Category: Kevin Kiley Blog

It’s official. The Secretary of State has verified enough signatures to trigger an election for the removal of Gavin Newsom as Governor. This is an achievement of historic proportions: our country’s largest ever signature drive and our state’s greatest ever citizens movement. In theory, Newsom could still stop the election by harassing people into retracting […]

Our Oral Argument with the Court of Appeal is complete. You can watch a video clip here. The good news is the Justices appear poised to reject Newsom’s request to dismiss the case. From the beginning, his strategy has been to get out of the lawsuit on a “mootness” technicality to avoid any accountability for

Next Tuesday is the day we’ve been waiting for. At 9:30 AM, James Gallagher and I will face Newsom’s attorneys before the Court of Appeal. The hearing is virtual (so much for your day in court), but the upside is you can watch it live. As something of a prelude, this week James and I

A bill to expose the name and address of everyone who signs a Recall petition has just passed the Senate Elections Committee. SB 663 would let the target of a Recall get their hands on the full list of signatories. The bill is authored by a Senator who was once recalled himself. At the same

Vaccine passports would be a last straw for many Californians. I am introducing a bill to end this madness before it starts. My legislation prohibits the mandating of vaccine passports “as a condition of receiving any service or entering any place.” I’m hopeful it will be voted on at the Privacy Committee’s April 22 hearing.

Headlines say Gavin Newsom is “fully opening” California on June 15. What they should say is he’s continuing a catastrophic policy for at least another two months. Newson’s bizarre announcement – the economy might open, schools won’t have to, and masks are here to stay – is as unlawful as it is incoherent. The Governor

Major League Baseball has pulled its All-Star game from Georgia over a new state election law, and Gavin Newsom is offering to host it in California. If the MLB is concerned with “voter suppression,” it should emphatically reject Newsom’s invitation. Let’s start with a statement by Newsom last October: “Nothing reeks of desperation quite like

On April 1, 2020, Gavin Newsom hailed the novel coronavirus as an “opportunity” for a “new progressive era.” A year later, we are living with the nation’s worst and most regressive outcomes. On that prior April Fools’ Day, Newsom called COVID-19 “an opportunity to reshape the way we do business and how we govern.” He said

I’d rather not write about death rates, from COVID or anything else. It can be insensitive to reduce pain, suffering, and loss to unfeeling statistics. But Gavin Newsom is forcing me to. To justify his worst-in-the-nation lockdowns, Newsom is going around the state bragging about death rates. In his State of the State, he asserted

There’s a new name in the mix for the Recall. You may remember him from his plaid ties. At the time Donald Trump became President, Tom Steyer was already the biggest Democrat political donor in U.S. history. Nine months later, he launched a “Need to Impeach” campaign that would burn through another $75 million of