Newsom likes to call himself a successful entrepreneur, but he was born to wealth, power, privilege and political connections which he parlayed into political office. I was living there and witness to some of it.

His father was retired Appellate Court Judge William Newsom, friends with and closely tied to former California governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown.
His father went to school in SF with famous oilman J. Paul Getty's son, Gordon Getty. Gavin Newsom's enterprises owed their formation in part to the generosity and support of Gordon Getty

Mayor Willy Brown got him going in SF politics by appointing him to the SF Board of Supervisors. He told a newspaper reporter in 1998 he wanted to be President of the United States one day.

His aunt was married to a relative of rep. Nancy Pelosi.

He's one of the SF "beautiful people" who could do no wrong.

Oops

To the astonishment of the gay community he passed the gay lmarriage legislation.

This latest will make his political future problematic outside of San Francisco and maybe even there. Not that it matters to me personally

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)