Kevin Kiley

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

*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

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

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

*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

*Click here to help me keep fighting at the State Capitol. BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY It’s official: An initiative to end Prop. 13 as we know it will be on your ballot this November. Sacramento’s reigning Special Interests teamed up with Mark Zuckerberg and spent millions to qualify the so-called “Schools and Communities First” Proposition

BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY California unemployment reached 27.7 percent, highest of any state and almost twice the national rate. Yet Governor Newsom and the Legislature won’t let people work. After pledging to do “everything we can to keep small businesses afloat,” the Governor proposed a budget that drowns them in favors for special interests. As

BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY Facing a record deficit, Gavin Newsom confirms there’s one budget item whose massive funding he won’t touch: High-Speed Rail. The bullet train, priced as high as $100 billion, is safely ensconced as one of the Governor’s “most essential priorities.” If Gov. Newsom gets his way, not a dime will be taken

BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY Gavin Newsom is increasingly isolated at the Capitol. In the days since I introduced ACR 196, Legislators of both parties have joined me in expressing alarm at the Governor’s consolidation of power. “What’s the point of a Legislature if we’re, like the public, watching TV to get information?” asked Assemblyman Phil