SACRAMENTO – At today’s joint hearing on the fentanyl crisis, Democrats doubled down on their stubborn refusal to hold fentanyl traffickers accountable. Despite calls from Republicans, law enforcement and family members of fentanyl victims for a comprehensive solution that addresses the epidemic from a public health AND public safety perspective, Democrat committee…

SACRAMENTO – To mark today’s joint hearing on the fentanyl crisis (at which no action will be taken or bills heard), Assembly Republicans are unveiling an online tracker to estimate how many Californians have been killed by fentanyl since the beginning of the year. So far in 2023, nearly 2,300 Californians have lost…

The fentanyl crisis is about public health & public safety, but Democrats ignore half the problem (Hint: it’s not public health). Over the weekend, the Modesto Bee slammed Democrats in an editorial for their continued inaction on the fentanyl epidemic. The editorial called out “Democratic legislators committed to progressivism [who]…

Less than a day before their big hearing, Democrats still won’t say what they plan on talking about. Assembly Democrats have promised that a joint hearing of three committees would bring people together to find public health AND public safety solutions to the fentanyl crisis.  Is that actually going to happen?  We…

Gavin Newsom was MIA for nearly half of April, as California’s jobless rate rose to the second-highest in the nation.  First Newsom lectured Republican governors on how to run their states, then jetted off for a luxury Caribbean vacation, and finally hit the DC fundraising circuit to raise money for Biden. All told, Newsom was gone for more than…