Forgive me, this post is a little off topic. But I put up a post the other day on some thread about how much time I spent with Nancy Pelosi when I was a child.
“The stories I could tell,” was my quote. A couple of commenters asked me to expand but time got away from me.
Nancy D’Alesandro’s father was Mayor of Baltimore, so was her brother I think.
My father was a member of Baltimore Carpenter’s union 101. As a side story, one of our favorite things to do was to go to the polling places on election day after 7pm. The electricians somehow, don’t ask me how because I was only 9 years old, zapped the voting machines, setting them all back to zero, for the other guy, again, don’t ask me how but nobody in Baltimore, even back in 1958, ever really got their vote as cast. Mayor D’Alesandro was the guy who let the unions in to do their cheating.
Anyway, my father built the D’Alesandro house in Baltimore’s Little Italy. My Catholic school was right around the corner from the D’Alesandros so me and my brother used to go to Nancy D’Alesandros’ house after school and help my Dad.
I vaguely remember Mayor D’Alesandro but boy do I remember Nancy.
Nancy Pelosi is about seven or eight years older than me but I remember her well.
She had her father wrapped around her finger, always got her way. Oh, and I will always remember her perfectly pleated Catholic school skirt uniforms, I don’t know why but hey, I was just a kid.
I remember how she’d come in from high school, throw her books down, and ask her mother if she could do something or other. If her mother said no she went to her father, who was a real pushover, and she always got her way.
That’s all. No big deal really but you might note that this woman got her way her entire life.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Next I will tell you about the time I shared a cigarette at the Delaware State Fair with Beau Biden.
http://bitterqueen.typepad.com/friends_of_ours/dominic-piracci/
Did you know Nancy’s brother Frank?
During the summer of 1953, Mayor D’Alesandro’s son, Franklin Roosevelt D’Alesandro, aged twenty, was one of fourteen youths charged with having committed rape or perverted practices on two girls, aged eleven and thirteen, during July of that year. It was reported that Franklin Roosevelt D’Alesandro was the only one of twelve of those tried at that time who was successful in obtaining an acquittal. Following this acquittal, a Baltimore, Maryland, Grand Jury indicted Franklin Roosevelt D’Alesandro on charges of having committed perjury in that he had lied during the afore-mentioned trial on charges of rape.