"Anne Gust Brown keeps governor-elect grounded"

Jessica Levinson was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle about the influence of Jerry Brown's wife on his future tenure as governor.

Here is an excerpt of the full article: 

"What do you do when your wife, an unpaid adviser, becomes the focus of controversy? Analysts and watchdogs say such a problem would probably cause more stress in a couple's marriage or with other staff than anything else.

'But the public really has no recourse with other unelected advisers, either, like a chief of staff,' said Jessica Levinson, director of political reform at the nonpartisan Center for Governmental Studies in Los Angeles."