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nice blog.

why is a blog in this sub?

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Newsom's Potemkin City

My amendment to prohibit toddler mask mandates just passed the House.

The Congresswoman who spoke against it claimed child masking was “evidence-based,” so I asked for the evidence. She had none. At that point she let the amendment pass without a recorded vote.

You can watch the 10-minute Floor Debate here. I also appreciated this brilliant summary of the debate from Jay Bhattacharya. Our opponent, Jessica Morse, put out a statement opposing the amendment; she was a top Newsom aide throughout the COVID insanity.

Meanwhile, China’s President Xi and other foreign leaders are in San Francisco. And as if by magic, the city has transformed before our very eyes. A frantic “beautification effort” caused homeless people and open-air drug use to go “poof” (as the New York Times put it).

Newsom even admitted he only “cleaned up” the city because “all those fancy leaders are coming into town.” His goal, of course, is more than just saving himself from humiliation; it’s to hide the disastrous consequences of the policies he wants to impose on the rest of the country.

The trouble for Newsom is that he can’t hide the evidence long. Following my Collapse of San Francisco speech earlier this year, even CNN aired an hour-long special on how his home city is falling apart.

The Legislature, for its part, has descended further into self-parody, setting up a “Select Committee on Retail Theft” rather than repeal Prop. 47. It’s reminiscent of the Select Committee on Gas Prices it formed last year after refusing to pass my gas tax suspension.

Finally, thank you to everyone for the kind feedback on the Roll Call profile (“Newsom’s Biggest Critic May Be This California Republican”). It goes without saying, but our battles are just getting started.

Kevin Kiley
California Congressman

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Stranger Than Fiction

Following the discovery of a secret, illegal Chinese bio lab in California, I requested an investigation by the House. The Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party just released its highly disturbing report:

The Fugitive: The lab was run by Jiabei “Jesse” Zhu, an international fugitive from China. After running various Chinese companies, he moved to Canada and set up dozens of corporations to steal American intellectual property; the Supreme Court of British Columbia found he committed “fraud on an epic scale,” resulting in a $330 million judgment. He then fled to America, assumed the alias “David He,” and set up several more companies, including the one behind the bio lab.


The Lab: A year ago, a code inspector came upon a suspicious warehouse in Reedley, CA. Inside, she found Chinese nationals “wearing white lab coats, glasses, masks, and latex gloves” along with 1,000 mice “genetically engineered to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus.” A further inspection found thousands of vials of “suspected biological material” – some labeled with names of infectious agents, others labeled in a “code” that was never deciphered. (Photos of the lab here)


The CDC: At first, the CDC refused to investigate, and even hung-up on local officials who asked for help. When it finally did an inspection, it found “at least 20 potentially infectious agents, including HIV, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.” Yet the CDC didn’t bother to test any samples, which the report calls “baffling.” Later, local officials discovered a refrigerator in the lab labeled “Ebola.”


The Purpose: While the supposed purpose of the lab was to manufacture COVID test kits, in reality the company simply re-sold counterfeit kits from China. This raises questions as to the lab’s true purpose, especially given that Jesse Zhu, its criminal operator, was receiving large “unexplained” wire transfers from China. The report further notes that “no one knows whether there are other unknown biolabs.”


Newsom was completely AWOL after the lab’s discovery and has had no comment on the report. Perhaps that’s because he offered Zhu’s company $360,000 to come to California – or because he’s been busy visiting President Xi in China and now welcoming him to San Francisco.

Kevin Kiley
California Congressman