In announcing Thursday she won’t seek another term after nearly 40 years in Congress, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the powerful former two-time House Speaker who led passage of major Democratic legislation and proved a formidable adversary to President Donald Trump, said San Francisco must remain “a beacon of hope, justice and peace.”

Her video announcement was met with an outpouring of gratitude from Democrats in the Bay Area, who described her in legendary terms: a “giant,” a “political creature” through and through, an “unmatched” leader.

“Her record is unmatched, and her impact runs deeper,” said East Bay Rep. Lateefah Simon, a first-term Democrat whom Pelosi has mentored in Washington D.C. “It lives and will continue to live in the movements that she’s inspired, in the women that she’s lifted

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