I just got this letter from the Assembly Rules Committee. It reads: Dear Assemblymember Kiley: You received the following per diem amounts during the 2021 calendar year from the California State Assembly: 2021 Total: $0.00 I’ve received that letter each year in the Legislature, saving taxpayers over $200,000 in per diem declined. The Majority, however, is […]
On Monday, Gavin Newsom told us about his “judicious” mask-wearing at the 49ers game. The next day, Eric Garcetti did him one better. LA’s Mayor assured the public that in his own maskless photo with Magic Johnson, he was holding his breath. Yes, his defense is he didn’t exhale. The line between parody and reality has
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Something extraordinary happened on Monday. At the very last possible moment the Single Payer Healthcare bill was withdrawn because it “didn’t have the votes.” For one day sanity prevailed. We were all sitting at our desks on the Assembly Floor around 5 PM, waiting for the debate to begin. Then, suddenly, the session was adjourned
Late on Friday, Gavin Newsom’s handpicked EDD Director resigned. This comes after I questioned the Director at a recent hearing. Her answers were baffling. She couldn’t say why we have the highest unemployment in America. She couldn’t say if a single person was fired over the $31 billion in fraud. Newsom has presided over the EDD train wreck for two
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On Monday, the Assembly will vote on the Single Payer bill. AB 1400 abolishes private insurance and has the government take over healthcare. It would double state taxes. Apparently, this is not a drill. Democrat leaders are vowing to “make sure members who vote ‘no’ on the legislation will not be endorsed by the California
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A state senator is trying to mandate the COVID vaccine for kindergarten and up – without exemptions – starting next year. It’s the same senator whose previous legislation made California a national outlier by eliminating religious exemptions. This is not called science. It’s called an obsession. The new bill comes as the LA Times reports
The CDC now reports that prior infection offers better protection than vaccination. I’m calling on Newsom to credit natural immunity in all COVID policies immediately. Of course, he has refused. Just as he still refuses to revoke his student vaccine mandate, which every other state has rejected. Worse, Senate Bill 866 seeks to cut parents out
Voting is underway in the Recall of three SF board members who refused to open schools. 2022 is the year of accountability. Even San Francisco’s liberal Mayor and Senator support the Recall. Throughout California, I’ve met many lifelong Democrats who are voting differently this year. Some things, it turns out, go beyond partisanship – sanity,
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Gavin Newsom has declared California “a model for the nation.” This is the height of delusion. His ruinous policies are a model for what the nation must avoid. Delusion is probably too kind of a word. The other day, Newsom claimed we’d have “40,000 more Californians dead” if we’d taken Florida’s approach to COVID. That
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The Sheriff of LA County is blasting Newsom for feeding billions more into the “homeless industrial complex.” I’ve proposed a full audit of all homelessness spending. Let’s see exactly where the money is going. The last time I proposed such an audit, I was one vote away from getting it approved when Newsom pressured three
