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Tag: Sen. Jim Nielsen

California’s Rotten Districts Result in Rotten Result

July 13, 2023   7:03 amAugust 7, 2023   2:08 pm
In theory, if an elected official does something unpopular they could lose their re-election bid. If they do something unconscionable – like blocking harsher penalties for convicted child sex traffickers – they should lose their re-election bid. But for the...
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California Assembly Democrats Block Bill to Fight Sex Trafficking of Minors

July 12, 2023   11:28 amJuly 12, 2023   5:19 pm
UPDATE below: A bill to make sex trafficking a felony once again in California was blocked Tuesday in the Assembly Public Safety Committee by Democrats, after passing unanimously in the Senate. Currently human trafficking is defined as a “non-serious” crime...
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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...
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CA Democrat Lawmakers Releasing Violent Criminals From Prison, While Imposing Gun Control Laws on Citizens

September 8, 2019   2:06 amSeptember 10, 2019   2:27 pm
The purpose of prison and jail is to separate the criminals from society through incapacitation so they are not able to harm innocent people, and to make them pay for their crimes through retribution. Rehabilitation is supposed to assist with...
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California Senate Passes ‘Housing for Homeless,’ Bill With Penalty Component

July 2, 2019   2:08 amJuly 3, 2019   1:35 pm
The Legislature can do an immediate legislative fix   The Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review authored AB 101, which provides for statutory changes needed to enact the housing and homelessness-related provisions of the Budget Act of 2019. In short,...
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Largest Budget in CA History ‘Falls Short’: $2 billion in New Tax Increases and Lots of Pork

June 13, 2019   5:47 pmJune 14, 2019   1:41 pm
Thursday, the California State Legislature passed the Fiscal Year 2019-20 budget along party lines. At $215 billion, it is the largest budget in the history of the state due to new tax increases and hundreds of millions of last minute...
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California ‘Pre-Crime’ Bill to Determine Future Gun Violence Crimes Passes Senate

May 23, 2019   3:20 pmMay 24, 2019   11:52 am
California law seeks to remove firearms from the possession of people likely to misuse them. SB 55 by Sen. Hannah Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) would create a new class of misdemeanors that would result in a 10-year prohibition on firearms...
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