Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., didnt grow up on the streets of San Francisco, although her district represents the west coast city.
Pelosi has a secret she grew up in a corrupt political dynasty that helped run Baltimore into the ground.
Her father, Thomas DAlesandro Jr., was mayor of the city during the height of Jim Crow racial segregation and used racial tensions in the city for his political gain.
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The effects of DAlensandros reign from 1947 to 1959, the time of the post-World War II economic boom, forced many African-Americans into what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called rat-infested slums in cities like Baltimore and Chicago.
Under Democratic leadership, little has gotten better in Baltimore in the past 50 years.
In many ways, things have only gotten worse and much of it can be traced directly to Pelosis family legacy.
DAlesandro Jr. oversaw the dedication of Confederate monuments in the city while he was mayor the very same monuments Pelosi called reprehensible in 2017.
Today, with our nation beset by subversive groups and propaganda which seeks to destroy our national unity, we can look for inspiration to the lives of Lee and Jackson to remind us to be resolute and determined in preserving our sacred institutions. We must remain steadfast in our determination to preserve freedom, not only for ourselves but for the other liberty-loving nations who are striving to preserve their national unity as free nations, DAlesandro Jr. said at the dedicationof a Confederate monument in 1948.
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When discussing Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, DAlesandro Jr. said: In these days of uncertainty and turmoil, Americans must emulate Jacksons example and stand like a stone wall against aggression in any form that would seek to destroy the liberty of the world.
Baltimore remained heavily segregated until the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling forced Mayor DAlesandro Jr. and the city to integrate their schools in 1954.
Even then, DAlesandro Jr. worked with local businessmen to divide and displace families in predominately black parts of town from economic hubs using projects like the Jones Falls Expressway (I-83).
He also oversaw the initial planning of the controversial Martin Luther King, Jr. highway in 1957 that was intended to function as a real, physical barrier between the mostly black residents in West Baltimore households that are dealing with entrenched poverty, harsh policing, the effects of lead poisoning, and a spiking opioid addiction crisis and the economic activity in the central spine of the city, located on the other side of the street, CityLab wrote in 2015.
DAlesandro Jr. was mayor also during the height of the infamous Blockbusting real estate tactic which further segregated the city of Baltimore by race.
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Thats not all. Even after his tenure was over, DAlesandro Jr. was rumored to be so corrupt and flagrantly in the pocket of the Italian mafia that former President John F. Kennedy ordered then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to investigate his hoodlum connections in Baltimore.
DAlesandros involvement with Baltimore hoodlums; with favoritism in awarding city contracts; [and] protection for political contributors and the prosecution of local cases warrant investigation, Kennedy wrote to Hoover in 1961.
The citys political machine was mostly immersed in white-collar crime, author Rochelle Schweiser wrote in his Pelosi book, Shes The Boss. And while DAlesandro may have rationalized his actions by claiming that he had the good of the community at heart, corruption was usually just one beat away.
Exploiting racial rivalries, giving sweet-heart deals to friends and associates through his ironclad alliance with labor unions, even turning a blind eye to a scandal involving his own wife inappropriately receiving thousands of dollars from an ally who was later found guilty of fraud, conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct justice these were all standard operating procedures for Tommy DAlenadro, he wrote.
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Even by Baltimores swarmy political standards, Big Tommys brand of ethical malfeasance was eye-popping, Schweiser wrote.
His son, Tommy DAlesandro III, was a one-term mayor that continued much of his fathers segregation policies; he later resigned after he was unable to control the violent riots that consumed much of Baltimore in 1968 following the assassination of Dr. King, Jr.
Thats when Pelosi moved the familys Democratic machine to California in 1969, staying connected within the party until she ran for office in 1977.
Surprised?
Dont be.
The Democratic Party is full of these nasty little secrets.
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