Like the rest of the annual winter meeting of the Democracy Alliance, Pelosi’s speech was closed to the press. Pelosi’s appearance was not on the conference schedule, and came during a panel focused partly on “getting big money out of politics,” according to an agenda.
Afterwards, POLITICO asked Pelosi about the irony of major donors meeting behind closed doors to discuss ways to rid the political process of secretive big money spending of the sort many Democracy Alliance members have engaged in.
“Well, I think that, for the moment, it will take money to win the election to get people there who believe in taking the money out,” she said, stopping to hug Democracy Alliance donor Wayne Jordan, a real estate developer from her hometown of San Francisco.
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