Pretty interesting...had not seen this before:



"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" - Sir Walter Scott, 1808

That explains what someone was trying to tell me about Nancy Pelosi's family being part of the mafia. Very interesting info and shows just how corrupt and inbred California politics is.

One major figure that isn't named is Willie Brown. With over 30-years in the CA State Assembly, with 15-years ('80-'95) as Speaker of the Assembly, he was arguably the most powerful elected official in the state, presiding over legislation that took away powers of the governor, while ushering in an era of the Dem super-majority starting in the mid-90's. While those families were the financial backing, Brown was the legislative face and legal architect. Feinstein and Pelosi (and a lesser extend Barbara Boxer) worked Capitol Hill, while Brown worked the state and carved everyone a nice piece of the pie. Brown is a well known ladies man, a gregarious and flamboyant party hound Kamala Harris was simply his side-piece; she was ambitious and knew her way to get-in & up was by getting on her knees. She's smart but, everyone knows the backstory.

Gavin Newsome was Brown's political protege, mentoring, then appointing him to city positions while he was Mayor of SF, eventually supporting his election campaigns. He taught him the in's/outs of patronage, how to grease the tracks and which people to have in your corner. Newsome was a well-known douche-bag in SF, endless stories of boorish party incidents, drug-addled behavior, always getting out of problems due to family connections. He had an affair with his campaign manager's wife, while he was married to Kimberly Guilfoyle, usually such an incidents crater's a person's political future.

Brown's time in politics, has led to a current Federal fraud and bribery investigation, that has already rolled-up one major SF city official; Newsome, Harris, current mayor London Breed, deceased former-mayor Ed Lee, along with a host of other city functionaries are all in the shadow and are at-risk of being exposed.

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Originally posted by corsair:. . . Gavin Newsome was Brown's political protege, mentoring, then appointing him to city positions while he was Mayor of SF, eventually supporting his election campaigns. He taught him the in's/outs of patronage, how to grease the tracks and which people to have in your corner. Newsome was a well-known douche-bag in SF, endless stories of boorish party incidents, drug-addled behavior, always getting out of problems due to family connections. He had an affair with his campaign manager's wife, while he was married to Kimberly Guilfoyle, usually such an incidents crater's a person's political future. :rolleyes . . .

When it was exposed that Newsom was having the affair with his campaign managers wife (the campaign manager was also his best friend) Newsom's response was effectively, "yes it's true, what's the problem".