Breaking news on a Friday afternoon -- Gavin Newsom's chief of staff Steve Kawa has resigned. Stated reason: "I want to spend more time with my amazing family."

Okay, an announcement made at 3:42 p.m. on a Friday, the spending more time with my family excuse -- obviously this is really big news! Problem is.... we have absolutely no idea what the significance of this is to the Newsom administration. Is this good for Newsom? Bad for Newsom? Can someone please help a political junkie out and tell us what the heck's going on?

Here's the info we have: Kawa is openly gay and has two children with his partner. He and his partner were married by Gavin Newsom in 2004. Kawa was also Willie Brown's chief of staff when Willie was Da Mayor. And he has a good grasp on city finances.

Kawa will be replaced by Phil Ginsburg, who is currently in charge of human resources for the mayor's office. We don't know anything about Ginsburg either, except that based on the copy of the resume that the San Francisco Sentinel published, he likes to run marathons and speaks conversational Spanish.

Can someone please explain to us what's going on?? We'll love you forever.