Brian W. Jones @SenBrianJones

Fifty Years of Data. Zero Evidence of Price Gouging. A study reviewed five decades of data and found no evidence of price gouging by California refiners. The real driver is policy! State excise tax nearly double the national average, cap and trade adding over 50 cents a gallon, and a special fuel blend adding 15 cents on top of that. Newsom has spent years blaming oil companies for a crisis his own regulations created. #FixCalifornia foxbusiness.com/politics/new-s…

$23.2 Million for Laptops in Prison. Let's Talk About Priorities. The state spent $23.2 million distributing 30,000 laptops to incarcerated individuals over the last three years while California still has not fully funded Prop 36, the public safety measure voters approved. Responsible spending means asking what comes first. #FixCalifornia

CalMatters @CalMatters

3 days ago

Students and faculty alike debate whether the online courses are as effective as in-person courses. cal.news/4gj7Ti3 📷️ Jules Hotz for CalMatters

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SCR 155 Just Passed. A Fallen Officer Will Never Be Forgotten. Yesterday the Senate designated the interchange at State Route 52 and Interstate 805 the Officer Kirk Leland Johnson Memorial Interchange. Officer Johnson served his country in the Army before joining the San Diego Police Department, where he was known for going above and beyond every single shift. He gave his life in the line of duty in 1983 at just 26 years old. His former partner John Bailey spent decades fighting to make sure this day would come. It is here.

San Diego Let Its Infrastructure Crumble. Now Taxpayers Are Paying $49 Million in Lawsuits to Cover It. Payouts nearly doubled in eight years. Insurance premiums nearly quadrupled to $35 million. The city hasn't even assessed its own buildings since 2016 and has a $7.8 billion infrastructure deficit it cannot pay for. Every dollar spent settling lawsuits over broken sidewalks and decaying sewer pipes is a dollar that should have gone to fixing the problem in the first place. This is what happens when you defer maintenance for years and call it a budget strategy. #FixCalifornia sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/06/22/san…

I Voted No on the Democrats' $14 Billion Tax Increase. This budget raises $14 billion in new taxes including a software tax and a health insurance tax that could cost families over $400 a year. Every year the answer is the same. Spend more. Tax more. Never once ask if the spending was worth it. California cannot tax its way out of a spending problem and it is time we started saying so out loud. #FixCalifornia

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This Tax Will Backfire! The proposed billionaire tax has united the business community and the medical community against it. I have said it before and I will say it again. Taxing wealth that can simply leave the state does not raise revenue. It guarantees you lose it permanently. California has already watched billionaires take hundreds of billions in wealth out the door. This measure accelerates exactly what we cannot afford. #FixCalifornia sacbee.com/news/politics-…

Every family deserves this moment. A family watching their child fight a serious illness just wants to give them something normal. Something special. @SenatorChoi 's SB 1021 does that. Honored to be part of this today. #FixCalifornia

My heart is with the families of Nereida Benitez and Chad Tillman, two Good Samaritans who lost their lives on Interstate 15 after stopping to help strangers in a crash. Nereida was an ER nurse and Chad was a Marine veteran. Both, in their final moments, chose to help others. We are praying for their families.

ABC 10News San Diego @10News

a week ago

ER nurse Nereida Benitez was killed on I-15 after stopping to help crash victims. Friends remember her as a caring nurse with big dreams.

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San Diego Just Approved Raises It Cannot Afford. The city signed off on 10 percent raises over three years for thousands of government union workers while sitting on a pension debt over $3 billion and a budget that is already strained. The furloughs built into year one barely cover the cost. Year two and year three add tens of millions more with no real explanation of where that money comes from. Once again the unions get taken care of and the taxpayers get the bill. #FixCalifornia sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/06/17/san…

$3 Billion in New Taxes! Zero Debate! Democrats just passed a software tax, a corporate tax credit cap and a health insurance tax that could raise your premiums by $400 a year! Some democrats are even calling out this cruel and regressive maneuver. Republicans tried to stop the gas tax hike too and Democrats blocked that too! Californians wanted relief. They got more taxes instead. #FixCalifornia

Capitol Alert @CapitolAlert

a week ago

Assembly Democrats unite to tax software, health plans in revenue-raising package sacbee.com/news/politics-…

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$37 Billion Spent. Democrats Want $900 Million More. No Accountability Required. California Democrats just proposed $900 million more for homelessness with no guaranteed accountability measures attached. California has already spent tens of billions on this crisis and there are more people on the streets than when they started. Even Newsom said he wants results before writing another check. Pouring more money into a broken system without demanding accountability is not compassion. It is negligence. #FixCalifornia sacbee.com/news/politics-…

Newsom Cannot Balance His Budget So You Are Paying More for Health Insurance. California Democrats are raising the managed care tax on health insurers to patch a budget hole they created and calling it healthcare policy. Individuals will pay $100 more a year. Families of four will pay $400 more. California has been spending more than it takes in for years and the bill keeps landing in the same place. Your wallet. #FixCalifornia kcra.com/article/privat…

Democrats want to raise taxes on software and businesses, delay healthcare cuts and spend more on homelessness while the LAO warns the numbers may not hold. California cannot keep kicking these decisions down the road. #FixCalifornia calmatters.org/politics/2026/…

Newsom's Last Budget. Same Failures. State spending grew 77 percent under Newsom while revenue could not keep up. He refuses to fully fund Prop 36 that 68 percent of voters passed. Small businesses are paying $662 million in interest on a pandemic debt he chose not to pay. Democrats then propose $8 billion in new taxes and call it an affordability budget. #FixCalifornia

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Proud to recognize the distinguished nonprofits of the 40th District at our annual Nonprofit of the Year Reception. These organizations show up every single day for the people in our community who need them most and it was an honor to celebrate the work they do. A special congratulations to Meals on Wheels San Diego County, our Nonprofit of the Year, for their decades of dedication to keeping seniors and veterans nourished, connected and cared for right here in our district. #FixCalifornia

Today we celebrated the small businesses that are the backbone of the 40th District at our annual Small Business Reception, recognizing our distinguished businesses and proudly naming Valley Center Oil our Small Business of the Year. Dave Bohorquez and the VC Oil team have served the Valley Center community for over five decades with the kind of dedication and heart that does not come with a business plan. #FixCalifornia

Honored to host the @RealtorsSD, @PSARNews and @NSDCRealtors at our district office today to present resolutions recognizing their incredible work for homeownership in our community. We had a real conversation about the barriers standing between California families and the homes they deserve to own and what it is going to take to remove them. The fight for affordability starts with people like this in the room. #FixCalifornia

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Democrats Are Taxing The People It Has Left After Driving Everyone Else Out. Six billionaires left before this tax was even real, taking an estimated $536 billion from California's tax base. The top 1 percent already carry 39 percent of all personal income tax. Chief Executive Magazine ranked California dead last for business for the 14th year in a row. A billionaire tax does not fix a spending and accountability problem. It accelerates it. #FixCalifornia californiaglobe.com/fr/californias…

The Government Does Not Raise Your Kids. California's education establishment spent years choosing unions over parents and calling it accountability. Restricting charter schools. Limiting choices. Treating families like a problem to manage rather than the whole point of the system. Parents are done with it and voters are making that clear. #FixCalifornia californiaglobe.com/fr/when-sacram…

Fraud By Design. I have been sounding the alarm on Medi-Cal fraud for years. California referred just 127 providers for investigation statewide while Los Angeles alone has at least 800 fraudulent hospice providers. This is what zero accountability looks like. #FixCalifornia nypost.com/2026/06/08/opi…