Incoming Freshman Joins Anti-Pelosi Group

Rep.-elect Gil Cisneros (D-CA) said that he “had joined the letter circulated last week by Democratic rebels declaring they would not support Nancy Pelosi in this week’s caucus nominating election or in a planned January 3 floor vote,” the Washington Post reports.

“Cisneros’s signature gives a jolt of energy to the anti-Pelosi dissidents, who had seen the House minority leader’s relentless lobbying machine pluck off several of the rebels.”