enough for a reasonable person

newsom seems to be as kooked out as terdo is

I've just published a new blog post:

The Fanatics at Our Capitol

A new Assembly bill would make all California employers force their workers to get vaccinated. The fanatics at our Capitol need to give it a rest.

This latest affront joins SB 871, which mandates the vaccine for kindergarten and up, and SB 866, which removes parent consent. I'll fight these bills every way I can.

In LA, the Sheriff is declining to fire 4,000 deputies over their medical decisions. So now the Board of Supervisors is removing his authority over personnel. I’m introducing legislation to protect this authority for sheriffs and other elected officers.

In my county, the Roseville High School District just unanimously voted to make masks optional for students starting Tuesday. Statewide, 150 school board members have signed the letter opposing mandates that I gave to legislators.

While our vote to end the emergency didn’t pass, it served its purpose: widespread media coverage highlighted the absurdity of it all. And Newsom's inflammatory attack on me and James Gallagher backfired. We responded in an official statement:

“The Governor’s statement that ending the emergency is equivalent to letting ‘Californians die’ is the same fear mongering we have come to expect from him. If we can host the Super Bowl with 70,000 fans we are no longer in a State of Emergency.”

Kevin Kiley
CA Legislator & Candidate for Congress

Newsom Ignored

Newsom just announced he's extending his school mask mandate even as almost every other state has ended theirs. This will be widely ignored throughout California.

This comes a day after LA hosted the world's biggest sporting event. Mayor Eric Garcetti blithely roamed the stadium, neither covering his face nor holding his breath. What will future generations think?

California is one of only five states where a school mask mandate remains. But in my district, Roseville’s high school board has courageously voted to make masks optional as of tomorrow. Here is their Resolution.

Roseville's board is one that has fought Newsom's mandates and shutdowns heroically. The board in San Francisco, on the other hand, has embraced Newsom’s corruption and taken it to peak levels. Now, three of their members face accountability.

Tomorrow is the SF School Board Recall. If you have friends in the city, tell them to vote. Ousting these board members will provide some justice to the kids they harmed and jumpstart a year of political change.

I’ve never seen an atmosphere for change like 2022. The question is, what kind of change? A lighter shade of the failed status quo – or a bold new direction. At this moment in history, like never before, we need Republicans in office who will fight.

Kevin Kiley
California Legislator

A National Outlier

Newsom has extended the school mask mandate through March 11. Because why not give California kids a couple more weeks of pointless misery.

Meanwhile, as CalMatters reports, all the obsessive new vaccine bills would make California “an outlier among states.” You can see the full list here; as always, our state is leading in the very worst way.

The good news is we’ve stopped several such bills already. I believe we can stop each and every one of them.

In fact, this month we can restore a modicum of sanity at the Capitol. My agenda for March is simple: Repeal Prop. 47. Suspend the Gas Tax. End the Emergency.

If you managed to watch the State of the Union last night, the need for new political leadership has never been so painfully clear. And it had a dreadfully familiar ring.

I don’t know which is worse: that Newsom called California a “model for the nation” or that Biden seems to have believed him. He and his radical allies in Congress want to turn California from the outlier to the norm.

We simply can’t let that happen. We cannot allow our country to go down the same disastrous path as California.

This Monday was a record day with 806 citizen donations propelling us past our target. It is beyond uplifting to be joined by so many patriots who believe our state and country are worth fighting.

Kevin Kiley
California Legislator

At this point its home school or brain wash school.

Two Years Later

Yesterday, I rose on the Assembly Floor to express my support for our Ukrainian community. As usual, I was forced under threat of physical removal to wear a mask.

Calling out the Legislature’s leaders, I asked if they thought Nancy Pelosi behaved recklessly by attending the State of the Union unmasked. That got their attention. A few hours later, a memo went out rescinding the mask requirement at the State Capitol.

This minor victory came on the eve of a notorious day. It was on March 4, 2020, that Newsom declared the State of Emergency.

In the weeks that followed, I was barred from the Capitol as the Legislature recessed. When we finally returned on May 4, 2020, I insisted one-man rule must end. When Newsom continued to rule by decree, on May 21, 2020, I introduced ACR 196 to terminate the State of Emergency.

When the Legislature refused act, on June 8, 2020, James Gallagher and I walked into Superior Court and sued Newsom for abusing his emergency powers. We won an injunction against him and later a trial.

For 2 years, we've all fought Newsom in every way we can. We've channeled every outrage into a citizens movement that came breathtakingly close to toppling the Governor and has only kept growing.

I'm hopeful we'll end the emergency soon. But really, we already have. We the People have taken matters into our own hands, and we can now reclaim our state and country.

Kevin Kiley
California Legislator

Six Dollars and Counting

On Monday, Republicans will be united on the Assembly Floor in voting for my bill, AB 1638, to suspend the gas tax entirely. I hope our Democrat colleagues will join us.

Before the vote, I’m holding a press conference at a Sacramento gas station with James Gallagher and Senate Republican Leader Scott Wilk. You can watch live on my Facebook page at 11:45 AM.

We’ve already forced Newsom to change his position. He now agrees Californians need relief, but he’s only offering “rebates.” A check in the mail at some future time: we saw how well that worked with the EDD.

Meanwhile, Newsom’s school mask mandate has formally expired. But the LA teachers union insists it’s “premature.” Any board member still voting to require masks needs to be challenged and defeated. Gratuitous cruelty to children is disqualifying.

Vaccine passports are also ending, with no evidence they did anything but create a black market for forged documents. My bill opposing passports never got a hearing.

That’s California for you: paying the highest gas taxes while driving over the deepest potholes; facing the highest government coercion while receiving the lowest government performance. Increasingly, that’s America for you as well.

We're fighting to set our state and country on a new course. And this week saw the biggest development of the campaign. I’m honored to now be the officially endorsed candidate of the California Republican Party.



Kevin Kiley
California Legislator

Boy you digging up some trash posts here

With Open Arms

There are currently 76 Members of the State Assembly. Yesterday, 18 of them voted for my bill to suspend the gas taxes. Another 18 abstained from the vote. And 40 voted no, welcoming $6 per gallon with open arms.

You can see how everyone voted here and watch the proceedings unfold on the Assembly Floor here. All Republicans and one Independent voted yes; all Democrats abstained or voted no.

The backlash was swift as legislators heard from their constituents. By late afternoon, one even put out an apologia, explaining she only voted no because she hadn’t “read” the bill. The bill is two pages long.

Newsom's reaction was beyond belief, even for him. He claimed my bill would “line the pockets of petro-dictatorship and oil companies,” adding that rising gas prices are “a direct result of Putin’s war.”

Right after Newsom made this comment, Connecticut's liberal Governor humiliated him by announcing he was suspending his state’s gas tax, exactly as I proposed here.

A Fox 40 reporter suggested the same thing would happen as with our State of Emergency vote before the Super Bowl. In that case, she said, our “strategy essentially worked” because we shamed the Legislature into finally taking up the Resolution. In fact, the Senate will consider it later today.

From yesterday's events, it's clear our government has never been more inept, corrupt, or out of touch. This is the time to join the fight for our state and country.



Kevin Kiley
California Legislator

The Reeling Supermajority

Democrats are in disarray at the California Capitol. As one headline put it:

"GOP Move to Suspend Gas Tax Puts Assembly Democrats on Their Heels – the move pushed by Assemblyman Kevin Kiley left San Diego Democrats scrambling for a coherent response."

Spoiler alert: there was no coherent response. Some legislators told constituents they hadn’t read the bill (it’s two pages). Others complained about the procedure I used, failing to mention they used the same procedure for other bills that very day.

Seeing that these excuses didn’t wash, Democrat legislators huddled and threw together a new plan: give every taxpayer a $400 “rebate.” They rolled it out at a subdued press conference in front of the Capitol yesterday morning.

When this exercise in face-saving was over, Gallagher and I were waiting (at a respectful distance, of course) and the gaggle of press came to us. Watch our response here.

Truthfully, this is the first time I’ve ever seen the Supermajority propose returning money to taxpayers. That tells you how much Monday’s vote has rattled them. But it's no substitute for suspending the gas tax.

Our Assembly GOP caucus is united, and every Republican Member of Congress signed a letter to Newsom supporting my bill. This really shouldn’t be partisan, though. We’re giving our colleagues on the other side another chance next week.

Tell your Assembly Member no more excuses. Vote yes on AB 1638.



Kevin Kiley
California Legislator