Do you think fake high-paying jobs are a sign of a political payoff? You would if Pelosi were a Republican.
What is your proof that the job is fake?
Do you think Pelosi's sons really works two full time jobs? One as a loan officer in San Mateo CA, the other as a senior VP to a data mining company HQ'd in Omaha? You have to say you do. You have to say there is nothing at all funny about this and anyone who thinks there is is a "swiftboater" - which by the way should be considered an honorable word.
It seems to me that you and Newsmax are embarrassing yourselves. On a first, second and third blush Paul Pelosi Jr. looks to be a virtual wunderkind who hardly fits the image of the political slacker riding his momma's coattails that you all are working so feverishly to create. Given his background and education, he could easily do both jobs. In fact, I suggest you leave his employment tenure to his two bosses.....I am sure they know what they are doing. I also encourage you to read the description of Pelosi's son and her incredibly competent family down below. I only wish GOPers were half as good.
And CJ, if you are reading this, you have reminded me on several occasions that Dems were once like the GOPers of today. I don't doubt you but it must have been quite a while ago.
the environmentalist
Paul Pelosi, Jr., is a policy maker, marathon runner, and carb-burning green machine.
By Lauren Collins
In January, 2007, a San Francisco magazine published a photo of a young man, his face half-obscured, under the headline "Guess Who's Reading The Nob Hill Gazette?" Tall, trim, and blue-eyed, he looked like a more earnest version of Luke Wilson. He may not be gracing the front page of The Washington Post yet, but 25 people guessed, correctly, that the mystery reader was Paul Pelosi, Jr. One of them was his sister Christine. He has three others, including the documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi. His cousin is Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco. His father is Paul Pelosi, Sr., the investor, and his mother (you might have guessed) is Nancy Pelosi, the recently ascended speaker of the House. If the Pelosis are America's new political dynasty, then Paul Jr. is its rising prince.
Lolla-Pelosi aside, Pelosi tries to keep a low profile. At 38, he doesn't drink, works out regularly at the Olympic Club, and, unless business calls, which it does increasingly, sticks close to home. His axis of leisure comprises San Francisco (hometown), Napa (the family retreat), and Tahoe (where skiing and jigsaw puzzles are to the Pelosi clan what touch football was to the Kennedys).
But lately, as president of San Francisco's Commission on the Environment, a position he was appointed to in 2003 by then mayor Willie Brown, Pelosi has been logging even more miles than he does in marathons. "If we think there's an environmental hazard that can be prevented, then we don't wait for that risk to emerge," he said recently over breakfast at a Greenwich Village café. "I'm a momentum person," he went on, ordering a breakfast of iced tea ("It's good to stay hydrated") and a three-egg omelet, which, coming from the food-is-strictly-fuel school of consumption, he deemed paltry. "If I was at home, I'd have six eggs," he said. "It's like a rocket ship—you want to have electricity in your veins." Pelosi—"Paulie" to the family—may not be a natural-born nomad but, materially speaking, he lives like one: specifically, in an apartment in San Francisco's Marina district, where he abstains from using heat or air conditioning and doesn't wash his clothes during peak energy consumption hours. He usually takes the electric bus, but when he does drive, it's a Smart car, a hand-me-down from Mom and Dad. The Commission on the Environment has no legislative power, but it recommends policy to area lawmakers, so Pelosi, who has both a J.D. and an M.B.A. from Georgetown, believes in leading by example.
"What we try and do," he said, "is identify it on the human level. I try and make it part of your experience, your food, your home." So far the commission has succeeded in, among other initiatives, eliminating Styrofoam takeout containers in San Francisco and securing funding for an exploration into tidal-power turbines under the Golden Gate Bridge, which could one day provide as much as 6 percent of the city's energy. Pelosi would like to levy a fee on plastic grocery bags (17 cents per bag), a plan that seems likely to pass.
It's hard to imagine Jenna or Barbara Bush, Pelosi's Republican counterparts of sorts, asking excitedly at 8:00 a.m., "Are you familiar with the precautionary principle?" Or "Do you know that San Francisco recycles 67 percent of all materials it uses?" So is Pelosi bucking the second-generation-slacker role in favor of a career in politics? He responds with a "who me?" smile: "I think Mom handles that pretty well at this point."
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