Lori Wilson

Rebecca Bauer Cahan has been introducing some laws.

Lori Wilson introduced one.

There's several others.

Yes.

The fact that they're reimbursing for, for trips to Planet Fitness, uh, to, to a cigar bar, to a nightclub a- at midnight, I mean, this is insane.

Assembly member Lori Wilson, who authored AB 1608, says it would've increased transparency.

During his State of the State address in January, Newsom praised to the Democratic supermajority legislature for approving a plan to allocate $1 billion each year for the project through 2045.

New leadership, new transparency on the High-Speed Rail Authority, new accountability and expectation, certainly from me, that this is not an ideological endeavor.

Yeah, no, no, we're not gonna do that," and we'll read his letter why.

Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that aimed to boost oversight of California's High-Speed Rail Authority.

Assembly Bill 1608, by Assembly Transportation Committee Chair Lori Wilson, a Susan City Democrat, would've allowed the Office of Inspector General, the OIG, that oversees the High-Speed Rail project, to hire more skilled workers, and given the agency the power to sign contracts under a million bucks.

Newsom veto comes two weeks after the investigative office released a scathing report in which its auditors found the High-Speed Rail Authority approved nearly $600,000 in unallowable travel expenses, oh, for its consultants.

She played a key role in that.

Together with transportation chair Lori Wilson, who authored the bill, they added what is now being called the gold standard of transparency.

If an inspector general decides to withhold something, he has to publicly tell us he's doing it, publicly release everything else, deliver the confidential part to state officials, give us an update every quarter, and publicly release the withheld portion as soon as the risk is resolved.

because we think

When we heard that, we were indignant that Where did this get blamed on the minions? And we just, we were dumbfounded.

Assembly member Lori Wilson stepped in.

She reached out to CHP and the county to resolve the issue so the hay bales will stay.

She argued the minions are a fun Solano County staple and that they quote help let you know your home.

They're not fully staffed.

Bill AB 1608 that was authored by Chair Lori Wilson, it passed the Senate unanimously and it has bipartisan support across the legislature.

We need the governor's office to sign that bill because we need access to higher level job classifications that would allow me to fully staff and we also need access to I don't

think he's getting that.