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Nancy Pelosi has Baltimore roots. My great grandfather, James Blake was president of the Baltimore City Council in the early 1940's. Him, and 10 of my Blake relatives died in a brutal holiday fire at his house in the mid 1940's. I have the Baltimore Sun Paper page long obituary somewhere around here. Anyhow, Nancy Pelosi's father was Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. He was also on the Baltimore City Council in the 1930's and then became a congressman. In 1947, he quit congress and won and became mayor of Baltimore. According to my relatives, my great grandfather was going to run for mayor and probably would have won. My grandfather was one of the few survivers and went from having a great family to being an orphan overnight. He never got far from the bottle after that. Anyhow, I do not have any evidence that D'Alesandro was behind the fire, but he sure had motive. My father was an FBI agent for 33 years and he thought the fire was not an accident and that D'Alesandro was the prime suspect. My dad never said if he dug up any evidence. In 1950, Baltimore was the 5th most populated town in the U.S. During D'Alesandro's 12 years as mayor Baltimore began its decline toward the has been town it is today. Baltimore is way left of center. Who knows what will be revealed when the lamb opens the book?