San Francisco ’s former mayor, London Breed , is considering putting her hat in the ring for the congressional seat that will soon be vacant when Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who announced her retirement on Thursday, leaves office after nearly four decades.

Breed has been quiet in the months since she was ousted from City Hall, working as an adviser at the nonprofit Aspen Policy Academy, a Bay Area branch of the Washington, D.C.-based Aspen Institute.

But she told KQED on Friday that she has received several calls encouraging her to run for California’s 11th Congressional District, the San Francisco-based seat Pelosi currently holds.

“I was taken aback and really humbled by the kinds of people who reached out to me and surprised me,” Breed said. “I asked them a lot of questions abou

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