Category: Kevin Kiley Blog

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

BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY In 2017, Jerry Brown and the Legislature raised the Gas Tax by $52 billion, promising that this time, the money really would be used to fix roads. Gavin Newsom just broke that promise. In what might be the most brazen scheme yet to divert transportation dollars, Gov. Newsom plans to raid

Yesterday Gov. Newsom unilaterally re-closed large parts of the California economy, without involving the Legislature and without any clear public standards. All we got was his say-so. The day before, he issued his broadest Executive Order yet. Order N-71-20 takes 41 separate executive actions, few of which involve the Public Health Code. I previously introduced

BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY California has a $54 billion problem, and Gavin Newsom has a simple solution: Ask Nancy. The Governor is banking on Speaker Pelosi’s HEROES Act to avoid having to spend less. In a breezy five-paragraph letter to Pelosi, Newsom and the Western States Pact asked for exactly $1 trillion. Meanwhile, Gov. Newsom

*Sign up below for my latest updates from inside the Capitol. BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY “Taking away the lollipop.” That’s what California Lawmakers call it when they kill your job. On Thursday, a Senator used this phrase to infantilize Californians whose livelihoods were destroyed by Assembly Bill 5. When asked about the same bill, Gavin

*Sign up below for my latest updates from inside the State Capitol BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY Gavin Newsom’s $1 billion mask deal with BYD China is crumbling. As is the Governor’s credibility. FEDS CONTRADICT NEWSOM ON CERTIFICATION OF MASKS reads the front page headline in today’s Sacramento Bee. After the N-95 masks predictably failed a

BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY “Send us exactly $1 trillion. Don’t ask questions.” That’s Gavin Newsom and the Western States Pact’s modest request in a five-paragraph letter to Congress. It comes as California faces a $54 billion budget deficit, a number that would be a lot smaller if the state didn’t spend so much to begin

BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY “F— Elon Musk” – an actual tweet from one of California’s highest-ranking Legislators this weekend. After the tweet made national news for what an embarrassment our state government has become, Musk responded: “Message received.” It’s a message being received all across California right now – especially by small businesses that are

BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY Governor Newsom’s 38th Executive Order, requiring all-absentee voting in November’s Election, is a stunning abuse of power. Two bills currently in the Legislature propose this same policy. But the Governor rushed to enact it on his own so he could declare California the “first state in the nation” to go all-absentee.