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Gavin Newsom is, in my opinion, a uniquely untalented individual who finds himself as Governor of California through a combination of happenstance and good luck.
He grew up in Marin County, California, but seemingly not in a privileged way. His father William was an attorney, but the benefit of being William Newsom’s son for Gavin is that his father went to high school with two sons of J. Paul Getty. He later did some legal work for Getty Oil, but the Newsom family has benefitted from his longtime friendship with Gordon Getty whose interests have always been in music. William Newsom came to be involved as a director/trustee in many Getty related enterprises, and personally managed the assets and investments of Gordon Getty.