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Ashley Zavala
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Journalist - California Politics 360 | Political Director @kcranews | President @SacPressClub | VP @CCACalifornia | Instagram: @zavalaa | TikTok: zavalaatok
- BREAKING: Gov. Newsom signs law allowing inmate firefighters in California to have records expunged, clearing the way for them to become professional firefighters once they are released from prison.
- Jay Leno spent the day at the CA Capitol, pushing to exempt classic cars from smog checks. I asked him why —with everything else going on— he’s using his influence on this. “I don’t want the Hot Rod business, or mechanical business, to leave the way the film business did..”
00:00 - JUST IN: Multiple sources tell me Governor Newsom will lift the stay at home order on all regions in California tomorrow. All counties will go back to the tier system, sources say. Most will return to the purple tier— allowing the reopening of outdoor dining, indoor salons.
- In Prop 50 victory speech, Gov. Gavin Newsom calls on other Democratic states to redistrict. “We need the state of Virginia, we need the state of Maryland, we need our friends in NY, in Illinois, in Colorado, we need to see other states..meet this moment head on as well.”
00:00 - Here’s a closer look at the mask Asm. @KevinKileyCA wore on the Assembly floor today, using the photo of Governor Newsom and Magic Johnson maskless at SoFi stadium
- Jay Leno at the California State Capitol trying to get classic cars exempted from the state’s smog check rules. Gets a big laugh here when he says he drives more miles trying to find smog stations than he does just driving the actual car.
00:00 - NEW: VALERO responds to California’s demand for answers recent gas price spike. “As demanded with one business day to respond…” “California is the most challenging market to serve in the United States for several reasons.”
- As wildfires rage in Los Angeles, Speaker of California's Assembly Robert Rivas would not answer my questions, if now is the right time to have a special session to legally fight Donald Trump. Both the CA Senate & Assembly gaveled into the Trump-related special session today.
00:00 - BREAKING: Governor Gavin Newsom signs executive order to ban gas-powered cars in California by 2035. All new cars sold in the state must be zero-emission vehicles by that time. His administration says transportation accounts for 50% of CA's greenhouse gas emissions.
- Trump DOJ Attorney Harmeet Dhillon said Gov. Newsom’s office put a target on her back with posts on the fire at South Carolina judge’s home. In interview with me, she said with Newsom’s social media strategy, “someone’s going to get hurt” More here: kcra.com/article/trump-…
00:00 - New: I asked Gov. Gavin Newsom & AG Rob Bonta if it’s appropriate CALeg continues to withhold records & updated cost of Capitol Annex Project. Newsom turned to Bonta: “you’re my attorney” “I don’t think it’s appropriate, they should provide the information period full stop”
00:00 - New: On CA Capitol Annex, Gov. Newsom said “as a taxpayer” he’d “like to know” about costs being kept from the public. Turns out, his office’s Director of Operations has been on a panel that meets regularly and makes final decisions on the project in private.
00:00 - Here’s what happened when Dana Williamson— Gov. Newsom’s former Chief of Staff— emerged from federal court. She stayed pretty silent and said we could talk to her attorneys. Her attorney wouldn’t talk. She had nothing to say when I asked for her message to Xavier Becerra:
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