When we last reported on Paul Pelosi, husband of former Speaker of the House and soon-to-be retired Democrat congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (CA-11), he had been charged with a misdemeanor after allegedly running into a parked Tesla in Yountville, near his Napa Valley property. Pelosi kept driving, and only stopped when his car wouldn't move because of the damage from the impact of the hit. The Tesla he allegedly ran into lost its rear bumper, and one tire was pushed up onto the curb; how fast does one have to be going in order to do that?!
In 2022, Pelosi crashed his Porsche and collided with another driver in a Jeep. He was booked on a DUI and pled guilty, but only received three years' probation. Later that year was when Pelosi was attacked with a hammer in his Napa home by David DePape. Pelosi suffered a brain injury that required surgery and hospitalization. While DePape was arrested, tried, and sentenced to 30 years in prison, Pelosi, after a severe head injury, was still driving his cars around Northern California.
Now The New York Times has uncovered that preceding the 2022 DUI incident, Pelosi had a record of multiple moving violations over a 13-year period.
Over more than a decade, he has had at least eight driving violations in the San Francisco Bay Area, including driving the wrong way down a one-way street, speeding and, on more than one occasion, driving through a red light, court records show.
In the latest incident, Mr. Pelosi smashed the Tesla and then continued driving down a residential street in Napa Valley until his own car broke down and law enforcement officers came on the scene. The crash was serious enough that the authorities have asked that Mr. Pelosi take a behind-the-wheel driving test if he wants to remain on the road.
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The eight violations date back to 2011 and span to 2017; some are minor lapses, others, potentially dangerous, but with this consistent rate, his reckless driving should have been addressed long before 2022.
In 2011, Mr. Pelosi received three tickets and a warning in a five-month span alone. In May of that year, he was cited for speeding on a highway in San Mateo County. Two months later, he was caught crossing over double yellow lines near the family’s Napa Valley house and received a verbal warning for speeding during the same traffic stop. Less than two months after that, he was cited for failing to stop at a red light, also in Napa County.
In 2013, in San Mateo County, Mr. Pelosi drove through a red turn light. That same year, in San Francisco, he was pulled over for failing to stop at a stop sign, but that citation was later dismissed. In Marin, Mr. Pelosi used his cellphone without a hands-free device in 2014, and drove the wrong way down a one-way street in 2017.
A lawyer for Mr. Pelosi, Amanda Bevins, would not comment on the infractions, nor on whether the Department of Motor Vehicles had been made aware of the lingering effects of a head injury Mr. Pelosi suffered during the home invasion nearly four years ago. A representative for Ms. Pelosi also declined to comment.
According to NYT, this latest incident "has alarmed some longtime friends and acquaintances, who say that Mr. Pelosi has been reluctant to give up the freedom of getting behind the wheel."
This goes beyond reluctance; it's dangerous. How hard is it to sell all those fancy cars and hire a driver? As stated in prior reporting, how does someone with a documented brain injury not have his driving restricted? The NYT also questioned this.
Two years after the attack, Mr. Pelosi said in a statement that he suffered persistent dizziness and vertigo that caused him to fall twice in his home.
“To this day, I walk slowly and have difficulty with my balance,” Mr. Pelosi said in the statement. “Nearly every day I get headaches that become migraines unless quickly addressed. I need to sleep during the day and cannot tolerate bright lights or loud noises for extended periods of time,” he said.
Mr. Pelosi said that the attack had also left him with nerve damage to his left hand which, for months, made “basic tasks like using buttons, cutlery and simple tools more difficult.”
The Department of Motor Vehicles said that, for privacy reasons, it could not respond to questions about whether or not Mr. Pelosi’s doctors had reported his head injury to the department. And it did not respond to a separate public records request seeking Mr. Pelosi’s full driving record before publication of this article.
In the meantime, the local L.E.O.s claim that Pelosi has not been treated any differently than any other California driver.
Henry Wofford, a spokesman for the Napa County Sheriff’s Office, which is leading the investigation into the crash that occurred this month, said that his agency had always treated Mr. Pelosi the same as any other driver.
“We have absolutely nothing to gain to treat anyone with preferential treatment, whether his last name is Pelosi or it’s anything,” Mr. Wofford said.
Yeah, right. Nobody believes this. Law enforcement seemingly refuses to rein in Pelosi, and his own family won't take control. The next best thing is for the good citizens of Napa, Yountville, and San Francisco to paper the counties in which Pelosi drives with warning fliers. Perhaps shame would motivate him to stop being such a selfish fool who endangers his own life and the lives of others.
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