Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon Archives

BREAKING: CA Senate Republicans Locked Out of Capitol in Politicized COVID Wars

August 27, 2020 6:09 pmAugust 28, 2020 1:03 pm

There have been several COVID-positive members of the California Legislature. Leading up to Thursday, COVID-positive members and those they were in contact with in the Capitol were asked to quarantine for 14 days. But legislative business went on with some...

CA Assembly Proposes Proxy Voting

July 28, 2020 11:28 amJuly 28, 2020 11:37 am

The California State Assembly is poised to adopt a new rule to allow proxy voting. ACA 25, which passed the Assembly but has not been heard by the Senate, would have allowed proxy voting, along with remote participating and voting...

Gov. Newsom Trying to Remove Judge for Issuing Restraining Order

July 14, 2020 12:16 pmJuly 15, 2020 9:33 am

In June, Sutter County Superior Court Judge Perry Parker granted a temporary block on Governor Gavin Newsom’s Executive Order that requires all registered California voters to receive a mail-in ballot for the upcoming November election. Assemblyman James Gallagher (R-Yuba City)...

CA Assembly Dem Budget Chair Phil Ting Outed for Extramarital Affair

June 22, 2020 4:29 pmJune 24, 2020 2:52 pm

It was revealed over the weekend that California Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), the budget chairman for the California State Assembly, frequented the dating site, “What’s Your Price?,” carried on a four-year extramarital affair in and out of motels with...

Senate Bill 1 Doubles Down on ‘Trump Resistance’ While Threatening CA Water Supply

September 12, 2019 7:56 amSeptember 12, 2019 6:02 pm

Another bill which would put the brakes on California’s economy is being heard and debated in the California Legislature this week. When President Donald Trump was elected in 2016, California’s newly-elected Democrat supermajority used the usually congenial legislative swearing-in ceremonies...

Why Is Ricardo Lara Quiet on Hundreds of Thousands of Homeowners Insurance Cancellations?

September 6, 2019 8:28 amSeptember 6, 2019 6:29 pm

The number of California’s rural homeowners dropped by insurance companies is up to 350,000 in just four years, California Globe recently reported, but that was just through 2018. Since then, homeowners in Riverside and San Bernardino counties have experienced “a...

Sen. Wiener’s SB 50 is Back; Will Strip Zoning and Land-Use Requirements From Any Type of Housing

June 22, 2019 9:29 amJune 24, 2019 12:43 pm

Unable to accept the killing of his controversial housing/zoning bill SB 50, Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) has found the backdoor answer to reviving it: Wiener has replaced the language in two other bills with most of his SB 50...