Posted on 06/29/2026 5:28:37 AM PDT by Libloather
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who has served nearly 40 years in Congress to become one of its most influential power brokers, on Monday announced who she will take on when she leaves office in January: UC Berkeley students.
The Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy, to be launched with tens of millions of dollars in gifts from Pelosi and other donors, will seek to bring leading scholars to campus, cultivate students’ ambitions for public service, and position itself as a Bay Area counterweight to major university political institutes that frequently attract former members of Congress and White House staff.
Pelosi (D-San Francisco) joins a long tradition of political figures anchored to universities. Harvard’s Institute of Politics, founded in 1966 in memory of President Kennedy, is among the best-known. USC’s Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics carries the name of California’s longtime Assembly speaker. Stanford’s Hoover Institution has housed former secretaries of State and national security advisors for decades.
At a university famous for its role in left-wing activism during the 1960s free speech movement and anti-Vietnam War protests, Pelosi vows to promote a nonpartisan academic endeavor.
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Selling ocean front property in Nebraska or the Dakotas would be a more believable activity.
It’s a Nonpartisan Bolshevik Center for Continuous Struggle Against the Capitalist Running Dogs of the Middle Class.
That’s a “have to see it to believe it” situation, for sure. My guess is that Pelosi’s idea of what is non-partisan bears little resemblance to what actually is non-partisan.
Wouldn’t Nanzi need to be Democratic and coherent? Is she telling Bezerkely they need to build the Institute to see what’s in the Institute?
(snort) That's absolutely hilarious..!
“Nancy lost her behind in the market last year.”
Per Google AI:
“Nancy Pelosi performed very well in the stock market in 2025, with her investment portfolio generating an estimated 18% return and growing by roughly $21.5 million.”
In any event Nancy and her husband are worth over $240M. Money is not her problem.
Ain't it the truth!!! Does the LA Times actually expect me to believe that?
Deposits are Free ,LOL
Even Soviet era Pravda wouldn't try to sell some of the whoppers the US press peddles. .
“Nancy Pelosi’s next challenge: Building a nonpartisan democracy institute at UC Berkeley”
And then her next effort will to prove the Easter Bunny and Sana Clause really exist ... as long as she makes $$$ doing that.
UC Berkeley the place that owned and controlled by the Chinese Communist Party ?
If funding is a problem, the Chinese will be only too happy to lend a hand.
Evil rotten skank should be in jail
The younger democrats are going to have a revolution in the party and the elders will be thrown under the bus.
Is this a joke? April fools day has long passed.
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