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Sacramento, CA \u2013\u00a0Today,\u00a0Senate Minority Leader Brian W. Jones<\/a>\u00a0(R-San Diego) and his Senate Republican colleagues shared their concerns about allegations of the governor\u2019s impropriety when negotiating exemptions from last year\u2019s Fast Food Minimum Wage Bill. Today the Senate heard\u00a0Assembly Bill 610<\/a>\u00a0(D-Holden, Los Angeles), which will add new exemptions to California\u2019s highly controversial law enacting a $20-per-hour minimum wage for major fast food chains\u00a0(AB 1228<\/a>,\u00a02023).<\/p>\n

AB 610\u2019s additional exemptions from this wage-hike law come after a carve-out was provided to bakeries like Panera Bread last year.\u00a0News reports<\/a>\u00a0link this special treatment to an individual Panera franchisee\u2019s relationship \u2013 and campaign contributions \u2013 to Governor Newsom.<\/p>\n

On the Senate floor,\u00a0Leader Jones attempted to move AB 610<\/a>\u00a0to the inactive file, citing the news reports and stressing the need to reject any possibility that California is a corrupt, pay-to-play state. Senate Democrats\u00a0rejected the move<\/a>, and passed the bill without Republican support.<\/p>\n

Below are remarks from Senate Republicans made on the Senate Floor today about the blatant cronyism and favoritism displayed by the governor and his Democrat colleagues.<\/p>\n

Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for full remarks from\u00a0Sen. Kelly Seyarto<\/a>\u00a0(Murrieta): \u201cFor Pete\u2019s sake, stop making exemptions just for the people who have the connections and the ability to pay, because that\u2019s what this is. \u2026\u00a0And, that\u2019s bad legislation.\u00a0And, we should be ashamed of ourselves for passing stuff like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for full remarks from\u00a0Sen. Brian Dahle<\/a>\u00a0(Bieber): \u201c\u2026 the governor just stated today that it\u2019s the way sausage is made. Well, there\u2019s a lot of pork in sausage, and a lot of his friends are getting some pork out of it. \u2026 At the end of the day we need to pass good laws, and we need to not carve out people who are campaign donors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for full remarks from\u00a0Sen. Scott Wilk<\/a>\u00a0(Santa Clarita): \u201cIn light of the recent allegations \u2026 I\u2019m going to lay off this bill today. I think we really do need to take a serious look at this issue; if what is alleged is true, it\u2019s not acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for full remarks from\u00a0Leader Jones<\/a>: \u201cI think it\u2019s important for all of us to recognize that a blistering media report published yesterday indicates that exemptions to the original mandate on the minimum wage hike are tied to the governor\u2019s campaign contributions. \u2026 That\u2019s crony capitalism. \u2026 We need to send a message that this senate, that this house, that these members, that this bipartisan group of legislators that are trying to make California better, will not condone pay-to-play actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senate Republicans did not support\u00a0AB 610<\/a>\u00a0on the floor today. All Senate Republicans opposed\u00a0AB 1228<\/a>\u00a0last year. In a further effort to stop the assault on California employers, Sen. Dahle even made\u00a0a formal request<\/a>\u00a0to the governor to veto the legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sacramento, CA \u2013\u00a0Today,\u00a0Senate Minority Leader Brian W. Jones\u00a0(R-San Diego) and his Senate Republican colleagues shared their concerns about allegations of the governor\u2019s impropriety when negotiating exemptions from last year\u2019s Fast Food Minimum Wage Bill. Today the Senate heard\u00a0Assembly Bill 610\u00a0(D-Holden, Los Angeles), which will add new exemptions to California\u2019s highly controversial law enacting a $20-per-hour…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"yoast_head":"\nCalifornia Senate Republicans call for halt of alleged \u2018pay-to-play\u2019 policymaking, Democrats charge forward anyway - San Diego News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=10981\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"California Senate Republicans call for halt of alleged \u2018pay-to-play\u2019 policymaking, Democrats charge forward anyway - San Diego News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sacramento, CA \u2013\u00a0Today,\u00a0Senate Minority Leader Brian W. 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