Dan Walters comments in CAL Matters.
Walters does a superb job of showing the connection between the Newsoms, Pelosis, Browns:
Newsom is succeeding someone who could be considered his quasi-uncle, since his inauguration continues the decades-long saga of four San Francisco families intertwined by blood, by marriage, by money, by culture and, of course, by politics – the Browns, the Newsoms, the Pelosis and the Gettys.
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