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RE Mr Pelosi:

"Pelosi’s donor base starts with her friends and neighbors. Her husband, Paul Pelosi, is a wealthy investor — he owns pieces of businesses ranging from resort hotels to wine country vineyards to dozens of small and mid-sized California enterprises, according to Pelosi’s financial disclosure statements. They live in the tony Pacific Heights section of San Francisco when Pelosi is not in her $1 million-plus Georgetown home.
Several members of the Haas family, owners of the Levi-Strauss clothing company, gave maximum donations — $5,000 each — to Pelosi’s PAC to the Future this year. The reigning family of the Napa Valley vineyards, the Gallos, also gave several $5,000 checks. Pelosi does fairly well in glitzy Southern California — coaxing money from the likes of Barbra Streisand, Kirk Douglas, studio boss Mike Medavoy, novelist Danielle Steel and diet doc Dean Ornish. But at least as many Pelosi backers, at home and in places like New York and Washington, are largely anonymous, having made their money the old-fashioned way: by inheriting it.
On that solid foundation she piles up donations from labor unions, trial lawyers and the American Medical Association."