The real Nancy Pelosi — multi-millionaire, non-union resort, dining and winery baroness
November 10th, 2006Why doesn’t the LA Times or San Francisco Chronicle write about this? Where is the journalists’ oversight by mainstream media?
It’s up to citizen journalists
By Mick Gregory
Nancy Pelosi’s socialist political views are exactly what have kept her elected in San Francisco, along with the flow of union campaign money. The staunch “union supporter” Pelosi has even received the Cesar Chavez Award from the United Farm Workers Union. But her $25 million Napa vineyards and winery, she and her husband own is a non-union shop.
The hypocrisy doesn’t stop there. Pelosi has received more money from the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union than any other member of Congress in recent election cycles.
The multi-millionaire investors own a large stake in an exclusive resort hotel in Wine Country, the Napa Valley Auberge Du Soleil Resort. It has more than 250 employees. But none of them are in a union, according to Peter Schweizer, author of “Do As I Say, (Not As I Do) – Hypocrisy of Democrats” and a regular contributor to the New York Times.
Pelosi is also partners in a restaurant chain called Piatti, which has 900 employees. The chain is – you might have guessed — a non-union shop.
The 68-year-old Pelosi has spent more money on facelifts and cosmetic enhancements, and Armani suits than any self-centered, faded Hollywood star. But does Pelosi represent your 68-year-old grandma’s values?
She has served on the executive committee of the Progressive Caucus, a socialist organization that, until 1999, was hosted by the Democratic Socialists Of America. They were asked to hide their connection after reviewing focus groups that show Americans still have negative feelings about Socialists. The Democrat leadership distanced themselves on paper to help the Democrats appear mainstream and elect Albert Gore.
In an address she delivered in 2002, she remarked, “We must stand together in a bipartisan way to fight the war against terrorism.” Though she supported the Clinton Administration’s military actions and massive civilian deaths in Haiti, Kosovo, and Bosnia, she has denounced both the 1991-02 and 2004-06 wars in Iraq. Pelosi has also opposed President George W. Bush on most issues of Homeland Security, and has most recently joined the ACLU’s crusade to limit the powers of the Patriot Act.
Ms. Pelosi’s Voting History
Cutting Intelligence $500 million FOR
$87 billion for Iraq and
Afghanistan operations AGAINST
Patriot Act AGAINST
Bush Income Tax Cuts AGAINST
Eliminating Marriage Penalty AGAINST
Capital Gains and
Dividends Tax Cuts AGAINST
Permanent Increased
Child Tax Credit AGAINST
Abolishing the Death Tax AGAINST
Clinton Energy Tax FOR
Allowing New Oil Refineries AGAINST
Oil Drilling in ANWR AGAINST
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban AGAINST
Arming Pilots Against Terrorism Act AGAINST
Federal Marriage Amendment AGAINST
Limiting Federal Courts’
Jurisdiction on Defense of
Marriage Act AGAINST
Sensenbrenner Border Protection
and Illegal Immigration Bill AGAINST
700 Miles of Fence on
Mexican Border AGAINST
Source: Human Events.