By California Legislator Kevin Kiley Few things at the Capitol surprise me anymore. But what happened last week was a nuclear event. Gov. Newsom has routinely put special interests before kids, so I expected he’d use the COVID crisis to advance their agenda. But no one expected anything as vicious as the attack on students, […]
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By California Legislator Kevin Kiley The State Assembly is recessing again. After the 7-week COVID Recess, it’s moved ahead with a 3-week Summer Recess. Rather than work through summer, the Legislature used a shortened calendar as an excuse to put its usual undemocratic practices on steroids. Committee Chairmen threw out hundreds of bills without explanation.
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JUNE 27, 2020 Last Friday, Governor Newsom asked that everyone buy PPE from “California-based manufacturers.” Yet he bought $1 billion in masks from China’s disreputable BYD Company. He even resurrected the contract after the masks failed safety tests, when he could have paid an American company a fraction the price. That’s one reason I’m now
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By California Legislator Kevin Kiley The Legislature’s latest scandal has gotten attention for its sordid details: One of the Capitol’s most powerful Legislators had a four-year affair with a homeless domestic worker, which he began by impersonating another Legislator on the “What’s Your Price?” dating site. But what’s important is where this led: to the
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*Sign up at the bottom for updates on our case against Gov. Newsom. BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY Governor Newsom is not only vying to wrest himself free of the Restraining Order a Superior Court imposed at our request. He’s now trying to escape the bounds of constitutional government altogether. The California Constitution could not be
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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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*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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