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Pelosi gives the talk, but doesn’t give a suit
By: Jeff Dufour and Kiki Ryan
Washington Examiner
06/03/09 12:05 AM EDT
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously loves her Armani suits, but so much so that she can’t even donate one to charity?
Apparently so, as her staffers said before her arrival at the Sixth Annual Capitol PurSuit Drive Tuesday morning.
The clothing drive that collects suits for low-income men and women has gathered almost 50,000 pieces since it began, but this year they weren’t able to count on Pelosi.
Pelosi remarked at the event in the Rayburn House Office Building, stating “it is the example of giving that produces even more giving.”
But as her staffers told us before she arrived, “She did [donate] last year but not this year ... but our office donated five bags.” Pelosi was also supposed to walk in carrying a suit on a hanger — for photo ops we presume — but ended up walking to the podium empty-handed.
Maybe she didn’t want to be associated with the non-designer suit.
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