The Politico.com published an article today titled Pelosi's list: Who's on her bad side? Glenn Thrush discusses Nancy early days as a protege of her father, Baltimore Mayor Tommy D’Alesandro. She would sift through voter files and keep a list of people her father helped in his political capacity.
Like her father, she also kept a "Disfavor" file, a roster of those whom she believes have screwed up, betrayed her, challenged her or merely annoyed her.
Hawkish Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), who clashed with Pelosi on Iraq and intelligence policy, assumed she was in line to become chairwoman of the Intelligence Committee when the Democrats seized control of the House in 2006. But Pelosi refused to appoint Harman to even a seat on the committee, and she handed the chairmanship to Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas).
As speaker, she did nothing to stop her ally Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) from ousting Rep. John Dingell as chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee after clashing with the octogenarian Michigan Democrat on energy policy and global warming.
Guess who made it to the disfavor list- Paul Kanjorski, and here's why.
Pelosi and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee made an all-out effort to help the veteran Scranton congressman win a tight race against longtime nemesis Lou Barletta last fall.
So aides say the speaker was taken aback when the western Pennsylvania representative bucked leadership by voting “no” on the original version of the stimulus bill.
He voted for the conference report later, but hard feelings persist.
The media in Northeastern Pennsylvania has consistently underestimated the amount of money given by outside committees to Paul Kanjorski during this last election. Take this account written by Andrew Seder of the Times Leader. Quoting his article "Kanjorski, a Nanticoke resident who earned his 13th term in Washington, spent $3.07 million." If you go to the FEC report and add up the Party Coordinated Expenditures, Independent Expenditures On Behalf Of The Candidate, Contributions (from PACS) plus the In Kind Contributions using Excel the figure amounts to a staggering $3,548,832.00 from 897 contributions. For this category on Kanjorski's report Non-Party (e.g. PACs) or Other Committees: it only lists $1,531,728.00 worth. Not sure why the big discrepancy.
The DCCC and the National Association of Realtors spent $1,963,132.00 alone on Kanjorski's report. It is interesing to note that the DCCC lists debt of $16,420,991.00 on its own report.
Now if you want to read something really crazy look at the first item in that report, Independent Expenditure Against A Candidate. Read the last entry, Pennsylvania Democratic Party. According to Kanjorski's report is he saying that the Pennsylvania Democratic Party spent $34,756.00 against him? The National Republican Congressional Committee spent $724,363.00 against him.
If you go to Opensecrets.org you can view the net worth of both the House and Senate Members.
Jane Harman (D-Calif) Minimum Net Worth $236,280,153 Average Net Worth $397,412,077 Maxium Net Worth $558,544,002
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) Minimum Net Worth $-19,038,894 Average Net Worth $62,468,047 Maxium Net Worth $143,974,989
Do you really think Jane Harman cares about Nancy's list?
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They are all a bunch of worthless assholes.
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