{"id":1400765,"date":"2022-03-25T16:14:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400765"},"modified":"2022-03-25T16:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:15:03","slug":"democrat-house-candidate-continuously-skips-votes-to-suspend-california-gas-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-house-candidate-continuously-skips-votes-to-suspend-california-gas-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat House Candidate Continuously Skips Votes to Suspend California Gas Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-house-candidate-continuously-skips-votes-to-suspend-california-gas-tax%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400765&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">California Assemblyman and Democrat candidate running for the U.S. House of Representatives, Rudy Salas, missed two votes in the recent weeks to temporarily suspend the state\u2019s gas tax, as gas prices have skyrocketed in the\u00a0Golden State and across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Salas did not vote on a plan offered by Republicans to\u00a0suspend the state\u2019s gas tax <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TorunnSinclair\/status\/1503494483513516039\">last week<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinKileyCA\/status\/1507044017543864322?s=20&#038;t=8UjcwA_LdV-AGAlfhkUpPw\">Thursday<\/a>, which reportedly had the potential to save the state\u2019s residents 50 cents a gallon. The plan offered by Republicans in the Assembly failed both times by a party-line vote when it was offered. However, Salas did not appear to vote for it all, either time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>On the first vote last week,\u00a0Salas was one of\u00a018 other assembly members who did not vote, but his office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turnto23.com\/news\/state\/republican-plan-to-suspend-californias-gas-tax-fails-monday\">stated<\/a> that \u201cSalas was not on the Floor when the vote occurred, his record is very clear when he was the only Assembly Democrat who voted \u2018No\u2019 on the gas tax.\u201d\u00a0However, the Assembly Daily Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.assembly.ca.gov\/sites\/clerk.assembly.ca.gov\/files\/adj031422.pdf\">marked<\/a> him in attendance during the day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Salas was called out by\u00a0National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spokeswoman Torunn Sinclair for missing the second vote.\u00a0Shortly after, Salas\u2019 legislative director\u00a0Aaron Vad <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therealaaronvad\/status\/1507066373259743233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1507066373259743233%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsjvsun.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Fsalas-catches-flak-over-missed-votes-to-halt-gas-tax%2F\">called<\/a> Sinclair a\u00a0\u201cpotato\u201d and claimed the \u201cabsence was due to a family funeral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, despite the Democrat being absent for a funeral, his office made it clear in his previous statements that he would have voted \u201cno\u201d if he showed up to either vote.<\/p>\n<p>Sinclair noted on a press release that\u00a0this would have been the third time Salas has not\u00a0voted to suspend or delay the gas tax after skipping a vote in 2019 as well.\u00a0Sinclair stated that\u00a0\u201cCalifornians are paying the highest gas prices in the country, but Rudy Salas is too cowardly to vote to suspend the gas tax.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Salas failing to vote on delaying the gas tax is not the first time he has been in hot water. Last year, an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/05\/exclusive-ethics-watchdog-will-file-complaint-requesting-investigation-into-ca-democrat-rudy-salas-campaign\/\">ethics watchdog filed a complaint<\/a> with the\u00a0Federal Election Commission (FEC) to\u00a0investigate the assemblyman and his congressional campaign for\u00a0allegedly using state\u00a0campaign resources for his\u00a0federal congressional race.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News wrote that the allegation was for allegedly using \u00a0\u201cstate campaign assets for his federal campaign,\u201d which\u00a0\u201cviolates federal election laws, including contribution limits and reporting requirements.\u201d\u00a0Salas was using old signage from his state campaign for his federal election,\u00a0which\u00a0\u201cviolates federal election laws\u201d due to not being allowed to mix resources.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob<i> Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Assemblyman and Democrat candidate running for the U.S. House of Representatives, Rudy Salas, missed two votes in the recent weeks to temporarily suspend the state\u2019s gas tax, as gas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}