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    Double billing: California's next first lady aims to leave her mark on the post

    by Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times Nov 24, 2018 7 minutes

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - It was Gavin's big moment. But first it was Jennifer's.

    An hour after her husband was elected California's next governor, Jennifer Siebel Newsom took the stage alone at his Los Angeles victory party to extol his win and welcome - in English and Spanish - all Californians to their extended family.

    It's not uncommon for a political spouse to play election-night emcee. Less common was the message staring back at her on the electric-pink T-shirts of a cluster of audience members: WE LOVE GAVIN + JEN.

    California's first couple now finds themselves navigating notoriously thorny territory: political spouses who share double billing. The Bill and Hillary Clinton era showed how "two for the price of one" could simultaneously evoke a power couple's combination of talents and a presumptuous elevation of an unelected wife.

    And it gets even thornier. Siebel Newsom, who has built her public persona as a documentary filmmaker and advocate focusing on gender relations, is becoming California's first lady at the moment gender politics in the country is at its most raw and combustible, after #MeToo and the confirmation of

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