San Francisco Dem star rocked by allegation he groped ex-pal at party as political allies pull support

Manny Yekutiel didn't just run a cafe. He ran a stage. Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, Jill Biden, all of them showed up at Manny's to be seen with the guy who was supposedly the future of San Francisco politics. That's what makes this allegation land differently than the usual local scandal. It's not some backbencher nobody's heard of. It's a guy the entire Bay Area Democratic machine had already decided to anoint.

Now watch how fast the allies scatter. The same people who lined up for photo ops are suddenly discovering they have somewhere else to be. That's not accountability, that's damage control. Nobody wanted to know about 2020 until it became a headline in 2024.

San Francisco Democrats love to talk about being the moral leadership of the country. Then a guy they built into a star gets accused of groping someone at a party, and the political class treats it like a PR inconvenience to be managed rather than something that actually happened to a person. Voters notice that gap every single time, and they remember it longer than the party wishes they would.