During an unexpected appearance at a music event addressing climate change in New York City, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi received jeers from the audience.
On Saturday night, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, an Indian actress, welcomed Pelosi, 82, on stage when she and her husband, Paul, were both attendees at the Global Citizen music festival in Central Park.
Audience members could be heard booing Pelosi as she spoke about congressional efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
One audience member who was recording the incident could be heard saying, “It’s Nancy Pelosi,” after being startled to find the US congressman there. “Why are people booing?”
Many people were watching the House Speaker before she took the stage as she interacted with celebrities in one of her first significant public appearances following Paul’s conviction for drunk driving.
Pelosi tried to thank the crowd for showing up in support of the environment amid the jeers as she praised America’s most recent plan to reduce carbon pollution by 40% by 2030.
She stated, “As speaker of the house, I am here to praise you for your brilliant advocacy, innovative thinking, and resolve as global citizens.”
Pelosi decided to make her remarks brief and let the music go on, acting as though she understood the crowds’ divided response to her.
As the Democrat departed the stage, many hecklers were heard shouting, “Let’s go.”
Despite the festival attendees’ apparent lack of interest in Pelosi’s visit, her unexpected appearance did draw a lot of attention for a variety of reasons.
The Pelosis made their first public appearance on Saturday since Paul, 82, was given a three-day jail term in California last month for crashing his Porsche while intoxicated.
On May 28, Paul was detained in Napa Valley after a drunken supper after his 2021 Porsche smashed into a Jeep and he ran a stop sign.
He then failed a field sobriety test and was 0.08 percent intoxicated.
When Paul was taken up by police, it was discovered that he had alcohol on him, was slurring his words, and had evidence of drugs in his system.
He will be required to install a specific gadget in his automobile that will require him to undergo a breath test before the ignition begins despite the fact that he has committed crimes but has not been disqualified from driving.
He failed a field sobriety test while seated in the front seat of the vehicle, according to police, and his eyes seemed “red and watery.”
The arrest report stated, “He was unsteady on his feet, his speech was slurred, and he had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage radiating from his breath.”
In some of the images, Paul could also be seen lurking in the background, looking much more sober than in his May mugshot, where he had glassy eyes.
Nancy Pelosi instantly distanced herself from the incident when she was in Rhode Island on work at the time of the collision.
Prior to the collision, Paul had been out to dinner with friends and was on his way back to his opulent vineyard property.
He collided with a 2014 Jeep being operated by Jesus Lopez, 48, as he attempted to cross State Road 29, a busy road between Napa and Calistoga, at the time of the accident.
Pelosi was involved in a tragedy that killed his brother David when he was 16 and has a history of driving offenses, according to information published by DailyMail.com earlier this year.
The brothers agreed to go on a “pleasure ride,” according to a 1957 article in the San Francisco Examiner, when Pelosi, who was then a high school sophomore, picked up David, then 19 years old, from the home of a girlfriend at 12:30 a.m.
Just west of San Mateo, near to the Crystal Springs Dam, the deadly collision happened just after 2:40 a.m. David was left stuck under the vehicle where his neck brace choked him.
Even though Pelosi’s manslaughter charges were ultimately dropped, a patrolman mentioned in recent news reports claimed David had warned his brother to slow down just before the collision.
He warned them to slow down as they neared a sharp curve on the Skyline Highway, now known as California State Route 35, close to the Crystal Springs Dam.
Paul said he tried to slow down in the stick shift car by changing gears, but he lost control.
The Examiner stated that the vehicle “veered across the road, rebounded from a tiny embankment, climbed 20 feet up another, turned around, and somersaulted simultaneously, and landed upside down on the shoulder with both boys underneath.”
On arriving at the hospital, David, a first-year student at the College of San Mateo, was already dead.
According to the publication, David was likely strangled by a brace he was wearing to support a neck fracture he had received when he dove into Lake Tahoe’s shallow water.
Ganley and another patrolman, Jack Rakestraw, were quoted in The San Mateo Times as saying that David’s brace was “lodged securely on his neck.”
The Times stated, “They jacked up the automobile to release the pressure but the boy reportedly was already dead.”
In the collision, Paul Pelosi injured his collarbone and spent some time under the automobile. He was able to telephone for help and liberate himself.
More recently, Pelosi received two tickets in 2011 for running a red light and straying beyond the center line of the road.
Paul married Nancy D’Alesandro, the daughter of a former Baltimore mayor, six years after the deadly accident.
She adopted his last name and later became the first female speaker of the House of Representatives after being elected to Congress in 1987.