Christine Pelosi said at an event Saturday that she is “not running against” Supervisor Connie Chan “ever,” pushing back on speculation that Rep. Nancy Pelosi had only endorsed Chan so she could serve as a placeholder for her daughter.
“I heard a cockamamie thing, that somehow we’re endorsing Connie so I can run against her,” Christine Pelosi told Chan and a few dozen of her supporters and donors at a Saturday afternoon house party in the Mission District titled “Women for Connie Chan.”
“I’m running for state senate,” she continued. “I’m not running against you, ever, so let’s just be clear.”
Her remarks appeared to be a response to a rumor that has gained traction since Nancy Pelosi’s endorsement of Chan May 18, and even surfaced in the San Francisco Chronicle’s endorsement of Sen. Scott Wiener this weekend.
The Chronicle pointed to whispers that “Pelosi is not-so-secretly trying to keep the seat warm” for her daughter, citing a Boston Globe opinion piece and implying that the Speaker Emerita is only supporting Chan so she can be later knocked out by Christine Pelosi.
The younger Pelosi pushed back on that Saturday.
“They have all sorts of crazy things that they come up with, because they can’t really understand where all your momentum is coming from,” she said. “But we know where it is. Labor knows where it is, the community that believes in you knows where the momentum is coming from. It’s coming from the people.”
In a statement, Chan’s campaign spokesperson, Ian Krager said, “Connie’s focus is on San Francisco working families who deserve better than the baseless conspiracy theories of Scott Wiener’s desperate campaign.”
Since endorsing Chan two weeks before the June primary, Speaker Emerita Pelosi has thrown her full support behind her handpicked successor. She has held fundraisers, helped secure endorsements and sent a trusted aide to bolster Chan’s campaign.
“We want it to be a nice, big victory for Connie Chan for Congress of the United States,” Pelosi said during an August fundraiser for Chan in Chinatown.
Saturday’s event was also attended by supervisors Jackie Fielder, Chyanne Chen and former supervisor Sophie Maxwell.
Disclosure: The Connie Chan house party was hosted by a member of Mission Local’s board.
Yeah Christine, we know. If Connie Chan wins, she will decide to “explore other opportunities” or “spend more time with her family” when you are ready to run for the seat. Your denial was worded in a weird way that dodged the actual rumor.
Show me a Pelosi that’s trustworthy. I’ll wait. Insider trading isn’t illegal in Congress.
Is this an announcement that Pelosi II is running against Wiener in 2028?
No. Wiener is going to leave the State Senate one way or another. If he is elected to Congress this November, he will have to resign from the State Senate, and there will be a special election in 2027. If he loses the Congressional race, he stays in the State Senate until 2028, but then he can’t run again due to term limits. Christine Pelosi announced a while ago that she is going to run for Wiener’s State Senate seat when he leaves, whether that’s in 2027 or 2028.
More people in Chan’s own District – District 1 – voted for Scott than for her in the primary. The ones who know her best from the past 6-7 years she’s been the supervisor.
Tech billionaire funded and real estate luxury development politician Scott Weiner protecting society from AI is the election season’s biggest fraud.
“It’s always fun to watch someone in politics talk about creating to solutions to a problem they created. Mayor Daniel Lurie, who was so determined to “bring downtown back” that he threw out the welcome mat for every AI company around, now has to admit there’s a “rent emergency.” That problem exists to a great extent because of AI company money.
So he’s got a plan, he says, to address it. He calls it a “rent relief” package. It includes not one dollar of rent relief.
It includes nothing to prevent evictions, except this:
‘Legislation sponsored by Mayor Lurie will increase by 25%, nearly $3,000 per person, required payments to tenants being displaced under the Ellis Act to reflect the increased cost of finding a new apartment in San Francisco’.”
Tim Redmond 48hills.org
We had our chance in the primary to actually do something about the Weiner/Pelosi/Chan problem, but the citizens of SF were too cowardly to vote against getting punched in the face. I’ll never understand it because it doesn’t make rational sense. Then again, welcome to the city that an AI is building…that’s why it sucks.
Awww sad SF babies don’t like getting called out for being chronically civically lazy
Why is Trump donor fascist crypto/surveillance oligarch Chris Larsen pouring money into Wiener’s campaign?
Bye bye Scott Weiner. You and your nasty, desperate campaign tried creating a racist, xenophobic and misogynistic AI chat bot. You tried spreading nonsensical rumors and you’re still losing. People just don’t like you scott, mostly because your +15 year record of housing legislation has harmed thousands of San Franciscans and Californians.