The San Francisco home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was vandalized early on New Year’s Day by angry voters demanding $2,000 stimulus checks.
San Francisco police say they first got the call about the incident around 2:00 a.m. on Friday, according to a local CBS affiliate. Speaker Pelosi was not home as she is currently in Washington D.C.
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Photo of the disturbing incident shared on social media by Maggie VandenBerghe shows Pelosi’s garage door covered in spray paint with the texts “$2K”, “Cancel rent!” and “We want everything.” On the pavement leading to her garage door was a severed pig’s head in a pool of red paint.
The graffiti also included what appeared to be the common symbol for anarchy, an “A” with a circle around it.
No one has come forward to claim responsibility for the vandalism and the police have not released any information about suspects in the case.
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Speaker Pelosi has been leading the charge for $2,000 stimulus checks. Last Monday, the House passed a bill to increase direct stimulus payment from $600 to $2,000. The bill passed in a 275-134 vote, with support from more than 40 Republicans.
Since then the Republican-controlled Senate and Mitch McConnell have refused to even bring the bill up for a vote in the Senate, four times, even though some Republican senators have signalled that they support $2,000 checks.
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McConnell called the bill “socialism for rich people” on the Senate floor four times during this speech on Thursday when he blocked Democrats’ attempts to bring the bill for a vote, for the third time.
