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Hey San Francisco-- do the nation a favor and stop voting for this disaster. She's an embarrassment.

Maybe the people of San Francisco aren't single issue voters. She has been a very strong supporter of gay rights, for example.

As would be virtually any replacement.

Actually, that might be a great way to get a third-party challenger in SF -- so far there have only ever been two openly gay people elected to congress as non-incumbents (i.e. they came out while already in office, but got re-elected), in Florida and Wisconsin. If anywhere is a good place for an openly gay person to run for congress, it's SF. I assume an actual gay or lesbian person would have higher LGBT cred than Pelosi.

Yes well she is also a politician and chooses what portions of the Constitution to uphold based on what will keep her in office [1]. This was the part of the constitution she decided to uphold two days ago.

[1] http://www.examiner.com/article/nancy-pelosi-congress-must-u...

I'm pretty convinced you can find supporters of gay rights in many political circles[1], you don't have to elect this disaster for that.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/01/cheney-offers-his-s...

Please don't elect that disaster either, though...

Get a Log Cabin republican to run...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_Cabin_Republicans

> She has been a very strong supporter of gay rights, for example.

Unless those gays would rather not be spied on.

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