By Kevin Kiley – September 5, 2024
Yesterday, I joined Gloria Romero, the former Democrat Majority Leader of the California State Senate, for a momentous announcement. She is joining the Republican Party. You can watch our press conference at the State Capitol here.
This comes just two weeks after a sitting California Senator switched from Democrat to Republican; it follows three straight voter registration cycles where Republicans gained and Democrats lost ground. And it matches what I’m seeing everywhere I go.
That is: a coalition for common sense is emerging in California. Republicans are more fired up than ever, and a growing number of Independents and Democrats are ready for change. They’ve had enough of Newsom and his enablers running our beautiful state into the ground.
Consider the latest LA Times poll for our End Prop. 47 initiative. Republican voters favor the initiative by a 52-percent margin. Independents are for it by 36 percent. And even Democrat voters favor our initiative by a 19-point margin. (Newsom remains staunchly opposed.)
Speaking of Newsom: he just called a “Special Session” of the Legislature to raise gas prices, and the State Senate simply blew him off. The national party has shunned him, California voters give him a record-low approval rating, and now his own Supermajority is openly disrespecting him.
Yet the insanity in Sacramento continues: the Legislature passed a bill that forbids any local government from requiring voter ID. This comes just two years after many Californians were required to present both an ID and personal medical documents to get coffee at Starbucks.
Another recently passed bill would give undocumented immigrants $150,000 in housing assistance. As I noted on Newsmax, this follows Newsom giving free healthcare to everyone here illegally, despite a $68 billion deficit.
Meanwhile, the House Judiciary Committee is coming to San Diego tomorrow for a special hearing on the Biden-Harris border crisis. And we return to DC next week. Among the immediate priorities: passing the Save Act to secure our elections.
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Kevin Kiley is a California Congressman
