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Gavin Newsom is reaching for the stars but settling for less
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| Author | Erin Sherbert |
| News Date | Tuesday, January 4, 2011 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In late October 2009, Mayor Gavin Newsom shocked his supporters when he dropped out of the race to be the next governor of California.
He had long been pegged a rising star in the Democratic Party, but his campaign account was showing otherwise — he had only raised $3 million, which political analysts said was not enough to buy him even a week of advertising on TV.
Less than six months later, Newsom, still ambitious, announced his bid for a much more politically impotent position: lieutenant governor.
This past November, Newsom defeated Republican Abel Maldonado by 11 percentage points to win the state office. He will start his new job in the coming weeks — a year before his final term as mayor of San Francisco ends.
“I think that many thought his rise was going to be much more meteoric,” said Jim Ross, a political consultant who ran Newsom’s first mayoral campaign. “He ended up running for lieutenant governor, not governor, and that blunts the narrative of being a rising star.” |
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