Nancy Pelosi
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Posted by Mike Scott on October 16, 2009 at 08:48:10
Former House Speaker, a Republican, served in the House from Georgia from 1978 and as House Minority Whip in 1989. He was Speaker of the House from 1995 to 1999. During that time he never made use of military air craft.Speaker Nancy Pelosi does otherwise. The Pentagon provides the House Speaker with an Air Force plane large enough to accommodate her staff, family, supporters, and members of the California delegation when she travels around the country. But, Pelosi wanted routine access to a larger plane. It includes 42 business class seats, a fully-enclosed state room, an entertainment center, a private bed, state-of-the-art communications system, and a crew of 16. Pelosi wanted "carte blanche for an aircraft any time," including weekend trips home to San Francisco . Pretty nice but very expensive perk! Her Air Force C-32 costs approximately $15,000 an hour or approximately $300,000 per trip home.
Speaker Pelosi's home district includes San Francisco. Star-Kist Tuna's headquarters are in San Francisco, Pelosi's home district.. Star-Kist is owned by Del Monte Foods and is a major contributor to Pelosi. Star-Kist is the major employer in American Samoa employing 75% of the Samoan workforce.
Paul Pelosi, Nancy 's husband, owns $17 million dollars of Star-Kist stock. In January, 2007 when the minimum wage was increased from $5.15 to $7.25, Pelosi had American Samoa exempted from the increase so Del Monte would not have to pay the higher wage. This would make Del Monte products less expensive than their competition's.When the huge bailout bill was passed earlier this year, Pelosi added an earmark to the final bill adding $33 million dollars for an 'economic development credit in American Samoa .'
If senior executives of a Fortune 500 company would present such poorly conceived proposals to their board of directors, such as Pelosi’s Star-Kist additions, her illegal immigration machinations, her health care aspirations, ect., they’d be fired in the elevator before they even reached the board room. This country is really in trouble when its legislators allow their ideologies to overwhelm their intellects for something that’s little more than arsenic for the future of our nation. Looking past Pelosi’s 90 second, robotic smiles, we’re looking at a pathetic legislative failure.