San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi has finally weighed in on potential heirs to her nearly 40-year reign in Congress — giving a nod to a left-wing pol who’strailing badly in polls.
The longtime San Francisco rep and former House speaker lavished praise on Connie Chan, a member of the Board of Supervisors representing west side neighborhoods — though she stopped short of making an official endorsement.
“She’d be a great member of Congress,” Pelosi said in a rare interview Thursday, per theSan Francisco Standard.
The powerful Den said it’d be “very exciting” to send an Asian American congressional rep to Congress for the first time in the city’s history. (San Francisco is roughly one-third Asian American.)
Polls show Chan — a union favorite who’s endorsed by Sen. Adam Schiff, SEIU California and the San Francisco Labor Council — competing for second place with tech millionaire Saikat Chakrabarti, who’s spent some $5 million of his own money on the race.
Chan has rallied in favor of Prop. D, a so-called “Overpaid CEO tax” that would increase business taxes on companies with large gaps between the earnings of the top executive and a median San Francisco worker. Critics have slammed the measureas a job-killerin the economically fragile city.State Sen. Scott Wieneris backed by just under half of San Francisco voters, according to recent surveys.
Pelosi attended a fundraiser for Chan in Washington, DC, saying she did “very well.”
“I thought, for a while, I’d just wait, watch, and see how the public reacted to the candidates for this seat,” Pelosi said of her lack of a formal endorsement.
Chan was elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2020. She immigrated with her family from Taiwan to San Francisco when she was 13, settling in Chinatown.
She chairs the Board of Supervisors’ budget committee and is linked with San Francisco’s progressive faction — which is often at odds with big business, police and and housing developers.
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