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Her first speech on the House floor called on Congress to do more, and she set about increasing federal funding to fight the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She promoted legislation, funding, and programs for prevention, research, cure, and medical interventions to save lives,” the San Francisco AIDS Foundation wrote in a statement. “No single member has been more relentless or more fearless in the face of HIV.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a conversation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061434/newsom-trump-sending-troops-to-monitor-californias-election-is-a-2026-preview\">with KQED’s Political Breakdow\u003c/a>n last month, Gov. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In college, I had the opportunity to intern for Speaker Emerita Pelosi,” Lurie said. “I’ve been fortunate to benefit from her mentorship and guidance, and she has played a similar role for generations of leaders in our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside a coffee shop on Castro Street, Twin Peaks resident Peter Sichel reflected on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062796/nancy-pelosi-leaves-congress-after-38-years-defining-generations-of-democratic-power\">Pelosi’s legacy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that she’s not 20,” he said. “She’s had a very successful career.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027565\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks during a press conference announcing legislation to increase nightlife in Downtown San Francisco to help the recovery of the neighborhood, in Union Square, San Francisco, on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sichel said he got to know Pelosi personally during his four decades living in San Francisco and described her as confident and approachable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s another story when you interact with someone on a personal level, and I think she has great integrity and I felt I was treated with a great deal of respect,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Mission District, Norma Sanchez was still in shock over the news of Pelosi’s retirement as she took her dog on a morning walk through Franklin Square.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I was so sad. I don’t know why she’s retiring,” Sanchez said. “She is still working like she’s young; she can still do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others said retirement was the right move for Pelosi, who at 85 is among the oldest members of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think in general we’re seeing a theme of a new guard coming in for the Democratic Party,” said Aneil Marathi, a resident of the Mission who moved to the city a year ago. “I think this is one of the better things that she’s done — recognizing where the tide is going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Pelosi was elected in 1987, her district was being ravaged by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11808367/coronavirus-lessons-from-veterans-of-the-aids-epidemic\">the HIV/AIDS epidemic\u003c/a>. Her first speech on the House floor called on Congress to do more, and she set about increasing federal funding to fight the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She promoted legislation, funding, and programs for prevention, research, cure, and medical interventions to save lives,” the San Francisco AIDS Foundation wrote in a statement. “No single member has been more relentless or more fearless in the face of HIV.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a conversation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061434/newsom-trump-sending-troops-to-monitor-californias-election-is-a-2026-preview\">with KQED’s Political Breakdow\u003c/a>n last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom, San Francisco’s former mayor, said Pelosi’s impact cannot be overstated and will not easily be replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061523\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-NEWSOM-ON-PB-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-NEWSOM-ON-PB-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-NEWSOM-ON-PB-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-NEWSOM-ON-PB-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom at KQED in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can never take that for granted,” Newsom said, adding, “it will take 40, 50 years for someone to build the kind of credibility that she’s built and the influence and the capacity to deliver that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some will try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open congressional seats are highly prized and don’t come up very often, so when they do, they often attract a large field of ambitious politicians. In fact, when Pelosi ran in 1987, she was one of 14 candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033173\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033173\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saikat Chakrabarti in the KQED offices in San Francisco on March 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even before Pelosi announced her retirement, two serious candidates had jumped into the race for her seat. One is former software engineer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033097/hes-challenging-nancy-pelosi-and-the-democratic-party\">Saikat Chakrabarti\u003c/a>, a progressive who left Silicon Valley to work for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign, and later as chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Chakrabarti, 39, said he was running to offer a new generation of leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060826/state-sen-scott-wiener-is-running-for-pelosis-house-seat-saying-it-was-time\">Scott Wiener\u003c/a>, one of the leading \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061112/wieners-run-for-pelosis-seat-marks-a-new-phase-for-californias-housing-politics\">advocates for increasing housing development\u003c/a>, jumped in last month after initially saying he would wait until Pelosi announced her retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others could join the fray, including San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, a labor ally whose opposition to market-rate housing development and support for closing the Great Highway could appeal to the west side of the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Former House Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a>, who has represented San Francisco in Congress for 38 years, announced Thursday morning that she will not seek reelection. Pelosi delivered the news in a video message framed as a “Dear San Francisco” letter, reflecting on the city’s progress and challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco — know your power,” she said. “We have made history. We have always led the way. And now we must continue to do so. By remaining full participants in our democracy and fighting for the American ideals we hold dear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First elected in 1987 to fill a seat left vacant by the death of Rep. Sala Burton, Pelosi, 85, leaves a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892317/nancy-pelosi-on-threats-to-democracy-and-tough-legislative-choices-at-kqed-live\">voluminous legacy of accomplishment\u003c/a> highlighted by the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act, which continues to provide health care to tens of millions of Americans who otherwise could not afford it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, Pelosi successfully fought for vastly more federal funding for HIV/AIDS and oversaw the bipartisan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029839/san-franciscos-presidio-trust-defends-existence-response-trump-order\">transformation of the shuttered Presidio Army base\u003c/a> into a vibrant public park with housing, restaurants and nonprofit organizations — a financially self-sufficient operation managed by the Presidio Trust in partnership with the National Park Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one — period, full stop — delivered more for San Francisco and the state of California than Nancy Pelosi, by factors of almost infinity in terms of actually delivering real results for real people,” said Gov. Gavin Newsom recently on KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061434/newsom-trump-sending-troops-to-monitor-californias-election-is-a-2026-preview\">Political Breakdown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062673\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-48-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-48-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-48-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-48-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a rally in support of Proposition 50 at IBEW Local 6 in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her first campaign, Pelosi was known mostly to political insiders, heavyweights like Phil Burton, who, along with his brother, John, masterminded a campaign operation that helped push Pelosi to victory. Fourteen candidates entered the race, including four San Francisco supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some disparaged Pelosi as a political dilettante, a white, wealthy woman who could not possibly relate to the average person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s never met a payroll. She’s never had to worry about child care,” Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver said during a heated debate televised by KQED in 1987. “She’s never worried about the things that worry most of the people in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054908\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/JohnBurtonGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1749\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/JohnBurtonGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/JohnBurtonGetty2-160x140.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/JohnBurtonGetty2-1536x1343.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Pelosi and John Burton, right, and her husband Paul Pelosi, in the middle, at election headquarters on election night on June 2, 1987. \u003ccite>(Eric Luse/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pelosi held her ground and dismissed the criticism as a bump along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My attitude is, they’ll take the low road, and I’ll take the high road, and I will get the Congress before them,” Pelosi said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she did. Years later, her reputation as a street fighter in designer clothing and heels was well established.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to know how to take a punch and throw a punch,” she said on KQED’s Political Breakdown in 2018.[aside postID=news_12027864 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/DSC_1576_qed-1-1020x676.jpg']Pelosi’s career in Washington began in the depths of despair for San Francisco — the early years of the AIDS epidemic, when HIV infection was essentially a death sentence. She made increased AIDS funding and improving the social safety net a top priority. And she delivered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernest Hopkins of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation said Pelosi’s fingerprints are on all of the major federal initiatives helping to fight the epidemic, including “being one of the principle supporters of the \u003ca href=\"https://ryanwhite.hrsa.gov/about/legislation\">Ryan White Care Act\u003c/a>, initiation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/hopwa/\">Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ada.gov/\">Americans with Disabilities Act \u003c/a>— I mean critical components of what we would call the health safety net that have been used over the years to support probably millions of people living with HIV,” Hopkins said, adding that her advocacy went far beyond her own district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She understood that we could not end the HIV epidemic without addressing the epidemic in Black and Latino communities. And so she was all in,” Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi’s rise to power within the Democratic Party did not come easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other people came to me and said, ‘You must run for leadership.’ And when I did run for a high office and leadership, some of the men said, ‘Who said she could run?’ Well, that just lit my fire, really. Who said she can run? We don’t need permission,” she recalled in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Pelosi stands on the floor of the House dressed in white, in a long shot showing her colleagues applauding her around her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1293\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-1536x1034.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, delivers remarks from the House Chambers of the U.S. Capitol Building on November 17, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Pelosi spoke on the future of her leadership plans in the House of Representatives and said she will not seek a leadership role in the upcoming Congress. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pelosi disrupted the traditional pecking order of power in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the 2006 midterm elections, when Pelosi led her caucus to a resounding victory — reclaiming a majority in the House for the first time in 12 years — her selection as the next speaker was sealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She didn’t do that by being shy or deferential,” said journalist Susan Page, author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Madam-Speaker-Nancy-Pelosi-Lessons/dp/1538750694\">\u003cem>Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “She did that by being tough and direct and fearless. And those are characteristics she brought to the job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her image as a partisan warrior, Pelosi often set aside party affiliation to do what she thought was right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She derailed efforts in her caucus to impeach President George W. Bush over the Iraq War. And in 2008, when the economy was cratering due to the subprime mortgage crisis, she rounded up enough Democratic votes to pass the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008\">Troubled Asset Relief Program\u003c/a>, which Democratic critics described as a Wall Street bailout, to help shore up financial institutions crippled by “toxic assets.”[aside postID=news_12061112 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251021-SCOTTWIENER-03-BL-KQED.jpg']That willingness to set aside party differences was noted by former Republican Speaker John Boehner at the unveiling of Pelosi’s official portrait in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve been a fierce warrior for your party, but when the stakes were highest, you were willing to put the interests of the nation first and take the heat for it. Now that’s leadership,” Boehner said, adding, “No other speaker of the House in the modern era, Republican or Democrat, has wielded the gavel with such authority or with such consistent results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, the things Pelosi did worst — like media interviews — were the things most people saw, while her strengths were seen by few: cultivating relationships and understanding how to win enough votes to pass legislation. It’s what made her, in her own words, a “master legislator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to understand people’s motivation, their district, their priorities,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Democrats retook the House in 2018, Pelosi was again elected speaker. She guided investigations into President Donald Trump, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855099/watch-live-house-is-expected-to-impeach-trump-a-second-time-heres-how-it-will-work\">two successful impeachments\u003c/a> in the House that ultimately failed in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Joe Biden’s administration, Pelosi again wielded enormous power, helping the House pass landmark legislation, including COVID-19 funding, climate change initiatives and the CHIPS Act, which provided incentives for domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors — essential computer components made mostly overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11997229 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1239105918-scaled-e1762294977631.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, introduces President Joe Biden before he addresses the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pelosi and Biden were close political allies for decades. But in 2024, after the president’s disastrous debate performance against Trump, it was Pelosi who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993449/pelosi-suggests-time-is-running-short-for-biden-to-reconsider-campaign\">opened the door to Biden dropping out\u003c/a> during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” saying “time is running short” for the president to decide whether he would run again — even though he had already said he would. Pelosi’s subtle yet unmistakable nudge for Biden to step aside succeeded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She tried to get others to go raise this issue with President Biden, saying that he shouldn’t run again, and no one would make it as directly as she would,” Page said. “So she finally did it herself, not just in private, but in public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, Biden is reportedly angry with Pelosi over her role in pushing him aside. “In retrospect, turns out she was right. He shouldn’t have run again,” Page said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the speaker’s family paid the price of rising political violence when David DePape broke into the Pelosi home in San Francisco and attacked her husband, Paul, with a hammer, fracturing his skull. DePape said he was looking for Nancy Pelosi, who was out of town at the time, and wanted to “break her kneecaps.” DePape was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987892/paul-pelosis-attacker-apologizes-at-resentencing-but-prison-term-is-unchanged\">sentenced to 30 years\u003c/a> in federal prison and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002363/callousness-of-paul-pelosi-attack-justifies-potential-life-sentence-judge-says\">life in state prison\u003c/a> without the possibility of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Pelosi made history as the first woman and the first Californian to become Speaker of the House. But it’s what she did with that power — for her district, her state and her nation — that mattered most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can never take that for granted,” Newsom said in assessing Pelosi’s impact. “It will take 40, 50 years for someone to build the kind of credibility that she’s built and the influence and the capacity to deliver that as Nancy Pelosi.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Former House Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a>, who has represented San Francisco in Congress for 38 years, announced Thursday morning that she will not seek reelection. Pelosi delivered the news in a video message framed as a “Dear San Francisco” letter, reflecting on the city’s progress and challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco — know your power,” she said. “We have made history. We have always led the way. And now we must continue to do so. By remaining full participants in our democracy and fighting for the American ideals we hold dear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First elected in 1987 to fill a seat left vacant by the death of Rep. Sala Burton, Pelosi, 85, leaves a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892317/nancy-pelosi-on-threats-to-democracy-and-tough-legislative-choices-at-kqed-live\">voluminous legacy of accomplishment\u003c/a> highlighted by the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act, which continues to provide health care to tens of millions of Americans who otherwise could not afford it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, Pelosi successfully fought for vastly more federal funding for HIV/AIDS and oversaw the bipartisan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029839/san-franciscos-presidio-trust-defends-existence-response-trump-order\">transformation of the shuttered Presidio Army base\u003c/a> into a vibrant public park with housing, restaurants and nonprofit organizations — a financially self-sufficient operation managed by the Presidio Trust in partnership with the National Park Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one — period, full stop — delivered more for San Francisco and the state of California than Nancy Pelosi, by factors of almost infinity in terms of actually delivering real results for real people,” said Gov. Gavin Newsom recently on KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061434/newsom-trump-sending-troops-to-monitor-californias-election-is-a-2026-preview\">Political Breakdown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062673\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-48-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-48-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-48-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-48-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a rally in support of Proposition 50 at IBEW Local 6 in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her first campaign, Pelosi was known mostly to political insiders, heavyweights like Phil Burton, who, along with his brother, John, masterminded a campaign operation that helped push Pelosi to victory. Fourteen candidates entered the race, including four San Francisco supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some disparaged Pelosi as a political dilettante, a white, wealthy woman who could not possibly relate to the average person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s never met a payroll. She’s never had to worry about child care,” Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver said during a heated debate televised by KQED in 1987. “She’s never worried about the things that worry most of the people in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054908\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/JohnBurtonGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1749\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/JohnBurtonGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/JohnBurtonGetty2-160x140.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/JohnBurtonGetty2-1536x1343.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Pelosi and John Burton, right, and her husband Paul Pelosi, in the middle, at election headquarters on election night on June 2, 1987. \u003ccite>(Eric Luse/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pelosi held her ground and dismissed the criticism as a bump along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My attitude is, they’ll take the low road, and I’ll take the high road, and I will get the Congress before them,” Pelosi said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she did. Years later, her reputation as a street fighter in designer clothing and heels was well established.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to know how to take a punch and throw a punch,” she said on KQED’s Political Breakdown in 2018.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Pelosi’s career in Washington began in the depths of despair for San Francisco — the early years of the AIDS epidemic, when HIV infection was essentially a death sentence. She made increased AIDS funding and improving the social safety net a top priority. And she delivered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernest Hopkins of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation said Pelosi’s fingerprints are on all of the major federal initiatives helping to fight the epidemic, including “being one of the principle supporters of the \u003ca href=\"https://ryanwhite.hrsa.gov/about/legislation\">Ryan White Care Act\u003c/a>, initiation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/hopwa/\">Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ada.gov/\">Americans with Disabilities Act \u003c/a>— I mean critical components of what we would call the health safety net that have been used over the years to support probably millions of people living with HIV,” Hopkins said, adding that her advocacy went far beyond her own district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She understood that we could not end the HIV epidemic without addressing the epidemic in Black and Latino communities. And so she was all in,” Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi’s rise to power within the Democratic Party did not come easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other people came to me and said, ‘You must run for leadership.’ And when I did run for a high office and leadership, some of the men said, ‘Who said she could run?’ Well, that just lit my fire, really. Who said she can run? We don’t need permission,” she recalled in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Pelosi stands on the floor of the House dressed in white, in a long shot showing her colleagues applauding her around her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1293\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-1536x1034.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, delivers remarks from the House Chambers of the U.S. Capitol Building on November 17, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Pelosi spoke on the future of her leadership plans in the House of Representatives and said she will not seek a leadership role in the upcoming Congress. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pelosi disrupted the traditional pecking order of power in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the 2006 midterm elections, when Pelosi led her caucus to a resounding victory — reclaiming a majority in the House for the first time in 12 years — her selection as the next speaker was sealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She didn’t do that by being shy or deferential,” said journalist Susan Page, author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Madam-Speaker-Nancy-Pelosi-Lessons/dp/1538750694\">\u003cem>Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “She did that by being tough and direct and fearless. And those are characteristics she brought to the job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her image as a partisan warrior, Pelosi often set aside party affiliation to do what she thought was right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She derailed efforts in her caucus to impeach President George W. Bush over the Iraq War. And in 2008, when the economy was cratering due to the subprime mortgage crisis, she rounded up enough Democratic votes to pass the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008\">Troubled Asset Relief Program\u003c/a>, which Democratic critics described as a Wall Street bailout, to help shore up financial institutions crippled by “toxic assets.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That willingness to set aside party differences was noted by former Republican Speaker John Boehner at the unveiling of Pelosi’s official portrait in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve been a fierce warrior for your party, but when the stakes were highest, you were willing to put the interests of the nation first and take the heat for it. Now that’s leadership,” Boehner said, adding, “No other speaker of the House in the modern era, Republican or Democrat, has wielded the gavel with such authority or with such consistent results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, the things Pelosi did worst — like media interviews — were the things most people saw, while her strengths were seen by few: cultivating relationships and understanding how to win enough votes to pass legislation. It’s what made her, in her own words, a “master legislator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to understand people’s motivation, their district, their priorities,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Democrats retook the House in 2018, Pelosi was again elected speaker. She guided investigations into President Donald Trump, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855099/watch-live-house-is-expected-to-impeach-trump-a-second-time-heres-how-it-will-work\">two successful impeachments\u003c/a> in the House that ultimately failed in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Joe Biden’s administration, Pelosi again wielded enormous power, helping the House pass landmark legislation, including COVID-19 funding, climate change initiatives and the CHIPS Act, which provided incentives for domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors — essential computer components made mostly overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11997229 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1239105918-scaled-e1762294977631.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, introduces President Joe Biden before he addresses the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pelosi and Biden were close political allies for decades. But in 2024, after the president’s disastrous debate performance against Trump, it was Pelosi who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993449/pelosi-suggests-time-is-running-short-for-biden-to-reconsider-campaign\">opened the door to Biden dropping out\u003c/a> during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” saying “time is running short” for the president to decide whether he would run again — even though he had already said he would. Pelosi’s subtle yet unmistakable nudge for Biden to step aside succeeded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She tried to get others to go raise this issue with President Biden, saying that he shouldn’t run again, and no one would make it as directly as she would,” Page said. “So she finally did it herself, not just in private, but in public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, Biden is reportedly angry with Pelosi over her role in pushing him aside. “In retrospect, turns out she was right. He shouldn’t have run again,” Page said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the speaker’s family paid the price of rising political violence when David DePape broke into the Pelosi home in San Francisco and attacked her husband, Paul, with a hammer, fracturing his skull. DePape said he was looking for Nancy Pelosi, who was out of town at the time, and wanted to “break her kneecaps.” DePape was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987892/paul-pelosis-attacker-apologizes-at-resentencing-but-prison-term-is-unchanged\">sentenced to 30 years\u003c/a> in federal prison and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002363/callousness-of-paul-pelosi-attack-justifies-potential-life-sentence-judge-says\">life in state prison\u003c/a> without the possibility of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Pelosi made history as the first woman and the first Californian to become Speaker of the House. But it’s what she did with that power — for her district, her state and her nation — that mattered most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can never take that for granted,” Newsom said in assessing Pelosi’s impact. “It will take 40, 50 years for someone to build the kind of credibility that she’s built and the influence and the capacity to deliver that as Nancy Pelosi.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>[This column was reported for Political Breakdown, a bimonthly newsletter offering analysis and context on Bay Area and California political news. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/political-breakdown\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a>.]\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Wiener has represented San Francisco in the state Senate since 2017. In those eight years, the 55-year-old Democrat has become one of the most prolific and effective lawmakers, particularly on housing issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Wiener’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059533/newsom-signs-ambitious-bill-to-boost-housing-density-near-public-transit\">landmark SB 79\u003c/a>, which allows greater housing density — up to nine stories — along public transit corridors and major bus stops statewide, even in neighborhoods where local zoning restricts development to single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fight hard and I can be stubborn about it, but I’m being stubborn because people need housing and the system is broken,” Wiener said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener has been a leading advocate for removing barriers to housing construction, including the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, which has often been used to stop, delay or scale down housing projects since its passage in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s authored some really big, really consequential bills — including bills that have a lot of opposition,” said Brian Hanlon, founder of the pro-housing group \u003ca href=\"https://cayimby.org/\">California YIMBY\u003c/a> (Yes in My Backyard). Hanlon called Wiener “one of our strongest housing champions,” and said he often goes the extra mile to get controversial bills over the finish line. “He’s just not afraid to stand up for what’s right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener also seems to relish taking on contentious issues, including legislation to regulate artificial intelligence, protect gay and trans youth and to prohibit federal immigration agents from concealing their faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His political courage has won him plenty of admirers — and more than a few enemies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been in a lot of different situations where I’ve been willing to break glass and sometimes piss people off, but it was the right thing to do. And so I want to take that approach to Congress,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he has faced “thousands of death threats,” primarily from “the MAGA hard right,” over his bills supporting LGBT youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042675\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apartment buildings under construction near Macarthur BART station in Oakland, on Feb. 21, 2020. SB 79 from San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener builds on years of advocacy to add more housing stock in California’s biggest metro areas, overriding local zoning laws. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was widely assumed that Wiener, who has long expressed interest in running for Congress, would wait until Rep. Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement before entering the race. But he said this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060826/state-sen-scott-wiener-is-running-for-pelosis-house-seat-saying-it-was-time\">he could no longer wait\u003c/a> to see whether the 85-year-old Democrat will retire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This really isn’t about Nancy Pelosi,” Wiener said. “Nancy Pelosi has moved mountains for the country and for San Francisco and I think the world of her. She’s not said whether she’s running again and we’re now to the point where we’re just a few months out from the filing deadline. And so it was time to enter the race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi’s spokesperson Ian Krager declined to comment directly on Wiener’s announcement, though he confirmed Wiener called the speaker emerita before declaring his candidacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Speaker Pelosi is fully focused on her mission to win the Yes on 50 special election in California on November 4th,” Krager said in a statement. “She urges all Californians to join in that mission on the path to Democrats taking back the House.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi is likely to clarify her political plans after next month’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi meets with KQED in her office at the San Francisco Federal Building on Jan. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An advisor to Wiener said his decision to move forward was partly prompted by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033097/hes-challenging-nancy-pelosi-and-the-democratic-party\">candidacy of Saikat Chakrabarti\u003c/a>, a wealthy software engineer capable of self-funding his campaign. Chakrabarti has generated buzz for his insurgent campaign against a San Francisco icon he says should step aside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakrabarti knows something about knocking off entrenched incumbents. In 2018, he managed the upstart congressional campaign of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who unexpectedly defeated incumbent New York Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley. He later served as Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff in the House, helping draft the Green New Deal.[aside postID=news_12033097 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg']According to his \u003ca href=\"https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/2025/10063516.pdf\">economic disclosure form\u003c/a>, Chakrabarti, who officially launched his campaign against Pelosi earlier this year, is worth at least $167 million, much of it equity in Stripe, the payment processing company where he was a founding engineer. If elected, he would be one of the wealthiest members of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who opened his congressional campaign committee last year, reported raising more than $1 million in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00909283/\">most recent filing\u003c/a> with the Federal Election Commission, with $867,105 cash on hand at the end of September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, Chakrabarti’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H6CA11219/\">FEC filing\u003c/a> shows total contributions of just under $1 million, about half from personal loans to his campaign. After spending on infrastructure, he reported $95,384 cash on hand and $755,000 in outstanding loans and debts. But given his net worth, he can presumably self-fund this campaign going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi, long one of the Democratic Party’s most prolific fundraisers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00213512/\">reported contributions\u003c/a> of just over $2 million for 2025, including at least $450,000 transferred to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. She reported $1.5 million cash on hand through September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expect Wiener to cast Chakrabarti as a kind of political dilettante with weak ties to San Francisco and little experience governing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not enough just to say, ‘Oh I want to challenge the establishment and do all these things,’ when you don’t necessarily have the track record of showing that you know how to do that,” Wiener said, without mentioning Chakrabarti by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakrabarti responded in a statement: “I have experience turning big ideas into reality even in a gridlocked Congress. Scott has experience tinkering with regulations in an overwhelmingly Democratic Sacramento.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056792\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian activists attempt to block access to the Port of Oakland in September. A bill languishing in the House would block the sale or transfer of certain bombs and other weapons to Israel. \u003ccite>(Juan Carlos Lara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One issue that could separate Chakrabarti from Wiener, who is Jewish, is Gaza. Israel’s war there has drawn widespread condemnation for the devastation and deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on a music festival in southern Israel that killed hundreds and took about 240 civilians hostage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill currently languishing in the House, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3565/text\">H.R. 3565\u003c/a>, would block the sale or transfer of certain bombs and other weapons to Israel. Chakrabarti has \u003ca href=\"https://www.saikat.us/en/blockthebombs\">aired ads\u003c/a> calling on Pelosi to support the bill, which has not passed out of committee. Interviewed this week, Wiener twice declined to say how he’d vote on H.R. 3565, but said, “I do not think that we should be selling offensive arms to Israel under this government or any government like it. We need to get a government that’s committed both to democracy and to peace and not to this devastation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veteran San Francisco political consultant Eric Jaye said while he disagrees with many of Wiener’s policy positions, he acknowledges his effectiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Scott Wiener has been one of the most productive legislators we’ve ever seen in San Francisco, and in many respects he’s the Nancy Pelosi of his generation. He’s the Willie Brown of his generation. He’s the Phil Burton of his generation,” Jaye said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When this congressional seat became vacant after the death of Rep. Sala Burton, Pelosi received a deathbed endorsement from Burton’s widow but she was relatively unknown beyond Democratic Party insiders. More than a dozen people ran including four San Francisco supervisors. Jaye doubts there will be that kind of candidate stampede this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Pelosi) didn’t scare anybody out. Now, if it’s Wiener and Pelosi, I don’t think others will look at that and say, ‘I could beat one of those two,’” Jaye said. At the same time, he added that Pelosi “suffers from a suspicion that grew in the American electorate about octogenarian leaders, based on what happened with former President Biden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, an open House seat is too enticing for politicians to ignore. Supervisor Connie Chan is reportedly considering a run. Pelosi’s daughter, Christine, has also considered running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoever enters the race, Jaye said, will face “a moment in San Francisco politics, California politics, national politics where voters are pretty frustrated with the slow pace of change. So it’s a very, very roiled political environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener has been a leading advocate for removing barriers to housing construction, including the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, which has often been used to stop, delay or scale down housing projects since its passage in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s authored some really big, really consequential bills — including bills that have a lot of opposition,” said Brian Hanlon, founder of the pro-housing group \u003ca href=\"https://cayimby.org/\">California YIMBY\u003c/a> (Yes in My Backyard). Hanlon called Wiener “one of our strongest housing champions,” and said he often goes the extra mile to get controversial bills over the finish line. “He’s just not afraid to stand up for what’s right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener also seems to relish taking on contentious issues, including legislation to regulate artificial intelligence, protect gay and trans youth and to prohibit federal immigration agents from concealing their faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His political courage has won him plenty of admirers — and more than a few enemies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been in a lot of different situations where I’ve been willing to break glass and sometimes piss people off, but it was the right thing to do. And so I want to take that approach to Congress,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he has faced “thousands of death threats,” primarily from “the MAGA hard right,” over his bills supporting LGBT youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042675\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apartment buildings under construction near Macarthur BART station in Oakland, on Feb. 21, 2020. SB 79 from San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener builds on years of advocacy to add more housing stock in California’s biggest metro areas, overriding local zoning laws. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was widely assumed that Wiener, who has long expressed interest in running for Congress, would wait until Rep. Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement before entering the race. But he said this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060826/state-sen-scott-wiener-is-running-for-pelosis-house-seat-saying-it-was-time\">he could no longer wait\u003c/a> to see whether the 85-year-old Democrat will retire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This really isn’t about Nancy Pelosi,” Wiener said. “Nancy Pelosi has moved mountains for the country and for San Francisco and I think the world of her. She’s not said whether she’s running again and we’re now to the point where we’re just a few months out from the filing deadline. And so it was time to enter the race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi’s spokesperson Ian Krager declined to comment directly on Wiener’s announcement, though he confirmed Wiener called the speaker emerita before declaring his candidacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Speaker Pelosi is fully focused on her mission to win the Yes on 50 special election in California on November 4th,” Krager said in a statement. “She urges all Californians to join in that mission on the path to Democrats taking back the House.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi is likely to clarify her political plans after next month’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi meets with KQED in her office at the San Francisco Federal Building on Jan. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An advisor to Wiener said his decision to move forward was partly prompted by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033097/hes-challenging-nancy-pelosi-and-the-democratic-party\">candidacy of Saikat Chakrabarti\u003c/a>, a wealthy software engineer capable of self-funding his campaign. Chakrabarti has generated buzz for his insurgent campaign against a San Francisco icon he says should step aside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakrabarti knows something about knocking off entrenched incumbents. In 2018, he managed the upstart congressional campaign of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who unexpectedly defeated incumbent New York Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley. He later served as Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff in the House, helping draft the Green New Deal.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to his \u003ca href=\"https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/2025/10063516.pdf\">economic disclosure form\u003c/a>, Chakrabarti, who officially launched his campaign against Pelosi earlier this year, is worth at least $167 million, much of it equity in Stripe, the payment processing company where he was a founding engineer. If elected, he would be one of the wealthiest members of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who opened his congressional campaign committee last year, reported raising more than $1 million in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00909283/\">most recent filing\u003c/a> with the Federal Election Commission, with $867,105 cash on hand at the end of September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, Chakrabarti’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H6CA11219/\">FEC filing\u003c/a> shows total contributions of just under $1 million, about half from personal loans to his campaign. After spending on infrastructure, he reported $95,384 cash on hand and $755,000 in outstanding loans and debts. But given his net worth, he can presumably self-fund this campaign going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi, long one of the Democratic Party’s most prolific fundraisers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00213512/\">reported contributions\u003c/a> of just over $2 million for 2025, including at least $450,000 transferred to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. She reported $1.5 million cash on hand through September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expect Wiener to cast Chakrabarti as a kind of political dilettante with weak ties to San Francisco and little experience governing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not enough just to say, ‘Oh I want to challenge the establishment and do all these things,’ when you don’t necessarily have the track record of showing that you know how to do that,” Wiener said, without mentioning Chakrabarti by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakrabarti responded in a statement: “I have experience turning big ideas into reality even in a gridlocked Congress. Scott has experience tinkering with regulations in an overwhelmingly Democratic Sacramento.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056792\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian activists attempt to block access to the Port of Oakland in September. A bill languishing in the House would block the sale or transfer of certain bombs and other weapons to Israel. \u003ccite>(Juan Carlos Lara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One issue that could separate Chakrabarti from Wiener, who is Jewish, is Gaza. Israel’s war there has drawn widespread condemnation for the devastation and deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on a music festival in southern Israel that killed hundreds and took about 240 civilians hostage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill currently languishing in the House, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3565/text\">H.R. 3565\u003c/a>, would block the sale or transfer of certain bombs and other weapons to Israel. Chakrabarti has \u003ca href=\"https://www.saikat.us/en/blockthebombs\">aired ads\u003c/a> calling on Pelosi to support the bill, which has not passed out of committee. Interviewed this week, Wiener twice declined to say how he’d vote on H.R. 3565, but said, “I do not think that we should be selling offensive arms to Israel under this government or any government like it. We need to get a government that’s committed both to democracy and to peace and not to this devastation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veteran San Francisco political consultant Eric Jaye said while he disagrees with many of Wiener’s policy positions, he acknowledges his effectiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Scott Wiener has been one of the most productive legislators we’ve ever seen in San Francisco, and in many respects he’s the Nancy Pelosi of his generation. He’s the Willie Brown of his generation. He’s the Phil Burton of his generation,” Jaye said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When this congressional seat became vacant after the death of Rep. Sala Burton, Pelosi received a deathbed endorsement from Burton’s widow but she was relatively unknown beyond Democratic Party insiders. More than a dozen people ran including four San Francisco supervisors. Jaye doubts there will be that kind of candidate stampede this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Pelosi) didn’t scare anybody out. Now, if it’s Wiener and Pelosi, I don’t think others will look at that and say, ‘I could beat one of those two,’” Jaye said. At the same time, he added that Pelosi “suffers from a suspicion that grew in the American electorate about octogenarian leaders, based on what happened with former President Biden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, an open House seat is too enticing for politicians to ignore. Supervisor Connie Chan is reportedly considering a run. Pelosi’s daughter, Christine, has also considered running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoever enters the race, Jaye said, will face “a moment in San Francisco politics, California politics, national politics where voters are pretty frustrated with the slow pace of change. 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For example, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass objected to the state dictating development policy from Sacramento and unsuccessfully urged Newsom to veto Wiener’s SB 79.[aside postID=news_12059961 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/KatiePorter.jpg']The San Francisco Democrat already represents neighborhoods that tend to resist new housing, such as the Sunset and Richmond districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I was just out at a big town hall in the Outer Sunset, which was mostly about housing,” Wiener said. “And I have no problem with people disagreeing with me, telling me why they think I’m wrong, having those conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Wiener seems to relish taking on issues with major opposition, as he has with bills to regulate artificial intelligence, protect gay and trans youth and prohibit federal immigration agents from concealing their faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been in a lot of different situations where I’ve been willing to break glass and sometimes piss people off, but it was the right thing to do. 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She hopes the state party will adopt – or at least discuss – these course corrections at its convention in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tung insists this is not a retreat from core Democratic values, like support for women’s access to abortion or LGBTQ+ rights. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, it really was this reckoning in San Francisco politics that led to a change in the direction of where our government is going,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tung, who works in the office of District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, said, at the very least, party positions need a serious update.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last resolution that passed by the state party around police was to defund the police in 2020,” she added. “And what we’re hearing from voters is that people want to be safe on their streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Tung’s leadership, the San Francisco Democratic Party’s moderate-leaning majority is trying out resolutions on public safety, schools, housing and more. She hopes the state party will adopt – or at least discuss – these course corrections at its convention in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tung insists this is not a retreat from core Democratic values, like support for women’s access to abortion or LGBTQ+ rights. But she thinks it’s time to focus on results rather than “performative resolutions and just pontificating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will need to be the party that can get things done and that basic government services in our Democrat-controlled cities are not just functional, but excellent,” she told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024943\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi meets with KQED in her office in the San Francisco Federal Building on Jan. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The most controversial proposal? A resolution suggesting the party consider age limits for elected officials. On the heels of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946670/dianne-feinstein-californias-longest-serving-us-senator-dies-at-age-90\">the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s\u003c/a> serious health decline during her final years in office, Tung said the party should encourage and cultivate younger leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The obvious question: Does this apply to 85-year-old Nancy Pelosi, who would be seeking a 21st term if she runs for reelection next year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to criticize Nancy Pelosi for staying in office because she is exceptional,” Tung said, sidestepping any criticism of the iconic Democrat. “I think Nancy Pelosi is just phenomenal. She is one of a kind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saikat Chakrabarti begs to differ. The 39-year-old former staffer to Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is running against Pelosi, hoping to force her into retirement. He sat down with me and my colleague Marisa Lagos last month for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033097/hes-challenging-nancy-pelosi-and-the-democratic-party\">\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em> podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is absolutely about not just challenging Pelosi, but challenging the party as it is right now. The party is underwater with its own voters. 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"content": "\u003cp>Sara Minnich woke up Tuesday to an email she’d been dreading for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was laid off from her job at the Health Resources and Services Administration — one of the federal agencies whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033968/san-franciscos-hhs-office-close-federal-health-cuts-pelosi\">San Francisco staff was gutted\u003c/a> as part of wide-ranging cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services’ workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We woke up one day and our jobs were gone,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minnich and hundreds of other HHS workers in the San Francisco regional office — which connects California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, six U.S. territories and more than 100 tribes to federal health resources — were shut out of their government emails, computers and offices just hours after getting the message around 2:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The layoffs and closure of the office came less than a week after Health Secretary Robert F. 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After she opened it, she quickly fired off a few emails to contacts in the department’s Denver office, one of the five she heard would remain open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minnich said she didn’t have time to hand off all of her work, but one of the documents she sent was vital: a 4,000-person contact list that included leads at primary care associations, employees in the region’s state offices for rural health, and organizations like the California Growers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034562\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034562\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/HHSGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/HHSGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/HHSGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/HHSGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/HHSGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/HHSGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/HHSGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Employees of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stand in line to enter the Mary E. Switzer Memorial Building on April 2, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Layoffs began earlier this week at the Health and Human Service Administration offices after it was announced last week that the Trump Administration plans to cut 10,000 jobs at HHS. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Minnich described her role as two-pronged: helping people connect with HRSA grant money and programs and making the programs work better for their needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the COVID-19 vaccine was rolled out in 2021, HRSA worked with the California Growers Association to vaccinate migrant farmworkers. It also regularly hosts grant workshops with community-based health centers that don’t have the bandwidth to hire an expert, and it connects primary care associations and clinics in rural areas with targeted health initiatives like the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program and another for all-inclusive elder care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are like ambassadors for the agency and liaisons between the general public, between HRSA grantees, [and] between health centers,” Minnich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also did public health surveillance and collected feedback about the efficiency of some of the federal HRSA initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This meant hearing: “‘Here’s the way that we feel like us in rural areas are being left out,’ or ‘Here’s a gap in policy where it doesn’t take into account these specific circumstances,’” she said. “We could relay those messages back to our leadership and to the different bureaus and offices that were in charge of coming out with the funding opportunities and with the policies surrounding these grants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the San Francisco office’s region, this work was especially important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When working with these Pacific Island jurisdictions and tribes, there’s so much knowledge and just so much trust that needs to be built before there’s any sort of successful partnership there,” Minnich said. “The amount of historical knowledge and experience and relationships that have sometimes taken decades to build … it feels like it’s all just being thrown out the window.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We are the connective tissue’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fay Gordon was a regional administrator for the Administration for Community Living, an agency that ensures states and territories adhere to federal laws related to community health and services for older adults and people with disabilities. It \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/01/g-s1-57716/hhs-layoffs-seniors-disabled-liheap-acl\">coordinates Meals on Wheels\u003c/a>, which serves more than 216 million meals a year, and funds senior centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to oversight and data management, a big part of Gordon’s job was to be a point of contact for service providers and recipients and “the central voice for them within our headquarters in D.C.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11937354\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Pre-packed meals in a fridge awaiting delivery.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dinners prepared by Meals on Wheels in the kitchen at the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center at the corner of Embarcadero and Beale Street in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are the connective tissue,” Gordon said. “We are the direct line from these local providers, from the senior centers, from the transportation providers, from the people who are doing respite … back to the complexity of the federal bureaucracy. And now that line is lost and that voice is lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Administration for Community Living is being completely overhauled. According to Kennedy’s March 27 directive, its “critical programs” will be integrated into other HHS agencies, like the Administration for Children and Families and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon said that not having dedicated staff for ACL programs worries her.[aside postID=news_12034478 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/FederalEmployeeLayoffsGetty-1020x680.jpg']“I think it has to do with capacity and relationships,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One part of the job that’s often overlooked is the role regional ACL employees play in disaster response, which often disproportionately affects older adults, according to Gordon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the deadly wildfires that devastated Los Angeles this year, she said her knowledge of California’s unique assisted living system was imperative in helping facilities and connecting residents with resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people who work at the national level don’t realize that California has a very unique system of assisted living,” she said. “I was able to step in and say, ‘We’ve got to check on these smaller residential facilities, see if these business owners are OK, see where their residents are, what their emergency plan was.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon did similar work after a major typhoon in Guam in May 2023 and the fires in Maui that August, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am extraordinarily concerned with what will happen when there is a major climate disaster, which, given the fact that we work in the Pacific Coast, as we have seen, is very likely to happen,” she told KQED. “What happens when there’s no leadership at the national level that understands the unique systems and programs for older adults in that state and in that locality?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And who will be there to elevate those needs and make sure that they get the supplemental programs and the funding and the resources in a timely manner?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Preventing waste and abuse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Around 55 of the 65 Administration for Children and Families workers based in San Francisco were also laid off, including regional administrator Pete Weldy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our entire Head Start team, our entire childcare team, our child welfare team, our child support team, the people that oversee the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, our people who do work on low income heating energy assistance programs” were all affected, he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1988px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12022566 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1988\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed.jpg 1988w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed-1536x1030.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240524_MobileHeadStart-14_qed-1920x1287.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1988px) 100vw, 1988px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play under a giant parachute at Lincoln Square Park in Oakland on Friday, May 24, 2024. Last year, the city of Oakland introduced their ‘Ready, Set, Go,’ vehicle, an RV converted into a Head Start classroom, which travels to homeless shelters, providing educational and social services to families experiencing housing instability. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the administration’s most well-known programs is Head Start, which provides early education, nutrition, health and other services for children from low-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, these are run through various entities, including cities like \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/head-start\">Oakland\u003c/a> and county offices of education. In Oakland, Head Start funds a preschool program, lends laptops, and trains educators to work with kids up to 5 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weldy said that ACF also funded San Francisco’s Larkin Street Youth Services and Huckleberry Youth Programs through its Runaway and Homeless Youth Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACF’s job was to ensure the programs used funding correctly and provided imperative resources for low-income families and youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033968 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19339517645312_wide-ffafd91c38d240cad446fa4a43ddd2ffbad7e6f0-1020x574.jpg']“Program officers are really the people who are supposed to be preventing waste, fraud and abuse, who are making sure the dollars are spent in the way that Congress intended them to be spent — those are the folks who were there, who were providing both technical assistance and oversight over taxpayer dollars,” he said. “That oversight is now gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weldy said the federal government was putting some “hurdles” in its payment management system, which would require grant recipients to get validation from an employee before using some of their funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With so many reductions yesterday, it’s hard to say if those programs are going to be able to get the money as quickly as they normally would,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weldy isn’t as worried about the states as he is the tribes and territories he worked with, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the U.S.’s largest tribes, the Navajo Nation, is within San Francisco’s region, he said. “You also have a bunch of really smaller tribes. You have landless urban tribes who are federally recognized. These are really complicated, delicate relationships that the federal government’s been trying to mend for a hundred years or more, and we were making really good progress,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I think you have to be here to do that kind of work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that there are also unique challenges that face the Pacific territories, like American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, since they are “treated like a state but not funded like one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing the community nonprofits and funding recipients in the many areas covered by the West Coast region is key to making sure the $12 billion that used to flow through the San Francisco office was spent and went to good use, Weldy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The regional offices like the front lines of the federal government,” he said. “We’re here in San Francisco because we’re closer to all of our partners in the region. We’re in the same time zone. They can come and visit us; we go visit them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three employees said they hadn’t been told how the department plans to redistribute their work — or whether any such plan exists. Some grant recipients might start working with people in farther regional branches, like Denver or HHS’s D.C. headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also aren’t sure whether their long-established regional networks will be maintained at all. Many contacts have already been wiped from their records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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After she opened it, she quickly fired off a few emails to contacts in the department’s Denver office, one of the five she heard would remain open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minnich said she didn’t have time to hand off all of her work, but one of the documents she sent was vital: a 4,000-person contact list that included leads at primary care associations, employees in the region’s state offices for rural health, and organizations like the California Growers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034562\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034562\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/HHSGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/HHSGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/HHSGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/HHSGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/HHSGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/HHSGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/HHSGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Employees of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stand in line to enter the Mary E. Switzer Memorial Building on April 2, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Layoffs began earlier this week at the Health and Human Service Administration offices after it was announced last week that the Trump Administration plans to cut 10,000 jobs at HHS. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Minnich described her role as two-pronged: helping people connect with HRSA grant money and programs and making the programs work better for their needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the COVID-19 vaccine was rolled out in 2021, HRSA worked with the California Growers Association to vaccinate migrant farmworkers. It also regularly hosts grant workshops with community-based health centers that don’t have the bandwidth to hire an expert, and it connects primary care associations and clinics in rural areas with targeted health initiatives like the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program and another for all-inclusive elder care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are like ambassadors for the agency and liaisons between the general public, between HRSA grantees, [and] between health centers,” Minnich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also did public health surveillance and collected feedback about the efficiency of some of the federal HRSA initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This meant hearing: “‘Here’s the way that we feel like us in rural areas are being left out,’ or ‘Here’s a gap in policy where it doesn’t take into account these specific circumstances,’” she said. “We could relay those messages back to our leadership and to the different bureaus and offices that were in charge of coming out with the funding opportunities and with the policies surrounding these grants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the San Francisco office’s region, this work was especially important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When working with these Pacific Island jurisdictions and tribes, there’s so much knowledge and just so much trust that needs to be built before there’s any sort of successful partnership there,” Minnich said. “The amount of historical knowledge and experience and relationships that have sometimes taken decades to build … it feels like it’s all just being thrown out the window.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We are the connective tissue’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fay Gordon was a regional administrator for the Administration for Community Living, an agency that ensures states and territories adhere to federal laws related to community health and services for older adults and people with disabilities. 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