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Legislative Report

January 2025​

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LEGISLATIVE UPDATES​

 

The New California Legislative Session has begun and so far, 343 bills have been submitted. Last session over 5,500 bills were submitted, so good guess the democrat legislators are furiously writing up new ways to erode our freedoms. And what they don’t accomplish, the California regulators will go through rulemaking (CARB, here’s looking at YOU!).

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  • TRUMP PROOFING CALIFORNIA. A special legislative session was held last week (while fires were raging through L.A.) to provide $50 million dollars to combat Trump. $25 Million for lawsuits to fight Trump and another $25 million to provide legal assistance to illegal aliens. This created a lot of backlash, so has been side-lined until the furor dies down. Now Newsom wants to extend the special legislative session to provide $2.5 Billion for LA fire response and recovery.

 

  • WEINER’S OBSESSION WITH SEX LEGISLATION. He has introduced SB59, Change of Gender and Sex Identifier. It seems the purpose of this legislation is to remove parent’s or guardians’ knowledge or approval of a minor’s legal change of sex identification and/or name. This bill declares it is take effect immediately as an urgency statute (because you know, Trump might circumvent).

 

  • AB 80. CARPET RECYCLING; PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP FOR CARPET: FINES. This bill requires a manufacturer of carpets sold in this state, individually or through a carpet stewardship organization, to submit a carpet stewardship plan to the state to include specified carpet recycling rates and a funding mechanism that provides sufficient funding to carry out the plan. The Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery may impose a civil penalty of $25,000/day on any person in violation of the program.

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  • AB 7. Postsecondary Education: Admissions Preference: Descendants of Slavery.

 

CALIFORNIA UPDATES

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  • NEWSOM previews 2025-26 State Budget. He touts a balanced budget and key investments and contends that California is well-positioned to continue (don’t laugh) “the forward momentum we have created.”  The ‘details’ of this budget were released on Friday, January 10. In the Wall Street Journal, the editors state the budget skimps on wildfire prevention while boosting spending on Medicaid, green energy and payoffs to the teachers’ unions. Newsom’s budget cuts the CAL FIRES’s “resource management” program by half from 2023. He plans instead to pay for $325 Million in spending on wildfire and forest resilience with a $10 Billion Climate Bond that voters approved in November. This bond includes spending $36 million for “sequestering carbon and reducing emissions”, $47 million for “expansion of green streets, parks and school yards”, $80 million for “climate action through nature-based solutions” to” improve equitable access to nature”; $190 million for parks “in the state’s most disadvantaged communities”; and $228 million for port upgrades to support offshore wind generation. Full article at https://www.wsj.com/opinion/california-wildfires-climate-change-water-storage-land-management-gavin-newsom-democrats-bd78d49a?st=xb41xi

 

 

  • CALIFORNIA STILL SPENDING HUGE ON THE TRAIN TO NOWHERE. Newsom announced that he envisions a zero-emission, fully connected rail network by 2050. Can’t wait!!  Start making your travel plans now!!  One wise sage pointed out that this has taken so long, the technology is now out-of-date and useless.

 

  • NEWSOM’S 2024 SUCCESSES – You can watch his glossy, smarmy video on the governor’s website. He goes through pictures of himself throughout the year. He’s loving himself big time! OOPS!  Since the fire, this has been deleted and unsearchable!

 

 

  • CALIFORNIA GETS SUED:  The City Attorney in Huntington Beach is suing California in FEDERAL court, challenging California’s Sanctuary State status

 

  • HOMELESSNESS IS BIG BUSINESS! In Los Angeles, Va Lecia Adams Kellum, Ph.D. is the Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, and she makes a salary of $430K/Year. She is a friend of Mayor Karen Bass.

 

  • CALIFORNIA QUIETLY ENDED SINGLE FAMILY ZONING:  California ended loopholes that allowed cities to block California law that lets owners build four homes on an existing single housing lot. While the California Constitution provides great power to Charter Cities, the intention of the new law enlists onerous requirements for Charter Cities to deny. If the city does not comply and refuses within 60 days from submission, the law states the proposal is AUTOMATICALLY approved.

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  • CALIFORNIA WORST PLACE TO RAISE A FAMILY IN 2025:  According to Consumer Affairs, a customer review and consumer news platform, California came in LAST PLACE out of all 50 states and Washington D.C.

 

  • TINY HOMES:  In March of 2023 Gavin Newsom promised to deliver 1200 tiny homes at a cost of $625,000/each. As of the end of 2024, not a single tiny home had been built. In comparison, the Amish just built 12 tiny homes in ravaged North Carolina in less than 48 hours at a cost of $25K each. What’s wrong with this picture? We need more Amish work ethic and common sense in California!

 

 

SAN DIEGO COUNTY

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  • HOMELESSNESS CONTINUES TO RISE. Finally, Ben Bergquam from Real America’s Voice was able to video the huge Homeless Internment camp by the Naval Base/Balboa Park area. The area is guarded, and they do not allow filming. They say no filming because of City law because it’s “private property” and/or because of HIPA laws. Our homelessness population continues to rise, and California is now at 181,000.

 

  • SAN DIEGO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS:  Nora Vargas resigns not long after claiming that San Diego will not cooperate with ICE and will protect illegal aliens. There may be other reasons (rumors of harassment or racism claims). This leaves 4 on the board, 2 Dems, Jim Desmond and a squishy Republican, Joel Anderson. Could Jim Desmond head it up?

 

  • HOW WOULD SAN DIEGO COUNTY HOLD UP “UNDER FIRE”? Jim Desmond has provided on-line assurances that we are in a much better position than Los Angeles, but the days of trusting officials (including my favorite Jim Desmond) without verifying, are long past.

 

  • LAKE HODGES DAM AND RESERVOIR. Prior to the fire outbreaks in LA, San Diego residents were concerned over the low water level at Lake Hodges (the state controls the water levels). https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/concern-arises-over-lake-hodges-water-level-this-is-why/. The fact sheet on Lake Hodges Reservoir and Dam focuses on flood prevention and little on restoration of a functioning reservoir. They state we COULD have a dam replacement by 2034, but there is no directive or definitive process for getting there.​

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POLITICAL BITS AND PIECES

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  • TRUMP GAINS VOTES IN DEEP BLUE CALIFORNIA. Trump flipped 10 counties in California and Rancho Santa Fe went TRUMP!

 

 

 

 

INVITED ILLEGAL ALIENS and spent billions on them.

DEI - $500 MILLION SPENT

LOS ANGELES CUT $17 MILLION IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT

ELECTED PRO-COMMUNIST KAREN BASS WHO WAS TRAVELING IN GHANA

DEI HIRE IN CHARGE OF THE RESERVOIRS, WATER AND FIRE DEPT.

RESERVOIR TO FIGHT PALISADES FIRE WAS EMPTY

FIRE HYDRANTS DIDN’T HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE OR WATER

BRUSH HAD NOT BEEN CLEARED

HOMELESS PEOPLE SETTING FIRES OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS

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ACTION ITEMS

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  • GAVIN NEWSOM RECALL. You can sign on-line petition at change.org.

  • KAREN BASS RECALL. Also available at change.org.

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