California’s Oligarchy
8th June 2025
“It is an American oligarchy,” Gov. Gavin Newsom accused the Trump administration.
But it’s California’s Democrat elite who much more closely resemble an oligarchy. Take Gov. Newsom, the son of Judge William Alfred Newsom III a friend and lawyer of the Getty clan, whose father Newsom II had been a crooked political machine man who financed and ran future Gov. Pat Brown’s campaign. Gov. Pat Brown held down two terms in office. His son, Gov. Jerry Brown also held two terms and his daughter, Kathleen Brown became the State Treasurer.
Newsom II’s daughter, Barbara Newsom-Pelosi, married Ron Pelosi, the brother of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for twelve years. Newsom III, Gavin’s dad, and Ron Pelosi both ran for state senate. And Rep. Nancy Pelosi is the daughter of Thomas D’Alesandro Jr, a congressman and the 41st mayor of Baltimore and the sister of Thomas D’Alesandro III, the 44th mayor of Baltimore.
The Newsom-Pelosi families made a good deal of their money from a crooked arrangement with Gov. Pat Brown’s administration in which Newsom II and John Pelosi, Nancy’s father-in-law, partnered together on a former 1960 Winter Olympics site that was summed up as California “paying for everything and getting nothing.” Pat’s son Jerry then appointed Gavin’s father to a judgeship and Gavin later replaced Brown as governor of California.