San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi is angry. In fact, she is furious.
I know this because she emails me nearly every day, often more than once.
Sometimes she is livid. She describes the behavior of her Republican counterparts as “alarming,” “chilling” or “downright scary.” At times she is “appalled,” and sometimes even “utterly appalled.”
And every time, she asks for money.
I know I am not alone in finding 2024 the most annoying year ever in political solicitations. Over the course of 12 months, I received 664 emails from the former House speaker. And that’s just a fraction of the 6,868 emails requesting campaign contributions I received in all. That’s an average of more than 18 a day, or one roughly one every 90 minutes.
Here’s to a less frantic 2025.
Like mosquitoes in summer, the incessant pleading for campaign dollars might be an inevitable byproduct of the ecosystem, but it is irritating nonetheless. It is particularly annoying when those doing the asking are hundreds, if not thousands, of times wealthier than those they are asking.