Posted on 05/16/2020 5:25:03 PM PDT by Syncro
Gavin 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.
The connections date back at least 80 years, to when Jerry Browns father, Pat Brown, ran for San Francisco district attorney, losing in 1939 but winning in 1943, with the help of his close friend and Gavin Newsoms grandfather, businessman William Newsom.
Fast forward two decades...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trcSpd_YWIA
Might there be a print transcript/version available?
Thanks!
Corruption in our culture is so endemic its absence is remarkable. We are way overdue for a guillotine revolution. If Trump is not reelected natters will reach a crisis comparable to our Revolution and Civil War.
Corruption must be brought down. We will not survive as a free people unless it is profoundly curtailed.
Here’s the rest of the lead in.
Yeah I have no love for youtube, FB etc. And google.
Both google and youtube al always putting links on my phone.
Fast forward two decades. Gov. Pat Browns administration developed Squaw Valley for the 1960s winter Olympics and afterward awarded a concession to operate it to William Newsom and his partner, John Pelosi.
One of the Pelosi’s sons, Paul, married Nancy DAlesandro, who went into politics and has now reclaimed speakership of the House of Representatives. Another Pelosi son married William Newsoms daughter, Barbara. Until they divorced, that made Nancy Pelosi something like an aunt by marriage to Gavin Newson (Nancy Pelosis brother-in-law was Gavin Newsoms uncle).
The Squaw Valley concession was controversial at the time and created something of a rupture between the two old friends.
William Newsom wanted to make significant improvements to the ski complex, including a convention center, but Browns Department of Parks and Recreation balked. Newsom and his son, an attorney also named William, held a series of contentious meetings with officials over the issue.
An eight-page memo about those 1966 meetings from the departments director, Fred Jones, buried in the Pat Brown archives, describes the Newsoms as being embittered and the senior Newsom threatening to hurt the governor politically as Brown ran for a third term that year against Ronald Reagan.
Pat Browns bid for a third term failed, and the Reagan administration later bought out the Newsom concession. But the Brown-Newsom connection continued as Browns son, Jerry, reclaimed the governorship in 1974. He appointed the younger William Newsom, a personal friend and Gavins father, to a Placer County judgeship in 1975 and three years later to the state Court of Appeal.
Justice Newsom, who died a few weeks ago, had been an attorney for oil magnate J. Paul Getty, most famously delivering $3 million to Italian kidnapers of Gettys grandson in 1973. While serving on the appellate bench in the 1980s, he helped Gettys son, Gordon, secure a change in state trust law that allowed him to claim his share of a multi-heir trust.
After Newsom retired from the bench in 1995, he became administrator of Gordon Gettys own trust, telling one interviewer, I make my living working for Gordon Getty. The trust provided seed money for the Plump Jack chain of restaurants and wine shops that Newsons son, Gavin, and Gordon Gettys son, Billy, developed, the first being in a Squaw Valley hotel.
Gavin Newsom had been informally adopted by the Getty’s after his parents divorced, returning a similar favor that the Newsom family had done for a young Gordon Getty many years earlier. Newsoms Plump Jack business (named for an opera that Gordon Getty wrote) led to a career in San Francisco politics, a stint as mayor, the lieutenant governorship and now to the governorship, succeeding his fathers old friend.
Hes keeping it all in the extended family.
What about Willie?
This video should be pinned on FR for future reference...best collection of these facts I have seen for some time. Provides some real insight why things are happening like they are by Pelosi’s House and Newsom and the RAT govenors....
bttt
He’s a guilty party too.
FOR years he ran SF and really California too.
He was the go to guy.
Can that be done? Pinned to FR?
Yep Barbra Boxer....Tony Rodham (brother of Cankles) marries Nicole Boxer (Boxer daughter) which produce a son (Boxer grandson). God these people breed.
Where is Garcetti?
Well said
The phoniness of politicians is so obvious They have no appreciation for American history, sacrifice.
I’d like to turn back time and put liberals on the beaches of Normandy, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and see how much they appreciate sacrifice
Only four?
Oooops Five....Maxine Waters
It’s the Pelosa Nostra.
Learned a lot!
Lets not forget Gavin Newsom was married to Kimberly Guilfoyle. She had the good sense to get far away from him.
Whoever produced this video omitted a HUGE piece of information.
Jerry Brown is probably Californias wealthiest governor ever. He has an undisclosed fortune in an oil trading company he inherited from his father, former Gov. Pat Brown. An oil trading company in Hong Kong was given to Brown Sr. by Indonesian generals who took over their country in a violent coup. This was in return for Brown Sr. brokering $12 billion in U.S. loans to help nationalize oil companies. Brown Jr.s inherited business was lucrative because Indonesian low-sulfur crude oil could meet early clean air standards in California.
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