Jamie Stiehm in dailyherald: Three women of San Francisco who have been helping reshape America.
So, what city gave America the only woman House speaker, the most senior senator and the first woman vice president?Few give props to San Francisco for making -- or breaking -- American history. But a trifecta of Democratic women in high places is no coincidence.As a journalist who's seen them in action and once lived in the late great columnist Herb Caen's"City," let me offer some thoughts on Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Vice President Kamala Harris.
by signing up you agree to our terms of service You probably know her heroics on Jan. 6, 2021, the day an armed mob stormed the Capitol, some howling and hunting for her by name.I witnessed the siege and will never forget that Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence insisted Congress finish the job of counting electoral votes.During the forlorn pandemic, Pelosi kept the lights on in the Capitol.
What you may not know is that Pelosi was packed to go to Afghanistan, when Trump canceled the military plane. Feinstein rushed to dying Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone when they were assassinated in City Hall in 1978.
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