The Endless Emergency

Governor Gavin Newsom

By Kevin Kiley, Republican Assemblyman, District 6

Gavin Newsom has just issued an Executive Order predicated on the State of Emergency continuing to March 31, 2022. This is completely lawless. 

It’s what James Gallagher and I warned the courts about in hundreds of pages of briefing. Newsom will never give up power voluntarily – even, it turns out, during a mysterious 13-day disappearance. 

The Governor did resurface on Monday. He explained he was out for Halloween, though some have raised questions as to when trick-or-treating became a two-week event, how that squares with photos of him at the Getty Wedding, and why his whereabouts were a tightly guarded state secret.

All the while, California’s COVID “case rate” (the key metric according Newsom) is now twice Florida’s. We still have the nation’s worst unemployment. We still have a school mask mandate rejected by even New York City's new mayor.

And I continue to get reports of cruelty at some schools, like lunchtime in the rain. I’ve issued a request, joined by Senator Scott Wilk and Reopen CA Schools Founder Jonathan Zachreson, for an oversight hearing into these inhumane conditions.

The good news: A Recall of SF school board members has such momentum even the liberal mayor and state senator now support it. The parent revolution has begun.