The same year, #BarbaraLee won her first race for US House, having fought her way slowly from obscurity.
25yo Gavin's 1998 was different. “That year, Newsom ran his first campaign: a bid to hold on to a county supervisor seat, which then-Mayor Willie Brown had appointed him to fill" partly b/c of his coterie ("These kids had all grown up together")
The NYT described Newsom & Billy Getty's Balboa Café in 1998 as “a glittering nexus for Gen-X San Franciscans with social & political connections”