California Governor Gavin Newsom and his wife are moving their family to an exclusive part of the state so their daughter can attend a new private school.
The Democrat, touted as a future presidential candidate, will stay at his $3.7 million, six-bedroom suburban Sacramento home with his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom some nights a week.
But she will move her children 90 miles away, to Marin County, in time for the fall semester, when her oldest son, Montana, will enroll at The Branson School, which has tuition rates of up to $60,000 a year.
The move comes as he is already fueling speculation that he is focusing on his political future beyond when his term as governor ends in 2027.
Gavin Newsom and his family greet the crowd at an election night party in Los Angeles after being elected in 2018.
Newsom indicated he already has one foot out there with a prerecorded State of the State address on Tuesday where he compared 2024 to 1939, when fascism was on the rise on the eve of World War II.
Newsom’s office confirmed the move to the elite Bay Area enclave for political.
“To ensure the continuity of their children’s education, the family will split their time between Sacramento and Marin heading into the next academic year,” according to the governor’s spokeswoman, Izzy Gardon.
Newsom’s term as governor ends in January 2027 and he is a favorite to be a leading contender in the 2028 presidential race.
He was touted as a possible replacement for Joe Biden, but ended speculation and will now be a campaign surrogate.
One of his first major campaign appearances will be in Atlanta, Georgia, for the first presidential debate on Thursday night.
California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom walks with his family to cast his ballot on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Larkspur, Calif.
United States President Joe Biden, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and Jennifer Lynn Siebel Newsom greet a crowd on September 13, 2021 in Long Beach, California.
The Branson school that one of Governor Newsom’s children will attend
California Governor Gavin Newsom delivers his State of the State address on Tuesday, June 25, 2024.
Instead of upending her children’s lives in the middle of the school year, the move will allow Montana to start as a high school freshman.
Newsom grew up in San Francisco but later moved to Marin, one of the wealthiest communities in the country. Both he and Siebel attended schools there.
In the upscale suburb of Ross, home to the elite school Montana plans to attend, the median household income is $250,000 and the median home price is $1.6 million, double the state average. Of California.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom and California Governor Gavin Newsom
People line up in temporary tents to partake in a free Thanksgiving meal provided by Union Rescue Mission in the Skid Row district of Los Angeles.
The couple has four children: Montana, Hunter, Brooklyn and Dutch. In May, Siebel Newsom said she had to remove one of them from school because of bullying.
Newsom was branded a COVID hypocrite during the pandemic for imposing a mask mandate in schools while Montana and Hunter attended a maskless basketball camp.
Newsom pulled them out of camp in July 2021, insisting at the time that he “missed” the email saying children would not have to wear face coverings.
It wasn’t the only time he was accused of double standards during lockdown, after he was caught eating without a mask at the upscale French Laundry restaurant.
