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Meet John Dennis, The Man Vying To Unseat House Speaker Pelosi

Meet John Dennis, The Man Vying To Unseat House Speaker Pelosi

Just about every Republican campaigning this year seems to be running against Nancy Pelosi. The call to "Fire Pelosi!" is so ubiquitous that the Republican National Committee has even launched a cross-country bus tour around the slogan. But there's only one Republican in the country who's actually running aginst the Speaker of the House. Meet Pelosi's challenger, John Dennis, a San Francisco businessman with a libertarian streak so wide that he's gone to Burning Man, wants to legalize marijuana, and demands an immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.

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