{"id":4820,"date":"2017-04-29T12:32:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T19:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2017-04-29T12:35:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T19:35:39","slug":"nancy-pelosi-just-got-challenger-hes-pretty-hard-core-bernie-sanders-supporter-christine-mai-duc-latimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/04\/29\/nancy-pelosi-just-got-challenger-hes-pretty-hard-core-bernie-sanders-supporter-christine-mai-duc-latimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"“Nancy Pelosi just got a challenger and he’s a ‘pretty hard-core’ Bernie Sanders supporter” by Christine Mai-Duc"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Stephen R. Jaffe for Congress campaign)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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April 26, 2017 (latimes.com)<\/p>\n

San Francisco attorney Stephen R. Jaffe\u00a0is a lifelong Democrat and he intends to do what no Democrat has been able to do so far: make it to a runoff election against House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n

Jaffe, 71, is an employment attorney\u00a0who became a\u00a0volunteer for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign last year.<\/p>\n

“I was a pretty hard-core Bernie supporter,” said Jaffe, who gave money to the campaign and volunteered during the Nevada caucuses. He was one of two attorneys who filed for an injunction<\/a> on behalf of Sanders supporters in the California primary, requesting “re-votes” and an extension of the voter registration deadline. (The request was denied.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Jaffe said he was “devastated” by Sanders’ loss to Hillary Clinton in the primary season and that Sanders,\u00a0in part, inspired him to run. He says he supports single-payer healthcare and criticized Pelosi for raising money from corporations and special interests.<\/p>\n

Pelosi, the highest-ranking Democrat in the House<\/a>,\u00a0has never faced a serious challenger on the left in her liberal San Francisco district. Preston Picus, another Sanders supporter who ran as a no-party-preference candidate, came the closest when he received 19% of the vote in\u00a0November,\u00a0according to the California Target Book.<\/p>\n

“I know that Ms. Pelosi’s strategy has been to essentially ignore anyone who has challenged her, but I anticipate she’ll have a more difficult time doing that with my candidacy,” Jaffe said in an interview. He thinks if local, progressive activists can propel him to a runoff with Pelosi, he’ll have a “quite realistic chance” of winning.<\/p>\n

“There’s a rumbling, a wave of activism here by people who have really never stepped forward before.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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