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/

@blogdiva

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.

@blogdiva

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

@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!

@blogdiva

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.