• San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:56 AM

Safeway is dealing with union negotiations amid rumors of a takeover. Vice President and General Counsel Robert Gordon made a joke about the Secret Service, President Obama and two Arkansas razorback hogs deemed an "excellent trade" for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco. Members of the Bay Area congressional delegation, led by Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez, whose district includes the Pleasanton company. It demanded an apology to Pelosi and Clinton, among other "corrective steps," for the "shocking lack of respect."

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