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When both are denied, the courts become the only option left.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Last December, Align applied to demolish the Safeway at 11 and 15 Marina Blvd. and replace it with a two-tower mixed-use commercial and housing development. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The proposal was met with swift opposition from neighbors and has split local officials, some of whom say it would tower over the surrounding neighborhood and could obstruct Bay views. The 18-plus-story glass towers, right on the waterline of the affluent Marina District, would be especially stark. Erin Roach, the president of the Marina Community Association, previously told KQED that the building would be “roughly six times taller than anything around it.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie and Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, who represents the area, have both previously opposed the project. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sherrill and a coalition of residents asked the city in June to find the site ineligible for development under AB 2011, arguing that the law requires at least 75% of the site’s perimeter to adjoin to parcels developed with “urban uses,” while they said Fort Mason and another city-owned parcel surrounding the Safeway are restricted for maritime and recreational use.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The planning department wrote in response that it considers the site surrounded by urban uses. Planning Director Sarah Dennis Phillips also wrote in a July 20 letter that the property is not on a list of hazardous waste sites in the state. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Other city supervisors, along with state Senator Scott Wiener and Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, both of whom worked on AB 2011, have expressed support for the project, which would provide more than 800 new residential units, including 86 affordable homes — as the city races to meet lofty state goals to build \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/news/2025-03-19/why-and-where-san-francisco-needs-allow-more-homes-housing-element-primer\">82,000 housing units\u003c/a> by 2031.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The streamlined approval process created by the law exempts projects from Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors votes, as well as a California Environmental Quality Act review. The project also uses California’s “density bonus” law that lets developers override local zoning requirements and build taller, so long as they include affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs are asking a judge to reverse the city’s streamlining decision and require Align to comply with and complete all health and safety requirements before the project can move forward. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Blue trucks with 'pg and e' logo on them sit parked in a lot with the white and black blurry pattern of a fence in the foreground\" class=\"wp-image-11943199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">PG&E trucks sit inside a Mission District facility owned by the utility. 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Both the proposed tax and the service cuts that would occur if voters do not approve the tax would affect the city’s economy in a number of ways, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260303-MUNIFILE00411_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12075355\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260303-MUNIFILE00411_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260303-MUNIFILE00411_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260303-MUNIFILE00411_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Passengers exit a Muni train at West Portal Station in San Francisco on March 3, 2026. 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Base rates for multi-family parcels start at $249; nonresidential and mixed-use parcels start at $799, with additional tax levied if parcels exceed a base square footage.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Taking into account all the variables — including the cost of the tax to property owners, preventing travel-time delays for businesses and residents, and impacts to the local economy and labor market — the net economic impact from the passage of the parcel tax is positive, according to the report. In a high-end economic impact scenario, the tax would create over 1,400 jobs and grow the city’s gross domestic product by about $400 million on average over the next 15 years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Proposition H is supported by San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, as well as the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and Labor Council.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260630-MUNI-30-FOOT-BUSES-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12089405\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260630-MUNI-30-FOOT-BUSES-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260630-MUNI-30-FOOT-BUSES-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260630-MUNI-30-FOOT-BUSES-MD-06-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The 39 bus drives through the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco on June 30, 2026. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco voters weigh in on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12087755/san-francisco-voters-will-vote-on-munis-future-in-november\">parcel tax\u003c/a> measure to fund Muni this November, a new economic impact report released Wednesday by San Francisco’s Office of the Controller projects the sweeping toll that massive service cuts to the city’s public transit agency will have. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This analysis suggests that the potential service cuts would be far worse for the local economy than the parcel tax,” the report states. “They would make it more expensive for employers to create jobs in the city, make workers less productive, and consume residents’ leisure time, hurting their quality of life.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If passed, Proposition H would generate an estimated $184 million annually for Muni — which faces the largest budget deficit in its history — through an annual tax on residential, nonresidential and mixed-use property owners based on the square footage of their property over the next 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If voters reject Proposition H, the agency warns it will be forced to reduce service frequencies by up to 50% while suspending less popular routes and its historic trains and cable cars. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Given the dire financial outlook, the city’s analysis treated reduced Muni service as a baseline scenario, and Proposition H’s passage as an alternative scenario. Both the proposed tax and the service cuts that would occur if voters do not approve the tax would affect the city’s economy in a number of ways, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260303-MUNIFILE00411_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12075355\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260303-MUNIFILE00411_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260303-MUNIFILE00411_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260303-MUNIFILE00411_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Passengers exit a Muni train at West Portal Station in San Francisco on March 3, 2026. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The findings state that reduced Muni service would result in a “poorer-performing” transportation system. The Office of the Controller estimated a labor market impact between $30 million and $48 million annually, due to workers dealing with delayed commutes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“San Francisco’s extremely high labor productivity is partly a function of the number of people who can access jobs here,” the report states. “When slower commuting reduces that number, overall productivity is affected.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nonwork trip delays would result in a decline in the amenity value — a measure of the quality-of-life benefits a resource provides to those living in San Francisco — by $118 million to $197 million per year, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Property values will take a hit in either scenario: The report estimates that Muni service cuts would reduce residential property values by as much as 0.9%, or around $14,100 on average, given current housing prices, as a reduction in transportation accessibility can reduce property values. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nonresidential properties, such as offices, retail buildings and hotels, will be more impacted, suffering up to a 1.2% drop in property values on average across the city, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The city makes the case that the tax is a better deal for residential property owners, driving down property values by less than service cuts would, at 0.2% on average over the 15-year life of the tax.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The report says the reverse is true for nonresidential property owners who will see a bigger drop in property values over the life of the tax — as much as 1.9% — than they would with service cuts because they bear a higher percentage of the parcel tax’s burden. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>About 25% of the tax would be paid by residential property owners, while the remaining 75% would be paid by nonresidential property owners, the report says. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Under the tax, most single-family homeowners would pay $129, with added fees for homes that exceed 3,000 square feet. Base rates for multi-family parcels start at $249; nonresidential and mixed-use parcels start at $799, with additional tax levied if parcels exceed a base square footage.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Taking into account all the variables — including the cost of the tax to property owners, preventing travel-time delays for businesses and residents, and impacts to the local economy and labor market — the net economic impact from the passage of the parcel tax is positive, according to the report. In a high-end economic impact scenario, the tax would create over 1,400 jobs and grow the city’s gross domestic product by about $400 million on average over the next 15 years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Proposition H is supported by San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, as well as the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and Labor Council.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260630-MUNI-30-FOOT-BUSES-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12089405\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260630-MUNI-30-FOOT-BUSES-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260630-MUNI-30-FOOT-BUSES-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260630-MUNI-30-FOOT-BUSES-MD-06-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The 39 bus drives through the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco on June 30, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Safe, affordable, reliable transit gets our kids to school, people to work, and our seniors to the grocery store,” Lurie said in a statement. “As we make critical investments in Muni, we will continue to make it more accountable and more reliable so we can serve every San Franciscan.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The measure is opposed by the San Francisco Republican Party, which argues the measure writes a blank check to the city’s Municipal Transit Agency but does not require the SFMTA, which runs Muni, to cut costs, hit efficiency targets or act on recommendations from a mandated efficiency review. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s top street-safety advocates are accusing the campaign pushing to reopen the Great Highway of misappropriating pedestrian-safety imagery and falsely suggesting that restoring the road would make the Sunset neighborhood safer. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This couldn’t be further from the truth,” the executive directors of the city’s bike- and pedestrian-safety organizations, along with the CEO of urban policy think tank SPUR, wrote in a letter they planned to release to voters Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The pedestrian-safety advocates allege that supporters of Proposition G, which would reopen the shuttered stretch of the Great Highway to cars on weekdays, have used “misleading, cherry-picked” data to suggest that closing the road has significantly increased traffic injuries. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>They call on the Yes on G campaign to cease using pedestrian-safety imagery and language in its campaign materials to suggest that reopening the road would bring about “safe streets.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Our organizations have spent decades working to make San Francisco streets safer for people walking, biking and rolling, and especially for kids,” the leaders said. “That’s why we feel compelled to write this letter.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12079379\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-18-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Visitors spend time at Sunset Dunes, a park on the former Great Highway roadway, in San Francisco’s Sunset neighborhood on April 9, 2026. 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(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In November, voters will again consider the fate of the 2-mile stretch of the Great Highway that connects the west side, from Lake Merced to the Richmond District. It’s been closed to cars since voters passed Proposition K in 2024, but a new ballot measure, Proposition G, would reopen the road on weekdays. The campaign says the road would remain part of the car-free park on weekends. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Proposition K came after the Great Highway had been temporarily shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic, transforming into a popular spot for walking, running, biking and socially distanced recreating.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The measure sailed to victory, passing by a margin of nearly 10%, and, since, Sunset Dunes has become the city’s third-most-visited park. The city has installed hammocks in the former median of the highway and commissioned murals and art pieces that now line the walking and riding path.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But the majority of voters who live closest to the Great Highway opposed its closure in 2024, and its status remains at the center of west side politics, leading to the recall of District 4 Supervisor Joel Engadrio in 2025 and a now-dismissed lawsuit challenging Proposition K. Earlier this year, Supervisor Alan Wong, who was appointed to replace Engardio, tried and failed to place a similar measure on the June ballot.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Proposition G qualified for the November ballot with 16,000 signatures in July. Since the campaign’s launch, it’s rebranded from the minimalist, yellow-and-black signage that became signature to the campaign’s No on Prop K and to recall Engardio, instead planting lawn signs that resemble pedestrian crossing signs, and promise “safe streets.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The signatories of Wednesday’s letter, including SPUR CEO Sean Elsbernd and the executive directors of Walk San Francisco, Safe Streets for All San Francisco and San Francisco Bicycle Coalition — Jodie Medeiros, Robin Pam and Christopher White, respectively — said the new branding misappropriates street-safety imagery and falsely suggests that the proposition would increase neighborhood safety. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Proposition G’s campaign website says that traffic injuries “on streets closest to the Great Highway rose 34% after the closure,” and restoring the road as a weekday route would move traffic off of neighborhood streets and “back onto the road built to carry it.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12079370\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A bicyclist rides through Sunset Dunes, a park on the former Great Highway roadway, in San Francisco’s Sunset neighborhood on April 9, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The facts that the proponents of this ballot measure are throwing out in terms of statistics of traffic impact are not grounded in reality,” Elsbernd said. “And we want the electorate, who has to decide on this ballot measure, to see the facts. Then they can make up their own mind.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to the letter, multiple news outlets’ independent analysis of city crash data have found no increase in injuries in District 4, which includes Sunset Dunes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Elsbernd said Wong, whose ballot-measure campaign first floated the 34% traffic-injury-increase figure, declined SPUR’s request to meet as it considered its stance on Prop G. When the organization asked proponents who did address it about the data, Elsbernd said they deflected and did not respond. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It is pretty clear that residents affected by the closure have real traffic safety concerns,” said Jamie Hughes, leader of the Yes on G campaign. “The focus should be on alleviating these concerns and making our streets safer, not engaging in political battles to fit some ideology.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hughes did not respond directly to questions about specific traffic injury data.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Yes on G campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sunset Dunes supporters have acknowledged that the road closure does slow some travel in the west side avenues — Elsbernd said this has specifically impacted western Richmond District residents trying to drive south. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-24-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12079381\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-24-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-24-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260409-SunsetDunesAnniversary-24-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A sign for Sunset Dunes, a park on the former Great Highway roadway, in San Francisco’s Sunset neighborhood on April 9, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That is an undeniable fact, but I would argue that, for a city of 800,000 people, it is a fact that SPUR is willing to accept,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Reopening the road in November is likely to be an uphill battle — even on the west side. The majority of the Board of Supervisors, including Myrna Melgar, who represents the Inner Sunset and Park Merced, have opposed the idea. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>We’ve all been there — running down the sidewalk as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-muni\">Muni\u003c/a> bus pulls to a stop just across the street. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But recently, some \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> riders have complained that as they weigh whether to break a sweat trying to catch a ride, they aren’t able to tell what line they’re rushing toward.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When you’re picking up a bus on Market [Street], and 20 people are waiting for 5 different buses … ‘Which bus is this’ is the hot topic of conversation,” one Reddit user wrote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In August, buses’ front signs started to alternate displays of “Fare Required” with the usual line information and destination, which San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency spokesperson Erica Kato said is part of the agency’s “Fares For Our Future” campaign, aimed at increasing payment compliance as Muni weathers major funding shortfalls.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260911-FareRequired-NG-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12099241\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260911-FareRequired-NG-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260911-FareRequired-NG-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260911-FareRequired-NG-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Muni bus marquee says “Fare Required” in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond neighborhood on Sept. 11, 2026. (Nina Glick/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some commuters, however, have said that the change has inadvertently led them to board the wrong bus in recent weeks — without the classic orange-LED line numbers plastered on their headsigns.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Others said that some of the signs have a different message, reading “Mask Required,” though that variation is likely an accidental holdover from COVID-era policies on some onboard computers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>To improve compliance, Muni said it’s hiring additional fare inspectors to issue fines to those who don’t pay and increasing awareness of discounts for seniors, youth and low-income riders. The agency will also continue to modernize its payment collection methods and require SFMTA employees to tap agency-issued Clipper cards instead of showing their staff badges as proof of payment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We consistently hear from the public that many people are frustrated when they see other people not paying for their rides,” SFMTA said in a statement last month. “Designed in part to address that feedback, Fares for Our Future includes a comprehensive package of 100-day and 6 month+ actions. We care about the future of Muni and know you do as well.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Kato said the message is displayed on a changeable sign, and only flashes “Fare Required” for a few seconds before returning to the line and destination name.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The headsign message is expected to continue through late November, just after San Franciscans cast their votes on a proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12087755/san-francisco-voters-will-vote-on-munis-future-in-november\">parcel tax to fund Muni\u003c/a>, which the agency has said is necessary to keep buses running. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While some riders have been confused or frustrated by the change, others think the messages are a worthy reminder.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Regardless, most seem pretty aligned on one thing: “There’s no good reason not to have the route number static on the screen 100% of the time,” Redditor Erik_em wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>Remember that stretch of Highway 101 through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> that was closed over the Labor Day weekend earlier this month? It’ll be closed again this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Over a mile of 101 near Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital will be \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-4/d4-news/2026-08-19-us101-nb-bayshore-freeway-hospital-curve-upcoming-full-closures\">fully closed to all northbound traffic \u003c/a>starting the night of Friday, Sept. 18 and won’t reopen until early morning on Monday, Sept. 21. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>These closures on what’s known as the “Hospital Curve” part of 101 will affect not only drivers trying to drive from the South Bay and Peninsula to the East Bay or North Bay — including people arriving at San Francisco International Airport — but also anyone wanting to travel through the city on this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260822-zuckerbergsfhospitalfile-00101_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12096569\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260822-zuckerbergsfhospitalfile-00101_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260822-zuckerbergsfhospitalfile-00101_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260822-zuckerbergsfhospitalfile-00101_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center is located at 1001 Potrero Avenue in San Francisco on Aug. 22, 2026. (Tâm Vũ for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>This weekend closure is part of Caltrans’s ongoing work on what the agency calls “the Fab 4”: 101’s Hospital Curve, I-280, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12080206/whats-the-deal-with-i-80-and-sfs-central-freeway-heres-a-brief-history\">Central Freeway\u003c/a> and 19th Avenue. The work is coming on the heels of\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12078991/i80-101-closure-san-francisco-weekend-april-17-18-19-bay-bridge-detour-traffic-alternative-route\"> April’s major Interstate 80 closure \u003c/a>through San Francisco and last month’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12093934/carquinez-bridge-closure-update-weekend-i-80-westbound-alfred-zampa-memorial-bridge-crockett-vallejo-detours-august-21-24\">highway shutdown over the Carquinez Bridge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>With the upcoming 101 work, “all of those lanes are going to be completely closed to traffic so that major pavement work can happen,” said Lori Shepherd, Caltrans’ Bay Area public information officer. “Basically, they’re putting on a brand new repaving [on] the whole entire road.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#northbound\">When exactly will 101 through San Francisco be closed?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#detour\">What kind of detour will I have to take?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Warning: Delays and detours ahead\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Shepherd said that drivers should know that “this is going to be a major, major impact,” and that any travelers planning to drive in San Francisco during the weekend closure should expect sizable delays getting through the city — not just around 101, but on surrounding streets and detours.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Shepherd said that the greatest traffic impacts from the closure could be felt around Cesar Chavez and 17th streets, as well as around Potrero Avenue — and also on entrances to I-280.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Caltrans is urging travelers wherever possible to take \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/trip-planner\">public \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/planner\">transportation \u003c/a>to travel through San Francisco this weekend, instead of using the roads.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It “really remains the best option to bypass congestion and work zone delays — because there \u003cem>will \u003c/em>be some major delays getting through the city,” warned Shepherd. Delays from the closures could also have a knock-on effect on other routes through the city.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But if you \u003cem>really \u003c/em>have to drive through San Francisco this weekend, what should you know about timings, detours and delays?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what we know about navigating the upcoming 101 closure without having your weekend completely hijacked by traffic.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>(And a heads up that in October, there’ll be \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-4/d4-news/2026-09-09-us101bayshore-freeway-full-closure\">two more weekend Hwy 101 closures\u003c/a> — this time on the southbound side — between Cesar Chavez Street and 10th Street. These closures will take place Oct. 2-5 and Oct. 16-19.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"northbound\">Where will northbound 101 through San Francisco be closed?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>All northbound lanes on 101 between Cesar Chavez Street and 10th Street will be closed to traffic — a 1.2-mile stretch of highway.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Any drivers on northbound 101 approaching this closure will be forced to take the Cesar Chavez Street/Potrero Avenue off-ramp before the closed area.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>All southbound lanes on 101 will remain open during the closures of the northbound lanes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When will the northbound 101 closures in San Francisco take place?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Closure starts: 11 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 18\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Closure ends: by 6 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 21\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"detour\">I need to drive north through San Francisco during the closures. 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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>Shepherd attributed the length of the multiple closures — first Labor Day weekend, now this weekend — to the sheer scope of the “24-7” repaving work being undertaken on 101 at this time.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>According to the traffic data Caltrans consulted, “holiday weekends actually are [a] lower volume of traffic,” she said. “So we knew that this would be a good weekend to come in and get the work done as quickly as possible.”\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Remember that stretch of Highway 101 through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> that was closed over the Labor Day weekend earlier this month? It’ll be closed again this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Over a mile of 101 near Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital will be \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-4/d4-news/2026-08-19-us101-nb-bayshore-freeway-hospital-curve-upcoming-full-closures\">fully closed to all northbound traffic \u003c/a>starting the night of Friday, Sept. 18 and won’t reopen until early morning on Monday, Sept. 21. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>These closures on what’s known as the “Hospital Curve” part of 101 will affect not only drivers trying to drive from the South Bay and Peninsula to the East Bay or North Bay — including people arriving at San Francisco International Airport — but also anyone wanting to travel through the city on this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260822-zuckerbergsfhospitalfile-00101_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12096569\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260822-zuckerbergsfhospitalfile-00101_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260822-zuckerbergsfhospitalfile-00101_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260822-zuckerbergsfhospitalfile-00101_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center is located at 1001 Potrero Avenue in San Francisco on Aug. 22, 2026. (Tâm Vũ for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>This weekend closure is part of Caltrans’s ongoing work on what the agency calls “the Fab 4”: 101’s Hospital Curve, I-280, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12080206/whats-the-deal-with-i-80-and-sfs-central-freeway-heres-a-brief-history\">Central Freeway\u003c/a> and 19th Avenue. The work is coming on the heels of\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12078991/i80-101-closure-san-francisco-weekend-april-17-18-19-bay-bridge-detour-traffic-alternative-route\"> April’s major Interstate 80 closure \u003c/a>through San Francisco and last month’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12093934/carquinez-bridge-closure-update-weekend-i-80-westbound-alfred-zampa-memorial-bridge-crockett-vallejo-detours-august-21-24\">highway shutdown over the Carquinez Bridge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>With the upcoming 101 work, “all of those lanes are going to be completely closed to traffic so that major pavement work can happen,” said Lori Shepherd, Caltrans’ Bay Area public information officer. “Basically, they’re putting on a brand new repaving [on] the whole entire road.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#northbound\">When exactly will 101 through San Francisco be closed?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#detour\">What kind of detour will I have to take?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Warning: Delays and detours ahead\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Shepherd said that drivers should know that “this is going to be a major, major impact,” and that any travelers planning to drive in San Francisco during the weekend closure should expect sizable delays getting through the city — not just around 101, but on surrounding streets and detours.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Shepherd said that the greatest traffic impacts from the closure could be felt around Cesar Chavez and 17th streets, as well as around Potrero Avenue — and also on entrances to I-280.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Caltrans is urging travelers wherever possible to take \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/trip-planner\">public \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/planner\">transportation \u003c/a>to travel through San Francisco this weekend, instead of using the roads.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It “really remains the best option to bypass congestion and work zone delays — because there \u003cem>will \u003c/em>be some major delays getting through the city,” warned Shepherd. Delays from the closures could also have a knock-on effect on other routes through the city.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But if you \u003cem>really \u003c/em>have to drive through San Francisco this weekend, what should you know about timings, detours and delays?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what we know about navigating the upcoming 101 closure without having your weekend completely hijacked by traffic.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>(And a heads up that in October, there’ll be \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-4/d4-news/2026-09-09-us101bayshore-freeway-full-closure\">two more weekend Hwy 101 closures\u003c/a> — this time on the southbound side — between Cesar Chavez Street and 10th Street. These closures will take place Oct. 2-5 and Oct. 16-19.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"northbound\">Where will northbound 101 through San Francisco be closed?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>All northbound lanes on 101 between Cesar Chavez Street and 10th Street will be closed to traffic — a 1.2-mile stretch of highway.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Any drivers on northbound 101 approaching this closure will be forced to take the Cesar Chavez Street/Potrero Avenue off-ramp before the closed area.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>All southbound lanes on 101 will remain open during the closures of the northbound lanes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When will the northbound 101 closures in San Francisco take place?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Closure starts: 11 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 18\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Closure ends: by 6 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 21\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"detour\">I need to drive north through San Francisco during the closures. 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As a journalist, I started thinking about how she went from being relatively unknown to one of the most formidable politicians of her generation, and about the role she’s played leading up to this political moment, a moment where faith in the Democratic Party and public trust in U.S. Institutions are at their lowest in decades. And she agreed to talk, a series of five interviews. Okay, we’re gonna put you right there I wear the red light.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: Unfortunately, this is not visual because I got off the plane. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Our first interview, she had just gotten off a cross-country flight, she was also nursing a cold, but I knew how to get things started on the right foot.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: I’m glad I’m seeing that. I’m going to go right into it, okay? I think I should test them.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Nancy Pelosi is kind of a tough interview. I’ve done it many times before, usually about a political issue. She’s always warm and gracious until you ask something that annoys her and then she lets you know it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: I don’t feel that way at all. I don’t even know why you’re asking that question. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: She can be loyal to her talking points. Frustrating. How do you want people to remember your legacy?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Not so fast on the legacy. We have to win the house, which we will do. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: She’ll completely deny the premise of your question. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: No, I didn’t oppose it for many years. I posed it when they suggested it, and then Kalka said they won it and I supported it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: But I figured this is the time, right now, before she leaves office, to really reckon with the force that is Nancy Pelosi. From KQED, this is The Speaker, how Nancy Pelosi changed the face of power. This is the inside story of her rise and what she did when she got there, as told by the people who were in the rooms where it all happened.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Anna Eshoo: Nancy always would talk about winning and how to win. I said, Mr. President, we’re so excited about doing health care, but understand this, it’s going to be carpet bombing, take no prisoners, you name it, total warfare.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rahm Emanuel: She is comfortable with power and exercising it. Nancy exists in the arena. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mick Mulvaney: I’ve often described it with a little bit tongue-in-cheek, because I’m not going to accuse anybody. I want to make clear here that I’m not slandering anybody, I’m not accusing anybody of any criminal activity, but she reminded me of a mafia boss. That’s how she ran the place.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: They were going to get a bullet in my effing brain. You know, they used the F word a lot about me throughout the whole thing. They were gonna hang Vice President Gallows for him.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Today, how Nancy Pelosi got to Congress. She had been the ultimate insider, working for years as a high-up official in the Democratic Party, forged by San Francisco politics. But also an outsider, a woman, a mother of five kids, behind the scenes. Had you not ever considered running with her?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: I had zero interest in running for office. Why? It was like, did you not want to go skydiving? I didn’t even think of it. I loved public service, and I was the ultimate volunteer, the chair of the California Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: There she was, diligently working behind the scenes, until a twist of fate tested what she was made of. Nancy Pelosi never planned to run for public office, but in 1987, San Francisco’s congresswoman, Sala Burton, was dying. She was a big woman. She was, like, shrunk up on cancer. That’s John Burton, Sala’s brother-in-law, part of the family’s political operation. Let me set the scene here. The congresswoman is on her deathbed. She hasn’t yet endorsed a successor, but her endorsement is priceless. Her family has held this seat since the \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>John Burton: She calls the group of us back to her hospital bed, where she’s just like, and she tells us, I’m not going to run again. I’d like you to support Nancy Pelosi. She starts going into Nancy Pelosi, she’s operational. She’s right on the issue. She says, she said, he said, and I walk out, she says, is she bullshitting or what?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: John Burton didn’t see Nancy Pelosi as a candidate. She was the Democratic fundraiser, organizer, behind the scenes. But Sawa saw it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>John Burton: Something else. She saw in Nancy Pelosi a tough, strong, determined, liberal, caring for people person. I mean, it was just, I walked out and I said, holy my God. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: She said to me, I’m going to ask you if you will run for my seat, and I need to know your answer now.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Pelosi told Salah she had to check with her family first. She had five kids. By 1987, only one was still living at home.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: My daughter Alexandra, she says, mother, what teenage girl does not want her mother out of the house three nights of the week? Then she said, get a life.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Maybe her youngest daughter didn’t really see it, but Pelosi definitely had a life. She moved her family to San Francisco in 1969, just a couple years after the Summer of Love, a time when the city was home to artists like Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane. Pelosi was hardly a member of the counterculture, but insists she loves the Gratiful Dead. For those first few years, she had her hands full with the kids.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: Especially, I have five and six years to have to understand. Sometimes I didn’t even wash my face. Being a mom is probably the best preparation for anything because you are multitasking all of the time.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: But politics was in her DNA. She’d grown up in a political family. Her dad became the mayor of Baltimore when she was just seven. San Francisco is her husband Paul’s hometown. The year they moved back, his brother Ron was on the board of supervisors. They lived down the street from San Francisco mayor Joe Alioto.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: When people came and saw our house, they would say, oh, this is a big house. We’ll have lots of political events here.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: And you did.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: And we did. How do you turn people down then? And my kids were so cute as they were getting a little bit bigger, they were making the hors d’oeuvres and serving the hors-d’oeuves and the rest of that.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: She started taking on more political stuff, organizing volunteers, hosting candidates in her home, raising money. She became a prolific fundraiser for Democratic candidates. In 1976, California Governor Jerry Brown decided to run for president. A left coast challenge to Jimmy Carter.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jerry Brown: Ten years of problems in Vietnam and Watergate and all the scandals you read about in the FBI and the CIA. I think people, I think the people are ready for a new generation of leadership.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Brown entered the race pretty late in the game, but Pelosi used her Baltimore political connections to help him win Maryland’s Democratic primary. Here’s another candidate, Barbara Mikulski. Pelosi helped her win a Senate seat.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Barbara Mikulski: [00:09:44] I was out there going earring to earring with Linda Chavez. She had Ronald Reagan, and I had Nancy Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: By 1981, Pelosi was chair of the California Democratic Party, in charge of getting Democrats elected all across the state. She had a reputation for being relentless, but she was also known for her personal touch. When Nancy talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the world. That’s Art Agnos, a former mayor of San Francisco and also, by the way, my ex-boss. I worked on his staff from 1986 to 1992. That was before I became a reporter for KQED in 1998. Anyway, Art remembers going over to Pelosi’s house for dinner back in the 70s. He was just a staffer himself back then. She invited us to her home for dinner with Leo, who was the main person. Art’s talking about Leo McCarthy. McCarthy was the speaker of the state assembly. That’s California’s version of the House of Representatives. She made sure that… \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Art Agnos: I brought my kids? No one ever said bring your kids. Pelosi even had her kids babysitting his kids, taking them upstairs to the bedroom, playing games. Her kids are taking care of my kids. I was the staff guy. She generated a kind of loyalty and love from my family that came from her attentive, thoughtful, sweet interest in us.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: This is what Sala Burton saw in Nancy Pelosi, according to Art.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Sala Burton anointed Nancy Pelosi to be her successor. After she died on February 1st, there would be a primary just two months later, in April, to pick the top candidate for each party. So now the race was on. Sala’s brother-in-law, John Burton, would run Pelosi’s campaign and they would use the Burton playbook.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Phil Burton: No person is an island under themselves. We all need each other and we’ve got each other, I promise you that.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: That’s Phil Burton, John’s older brother, Sal’s husband, a chain-smoking giant in San Francisco politics. The Burton political machine specialized in something that seems pretty standard today — coalition politics. They mobilized groups other politicians overlooked. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Their coalition was gay. It wasn’t LGBT as it is today, but you know, it was, it wasn’t called that. Gay, African-American, labor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Phil Burton put it a little differently.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Phil Burton: I’ve got the support of the gays and the cops as well, ain’t that a bitch? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Willie Brown: We ran everything at that day’s game. We were the most diverse operation politically in this city, period. And Nancy was a part of that.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: That’s another former San Francisco mayor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Willie Brown: I’m Willie Brown, period. I was part of Phil Burton’s operation. What do you remember about her? Well, I just remember that she was a very attractive woman. Oh, very opinionated, I must say.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: She sort of had an unlikely friendship with John, who once accidentally left cocaine in the pocket of a suit he sent to the dry cleaners.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Willie Brown: In the drinking world. John was all the things that you wouldn’t even think Nancy would know about. But they had a friendship.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Close with the Burtons, raised campaign funds for them, but she also helped their rivals within the party.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Willie Brown: I’m telling you.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: She had her whole body in both camps.” Her campaign chose the slogan, a voice that will be heard. Her campaign promised all the other candidates could talk, but with her connections and her experience, she would be the most effective at doing things in Congress. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Willie Brown: It was not like she was going to be the next Jesse Jackson. No, Nancy was the pro who was going to help orchestrate the process.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: She pulled together a team of field captains who had experience with the United Farm Workers Union to set up her ground game. An army of volunteers knocked on doors, made phone calls, staffed campaign events and signed up other volunteers to get out the vote on election day. At one point, Pelosi’s brother Tommy came to visit campaign headquarters in San Francisco. He’d been the mayor of Baltimore just like their father.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: And he said, Daddy sent me to make sure that you had your ground game in place. So I said, well, come see what it is.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: On sheets of butcher paper, Pelosi and her team had mapped out the strategy in true Burton fashion. They had divided up the city into factions and were seeing how they could make a winning coalition, gaming out worst-case scenarios.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: Every black vote, Asian, gay vote, the lefties, if we give them every possible vote, not that they would get every possible, Nancy loses by a couple thousand votes. We have sent our troops out to get 5,000 more votes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Their team sent targeted mailers to different communities—Italian, African American, gay—and they quietly slipped some to Republicans. John Burton again. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>John Burton: I’d go to things with her, go to that, and just watch her. One time some group was kind of screwing over her and walked out and she says, don’t worry, we will show them how truly unimportant they are after the election.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: But, she wasn’t going to take a single vote for granted. Before she ran for the House in 1987, Pelosi had run in one other election inside the party for chair of the Democratic National Committee. That’s the group that coordinates strategy, establishes the Democratic Party platform. She lost. And she learned a lesson she never forgot.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: I had done everything in the party and worked with many people. People that I had worked with forever were making terrible statements about me.\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Pelosi said she was the target of all sorts of attacks, including sexist ones. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: So when I ran for Congress, and people would call me and say, did you see what someone so said? I said, yeah, don’t bother me with that. If you’re concerned about that, get on the phone and make some calls, walk some precincts, but don’t think I care about what somebody else says. And I would not have realized that had I not seen how Democrats treated Democrats when I run for the other office.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Democrats against Democrats, a knife fight in a phone booth. That’s what Pelosi was entering in the primary. Against a motivated opponent fighting for a city reeling from a deadly epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Where did it go?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: This is an old news clip from 1987. A singer charms a crowd with a famous Judy Garland cover.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Politics in San Francisco, a fundraiser in a cabaret that caters to gays. At this event, the candidate is gay as well, Democrat Harry Britt.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: The bar is packed with gay and lesbian supporters. The sign at the door reads, We’re just wild about Harry Britt.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: While he would be a political outsider elsewhere in the country with his progressive agenda, he fits in easily in San Francisco. Liberal credentials are essential. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Harry Britt was a San Francisco supervisor and Nancy Pelosi’s toughest rival. He was soft-spoken, with a serious tone, kind of an intellectual, a little socially awkward. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Harry Britt: I’m from Texas and I come from a family of Southerners. I was a Methodist minister for a major part of my life and that was\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: That was Britt in a TV interview. He never intended to run for office. Like Pelosi, he was more behind the scenes. In 1977, he volunteered to help elect Harvey Milk to the board of supervisors. Milk was the first openly gay person elected in California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Harvey Milk: There are 15 million lesbian and gay men waiting to hear your voice! We are coming out of the closet! When are you going to come out of yours?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: The next year, Harvey Milk was assassinated, along with the mayor at the time, George Moscone. The killer was Dan White. He had been on the board of supervisors with Milk. A year before he died, Harvey milk made a recording. A list of people he would want to replace him if he were assassinated. And who was on that list?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Harvey Milk: The third choice I would have would be Harry Britt, who most people don’t know, but I’ve watched Harry, and Harry’s been involved with three campaigns, and I’ve watched Harry grow and grow and grow, and a very, very dedicated and strong person. One who will not be pushed around. One who understands where the movement is and where it must go. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Harry Britt again.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Harry Britt: Harvey’s gone, but all of us who cared about him and the things that he stood for realize now that it’s our job.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tom Ammiano: The murders unified, made us cohesive, and that translated into political muscle. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Tom Amiano was active in the gay rights movement, friends with Harvey Milk, and Harry.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tom Ammiano: Harvey was very charismatic and out there, and Harry was just a steady, even presence.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: In the early 80s, the community was still reeling from the assassinations, and then another deadly threat emerged. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tom Ammiano: AIDS was rampant. Every day somebody died. Every day you saw somebody with purple splotches or you’d say, hey, what happened to Michael? He was supposed to show. You didn’t hear, he died.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: I moved to San Francisco in 1981, just as some gay men started coming down with some unusual symptoms. Thrush or yeast infections in the throat that wouldn’t go away, fungal infections in the lungs, lesions on the skin, weight loss. Doctors didn’t know why, but soon they were dying. As the casualties mounted, so did the fear. There was no test for the virus yet. We didn’t even know it was a virus. Many of us were worried, afraid we had this ticking time bomb inside of us. But there was nothing to do but be careful and wait. It escalated quickly. By 1984, it became common to see people with full blown AIDS emaciated, looking old beyond their years, covered with purple splotches, Kaposi sarcoma. We’d see men who looked to be at death’s door, slowly walking or shuffling around the Castro neighborhood. There were funerals, lots of funerals, many for people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. It was a slow motion disaster. But it seemed no one in Washington cared. Harry Britt again. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Harry Britt: So I think it’s legitimate for us to point out that the people who care the most about AIDS and certainly the gay community which cares in a passionate way about AIDS is very united behind my candidacy.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: These were the stakes of the 87th Special Election. In that Congressional race, many saw Harry Britt, not Pelosi, as the champion the gay community needed in Washington. It was also a chance to make history.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gwenn Craig: It was beyond who’s Harry Britt, it was beyond whose Nancy Pelosi. It was that we might get an openly gay member of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: That’s Gwen Craig. She came to San Francisco in 1975. She worked closely with Milk and would become involved in Harry Britt’s campaign.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gwenn Craig: The nonchalance, it seemed, of Congress and the executive administrations just was maddening.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: The CDC first published an article describing five young gay patients in Los Angeles whose immune systems suddenly failed in 1981. But President Reagan didn’t publicly address the crisis for four years, only then because he was asked about it. By 1987, nearly 2,000 San Franciscans had died of AIDS. I remember a lot of people in the gay community thought that Pelosi, a wealthy, straight, white woman, wasn’t the best person to fight for them in Washington. The Brit campaign didn’t hold back. Here’s one ad they ran.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Archival Ad: Inspector Riley, Missing Person Squad. Yeah, we’ve heard that report. No, we haven’t seen Nancy Pelosi. That’s why she’s a missing person. Nobody has seen Nancy. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Britt’s campaign sent out mailers calling her a dilettante.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: Most people didn’t know what that meant.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Pelosi again. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: And they said, does that mean you’re a debut talent? Aren’t you old to be a debut? They did one piece.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gwenn Craig: Call that referred to Nancy Pelosi as party girl because she came from being head of the Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Gwen Craig again, Lesbian Activist. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gwenn Craig: I didn’t like that piece at all.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: What was it that you didn’t like about it?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gwenn Craig: Well, I thought it was rather misogynist. You know, I though it was sexist. I thought that it belittled her in a way because of her gender. So I became then uncomfortable with my support of Harry for a while after that.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: They warned us it would be brutal, and it would a bloodbath, and I’d be sorry I ever got in the race, but I wasn’t frightened by any of that.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Pelosi did something in 1987 that she rarely does. She agreed to a televised debate a week before the election, right here at KQED. Pelosi was the front-runner. She had a lot to lose.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Nancy Pelosi, a Democratic Party insider, runs ahead in recent polls. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Harry Britt was close on her heels. In addition to being part of the gay movement, he was a democratic socialist. He believed in challenging corporate power structures, and once tried to rein in wealthy landlords with commercial rent control.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: A gay activist who is to the left of his chief opponents. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Just before the debate, Pelosi’s campaign threatened to pull out. Her staff was worried the other candidates would gang up on her.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Calm down a little bit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: It was a free for all, with all 14 candidates left, right and center. It made for great live television.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Mr. Zur, this is not a forum for you just to make a speech. At this point in this discussion, we are—you’ve got a lot of words in.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: The moderators asked if her critics were right, that she was out of touch. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: But there are a lot of people who seem to be disturbed by, I guess, where you come from. The idea of your wealth and your connections among the well-to-do. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: And Harry Britt questioned whether she could be trusted to fight for everyday people.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Harry Britt: How can you be an effective advocate for consumer issues like keeping interest rates low on credit cards when you’ve gotten money from banks and savings and loan associations? How can really fight to get oil companies to clean up toxic waste when you got money from Chevron and Getty and all these people? I challenge Nancy Pelosi who has never had to stand up to that kind of pressure.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Based on available campaign finance records, we couldn’t verify if Pelosi took money from Chevron for her campaign. But members of the influential Getty family, her family friends who made their fortune in oil, did donate $5,000 to her congressional campaign. But Pelosi pointed her finger and returned fire.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Harry, have you taken any PAC money? Have you taken a PAC money. I have not taken any money. Any PAC money, have any you taken PAC money \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Britt’s campaign was mostly grassroots funded, but Pelosi? Her campaign spent around a million dollars, more than the other 13 candidates combined. Pelosi also self-funded, giving more than $200,000 to her own campaign.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: How can she relate to people like me, a single parent, working mother, or somebody else?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Another candidate, San Francisco City Supervisor Carol Rue Silver, jumped in. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Problems are different. She’s never met a payroll. She has never had to worry about child care. She has not had a kid in a public school. She never worried about the things that worry most of the people in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Let’s let Nancy answer.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: First of all, my ability to fund my own campaign to the extent that I can and to raise money over 1,500 contributors to my campaign gives me an independence that none of my candidates, I believe, share, especially the four supervisors who were reported this week to have received $1,000 each from the Embarcadero Center and then voted to give them a street this week. So if you want to talk about independence, let’s talk about Independence.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Pelosi knew that she needed to do something to neutralize the idea that she was beholden to wealthy interests. So she counterpunched by saying to her opponents, well, you’re not exactly pure either. According to federal campaign fundraising data, each of the four city supervisors did receive a thousand dollar contribution from the CEO of the Embarcadero Center. That’s a set of high-rise office buildings downtown. We couldn’t verify the claim that he got a favor in return. But she’s doing something here by implying that. She’s undercutting them. It’s a classic campaign tactic, pointing out the hypocrisy in your opponent’s charge. After the primary, that same CEO gave $1,000 to Pelosi’s campaign for Congress. That’s politics. Pelosi has always argued that the PAC money she took was from Democratic allies who cared about regular people. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Labor unions, from the Nurses Association, from organizations dedicated to the election of women to Congress.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: To her, raising money was just a means to an end. This was the late 80s. 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It’s edited by Padmini Raghunath. Final mix and sound design by Christopher Beale. Additional mixing by Brendan Willard. Fact checking by Mark Betancourt. Additional editing from Anna Sussman and Jen Chien, KQED’s director of podcasts. Original theme song composed by Cedric Wilson. Additional music from APM. Maha Sanad is KQED’s podcast engagement producer. Ethan Toven-Lindsey is KQED’s editor-in-chief. Special thanks to our partners from the Oral History Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television, and radio artists, San Francisco, Northern California Local. \u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Hi, I’m Scott Schafer. I’ve been covering politics for nearly 30 years, especially here in San Francisco. As a reporter, I’ve watched a lot of people rise from San Francisco into the national arena. Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Dianne Feinstein. But no one has fascinated me more than Nancy Pelosi, trailblazer, power broker, lightning rod, first woman ever speaker of the house. \u003c/p>\n",
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As a reporter, I’ve watched a lot of people rise from San Francisco into the national arena. Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Dianne Feinstein. But no one has fascinated me more than Nancy Pelosi, trailblazer, power broker, lightning rod, first woman ever speaker of the house. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Tonight on Express, the campaigning has been intense. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: I remember watching her way back in 1987. That was the first time she was running for Congress here in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: We do have 14 candidates here, so can we keep this discussion on an even scale? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: This is from a televised debate hosted here at KQED, the public media outlet where I work. All the candidates are sitting on risers, lots of poofy, teased hair, wide-framed glasses, and Pelosi is in the front row, perfect blowout, wearing a purple blazer. [00:00:57][15.8]\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: I think this is the most hilarious thing that a woman can come into this district from outside of it and buy this election. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: [00:01:04] Pelosi’s critics, mostly other Democrats, call her a wealthy socialite. They say she’s the establishment pick. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: And what we have is we have, in this election, somebody saying, the machine backs me, I’ve got a million bucks, I don’t live in your district, I have never met many of your slobs, but I’m going to be your new leader because I got bucks and I’m powerful. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: How can she relate to people like me a single-parent working mother? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Let’s let Nancy talk. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: I don’t think you have to be sick to be a doctor or poor to understand the problems of the poor. I have spent my life committed to the ideals of the Democratic Party. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: It’s an interesting moment, Pelosi turns their argument around, saying that she’s the right candidate precisely because she’s been working behind the scenes. She knows the game inside out. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: I believe that I will be the best and most effective representative for San Francisco because I have worked in that arena for 25 years, both at the local, state, and national level. I have work with the members of Congress long before they went to Congress and long since. I have persuaded them on votes, both by one-on-one persuasion and by mobilizing in their districts.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Last year, Pelosi announced she was retiring. As a journalist, I started thinking about how she went from being relatively unknown to one of the most formidable politicians of her generation, and about the role she’s played leading up to this political moment, a moment where faith in the Democratic Party and public trust in U.S. Institutions are at their lowest in decades. And she agreed to talk, a series of five interviews. Okay, we’re gonna put you right there I wear the red light.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: Unfortunately, this is not visual because I got off the plane. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Our first interview, she had just gotten off a cross-country flight, she was also nursing a cold, but I knew how to get things started on the right foot.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: I’m glad I’m seeing that. I’m going to go right into it, okay? I think I should test them.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Nancy Pelosi is kind of a tough interview. I’ve done it many times before, usually about a political issue. She’s always warm and gracious until you ask something that annoys her and then she lets you know it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: I don’t feel that way at all. I don’t even know why you’re asking that question. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: She can be loyal to her talking points. Frustrating. How do you want people to remember your legacy?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Not so fast on the legacy. We have to win the house, which we will do. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: She’ll completely deny the premise of your question. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: No, I didn’t oppose it for many years. I posed it when they suggested it, and then Kalka said they won it and I supported it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: But I figured this is the time, right now, before she leaves office, to really reckon with the force that is Nancy Pelosi. From KQED, this is The Speaker, how Nancy Pelosi changed the face of power. This is the inside story of her rise and what she did when she got there, as told by the people who were in the rooms where it all happened.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Anna Eshoo: Nancy always would talk about winning and how to win. I said, Mr. President, we’re so excited about doing health care, but understand this, it’s going to be carpet bombing, take no prisoners, you name it, total warfare.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rahm Emanuel: She is comfortable with power and exercising it. Nancy exists in the arena. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mick Mulvaney: I’ve often described it with a little bit tongue-in-cheek, because I’m not going to accuse anybody. I want to make clear here that I’m not slandering anybody, I’m not accusing anybody of any criminal activity, but she reminded me of a mafia boss. That’s how she ran the place.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: They were going to get a bullet in my effing brain. 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She was a big woman. She was, like, shrunk up on cancer. That’s John Burton, Sala’s brother-in-law, part of the family’s political operation. Let me set the scene here. The congresswoman is on her deathbed. She hasn’t yet endorsed a successor, but her endorsement is priceless. Her family has held this seat since the \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>John Burton: She calls the group of us back to her hospital bed, where she’s just like, and she tells us, I’m not going to run again. I’d like you to support Nancy Pelosi. She starts going into Nancy Pelosi, she’s operational. She’s right on the issue. She says, she said, he said, and I walk out, she says, is she bullshitting or what?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: John Burton didn’t see Nancy Pelosi as a candidate. She was the Democratic fundraiser, organizer, behind the scenes. But Sawa saw it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>John Burton: Something else. She saw in Nancy Pelosi a tough, strong, determined, liberal, caring for people person. 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We have sent our troops out to get 5,000 more votes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Their team sent targeted mailers to different communities—Italian, African American, gay—and they quietly slipped some to Republicans. John Burton again. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>John Burton: I’d go to things with her, go to that, and just watch her. One time some group was kind of screwing over her and walked out and she says, don’t worry, we will show them how truly unimportant they are after the election.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: But, she wasn’t going to take a single vote for granted. Before she ran for the House in 1987, Pelosi had run in one other election inside the party for chair of the Democratic National Committee. That’s the group that coordinates strategy, establishes the Democratic Party platform. She lost. And she learned a lesson she never forgot.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: I had done everything in the party and worked with many people. People that I had worked with forever were making terrible statements about me.\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Pelosi said she was the target of all sorts of attacks, including sexist ones. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: So when I ran for Congress, and people would call me and say, did you see what someone so said? I said, yeah, don’t bother me with that. If you’re concerned about that, get on the phone and make some calls, walk some precincts, but don’t think I care about what somebody else says. And I would not have realized that had I not seen how Democrats treated Democrats when I run for the other office.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Democrats against Democrats, a knife fight in a phone booth. That’s what Pelosi was entering in the primary. Against a motivated opponent fighting for a city reeling from a deadly epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Where did it go?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: This is an old news clip from 1987. A singer charms a crowd with a famous Judy Garland cover.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Politics in San Francisco, a fundraiser in a cabaret that caters to gays. At this event, the candidate is gay as well, Democrat Harry Britt.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: The bar is packed with gay and lesbian supporters. The sign at the door reads, We’re just wild about Harry Britt.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: While he would be a political outsider elsewhere in the country with his progressive agenda, he fits in easily in San Francisco. Liberal credentials are essential. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Harry Britt was a San Francisco supervisor and Nancy Pelosi’s toughest rival. He was soft-spoken, with a serious tone, kind of an intellectual, a little socially awkward. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Harry Britt: I’m from Texas and I come from a family of Southerners. I was a Methodist minister for a major part of my life and that was\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: That was Britt in a TV interview. He never intended to run for office. Like Pelosi, he was more behind the scenes. In 1977, he volunteered to help elect Harvey Milk to the board of supervisors. Milk was the first openly gay person elected in California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Harvey Milk: There are 15 million lesbian and gay men waiting to hear your voice! We are coming out of the closet! When are you going to come out of yours?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: The next year, Harvey Milk was assassinated, along with the mayor at the time, George Moscone. The killer was Dan White. He had been on the board of supervisors with Milk. A year before he died, Harvey milk made a recording. A list of people he would want to replace him if he were assassinated. And who was on that list?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Harvey Milk: The third choice I would have would be Harry Britt, who most people don’t know, but I’ve watched Harry, and Harry’s been involved with three campaigns, and I’ve watched Harry grow and grow and grow, and a very, very dedicated and strong person. One who will not be pushed around. One who understands where the movement is and where it must go. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Harry Britt again.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Harry Britt: Harvey’s gone, but all of us who cared about him and the things that he stood for realize now that it’s our job.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tom Ammiano: The murders unified, made us cohesive, and that translated into political muscle. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Tom Amiano was active in the gay rights movement, friends with Harvey Milk, and Harry.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tom Ammiano: Harvey was very charismatic and out there, and Harry was just a steady, even presence.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: In the early 80s, the community was still reeling from the assassinations, and then another deadly threat emerged. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tom Ammiano: AIDS was rampant. Every day somebody died. Every day you saw somebody with purple splotches or you’d say, hey, what happened to Michael? He was supposed to show. You didn’t hear, he died.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: I moved to San Francisco in 1981, just as some gay men started coming down with some unusual symptoms. Thrush or yeast infections in the throat that wouldn’t go away, fungal infections in the lungs, lesions on the skin, weight loss. Doctors didn’t know why, but soon they were dying. As the casualties mounted, so did the fear. There was no test for the virus yet. We didn’t even know it was a virus. Many of us were worried, afraid we had this ticking time bomb inside of us. But there was nothing to do but be careful and wait. It escalated quickly. By 1984, it became common to see people with full blown AIDS emaciated, looking old beyond their years, covered with purple splotches, Kaposi sarcoma. We’d see men who looked to be at death’s door, slowly walking or shuffling around the Castro neighborhood. There were funerals, lots of funerals, many for people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. It was a slow motion disaster. But it seemed no one in Washington cared. Harry Britt again. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Harry Britt: So I think it’s legitimate for us to point out that the people who care the most about AIDS and certainly the gay community which cares in a passionate way about AIDS is very united behind my candidacy.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: These were the stakes of the 87th Special Election. In that Congressional race, many saw Harry Britt, not Pelosi, as the champion the gay community needed in Washington. It was also a chance to make history.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gwenn Craig: It was beyond who’s Harry Britt, it was beyond whose Nancy Pelosi. It was that we might get an openly gay member of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: That’s Gwen Craig. She came to San Francisco in 1975. She worked closely with Milk and would become involved in Harry Britt’s campaign.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gwenn Craig: The nonchalance, it seemed, of Congress and the executive administrations just was maddening.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: The CDC first published an article describing five young gay patients in Los Angeles whose immune systems suddenly failed in 1981. But President Reagan didn’t publicly address the crisis for four years, only then because he was asked about it. By 1987, nearly 2,000 San Franciscans had died of AIDS. I remember a lot of people in the gay community thought that Pelosi, a wealthy, straight, white woman, wasn’t the best person to fight for them in Washington. The Brit campaign didn’t hold back. Here’s one ad they ran.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Archival Ad: Inspector Riley, Missing Person Squad. Yeah, we’ve heard that report. No, we haven’t seen Nancy Pelosi. That’s why she’s a missing person. Nobody has seen Nancy. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Britt’s campaign sent out mailers calling her a dilettante.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: Most people didn’t know what that meant.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Pelosi again. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: And they said, does that mean you’re a debut talent? Aren’t you old to be a debut? They did one piece.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gwenn Craig: Call that referred to Nancy Pelosi as party girl because she came from being head of the Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Gwen Craig again, Lesbian Activist. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gwenn Craig: I didn’t like that piece at all.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: What was it that you didn’t like about it?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gwenn Craig: Well, I thought it was rather misogynist. You know, I though it was sexist. I thought that it belittled her in a way because of her gender. So I became then uncomfortable with my support of Harry for a while after that.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: They warned us it would be brutal, and it would a bloodbath, and I’d be sorry I ever got in the race, but I wasn’t frightened by any of that.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Pelosi did something in 1987 that she rarely does. She agreed to a televised debate a week before the election, right here at KQED. Pelosi was the front-runner. She had a lot to lose.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Nancy Pelosi, a Democratic Party insider, runs ahead in recent polls. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Harry Britt was close on her heels. In addition to being part of the gay movement, he was a democratic socialist. He believed in challenging corporate power structures, and once tried to rein in wealthy landlords with commercial rent control.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: A gay activist who is to the left of his chief opponents. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Just before the debate, Pelosi’s campaign threatened to pull out. Her staff was worried the other candidates would gang up on her.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Calm down a little bit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: It was a free for all, with all 14 candidates left, right and center. It made for great live television.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Mr. Zur, this is not a forum for you just to make a speech. At this point in this discussion, we are—you’ve got a lot of words in.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: The moderators asked if her critics were right, that she was out of touch. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: But there are a lot of people who seem to be disturbed by, I guess, where you come from. The idea of your wealth and your connections among the well-to-do. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: And Harry Britt questioned whether she could be trusted to fight for everyday people.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Harry Britt: How can you be an effective advocate for consumer issues like keeping interest rates low on credit cards when you’ve gotten money from banks and savings and loan associations? How can really fight to get oil companies to clean up toxic waste when you got money from Chevron and Getty and all these people? I challenge Nancy Pelosi who has never had to stand up to that kind of pressure.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Based on available campaign finance records, we couldn’t verify if Pelosi took money from Chevron for her campaign. But members of the influential Getty family, her family friends who made their fortune in oil, did donate $5,000 to her congressional campaign. But Pelosi pointed her finger and returned fire.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Harry, have you taken any PAC money? Have you taken a PAC money. I have not taken any money. Any PAC money, have any you taken PAC money \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Britt’s campaign was mostly grassroots funded, but Pelosi? Her campaign spent around a million dollars, more than the other 13 candidates combined. Pelosi also self-funded, giving more than $200,000 to her own campaign.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: How can she relate to people like me, a single parent, working mother, or somebody else?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Another candidate, San Francisco City Supervisor Carol Rue Silver, jumped in. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Problems are different. She’s never met a payroll. She has never had to worry about child care. She has not had a kid in a public school. She never worried about the things that worry most of the people in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Let’s let Nancy answer.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: First of all, my ability to fund my own campaign to the extent that I can and to raise money over 1,500 contributors to my campaign gives me an independence that none of my candidates, I believe, share, especially the four supervisors who were reported this week to have received $1,000 each from the Embarcadero Center and then voted to give them a street this week. So if you want to talk about independence, let’s talk about Independence.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Pelosi knew that she needed to do something to neutralize the idea that she was beholden to wealthy interests. So she counterpunched by saying to her opponents, well, you’re not exactly pure either. According to federal campaign fundraising data, each of the four city supervisors did receive a thousand dollar contribution from the CEO of the Embarcadero Center. That’s a set of high-rise office buildings downtown. We couldn’t verify the claim that he got a favor in return. But she’s doing something here by implying that. She’s undercutting them. It’s a classic campaign tactic, pointing out the hypocrisy in your opponent’s charge. After the primary, that same CEO gave $1,000 to Pelosi’s campaign for Congress. That’s politics. Pelosi has always argued that the PAC money she took was from Democratic allies who cared about regular people. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: Labor unions, from the Nurses Association, from organizations dedicated to the election of women to Congress.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: To her, raising money was just a means to an end. This was the late 80s. Money was changing politics as we knew it, and Pelosi was going to do everything she needed to do to win. You didn’t take any of that personally.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: No, I mean it’s a campaign. What do you expect?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Archival: There was a special election here in San Francisco today to fill a congressional seat left empty by the death of congresswoman Sala Burton.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: As the election got close, Pelosi had dropped in the polls, so election day was a nail-biter. Britt needed a big turnout in the predominantly gay Castro neighborhood, and he got that. But in the end, he could not overcome Pelosi’s ground game.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Archival: And here in San Francisco, the Democrat Nancy Pelosi defeated Harry Britt, a city supervisor who is gay.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Under rules for special elections like this one, the top contender from each party would move on to a runoff in June. Britt was out. Gwen Craig and Tom Amiano again. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gwenn Craig: People took it pretty hard. They were really disappointed, because I think a lot of people thought, we’re gonna actually get an openly gay person going to Congress. That’s going to be such a huge step forward.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tom Ammiano: We’re all in a little bit of despair. You know, who is this woman? What does she know?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: After she won the primary, Pelosi called a meeting with AIDS activists. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tom Ammiano: It wasn’t milquetoast ones, you know, it was angry ones. And they met with her. And I’m not saying that the reaction was 100% positive. I know that she shed some tears and I’m sure that they were sincere. But to the hard-bitten, we didn’t want tears.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Britt wasn’t the only person who understood the magnitude of the crisis. Pelosi also knew people who died of the disease, family friends, political staffers, people in her community.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: People were dying and I was visiting people in the hospital that we were close to and they were robust young men out there and then they were like a bag of bones in the hospitals, a bag a bones.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: During the election, Pelosi had also promised action on AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Archival: We want to stop spending money on a big defense budget and instead address it to the most important crisis of our time, the AIDS crisis.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: In the runoff, Pelosi easily defeated the Republican. She was on her way to Congress.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Archival of Pelosi’s Swearing In: Without objection, the gentlewoman from California is reckoned.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Archival of Pelosi’s Swearing In: Thank you very much for your kind remarks and to all of you. It’s a very sentimental day for me as you can see.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: When a new member of Congress is first sworn in, it’s kind of rare for them to say anything of note, let alone something controversial. But on that day, in June of 1987, Pelosi, sounding a little nervous, surprised everyone.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Archival of Pelosi’s Swearing In: And now we must take the leadership, of course, in the crisis of AIDS, and I look forward to working with you on that.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Now Brit’s supporters would have to put their faith in the person who defeated him. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: On a foggy morning in 1989, protesters unfurled a banner across the Golden Gate Bridge reading AIDS equals genocide, silence equals death, calling out the newly elected president and former Vice President George H.W. Bush.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: They blocked traffic for more than an hour. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mike Shriver: I was one of the persons that sat on the bridge on January 31st, 1989. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mike Shriver: It was so cold.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Since 1988 Mike Shriver had been organizing with act up a direct action group focused on AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: During Pelosi’s first full term in Congress, the deaths continued unabated. There was no vaccine, no cure, limited treatment. So people took to the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mike Shriver: It’s one of the proudest moments of my life, actually. And as we were being pulled one person at a time to being arrested, my mentor, he said to me, if I could feel the way that I feel right now, I will live forever. I will survive the epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: By 1988, Shriver and his peers had started focusing on how to change policy. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mike Shriver: This whole cadre of ACT UP individuals taught themselves how to become experts in research, experts in policy, experts in drug development. I happened to go down the track of the public health policy stuff.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: He remembers a meeting with Nancy Pelosi. He was there with someone who needed access to an experimental AIDS treatment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mike Shriver: I got to sit there in the room and he talked to Mrs. Pelosi and he said, I didn’t vote for you, but you’re my representative and I expect that you’ll take care of me. And she looked him deadpan and said, absolutely, that is my job.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: It was our purpose. That’s just the way it was. It wasn’t like, I really hope you will do this. This is absolutely urgent that you do this.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: When I asked Pelosi about her support for AIDS funding, she was very matter of fact about it. To her, it seemed like a no-brainer.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: Was not prepared for discrimination. Now these people were not anti-gay, they just thought the rest of the room was.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: For sure, Pelosi had solid allies, like California Congressmembers Barbara Boxer and Henry Waxman from Los Angeles. But they faced opposition because of the stigma of AIDS. And then activists had an idea.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: Cleve Jones came to my house with Art Agnos when I’m a newly elected member of Congress and says he has this idea that people will make a quilt for their loved ones. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Cleve Jones was a young activist who had worked for Harvey Milk. He later went on to mobilize the community to respond to HIV AIDS and co-created what became known as the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Tens of thousands of panels, handcrafted with care, by mothers and fathers, brothers, co-workers, friends, lovers and spouses, sewn into three by six foot panels. Panels for everyone, from musicians like Freddie Mercury of Queen and Sylvester. To political activists and artists like Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, to others who lived quieter lives but whose death crushed those who loved them. Jones had a vision. He wanted to spread huge sections of the quilt out on the National Mall in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: Enormous quilts, enormous, big as the mall. Pelosi was on board to help bring the quilt to DC, but there was a hitch.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED 1987 Debate Package: The National Park Service says, we’ll give you a corner where you can have a few patches. Can you imagine? So I said, well, they’re certainly not gonna do that.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: She asked the National Park Service, why can’t we display the full quilt? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: It’s gonna kill the grass, but why? Because if you have something on the grass for more than 20 minutes, it kills the grass.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Pelosi had an idea.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: We have hundreds of people, we can pick it up every 20 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: The National Park Service caved, and on October 11, 1987, the AIDS quilt was first displayed in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: It was so beautiful.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Archival – AIDS memorial quilt: Bill Cathcart. Bob Greenwood.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Across the National Mall, the names of the fallen echoed as Cleve Jones read some of them. I was there then.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Archival – AIDS memorial quilt: Douglas Lowery.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Pelosi was one of the few members of Congress there. Even then, she was laser-focused. She told a reporter for GayUSA…\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: Now, the first day I… \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: Became a member, I became a co-sponsor of the Gay Civil Rights Bill, Ted Weiss’ bill, and we have a few pieces of legislation regarding AIDS, more money for AIDS, confidentiality, non-discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: At a time when HIV AIDS still felt like a death sentence, Nancy Pelosi helped change the prognosis. Pelosi co-authored the Ryan White Care Act. Ryan White was a teenager from Indiana who had hemophilia. He got AIDS from a medical treatment. After his diagnosis, his school banned him from attending class. To some lawmakers, White was someone they could help without worrying about attacks by religious zealots who thought AIDS was God’s punishment of gay men and IV drug users. Pelosi understood this. Former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos again.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Art Agnos: She looked like the all-American woman. She was, she is beautiful. She had lovely kids, she had a handsome husband. What the hell is she doing with these weird people? When she showed up, she looks like us. How come she’s talking like that? And I think that gave her a entree to discussing AIDS, gay people, all the kinds of issues that are important to us in San Francisco. They listened because she looked like them.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: The Ryan White Care Act passed in 1990. It created a financial safety net for people with HIV who were underinsured. She also helped push through a bill that allocated funds that people with HIV could use for housing.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mike Shriver: I got to go with her, and I’m sitting there watching her work.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: That’s the conference between the House and Senate that divides up government funding. Mike Shriver remembers one instance.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mike Shriver: The very first year that she got the most significant increase for HIV prevention was a year that a senator from Pennsylvania looked for some money for substance abuse treatment that he needed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: That Senator, Arlen Specter, promised Nancy Pelosi he would restore her funding for HIV programs the next year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mike Shriver: He made the commitment to her and he did it. For her, you know, you live up to your word. And if you don’t remember your word, I’ll tell you what you told me. And I thought, that’s magic.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: Mike Shriver lives with HIV.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mike Shriver: I relied on Ryan White funding for my care and for my dental care and had I not had that, I would not have had access to the drugs that eventually had become what continue to keep me alive and keep me in remission with my HIV disease.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: So you’re saying she’s the reason you’re still here?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mike Shriver: I absolutely believe that.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: There’s this one thing Mike told me that really stuck with me. He was telling me about a text exchange he had with Nancy after a health emergency in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mike Shriver: I had just emailed her the day before talking about finishing my IVIG infusion, which took five consecutive days, which just flattened me out. And she wrote back, Michael, loved getting your promising report. Love you, Nancy. A couple of emojis and then thank you. I’m so lucky, I am so privileged. I do not ever underestimate, like I don’t take this for granted. Nancy is not really good about receiving compliments. It’s not her favorite thing to experience and I’ve had to do it a couple of times and realize I know this is gonna piss you off or it’s gonna make you a little bit mad but I need you to hear how important it is of what you’ve done for us. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: When Pelosi ran in 1987, her slogan was a voice that will be heard. And when Nancy Pelosi became the first woman Speaker of the House\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: San Francisco for giving me the privilege.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer: She brought it back home.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi: When I ran, my slogan was, a voice that will be heard. 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That’s really been sitting with me throughout this case,” said Renee Coe, who filmed police in riot gear breaking up the June block party when she was arrested. “It’s not really about these individual charges against us, but just the fact that the city is choosing to attack queer people during Pride weekend, while [it] advertises itself as a sanctuary.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1303\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/160719_The-Stud-Bar_bhs05.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12099746\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/160719_The-Stud-Bar_bhs05.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/160719_The-Stud-Bar_bhs05-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/160719_The-Stud-Bar_bhs05-1536x1042.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Patrons of The Stud Bar mingle outside. Founded in 1966, it’s one of San Francisco’s oldest gay bars. (Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In July, DA Brooke Jenkins charged 18 people, including Coe, with unlawful assembly, failure to disperse and resisting or obstructing an officer after police broke up an unofficial block party in the South of Market neighborhood during Pride weekend.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The annual unauthorized event held in the alley on Kissling Street between 11th and 12th streets, known as “Stud Alley,” has gone on for six years without major incident. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But on June 27, around 11 p.m., dozens of San Francisco Police officers arrived at the scene, where about 300 people were gathered, and told the DJ playing music there to clear the area. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While the party on Kissling broke up, a group reassembled nearby on Washburn Street. There, officers declared an unlawful assembly, and arrested 18 people who they said refused to disperse.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to SFPD, two vehicles and barricades were vandalized, and there was graffiti. In total, 20 people were arrested, cited and released during the event.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The police response prompted backlash from the queer community, particularly because the day prior, five people were arrested in the Tenderloin after the annual Trans March. 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