{"id":873,"date":"2008-10-31T15:52:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T23:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/31\/speaker-pelosi-heckled-during-press-confernceasked-why-she-refuses-to-debate-opponents\/"},"modified":"2022-11-03T06:57:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:57:40","slug":"speaker-pelosi-heckled-during-press-confernceasked-why-she-refuses-to-debate-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/873\/speaker-pelosi-heckled-during-press-confernceasked-why-she-refuses-to-debate-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Pelosi Heckled During Press Conference<br>Asked Why She Refuses to Debate Opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4dEujRU6uG4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4dEujRU6uG4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>October 31, 2008<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was interrupted during a press conference earlier today and asked why she refuses to debate her opponents in the race for the eighth congressional district.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi was speaking to media at the law offices of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran &amp; Arnold to urge California voters to approve <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210411011813\/https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/wiki\/index.php\/California_Proposition_1A_(2008)\">Proposition 1A<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, Cindy Sheehan campaign manager Tiffany Burns asked Pelosi: &#8220;Speaking of Congress, why won&#8217;t you debate Cindy Sheehan? She&#8217;s your opponent here in San Francisco.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Excuse me,&#8221; Pelosi said.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;ll answer any question you want, but we have an issue here, OK?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/mw2w2959_std.jpg\" alt=\"mw2w2959_std.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSpeaker Nancy Pelosi<br \/>\n<strong>Photo by Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--> Pelosi said she would address Burns&#8217; question &#8220;privately&#8221; following the press conference. However, Pelosi did not keep her promise and left the event under tight escort.<\/p>\n<p>The last time Pelosi debated any of her opponents was in 1987 when she first sought election to Congress following the death of Rep. Sala Burton.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi&#8217;s job approval rating slipped to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/23\/mckinney-joins-forces-with-sheehan-to-unseat-pelosi\/\">all time low<\/a> after she failed to bring an end to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan as promised when Democrats took control of Congress in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nancy Pelosi can spend her time ignoring the voters and ignoring the issues,&#8221; Sheehan said in a statement, &#8220;but Cindy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cindyforcongress.org\/\">Sheehan For Congress<\/a> won&#8217;t let her get away with ignoring us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Luke Thomas October 31, 2008 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was interrupted during a press conference earlier today and asked why she refuses to debate her opponents in the race for the eighth congressional district.&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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