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

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...