And, everybody don’t forget, it was Newsome that started the corruption when he was mayor.
SF politics has been corrupt for well over a century.
When I was volunteering for the SF Republicans in the 90s (they used to exist) the old timers would tell stories about the Moscone-Barbagelata election of 1975, won for the Democrats by none other than Jim Jones (the Cool-Aid in Guyana guy) using his horde of cultists as “flying voters” to steal the election.
It was later documented in “Season of the Witch”, David Talbot. Highly recommended.
The events around that nexus explain Democrat dominance (big money shifted to the Democrats), the careers of Willie Brown, Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, and Newsom.