Gavin Newsom’s former lover has re-entered the spotlight with a Tuesday op-ed describing her relationship with him and the struggles she faced as a result. Amid a spiraling cocaine and alcohol addiction, Ruby Rippey had an affair with Gavin Newsom, who was at the time the mayor of San Francisco and her boss. The affair began in 2005 while Newsom was mayor and Rippey served as his appointments secretary. Ruby Rippey repeatedly acknowledges her own culpability in her affair with Gavin Newsom, but based on her essay yesterday in Vanity Fair, let’s talk about what was really going on. With this essay, Rippey may have given Republicans a weapon to use against him during the campaign.