratic politics in the 21st century, though one baleful glance at the current state of the party following the disastrous 2024 presidential elections speaks volumes. Republicans who see her as one of several key architects of the Democrats’ steep decline from mainstream debate to identity politics hysteria are only too happy to acknowledge her for such status. They would likely enjoy painting Scott Wiener as the inevitable face of a post-Pelosi Democratic Party.
For nearly a decade, Wiener has proven an abject embarrassment to blue partisans seeking to present Democrats as the real party of working-class Americans. A Liberty Nation News article in 2018 titled “San Francisco ‘Values’ Herald the Death of the Democratic Party” prominently featured some of his worst excesses as a state legislator.
Wiener is an in-your-face homosexual rights advocate who in 2024 marched in a San Francisco parade shirtless and clad in leather. “Senator Scott Wiener served a sexy leather daddy look at Folsom Street Fair again,” a headline at LGBTQ national news site The Advocate exclaimed.
Gavin Newsom Gets Wiener Whammied
In 2017, Wiener crafted legislation that lowered penalties for adults having sex with a minor if the age gap is ten or fewer years. The measure applies to children as young as 14. In 2020, he garnered national attention by championing a bill to reduce the criminal punishment for knowingly exposing a sexual partner to HIV without disclosure from a felony to a misdemeanor.
To his unavoidable future political discomfort, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose White House ambitions are undisguised, signed that latter act into law.
In 2023, Wiener did it to him again. He got a bill passed allowing hookers to loiter on the street for purposes of prostitution. Amazingly, Newsom signed it into law. Republicans were quick to pounce all over him for it.
“As predicted, the new policy empowered pimps and hindered efforts to address human trafficking operations,” GOP state Senators Brian W. Jones and Janet Nguyen wrote in a May 2023 op-ed for The San Francisco Chronicle.
Jones and Nguyen revealed the real-world outcome of Newsom’s signature affixed to radical legislation by Wiener.
“A local television station released a video showing sex workers soliciting outside a Catholic school in East Oakland. Concerned parents said this was a regular occurrence outside of the school: ‘It’s every day, during all periods of the day,’” the senators wrote.
Wiener has also long been a steadfast vocal advocate for transgender children. In 2022, he sought to make California a “sanctuary state” for trans kids.
It should go without saying that this is all political catnip for Republicans as the woke excesses of the 2010s and early 2020s are discarded by Americans far more worried these days about being able to afford their groceries.
As Trump and his red allies constantly stress about Democrats, Wiener fundamentally does not grasp that his brand of progressive excess is starkly out of date in America today. His reaction to the anti-US Immigration and Customs Enforcement riots in Los Angeles in June only reinforces this.
“ICE’s escalating paramilitary raids are deeply inhumane and un-American. ICE is targeting workers who make our clothes, build our homes, and grow our food,” he declared in an official statement from his California Senate office.
Wiener’s total failure to understand that the American people see illegal aliens as an unfair economic burden on the middle and working classes is made worse by his leaning on classic Trump Derangement Syndrome histrionics that smack of the laziest go-to quote of some faceless staffer in a now widely reviled Biden administration circa 2021.
“What we’re seeing in Los Angeles – and now other parts of California – is straight up police state fascism,” Wiener asserted. “Trump is a President, bound by the rule of law, but he is acting like a king. He is not a king, and we must fight against his lawless actions. San Francisco stands united with our brothers and sisters in Los Angeles, arm in arm, against Trump’s brutal, fascist tactics.”
The sad truth for Democrats, of course, is that Scott Wiener is not out of their mainstream. He has especially close ties with 2024 party presidential nominee Kamala Harris who, despite her crushing loss in November, remains a clear favorite if she chooses to run for California governor in 2026.
Harris played a crucial role in first electing Wiener to the state Senate in 2016 when her “big endorsement,” as the San Jose Mercury News described it in October of that year, just weeks before Election Day helped tilt a close race his way.
Harris also endorsed his re-election to the state Senate in 2020. “I’ve known and worked with the next Vice President of the United States [Harris] for nearly 20 years,” Wiener wrote in an August 2022 Twitter post. “Kamala Harris also knows me and my work. I’m honored to have Kamala’s endorsement of my reelection to the Senate. So much work lies ahead.”
Learning nothing from the November 2024 national fiasco, there are far too many progressive Democrats in California still eager to see a party attuned to the political vision of a Kamala Harris-Scott Wiener dynamic. Donald Trump and Republicans eager to solidify their current dominant position over the rest of the continental US well into the future wish them godspeed.
Someone who would make Nancy look conservative? Where can I donate to his campaign...Socialism the new face of the Democrats...
I can’t find the pic of him and some other dude holding their wireless vibrator controllers....
Weiner is an absolute scourge on California.
He has pushed through legislation that nulls and voids local zoning laws, making zoning state-controlled.
“New” state-controlled zoning allows multi-family units in single family neighborhoods.
He is all for destroying single family neighborhoods and replacing them with mixed-use Soviet-style block housing, including bonuses to developers for including Section 8 housing.
If his “new” legislation passes, 8-story apartment buildings will be allowed in single-family neighborhoods - as long as a transit stop is within 1/2 mile - reports are coming in that bus stops are being moved so developers can destroy these neighborhoods.
My bet is he’ll be elected - in a landslide - into Pelosi’s old seat.
Wiener is the driving force in CA to destroy traditional single family detached homes, the bedrock of suburban living. He introduced and got passed a law that allows you to demolish a single family home on a quarter acre lot, replace it with TWO homes AND each of those new homes can have an ADU in the backyard! So he is QUADRUPLING housing density in formerly spacious suburbs.
I believe it was Wiener who was instrumental in abolishing city and town residential designs that kept towns harmonious and pretty. It was theoretically in order to build more low income housing.
He is a dangerous man who won’t allow you to live in a nice area. It’s a typical progressive thing — they know best how everybody should live.
**On June 27, Wiener filed paperwork to run for Congress in 2028**
Is it really ‘26? His current seat seat goes to ‘28 but will Nancy last that long? She’s 85 now.
I get it. Plant the seed. He’ll be ready to jump if she decides this is her last term and decides she wants to ‘spend more time’ with Paul.
Which won’t be very surprising at all.
I don’t even want to imagine that.
Me too. I think he will win. Why is this a potentially delicious win?. We are deluding ourselves in thinking all these extremists are an asset to us. In reality millions of people are shifting the democrats towards radical ideas that are starting to become mainstream. Mamdani and this guy are NOT good news.
It’s really needs to be emphasized to people who don’t live here that this man is pure evil. That said, a landslide win? Not so fast. I predict that within two weeks Pelosi will announce her retirement and her daughter will announce. That’s been the succession plan for a while. Pelosi’s machine is powerful and rich. As we all know, she’ll stop at nothing to gain and retain power, and she can bring the weight of the entire national party to bear. I have to give the daughter a strong edge to take Weiner out
A weiner for the weiners of SF?
Also responsible for the legislation that has resulted in near-naked hookers patrolling California streets, with cops enjoined from acting.
And I thought Ammiano was a professional gay.
I hope you are right but I am not optimistic about any politics that goes on in this state (California).
Vote fraud will surely put the daughter into office.
I left out the voter fraud, implicit with that in the money to pay for it. Pelosi has access to unlimited money. I don’t think they’d kill the guy to win the race, but there’s nothing short of that that I’d put past them. I’ve always said that I do t think Pelosi is very smart, but you don’t need to be intelligent to be determined and ruthless
He’s a real piece of work. Imagine what he would try to do in Congress.
“…helping the chief executive frame the opposition as dangerous fringe radicals.”
The problem is a critical mass of Democrats of all stripes no longer see these candidates’ deranged ideologies as fringe radicalism. The Overton window hasn’t just moved, it was blasted into the next county.
Yep, he is a deviant of the highest order, incessantly sponsoring bills that put children at greater risk of assault by homos.
On another note, when you look at what he and his leftist colleagues are promoting how can you not believe that his party promotes sexualizing of children?
BUILD OUR HOMES???? NO THANKS
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