The sleazy ‘betrayal’ that nearly broke Gavin Newsom is back in the spotlight

Source: New York Post

Gavin Newsom may be a Democratic Party star, but skeletons from his tenure as San Francisco mayor — namely a scandalous affair that nearly derailed his career — could haunt his White House ambitions. Ruby Rippey-Gibney, the former City Hall aide who had a brief sexual relationship with Newsom in 2005, plans to tell her side of the explosive story in an upcoming Vanity Fair article, The California Post reported Wednesday. 5 Ruby Rippey-Gibney, who once worked as Gavin Newsom’s appointments secretary, had a brief sexual relationship with the governor in 2005.