Willie Brown

Went to grad school and came back home to my hometown of San Francisco where I'd grown up.

and was working on Willie Brown's reelection campaign in 1999.

The mayor of San Francisco.

The mayor of San Francisco and Gavin Newsom, who we know now as governor, potential presidential candidate.

At the time, you know, his legacy was San Francisco parking and traffic commissioner, and he had just been appointed to be supervisor for District 2.

And so I was organizing these sort of neighborhood merchant walks with Willie Brown and Gavin Newsom walking down various streets and meeting people.

And I remember being really impressed with Newsom then.

And I went on to work for Willie Brown doing parks and open space issues in City Hall.

children.

Although she did text me a selfie she just took in San Francisco with Willie Brown.

So maybe that's a tough one.

For the record, you know, she posted it on Instagram.

Now, You know that in any country there's going to be disparity between rich and poor areas, and we see that in San Francisco.

I remember well when Willie Brown found a school in the Tenderloin that kids were wearing coats and blankets to stay warm because the boiler was broken and they could not possibly figure out how to fix it or replace it.

When he went to the school, the next day the boiler was fixed.

So we see that playing out kind of in the same theme here in France of students making complaints initially when they first started the boycott and the blockades.

Well, definitely I agree with that.

And in fact, the San Francisco political machine is no longer in the possession of Willie Brown.

Once he lost London Breed, and I helped send two of his protégés, Harlan Kelly and Muhammad Nuru, to prison, you know, with my investigations, I mean, it's just sort of all falling apart at the seam.

I mean, Malia Cohen is one of the last ones, and we know she's incompetent.

John Burton just passed away himself, also an influential California Democrat.

Willie Brown, speaking of a politician in full, is just great fun.

Like, you are comatose if you can't have fun with Willie Brown, like something's wrong with you.

Like you're not of the living because he is great fun, a great company, a brilliant observation, a brilliant observer of politics, a brilliant practitioner of politics and somebody who is still loves it so much.

He has lunch every day at the same place in San Francisco, except for on Fridays, he goes to a lunch group across the street to a different place.

And I'm, one of the great treats of my life has been getting to know mayor brown and um and talking about politics and again the beauty of this jay is i get paid to do this i don't have to pay for it somebody's paying me to do this hell i i'd pay somebody to do that you charge for tickets to have lunch with willie brown for crying out loud um so that's probably first on my list um Nancy Pelosi is enormously challenging to interview.

She will not answer.

She'll spin.