Journeys With Nancy?
We hear there was grumbling among House Democrats yesterday when documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), tried to bring her digital camera into the members-only caucus at which her mother was elected Minority Leader.
The writer-director of "Journeys with George," the HBO documentary about George W. Bush's presidential campaign, has been following her mom around Capitol Hill this week and recording events for posterity. Yesterday Nancy Pelosi's opponents, Tennessee's Harold Ford Jr. and Ohio's Marcy Kaptur, agreed to let her daughter attend the closed-door meeting in the Cannon Caucus Room, but the younger Pelosi was told to leave the camera outside.
Instead she gave it to avocational photographer Sam Farr, a member from California and staunch Pelosi partisan who videotaped portions of the secret proceedings. "She didn't slip the camera to me; I demanded that she give it to me because I like to record history," Farr told us. "My style as a photographer is photojournalism -- so my focus was people .... I think Alexandra and I will have to decide what we do with the video, depending."
Farr added: "Whatever grumbling there was came from the staffers. I didn't hear anything from members....We're the party of transparency." But another witness, who asked for anonymity, told us: "Some members were grumbling that it was inappropriate and disrespectful to have a camera in a closed caucus meeting. One member said, 'This is not George Bush's press plane.' " Our efforts to reach Alexandra Pelosi were unsuccessful.
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