Guest Editorial: Leno and Newsom – Boys Behaving BadlyRafael Mandelmanbyline‚ Feb. 21‚ 2008The Newsom Endorsement – No Surprise. Randy Shaw terms Gavin Newsom’s endorsement of Mark Leno for State Senate “unexpected.” I beg to differ. Leno and Newsom go way back. The only two Willie Brown appointees on the Board of Supervisors to survive the progressive tsunami of 2000, Leno and Newsom have always had a mutually respectful and supportive relationship, contributing and raising money for each other’s campaigns and reliably endorsing each other. Newsom and Carole Migden have simply never had that kind of relationship. |