Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's home district includes San Francisco. Star-Kist Tuna's headquarters are in San Francisco, Pelosi's home district. Star-Kist is owned by Del Monte Foods and is a major contributor to Pelosi. Star-Kist is the major employer in American Samoa employing 75% of the Samoan workforce. Paul Pelosi, Nancy 's husband, owns $17 million dollars of Star-Kist stock. In January, 2007 when the minimum wage was increased from $5.15 to $7.25, Pelosi had American Samoa exempted from the increase so Del Monte would not have to pay the higher wage. This would make Del Monte products less expensive than their competition's. Last week when the huge bailout bill was passed, Pelosi added an earmark to the final bill adding $33 million dollars for an "economic development credit in American Samoa ". Pelosi has called the Bush Administration "corrupt". What would she call this if a Republican had done this? The Star-Kist matter was big news at the beginning of 2007, and the $33 million earmark was news last week. Here are some links:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/jan/12/20070112-120720-2734r/ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/03/MNR813AHDN.DTL
Think the Left Wing MSM is going to run with this story? Oh I forgot all their reporters are busy surfing facebook about McCain's kids or looking for more stuff on Joe.
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Even I can't support Pelosi, she is not my mainstreet America.
I have no problem with her at all. She is a great American woman.
I don't see corruption on either side of the aisle as being particularly common. Any of these people - including Pelosi - would make a far better living in the private sector. People in Congress are there because they want to make a difference - they want to make the world a better place.
Venality - Cunningham, Jefferson, etc - is rare in deed.
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