JUNE 10, 2020 Earlier this year, Gavin Newsom intervened to kill my Audit of several billion dollars spent futilely on homelessness. Now he wants to spend billions more. And the Assembly just gave him his wish. Homelessness in California is a calamity. Last year we added 20,000 homeless people, more than the rest of the […]
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With the Governor’s aides looking on, the Audit Committee Chairman tried to cancel the vote (at 2:33). Eventually, all five senators votes yes, but three Assembly Members “abstained” – killing the Audit (at 3:39).
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*Sign up at the bottom for updates on our case against Gov. Newsom. By KEVIN KILEY After we obtained a Restraining Order against Gavin Newsom, his lawyers at the Attorney General’s Office spent the weekend furiously churning out papers to file with the Court of Appeals. The Governor hopes to get out of the Restraining
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*Sign up below for updates on our case against Gov. Newsom By California Legislator Kevin Kiley Past Governors have invoked the California Emergency Services Act to responsibly manage disasters. But Gavin Newsom’s one-man rule has shown this obscure law from 1970 is dangerous. In the wrong hands, it’s a threat to our system of government
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*Sign up at the bottom for updates on our case against Gov. Newsom. BY KEVIN KILEY If Gov. Newsom believes his Executive Order is lawful, he has a chance to make his case in the Superior Court on June 26. Yet instead, he’s filed a 39-page brief with a Court of Appeals making a meritless
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*Sign up at the bottom for updates on our case against Gov. Newsom. BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY Today, I held a briefing along with Assemblyman Gallagher on the Temporary Restraining Order we obtained against Gavin Newsom. The Governor has now been rebuked by both parties and both other branches of government for his unconstitutional use
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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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