"Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows"

 

     Governor Gavin Newsom of California has a most-interesting life story. He began life in a very middle-class Northern California family. He went to Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, Stanford, and Berkeley are the three great Bay area colleges.)

      His best friend in college was a young man with the last name of Getty. This friend is part of the Southern California Getty family. They are billionaires many times due to the oil and gas industry. The family took quite a liking to Gavin. After he graduated from college, they financed a couple of business ventures for him. At a young age, Gavin became a very wealthy man. He married a very bright young lawyer named Kimberly Guildfoyle.

       Gavin ran for mayor of San Francisco and won the election. Kimberly went to work at the San Francisco District Attorney's office. She was assigned a high-profile murder case that got national and international attention. Afterwards, Kimberly got her own television show and was on other television programs. She had to move to New York City to pursue this career. Kimberly and Gavin drifted apart. She ended up in a romantic relationship with, of all people, Donald Trump, Jr. Gavin Newsom went on to be Lieutenant Governor of California for 8 years. He was then elected governor. Gavin remarried and now has a beautiful family with two children.

        Gavin admits that he and Kimberly are still in contact and talk from time to time. Elena took note of this and pointed out a little- noticed fact to me. Gavin is a Democrat and Trump is a Republican. They should be political enemies. Yet one never hears Gavin talk bad about Trump. Donald Trump is famous for talking bad about a lot of people. He never talks bad about Gavin Newsom. In fact, any time that California has a disaster like a fire or a flood, Trump rapidly approves relief money to help Gavin. Elena believes that Kimberly acts as a go between to keep a smooth relationship going between the two very-powerful men.

    There is a saying in English that applies here as follows:

"Politics makes strange bedfellows."