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It was like out of a bad movie: Congresswoman Jackie Speier on the pro-Trump riots By KTVU staff Rep. Jackie Speier says Capitol riots gave her a flashback to Jonestown California Congresswoman Jackie Speier shares her experience with KTVUs Heather Holmes of what it was like being in the Capitol as rioters stormed the building. WASHINGTON - Peninsula Congresswoman Jackie Speier, no stranger to trauma and violence, described the moments leading up to and during the pro-Trump riots as she watche...

UpdatedThu, Jan 7, 2021 at 1:05 pm PT Replies(9) Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, described the experience in an interview with ABC 7 from her office inside the building just hours after a mob incited by President Donald Trump burst through the Capitol building. (Shutterstock) WASHINGTON, D.C. – Even for a congresswoman who does not scare easily, being inside the Capitol building as it was stormed by rioters Wednesday elicited some fear. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, described the experie...

Eshoo, Speier run for cover during Capitol riot Eshoo, Speier run for cover during Capitol riot Daily Post Staff Writers Congresswomen Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, and Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, had to flee to undisclosed locations yesterday (Jan. 6) when a riot erupted at the Capitol. Before getting to the Capitol yesterday, Eshoo had a “bad feeling” because of the increased police patrols and Trump supporters who were spotted along D.C. streets. As Eshoo was walking chaos began and she was t...

It was like out of a bad movie: Congresswoman Jackie Speier on the pro-Trump riots By KTVU staff Rep. Jackie Speier says Capitol riots gave her a flashback to Jonestown California Congresswoman Jackie Speier shares her experience with KTVUs Heather Holmes of what it was like being in the Capitol as rioters stormed the building. WASHINGTON - Peninsula Congresswoman Jackie Speier, no stranger to trauma and violence, described the moments leading up to and during the pro-Trump riots as she watche...

Minority House leader Nancy Pelosi was boasting of San Francisco liberal values, putting them on an ethereal plane and suggesting these are what Democrats are about. “I don’t mind when they say things about me like I’m a liberal,” Pelosi said while waving her fist in the air giggling. “I like that.” “But when they say San Francisco liberal as if to make it sound like it’s something negative, them’s fightin’ words. Don’t attack my city,” Pelosi said. “But, San Francisco...

Citing Threat from ‘Unhinged’ Colleagues, Huffman Introduces Bill to Prevent Congress Members from Carrying Guns on Capitol Grounds On Monday, the North Coast’s own U.S. Congressman, Rep. Jared Huffman, introduced a bill with Rep. Jackie Speier (D- Hillsborough) that would prevent members of Congress from bringing firearms onto Capitol grounds.  Huffman has been sounding off on social media about this issue in recent weeks, calling attention to the incendiary rhetoric of a few gun-loving...

Bill Press To say it was shocking is the understatement of all time. For those of us living in the Bay Area, the news of the Jonestown Massacre was the equivalent of an earthquake, monsoon, and tornado striking at the same time. A year earlier, Jim Jones, pastor of San Francisco’s “People’s Temple” and pal of the city’s Democratic politicians had lured most members of his congregation to a compound called Jonestown in the jungles of Guyana. On Nov. 18, 1978, after a visit by Congressm...

Democrats press to bar lawmakers from carrying guns in the Capitol Mike Lillis © Greg Nash Democrats press to bar lawmakers from carrying guns in the Capitol A group of liberal Democrats is pressing House leaders in both parties to bar lawmakers from carrying guns on Capitol Hill. Although members of the public are prohibited from carrying weapons of any kind on the Capitol grounds, a decades-old regulation allows lawmakers to bear firearms in most areas of the Capitol comple...

Bill Press: Today’s Republican Party cult: Destroy America Tribune Content Agency 12/10/2020 Bill Press, Tribune Content Agency © TNS U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell leaves after a Senate Republican policy luncheon at the Hart Senate Office Building November 18, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Senate GOP members held a policy luncheon to discuss the Republican agenda. To say it was shocking is the understatement of all time. For those of us living...

At congressman was leaving, they went and shot congressman leo ryan and a tv cameraman and a few other people. and jones then told his people that this was the end. >> committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world. >> it was not really a suicide, it was a mass murder as far as im concerned, but when this hit the news and people saw that over 900 people lost their lives because they followed this charlatan preacher, that to some degree changed the public...