CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER, Angela Alioto
Alioto, an attorney who has won some multimillion-dollar civil rights judgments, poured nearly a million dollars of her own money into this, her third unsuccessful bid to become mayor. She said her endorsement of Newsom was mostly based on pushing her policy issues, not just her personal ambition, although she admits that was some of it.
"Am I ambitious? Of course I am," Alioto said. "I just ran for mayor and spent a lot of money doing it."