Sign up below for my latest updates from inside the State Capitol. BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY For months, Gavin Newsom has implored us again and again (and again) to “meet this moment.” With the $202 billion budget the Legislature passed today, we missed the moment entirely. Having shut down the economy for months, the Governor […]
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“A continuation of the Republican Party’s plan to throw our democracy into chaos” – that’s what CA Secretary of State Alex Padilla called our court victory curbing Gavin Newsom’s abuse of power. With the ink barely dry on the Superior Court’s Order, our state’s Chief Elections Officer turned the vindication of a sacred Constitutional principle
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Sign up below for updates on this case: Kiley and Gallagher v. Newsom BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY Our court victory over Gavin Newsom is front page news across the state, and the Governor’s Office is on its heels. The Judge’s Order does three things. First, it suspends Executive Order N-67-20, through which the Governor unilaterally
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June 8, 2020 Today Assemblyman James Gallagher and I took Gavin Newsom to court for overstepping his powers. We won. The Judge granted a Temporary Restraining Order (see document below), suspending the Governor’s latest Executive Order as a violation of the Constitution. To save costs, we represented ourselves. The restraining order suspends the Governor’s recent
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Sign up at the bottom for my latest updates from inside the State Capitol. BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY On April 1, Gavin Newsom told Bloomberg News he saw the coronavirus public health crisis as an “opportunity” to enact a political and ideological agenda. It wasn’t a case of April Fools. Reporter: “Do you see the
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*Sign up below for my latest updates from inside the State Capitol. BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY BYD China owed California a full refund, due last Friday, after its masks repeatedly failed federal safety tests. But Gavin Newsom told them to keep the money. As of May 31, the secretly awarded $1 billion contract was null
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BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY Is Gavin Newsom planning to appoint himself to the U.S. Senate? Dan Walters writes this might be his plan, as Kamala Harris auditions for VP. And my bill to stop him was just killed by the Governor’s allies. In many states, the resignation of a U.S. Senator triggers an election. But
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BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY Today the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst sent lawmakers an urgent warning: Gavin Newsom’s budget is a power grab. The letter lists 13 separate ways the Governor is trying to “sideline legislative authority” and enlarge his own powers. $600 million to buy hotels for the homeless. $130 million to remake Medi-Cal. Millions to
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*Sign up at the bottom for my latest updates from inside the State Capitol BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY For two months I’ve warned Gavin Newsom that his $1 billion deal with BYD China was doomed. Yesterday, it officially collapsed. The N-95 masks failed a federal safety test a second time, forcing California to seek a
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