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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The Trials of Gavin Newsom

By MAUREEN DOWD
NYT

SAN FRANCISCO

Gavin Newsom still looks glossy, like someone who’d play J.F.K. in a Lifetime original movie.

But the 42-year-old mayor of San Francisco sees his once glowing political future in less glamorous terms.

“I mean, oh, God,” he said, sipping green tea in his elegant office. “In a couple of years, you’ll see me as the clerk of a wine store.”

It’s easy to picture the lithe and charming Newsom — with the well-cut suits, the electric Tesla, the beautiful blonde wife and baby — advising a Pacific Heights couple on a cabernet with aromas of eucalyptus and mint. Before he got into politics, after all, he started a boutique wine shop in Napa Valley that blossomed into a multimillion-dollar business.

(More here.)

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