Vice President Kamala Harris’s past caught up with her again earlier this week after President Joe Biden announced he would end his reelection campaign and endorsed her as the Democratic nominee.

According to the San Francisco Standard, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown held a short news conference outside a restaurant in the city and endorsed Harris. The outlet only noted that Brown “dated Harris when she was an Alameda County prosecutor in the mid-1990s,” but there is much more to the story.

But there’s more to their relationship than that. As noted by Politico in 2019, San Francisco newspapers first mentioned Harris in 1994, when a columnist noted that actor Clint Eastwood had spilled champagne on Brown’s “new steady” at Brown’s 60th birthday. At the time, Harris was just 29 years old.

And not long afterward, her relationship with the San Francisco mayor appeared to ‘pay off.’

Politico states, “Harris had dated Brown, who was investigated by the FBI when he was speaker of the California Assembly and as mayor was dogged by conflict of interest, and she had benefited from his political patronage.”

The report added, “As the speaker of the state Assembly, Brown had named Harris to well-paid posts on the California Medical Assistance Commission and Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board.”

Furthermore, “As mayor of San Francisco in 2003, Brown was supportive of her district attorney campaign although they were no longer dating. Critics — including her opponents — were bemoaning cronyism at City Hall.”