Pelosi Visits Hometown on Victory Tour [The Queen Bee's victory lap.......]

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Pelosi Visits Hometown on Victory Tour

Jan 05 4:00 PM US/Eastern

By KRISTEN WYATT Associated Press Writer

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Newly elected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took a victory lap Friday through Baltimore, the blue-collar city where she grew up and learned politics from her father, who was mayor in the 1940s and 50s.

Pelosi, surrounded by family members, laid a bouquet of white roses beside a statue of her father, former Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., in the downtown business district.

"It is with great emotion that I come to this spot because I used to visit here every time I came to Baltimore," she said.

Pelosi also planned to visit her childhood home in Baltimore's Little Italy, a tiny, close-knit community of row houses and Italian restaurants just east of the trendy Inner Harbor.

The Baltimore events capped off two days of victory festivities for Pelosi, who was elected the nation's first female speaker Thursday. The events also were designed to counter Republican descriptions of Pelosi as a San Francisco liberal.

Pelosi grew up the youngest of six children, and the only girl.

"We were all born and raised in politics, and we all worked the political scene," recalled Pelosi's oldest brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III, who was also mayor of Baltimore.

The family "had our doors open every day, people coming in looking for jobs, for medical assistance, for housing, to get somebody out of jail," he recalled. Pelosi "had an opportunity at an early age to be exposed to the world of politics at the precinct level, at the constituent level."

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The family "had our doors open every day, people coming in looking for jobs, for medical assistance, for housing, to get somebody out of jail," he recalled.

Out of jail?

[Roscoe Karns]

Hi there! My name is Moby. You may remember me
from such hits as... well, that's not important right now...

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What is important is that Nancy Pelosi and the new congress are going to take down
Chimpy McPretzelBurton and I've been invited to her swearing-in ceremony! I better get dressed......

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Yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking-- the toupee is a bit much. I suppose it does clash
with my inner authenticity a tad, you know- my keepin' it realness, but that's
the point! Fellow artists will get it. So will hip tuned-in pols like Nancy Polosi.

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Or should I just go casual?

[NonValueAdded]

Beware the yellow rain.

[AdvisorB]

Bela Pelosi may have left her heart in San Francisco, but her soul is nostalgically here....

[NEWwoman]

I understand she is one of the richest members in Congress. And the vineyard she owns in California does have union workers.

[NEWwoman]

My bad - does NOT have union workers,.

[Mike Bates]

[Rummyfan]

Dining at Sabatino's or Villegia's just won't be the same now that they've named a street after this communist.

[Rummyfan]

The family "had our doors open every day, people coming in looking for jobs, for medical assistance, for housing, to get somebody out of jail," he recalled.

So if I need a job or medical assistance I can just drop by nancy's office in the District?

[beyond the sea]

The family "had our doors open every day, people coming in looking for jobs, for medical assistance, for housing, to get somebody out of jail

........ appropriate finish

[massgopguy]

Neither do her hotels. But the vineyard workers are most likely Illegal Aliens. It's ironic that United Farm Workers gave her a Ceasar Chavez Award.

[Revolting cat!]

The lady came to Baltimore, and all she wore was lace...

[NEWwoman]

Hotels, too? Didn't know that.
Sound like the old - do what I say, not what I do.

[Calpernia]