House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) backed bipartisan infrastructure legislation Thursday that would fund infrastructure by selling off distressed government assets.
In the halls of Congress, the rumblings for a national infrastructure bill are beginning to grow louder. Republicans and Democrats alike recognize the need to salvage America’s deteriorating roads and bridges and improve upon our dismal public transit system.
One female protester has died in France after a woman drove into a crowd blocking the road, the driver allegedly in a panic as she was trying to get to daughter to the hospital.
The supermajority will give Governor-elect Gavin Newsom the ability to push his agenda through the legislature with minimal opposition.
Republicans described Democrats’ “corrupt” efforts to stop the passage of Proposition 6, the gas tax repeal, at a rally in Carlsbad, California, outside the congressional campaign office of Diane Harkey on Sunday afternoon.
Leaders of the “Yes on Prop 6” campaign promised Monday to recall California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for assigning a misleading and deceptive ballot title to Proposition 6, if the repeal effort fails.
Republican governor candidate John Cox and the “Yes on Proposition 6″ gas tax repeal campaign barnstormed on the :Big Yellow Bus” through Silicon Valley on Monday, part of a statewide tour.
The California Labor Federation has dropped Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar after initially planning to campaign on his behalf in California’s 50th congressional district because of his apparent ambivalence on the state’s gas tax.
Lobbyists working with the state to stop Proposition 6 also discussed opinion pieces targeting Darrell Issa and three other vulnerable Republicans.
A highly effective mailer sent on Tuesday by the “Yes on Proposition 6” gas tax repeal campaign titled “Election Ballot Correction” caused an uproar by the “No” campaign.
The No campaign for the gas tax repeal only has slim lead despite what the San Francisco Chronicle deemed “a hostile official ballot title.”
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was forced to go all-in starting Wednesday to oppose gas tax repeal on the November ballot that would save the average family $779 a year.
Prop 6 Gas Tax Repeal sponsors told Breitbart News Monday night they are “cautiously optimistic” the voter initiative will pass despite a 7 to 1 fundraising disadvantage.
California’s political campaign watchdog announced on Wednesday that it will investigate a complaint that the “No on Prop 6” campaign, which opposes the repeal of last year’s controversial gas tax, violated state campaign rules.
Democrat Katie Porter, who is challenging incumbent Rep. Mimi Walters (R-CA) in California’s 45th congressional district, has been accused of flip-flopping on the state’s controversial gas tax and misrepresenting her earlier support for raising it.
Republicans in the Golden State believe a ballot measure that would repeal Gov. Jerry Brown’s 12-cent-per-gallon gas tax, known as Proposition 6, could be the key to reviving their party’s fortunes in California — and to preventing Democrats from winning the key congressional races they need to win back control of the U.S. House in November.
California’s Secretary of State officially placed the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association’s “Repeal the Gas Tax” initiative on the November statewide ballot.
California Transportation Commission data demonstrates that if the “Repeal the Gas Tax” initiative on the November ballot passes, it will mostly kill HOV, bicycle, and light rail projects.
California Gov. Jerry Brown endorsed Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom to take over his job after this year in a Democratic Party “unity” ceremony in Sacramento on Wednesday.
Voters in California’s 29th State Senate district recalled freshman Democrat Josh Newman in Tuesady’s California primary over his vote for Governor Jerry Brown’s 12-cent-per-gallon gas tax hike, replacing him with Republican Ling Ling Chang and definitively denying Democrats a supermajority in the upper house.
Voters in California’s 29th State Senate district will decide the fate of freshman Sen. Josh Newman (D-Fullerton) on Tuesday, when he faces a recall over his 2017 vote to increase gas taxes by 12 cents per gallon, along with other fees.
The latest USC Dornsife / Los Angeles Times Poll found that a majority of California registered voters want to repeal the new gas tax increases sponsored by Gov. Jerry Brown.
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers’ Association (HJTA), which has led California’s “Reject The Gas Tax” ballot initiative, delivered 940,000 signatures to Sacramento Tuesday, far above the required 585,407 valid signatures necessary to qualify the gas tax repeal for the November 2018 ballot.
California Republicans say they have gathered more than enough signatures to put a proposal to repeal last year’s controversial gas tax on the November ballot — the latest sign that there is still life in the Golden State’s GOP.
Bill Shuster suggested last week that President Donald Trump’s promised infrastructure bill will be ready “closer to summer.”
A higher gas tax would take away much of the benefit from individual tax cuts, slow the economy, and improve Democrats’ chances in November.
California’s Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom called Trump “a joke and a racist,” and called for him to “resign” in a Facebook post last Thursday, just prior to a major gubernatorial debate.
California Governor Jerry Brown’s new 12-cent-per-gallon gas tax has pushed the Golden State’s gas prices to the highest in the nation after less than a week in effect.
Left-wing California billionaire Tom Steyer stood outside Rep. Darrel Issa’s (R-CA) San Diego office on Tuesday to further his calls for President Donald Trump’s impeachment.
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) said that despite the fact that some Californians could suffer higher taxes as the result of Republican tax reform efforts in Congress, he still supports the plan because he believes it will help the majority of citizens throughout the rest of the nation.
Californians are bracing for the first phase of the SB-1 gas tax and vehicle registration hikes, which could help boost prices by up to 29 cents per gallon over the next 32 months.
Although Republicans in the nation’s capital claim they want to cut taxes for the middle-class, top GOP officials keep coming up with ways to hike taxes that would fall hardest on middle-income Americans.
The Sacramento region’s economy is growing at twice the rate of the rest of the United States, due to the huge growth of California taxes and government spending over the last five years, igniting a local housing boom.
A Sacramento judge ruled Friday that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s title and summary for a ballot initiative to repeal the gas tax passed by the legislature in April was misleading, and said he would rewrite it.
Silicon Valley’s unemployment rate has jumped almost a full point since May, to 3.9%. It could reverse California’s epic seven-year economic boom, and could lead to a crash just as epic.
California Democrats fast-tracked another bill Thursday designed to rig the recall election process and protect their supermajority status by saving an embattled state senator from a recall effort.
An appellate judge in California has shut down Democrats’ efforts to rig the recall election targeting freshman State Sen. Josh Newman (D-Fullerton), blocking a new law Monday that would have postponed the vote until next year.
The Democrat-appointed members of California’s Fair Political Practices Commission voted Thursday to ignore the advice of their own attorney and lift restrictions on campaign contributions to defend officials from recall votes — a move designed to help State Sen. Josh Newman (D-Fullerton), who voted for Jerry Brown’s gas tax earlier this year.
California Democrats are triggering nationwide criticism, and even ridicule, for passing aggressive laws and regulations on climate change. But a new poll reveals they are giving most Californians exactly what they want.
Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore), who had served as the deputy to Assembly Republican Leader Chad Mayes (R-Yucca Valley), resigned her leadership post on Thursday in protest against Mayes’ vote for Governor Jerry Brown’s “cap-and-trade” extension bill.
