Let us now praise Nancy Pelosi

Letter to the editor in today's SF Chronicle:

Kudos to Speaker Pelosi

On Oct. 9, 1987, fate put me in a seat behind Nancy Pelosi at a San Francisco Giants playoff game. She was in a tight race in her first run for office. I leaned forward and told her how proud I’d be to tell my wife that I’d sat behind a future Congresswoman, rare at the time.

Since then, she’s become, as a Washington Post column’s headline said Thursday, “the most consequential speaker of our time.”

As she steps down as speaker but continues to serve in Congress, her advice will be a treasured asset by House Democrats, including Rep. Hakeem Jeffries if he takes the gavel as the new speaker in 2024.

Let us now praise a woman of history and thank her for representing us so ably and so well.

Dennis Aftergut

San Francisco

See also Proud to be represented by Nancy Pelosi.