Edited sentence: He responded to the attention in his own short piece published in the San Francisco Chronicle, titled "Sure, I dated Kamala Harris, So What.He wrote that he may have "influenced" her career by appointing her to boards and supporting her run for District Attorney but that she made clear she wouldn't favor him when she became District Attorney.Renewed attention began in early 2019 to his relationship with U.Senator Kamala Harris.The Washington Examiner, among others, published pieces relating to the affair between him and her while he was Assembly Speaker and raised questions about his appointment of her to state boards with lucrative salaries