For more than a year, the affair between san francisco mayor gavin newsom and the wife of his good friend and campaign manager, alex tourk, was a bomb that those around.
In 2007, gavin newsom, the current lieutenant governor of california who was san francisco mayor at the time, apologized after it was learned he had slept with a city hall.
At the hastily arranged news conference thursday morning, newsom apologized and acknowledged that reports of him having an affair with the wife of alex tourk, his deputy.
A former city employee.
California’s lieutenant governor became the subject of national headlines in february 2007 when it was revealed he had a brief affair with a subordinate, ruby rippey.