How she got her start in politics ?

Do you know how Kumwalla got her start in politics? She was appointed to a position in the city attorneys office by the mayor of San Francisco while she was having an affair with him while he was married... Class act.

Oh yeah and he was 63 yo and she was 27yo.

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dancingtongue · 80-89, M

Willie Brown was head of the California State Assembly, not Mayor of S.F., when he appointed her to two State Commissions, not the S.F. DA's office. He also had long been estranged and separated from his wife, had been openly dating other women as well, with no objection from the wife. Brown was a major political leader in the state prior to becoming S.F. Mayor, and mentored/helped many others entering politics. Harris was a prosecutor in Oakland before being hired away by S.F. District Attorney Kayo Hallinan. But then you already knew all that anyway.