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June 16, 2010

San Fran Grand Nan's Office Extortion Plan

Posted by The MaryHunter at June 16, 2010 4:03 PM

Nancy Pelosi likes her home district offices big. Big, and expensive.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi upgraded her San Francisco district office last fall when she moved into a new office building with a rent of almost $19,000 a month, paid for by taxpayers.

That's over a quarter of a million bucks a year, folks. It's enough to account for hiring about 2,900 new census workers for one day, before firing them and hiring them again the next week.

Roll Call reports that's the highest rent for any House member's office, and almost double the next-highest. Pelosi's staff maintains the new office space is nearly a third larger, has increased security measures and saves taxpayer money through its energy-saving features.

You've got to be saving some pretty serious energy in order to cover a rent like that.

This may not be quite as audacious as billing We the People for personal travel by her family, but this mad grab for prime office space certainly seems like an attempt by Pelosi to extract whatever she can from the little people, before her clout as Speaker evaporates in November 2010.