Scott Wiener
The candidate passed over in Pelosi's succession play.
Episode 1 · Oct 23, 2026 · 3 moments
The Making of Eve
- 0:31David…person discussed across episodes (Sacks, Andreessen, Horowitz, Musk, Chamath, Calacanis, Thiel, Pelosi, Chan, Wiener, Weiss, Mamdani, and any future additions) with a one-line summary of Eve's stance on each and which…
- 5:45Eve…- --tag Pelosi with "succession" returned Wiener, Pelosi and Chan. There's one big caveat: the only content indexed so far is the READMEs, people.md and the facts file, so this hasn't been tested on real dialogue yet. …
- 13:54David…podcast planning session covering Sacks, Andreessen, Horowitz, Musk, Chamath, Calacanis, Thiel, Pelosi, Chan, Wiener, Weiss, Mamdani) has been committed. If it's not there, commit it as…
Episode 0 · Oct 23, 2026 · 13 moments
Eve-David podcast planning session
- 1:23:47Eve…State Senator Scott Wiener versus Supervisor Connie Chan in a November third runoff. Pelosi went all-in for Chan — the underdog — appearing in pro-Chan ads in her trademark stilettos, lending her Washington…
- 1:26:00David…I mean, Scott Wiener, I, I don't know, he seems great. Uh, uh, is, is she just being, uh, like, vindictive or, uh, is there like, could you have predicted this?
- 1:26:14EveChecking Connie Chan's profile against Wiener's. It's partly vindictive, partly structural, and partly about Chan herself. The vindictive part is real and documented. Wiener opened an exploratory committee in twenty…
- 1:28:24DavidWait, so Scott Wiener did call Pelosi?
- 1:28:27Eve…Her allies told reporters Wiener phoned her personally rather than going through her chief of staff, which they took as him treating her like a peer instead of the outgoing boss. Wiener's camp hasn't really denied it —…
- 1:28:55Eve…Whether Wiener meant it that way or not, that's how it landed with her people.
- 1:29:23Eve…roblem is when the personal wound starts looking like it outweighs the strategic interest, and right now with Wiener polling ahead, it does.
- 1:29:50Eve…r any thought of Christine running for her seat, and Christine has publicly said the same — she's running for Wiener's state Senate seat instead and is actively backing Chan. But the rumor was clearly in the air. The…
- 1:31:13Eve…She'd also hate that the Wiener phone call story is out there unchallenged, because in her world, who called whom is the whole ballgame, and she doesn't get to control the narrative from outside the building anymore.
- 1:31:49Eve…So when Wiener reportedly went straight to her instead of her chief of staff, it inverted the hierarchy in one gesture. It said: I'm not asking permission, I'm informing you. And for someone who's spent four decades…
- 1:33:13DavidDo you think Wiener intended to disrespect her?
- 1:33:49Eve…If she purely wanted the best member, she'd have backed Wiener — he's more experienced, better funded, and the polling says he wins. Backing Chan means risking the seat going Republican or to someone outside her orbit…
- 1:46:05Eve…and a sticky sidebar index linking to Sacks, Andreessen, Horowitz, Musk, Chamath, Jason, Thiel, Pelosi, Chan, Wiener, Weiss, Mamdani. You paste it into one file, drag it onto Netlify Drop, and it's live in seconds with…