Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is evidently running for reelection as an anti-crime and anti-homelessness crusader.
Appearing on MSNBC this Friday, she was asked by far-left host Nicole Wallace about the current state of her hometown, San Francisco.
“San Francisco, as you know, is my hometown, and one of my most favorite places on earth. UC Berkeley grad and a Berkeley native. It does need voices and powerful people in Washington. What is your prescription for helping the city from within?” Wallace said.
Listen:
“I mean, it is the subject of constant attack segments on conservative media, and the tragedy to me seems they can find enough examples of the most heinous things to say about our beautiful city to further the smears and the attacks. How do you turn San Francisco around?” she then asked.
It’s unclear why there would be anything to “turn around” if all the allegations about San Francisco being made by conservative media are just “smears.”
Regardless, Pelosi replied by first taking a shot at the leftist media for also echoing the right’s concerns about the city’s crime epidemic.
“Well, let me just say that these attacks are not unusual from the right. We have The New York Times having a field day about one thing or another in San Francisco, and we wonder about them, too,” she said.
She then tried to claim San Francisco’s problems are limited to one district. But in fairness to her, it’s at this point that she finally called for some justice.
“But nonetheless, the fact is we do have an isolated situation in the downtown San Francisco in the Tenderloin district and the rest. We have just said to the people that very much concerned about it, if there is crime and violence and drugs, there will be arrests, and that’s the way it is,” she said.
“And it doesn’t matter if the person is documented or not, they will be prosecuted. And that’s something that we brought in from the Justice Department, the Operation Overdrive to address that problem. So it’s about mental health issues that leads to homelessness, it’s about drug use that leads to homelessness, it’s about affordable housing,” she continued.
“And we are providing housing, and people have to accept it and if they don’t, then there’s the ability to take them off the street. And taking them off the street takes some drug use off the streets, some drug sales off the streets,” she added.
She further suggested the city needs her to remain in Congress for the crime and homelessness epidemic to be cured. Never mind that she’s already been in Congress since 1987 and that the city’s problems have only grown worse since then.
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“The needs that our city has right now really call for me to stay another term. I have agreed to stay on another term in order to help meet the needs that we have now. We’re a resilient city — we’ve had AIDS, we’ve had earthquakes, of course we’ve all had the pandemic. We intend to come out of this — resilient city that we are — even better,” she said.
Unbelievably enough, she went on to suggest that budget cuts by House Republicans are to blame for San Francisco’s current crime epidemic.
Never mind that it was Mayor London Breed, a Democrat, who announced $120 in budget cuts to the police during the violent 2020 BLM riots.
“She was defunding the police and ‘prioritizing investments in the African American community around housing, mental health and wellness, workforce development, economic justice, education, advocacy and accountability,'” according to National Review.
“Breed was joined in this program by Chesa Boudin, San Francisco’s new George Soros–backed district attorney. He reduced San Francisco’s jail population by 25 percent in one year and pressured prosecutors to go soft on crime. He ended cash-bail programs and replaced them with a lenient program of discretion,” National Review notes.
The good news is Boudin was recalled, and Breed eventually reversed course, though this doesn’t deflect from the damage that their policies produced — and that Pelosi never called out.
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Pelosi also claimed crimes such as shoplifting aren’t “confined to San Francisco.” This is true, though, for the most part, such crimes are confined to mainly Democrat-run metropolitans like San Francisco.
“Right now we’re of one mind: it’s over. This has to end and that’s that. And at the same time, our city is alive and vibrant and thriving,” she continued.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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