Caitlyn Jenner is aiming to display a command of the issues affecting California in private tutorials as the novice Republican contender for governor campaigns for a recall election that is expected to be called for this fall.

On Tuesday, Jenner sat for a 2.5-hour briefing session on budgetary matters with veteran Republican insiders Jim Brulte (the former chairman of the state GOP and, before that, the top Republican in the California Senate) and Michael Genest, who functioned as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s chief fiscal adviser in his role as the director of the state’s finance department. Brulte, who in the early 2000s tutored Schwarzenegger on similar issues, emerged from his meeting with Jenner “impressed.”