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