Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Nani Coloretti

No. 4 Nani Coloretti

Ann Patterson will eventually be out, so we have to turn our focus toward her replacement. Nobody is accusing Coloretti of needing training wheels, but we have traditionally not added folks to this list who are this new to the job. That said, Coloretti’s CV is…awesome. She came to Newsomworld from D.C., where she served as Deputy Director for the Office of Budget and Management under President Joe Biden. That means she was an integral part of managing a $7 TRILLION federal budget. She had all sorts of other Big Important Jobs before that too, but perhaps none matters more to Newsom than her time as his Budget Director when he was doing the mayoral thing in San Francisco. Nobody is saying there has not been a steep learning curve – she’s still learning all the local players – but she already has something Newsom values more than anything, his trust. And as his long-term ambitions become (even) more open and obvious, that will mean a lot.