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\t\t\t\t\t San Franciscans react to Nancy Pelosi retirement announcement<\/p>\n In a city that elected her over and over again, the comments were mostly positive. However, she was met with some criticism as well. <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\tUpdated: 7:53 PM PST Nov 6, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n \t\tEditorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\tWhen Rep. Nancy Pelosi steps down at the end of her current term, she will have represented San Franciscans for 40 years. We asked Pelosi’s San Francisco constituents about her impact on the city and nation. In a city that elected her over and over again, the comments were mostly positive. However, she was met with some criticism as well. “She broke so many records. To be the only woman speaker of the House and to represent San Francisco for almost 40 years, she has accomplishments out the wazoo, so to speak,” said San Francisco resident Mary Collins.On the other side, some felt she overstayed her time in office.”I think her impact was a terrible waste of taxpayers’ money,” said San Francisco resident Sean, who was passing in front of the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building on Thursday. “I’m glad to see she’s gone.”Others applauded her work on the Affordable Care Act, that she championed LGBTQ rights and for her work to open Tunnel Tops park in the Marina District. See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tSAN FRANCISCO \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n When Rep. Nancy Pelosi steps down at the end of her current term<\/a>, she will have represented San Franciscans for 40 years. <\/p>\n We asked Pelosi’s San Francisco constituents about her impact on the city and nation. In a city that elected her over and over again, the comments were mostly positive. However, she was met with some criticism as well. <\/p>\n “She broke so many records. To be the only woman speaker of the House and to represent San Francisco for almost 40 years, she has accomplishments out the wazoo, so to speak,” said San Francisco resident Mary Collins.<\/p>\n On the other side, some felt she overstayed her time in office.<\/p>\n “I think her impact was a terrible waste of taxpayers’ money,” said San Francisco resident Sean, who was passing in front of the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building on Thursday. “I’m glad to see she’s gone.”<\/p>\n Others applauded her work on the Affordable Care Act, that she championed LGBTQ rights and for her work to open Tunnel Tops park in the Marina District. <\/p>\n See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Franciscans react to Nancy Pelosi retirement announcement In a city that elected her over and over again,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[184,1409,1752,28226,14545,28231,4263,671,8669,28229,28228,9553,22014,101,28227,103,102,104,106,105,669,9577,28230,2734,1968,72],"class_list":["post-41963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-bay-area","tag-city","tag-congress","tag-house-of-reps","tag-impact","tag-marina-district","tag-money","tag-more-coverage","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-nancy-pelosi-retirement-announcement","tag-other-side","tag-pelosi","tag-san-franciscans","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-constituent","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-subscribe","tag-taxpayer","tag-terrible-waste","tag-top-california-story","tag-work","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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