ACLU Ad Targets Reid And Pelosi

August 20, 2007
ACLU Targets Reid And Pelosi

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The Incompetent Media: Pelosi's scarf and visit to Syria

April 4, 2007
The Incompetent Media: Pelosi's scarf and visit to Syria

News reports in the Associated Press and the New York Post, and an editorial in Investor's Business Daily, quoted Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney criticizing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) by saying that "being seen in a head scarf and so forth is sending the wrong signal to the people of Syria and to the people of the Middle East," without noting that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and first lady Laura Bush have both done the same when visiting the Middle East.

House security chief: Pelosi didn't ask for plane; I did

February 9, 2007
House security chief: Pelosi didn't ask for plane; I did

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not request a larger plane for personal use to travel cross-country without stopping, Bill Livingood, the House sergeant at arms, said Thursday.

Livingood said the request was his, and he made it for security reasons.

"The fact that Speaker Pelosi lives in California compelled me to request an aircraft that is
capable of making non-stop flights for security purposes, unless such an aircraft is unavailable,"
Livingood, who has been at his post for 11 years, said in a written statement.

Pelosi Poll Higher Than Gingrich

January 19, 2007
Pelosi Poll Higher Than Gingrich

Thirty-four percent of respondents gave the 11-term California representative a favorable rating,
up from 27 percent who did so in a poll conducted in December. Forty-one percent of those surveyed -- a plurality -- said they still hadn't heard enough about her to form an impression, down from 50 percent who had no opinion in December. Twenty-one percent rated her unfavorably, a number that is unchanged from the December poll.

Gingrich Precedent

By contrast, a Los Angeles Times poll in January 1995 found that Gingrich, who engineered the
Republican congressional landslide in 1994, had more unfavorable ratings, at 39 percent, than
favorable, at 26 percent. In September 1996, almost two years after he became speaker, Gingrich's negative rating reached 54 percent.