Coast-to-Coast-to-Coast. Schiff Bid for California AG Vacancy Could Make Himes Intelligence Chair.

Representative Adam Schiff’s California maneuvering could boost Connecticut Representative Jim Himes into the chairmanship of the House intelligence committee.

Schiff is using his considerable influence to pressure besieged Governor Gavin Newsom to appoint him to fill the soon-to-be vacant attorney general post. President Joe Biden nominated Democratic AG Xavier Becerra to head the Department of Health and Human Services. His Senate confirmation is imminent.

Newsom is facing a recall vote later this year and could use some fundraising help from the energetic Schiff. The politics of a statewide recall can become complicated and Newsom seemed uneasy in interviews as he conceded his opponents appeared to have collected enough signatures to put him on the griddle. He never should have gone to that lobbyist’s birthday dinner. If Schiff gets the California post, that will clear a lane for Himes, a Greenwich Democrat and vice chair of the House Intelligence Committee, to advance to the committee’s top spot.

The Wall Street Journal has more.

Newsom is the former husband of Kimberly Guilfoyle, shouts disciple of Donald Trump and girlfriend of Donald Trump, Jr. She delivered one of her harangues at Trump’s January 6th rally-before-the-insurrection.

Newsom had an affair with his campaign manager’s wife, who worked for Newsom when he was mayor of San Francisco. He and Guilfoyle divorced in 2005. In 2018, Fox News reportedly paid a Guilfoyle assistant millions to settle a harassment claim. The Guilfoyle-Newsoms must have been a lot of work to know in their San Francisco days.