Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, appearing on San Francisco’s KCBS radio, called for an investigation in the efforts to stop the building of a Muslim cultural center at the hallowed Burlington Coat Factory location blocks from Ground Zero. WaTi‘s Kerry Picket has the transcription:
There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some. And I join those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded,” she said. “How is this being ginned up that here we are talking about Treasure Island, something we’ve been working on for decades, something of great interest to our community as we go forward to an election about the future of our country and two of the first three questions are about a zoning issue in New York City.
I can understand her being frustrated that something so trivial has become a national issue that seemingly won’t go away. (There have been a dozen posts at OTB alone!) But there’s something vaguely authoritarian in someone of Pelosi’s position calling for investigation into Americans exercising their rights of free speech.
