[ The Huffington Post]House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may be in for the campaign battle of her life during the June 3 primary election. (We hope.).
Pelosi's opponent, Shirley Golub, says Pelosi has never had an opponent since she won her first race for Congress 20 years ago.
But Golub has been pulling the top spot for weeks at actblue.com, where bloggers supporting Democrats go to give campaign contributions. According to one source Golub is a lesbian who came "out" after divorcing her former husband.
Golub says she's received some spotty local media coverage, but just about no national coverage, even though the campaign involves the seat of the woman who is two heartbeats away from the presidency.
Shirley Golub is a former speech and language therapist, a realtor and entrepreneur who reports she got disgusted with Pelosi's not ending the war or putting impeachment back on the table.
She's running to win in Pelosi's very liberal San Francisco district and with limited resources and what she estimates at less than one tenth the funding Pelosi has (Pelosi has been reported to be the House's top fundraiser.) Golub says shes been getting a great response. "Some people bring up the point that she's speaker of the house, but I ask them what she's done for them. Nothing." But most people, she reports, agree with her that Pelosi has failed to stop the war, Pelosi has continued to fund the war and has kept impeachment of criminals Bush and Cheney off the table.
OUR TAKE: Democrats should vote for Shirley Golub in the June 3 primary for another reason: The Speaker’s blatant favoritism and bias against Hillary Clinton. Don’t like the Speaker’s heavy handed attempts to sink Clinton’s chances? VOTE FOR SHIRLEY GOLUB ON JUNE 3 AND SEND NANCY PELOSI A MESSAGE TO STOP PUTTING HER THUMB ON THE NOMINATING SCALE.
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