I bumped into & had an extensive conversation with a very friendly & ebullient member of Pelosi’s campaign/staff last week who shed no doubt about the fact — now that Anthony Weiner has announced his limp bid to “Retire** Pelosi”** — that Weiner has ZERO chance of taking Pelosi’s seat — since Pelosi has always apparently despised Weiner’s slimy politics & demeanor from the beginning. To block him, Pelosi might apparently keep her seat & back aspiring @sfboss Connie Chan to take Weiner’s seat in a drama-filled switcheroo. That outcome would be good riddance to the bigoted ( anti-Human / anti-Nudist ) state senator in my opinion.
This drama will clearly provide opportunities for an SF Libertarian Candidate to nudge into the fray & elevate Libertarian Solutions in the National spotlight as the Ds work tirelessly to cut each other — & their lame policies — off at the knees. I hope Trip SeiBold wades into the warm waters to catch all the free national publicity this race will afford other contenders & take advantage of running a positive campaign while Ds resort to vicious tactics against one another. 
Get plenty of popcorn ready; this should be better than mma.
The current Democrat-sustained shutdown of the govt ( as much as I wish it would be permanent ) has demonstrated that we clearly don’t have any autocratic “kings” in the USA; so, there should be no doubt about the power of local “queens.”
— mARTy
