Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom is a filmmaker whose documentaries have been seen by millions — but that didn’t happen purely because of talent.
Siebel Newsom leaned on her powerful hubby and his education board to push preachy flicks about “toxic masculinity” into classrooms, casting her husband as an enlightened Democratic savior — all while raking in up to $300,000 annually through her nonprofit,The Representation Project,and for-profit outfit Girls Club Entertainment.
“I turned the lens on boys and men and looked at the boy crisis in America and how we were failing our boys and men with this sort of rigid notion of toxic masculinity,” Siebel Newsom said aboutone of her films in an interview.
Newsom is featured as a humble-bragging talking head in Siebel Newsom’s films “Miss Representation” and “The Great American Lie” alongside a cadre of lefty activists, Democratic politicians and academics hammering viewers with progressive totems like raising the minimum wage as a cure for gender inequity.
“We have the ability to step up and solve big problems … it’s just a question of prioritization, of political will,” Newsom said in The Great American Lie in what could easily pass for a stump speech.
Even the liberal New York Timescalled the latter film “disingenuous”because it’s directed by the spouse of a top Democrat — but the relationship is never disclosed to unwitting viewers.
What’s more, Newsom’s own Department of Education shilled his wife’s documentaries in official state guidelines — after the Representation Project bragged in a 2014 tax filing that its films and “curricula” were used in 1,000 California public schools.
Newsom’s Board of Education recommended Siebel Newsom’s films incontroversial health education guidance in 2019— shortly after he became governor — that was later adopted by the state education department. The guidance sparked heated debate for its focus on sexuality and gender identity.
“This is a very clear attempt to indoctrinate the next generation of Californians. It’s a lot easier to control an uneducated group,” Tangipa added. “For the first time in history, this generation is significantly lower educated than our parents and grandparents.”
Forty-four percent of California 11th graders were not meeting reading standards in 2024, according tothe California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress. Nearly 70% were below par in math.
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