CONTRAST: "#GavinNewsom...was born connected—& those alliances have paid handsome dividends throughout his career. A coterie of San Francisco’s wealthiest families...settled on Newsom, 50, as their favored candidate 2 decades ago" said mentor Willie Brown: “He came from their world.They didn’t need to interview him. They knew what he stood for.”
"They first backed him when he was a restaurateur & winery owner running for a seat on the [SF] Board of Supervisors in 1998"
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-san-francisco-money/
The same year, #BarbaraLee won her first race for US House, having fought her way slowly from obscurity.
25yo Gavin's 1998 was different. “That year, Newsom ran his first campaign: a bid to hold on to a county supervisor seat, which then-Mayor Willie Brown had appointed him to fill" partly b/c of his coterie ("These kids had all grown up together")
The NYT described Newsom & Billy Getty's Balboa Café in 1998 as “a glittering nexus for Gen-X San Franciscans with social & political connections”
See "FOUR FAMILIES, THREE GENERATIONS" chart detailing the interlaced generational ties among the Brown, Newsom, Pelosi, and Getty families, which date back three generations.
Click on image for a larger view or see piece linked here:
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2019/01/gavin-newsoms-keeping-it-all-in-the-family/
@DataDrivenMD @Hey_Beth @Celeste_pewter fyi
also you may remember this report from May 2023 this year quoting a source close to the Pelosi family "who spoke on condition of anonymity to speak candidly about a sensitive situation"
"If DiFi resigns right now, there is an enormous probability that ...Lee gets appointed"
“It’s very tricky, & political...they want her to stay” in Senate.
“The political thinking is that if DiFi stays as long as possible, it helps Schiff”
https://progressives.social/@chargrille/111169316164961338
Attached: 1 image @[email protected] No, Nancy Corinne Prowda. There were several pieces about it in late spring of this year, after #Feinstein finally returned because Californians & others had lost patience with the holdup of Democratic judicial appointments that her extended absence (3 months, iirc) had caused. None of this is #Butler's fault but she should know about it. #Newsom #Pelosi #BarbaraLee https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/nancy-prowda-pelosis-daughter-is-feinsteins-caretaker.html
@DataDrivenMD @Hey_Beth @Celeste_pewter
(This was when Pelosi's daughter Nancy was escorting Feinstein around DC - when she finally came back in May to enable Democrats to move on the judicial appointments that her absence was blocking.)
I think ordinary people don't know this? (i.e., people who are unfamiliar with San Francisco money and politics).
I guarantee you that everyone involved in this appointment process knows all this. I sure as shit know Black women in CA politics and especially in Oakland are aware LOL.
This is why I posted stuff like this on Friday. I kind of thought this was widely known in California but I'm getting the impression it isn't?
https://progressives.social/@chargrille/111151179382754130 https://progressives.social/@chargrille/111151323328884528
Attached: 2 images Appointee serves until Jan 2025. The "caretaker" thing is pretty much a BS situation concocted by Pelosi backing Adam Schiff to enter the race after Lee announced her run in Jan 2023, w/CBC support. The issue here is that Pelosi wants Schiff in the seat, & she thinks appointing Lee (who deserves it based on her long record of distinguished public service, yet isn't in Pelosi's old boys' club) will get in his way. But it's hard to find a Black woman in CA who wants to take the appt from Lee.
@chargrille i saw that! but that graphic of yours now puts everything in context. that's the one piece of info that ties all of this together.
and omfg makes me hate Pelosi even more, LOL fuckha!
Yes the chart doesn't even include the Pelosi daughter wheeling Feinstein around DC trying to keep her in office as long as possible despite her terrible mental and physical decline, instead of telling her it was time to retire & give CA real representation in the Senate. They probably made the last months of Feinstein's life really unpleasant and unnecessarily confusing for her. I find the entire thing so incredibly horrible.
I doubt #KatiePorter will even say anything about this travesty of corruption & back room dealing on this appointment, because she probably owes her first election to the House to #EMILYslist. #DisappointedInAdvance
(Their PAC) "Women Vote! dropped nearly a quarter of a million dollars to support Porter in California [in the primary for her first congressional race], an amount Min’s campaign couldn’t keep pace with"
@chargrille i haven't dealt with electioneering in ages but did at one point with Emily's List until i figured out most of the women they supported were of a certain hue. so this new president came as a surprise
but am done with the triangulating BS of the church of pelosi. i saw first-hand how they did dirty migrants because Thiel paid them millions for marriage equality. "Trump's gay" who got ICE disappear the babies they threw in cages
am done with machiavellian democrats. fuckemall
I support giving women early seed money to offset the vicious cycle of gender bias killing fundraising potential, but I don't think it's been offered w/o racial bias, & people have, w/some reason, seen it as a quasi arm of Dem party leadership (e.g. its founder, a white IBM heiress, was co-chair of Clinton's lost primary vs Obama) Butler was brought in to re-brand
https://splinternews.com/how-emily-s-list-lost-its-way-1823399658 https://theintercept.com/2018/02/22/emilys-list-laura-moser-texas-congress/
https://web.archive.org/web/20150205222842/http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/can-emily-s-list-get-its-mojo-back--20080628
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/05/laphonza-butler-emilys-list-women-political-power https://www.npr.org/2021/09/14/1037120336/how-does-the-new-leader-of-emilys-list-plan-to-get-democratic-women-elected
“I don’t regret it,” said then-Nevada Assemblywoman Lucy Flores with tears in her eyes on the state assembly floor in 2013. Flores was speaking about her choice to have an abortion at age 16. How she didn’t want to experience the hardship of her “six other sisters,” who all “became pregnant in their teens.”
No, Nancy Corinne Prowda.
There were several pieces about it in late spring of this year, after #Feinstein finally returned because Californians & others had lost patience with the holdup of Democratic judicial appointments that her extended absence (3 months, iirc) had caused.
None of this is #Butler's fault but she should know about it.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/nancy-prowda-pelosis-daughter-is-feinsteins-caretaker.html
Other pieces on this from May 2023.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/pelosi-daughter-feinstein-senate-office-18106201.php
@eagerpebble Yes but it's from 2019 and I think it became a bigger issue either contemporaneous with this, or just after.
And of course Pelosi's daughter Nancy Corinne Prowda, being Feinstein's secret caretaker when she finally was made to go back to the Senate in May 2023, was afterwards.
Anyway the idea that Pelosi & Newsom weren't working together to help Schiff is ridiculous on its face.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/nancy-prowda-pelosis-daughter-is-feinsteins-caretaker.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/pelosis-daughter-assisting-dianne-feinstein-senate-seat-replacement-2023-5 https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/pelosi-daughter-feinstein-senate-office-18106201.php https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/18/dianne-feinstein-senate-resign-retire-pelosi-schiff-lee-00097595
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