In response to my announcement on this Wednesday’s gas tax vote, one of the nation’s top political reporters commented: “Calif. Republicans may be in the minority but they are leveraging this gas-tax issue pretty effectively.”

When I first ran for the Assembly, I was often asked, “How can you ever do anything in the Superminority?” My response was you can do a lot of things, as long as you’re willing to actually do things: too many politicians want to be in office just for the sake of being in office.

If we hadn’t forced the issue on the gas tax, we wouldn’t be seeing the Supermajority’s wall of opposition breaking down – nor would they be talking about “rebates,” for that matter. It’s the same with our other major priorities the last few months.

• We didn’t end the State of Emergency, but we forced to Newsom’s hand on masks and vaccines in school and have created a culture where people can go on with their lives regardless.
• We didn’t reverse Prop. 47 but have helped propel citizen Recalls of the Soros-backed District Attorneys of San Francisco and Los Angeles.
• We didn’t kill the entire “Vaccine Work Group” bill package, but we’ve defeated the three worst bills and I’m confident we can still stop the rest.

That’s been our approach: to take action, to apply pressure, to use every lever, to exploit every leverage point. It’s the approach we will take this week, as several of the radical COVID bills face key votes.

And it’s the approach I will take in Congress, to assure the a new Republican Majority is an active one, that fights from Day 1 to stop Biden from turning all of America into California.