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Rudy Salas
U.S. Representative CA-22 candidate (2026 D Primary · WITHDREW before 2026-06-02 ballot · 5-term former CA Assemblymember AD-32 Dec 2012-Dec 2022 · Moderate Caucus chair · 2022+2024 D nominee lost both to Valadao)
Democrat
RESOLUTE Citizen Score
18
/ 100
F
Raw: 4 of 22 dynamic max
· 11 of 50 answered
Last verified: · from claim evidence
✝ God First
4/ 60
🇺🇸 America First
0/ 40
National Rank
#4,918 of 8,966 · bottom 45.1% among candidates with at least one scored answer
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Next Election
June 2, 2026
Primary · Seat up at next election
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Registration deadline: 2026-10-19
Early voting: 2026-10-06 – 2026-11-03 (All-mail state — ballots mailed to every voter)
Elections office: (916) 657-2166
Voter status: Check registration
State elections site: California Secretary of State — Elections Division
Official Profile
Background: Rodolfo 'Rudy' Salas Jr., born March 12, 1977 in Bakersfield, CA; Mexican-American Central Valley farm-labor family ('worked his way from laboring in the fields with his father'). UCLA BA history/political science (2000). One year as VP Al Gore WH staffer; CSU Bakersfield Upward Bound counselor; district director for State Sen. Dean Florez 2004-2010. Bakersfield City Council Nov 2010 (first Latino in 112-year council history). CA Assembly AD-32 Dec 3 2012 – Dec 5 2022 (5 terms; Moderate Caucus leader; Business & Professions Committee chair until stripped April 2017 in retaliation for SB 1 gas-tax NO vote per Bakersfield Now + CA Political Review). Lost CA-22 to David Valadao 51.5%-48.5% (2022) and 53.4%-46.6% (2024). Filed FEC paperwork for 2026 3rd attempt + listed by Ballotpedia News Mar 9 2026 + endorsements page rudysalas.com/endorsements live — but DID NOT APPEAR on the June 2 2026 jungle primary ballot (CA SoS results show only Valadao, Bains, Villegas, Garcia, and one minor candidate). No public withdrawal-statement located in this research pass; CSO believed to have backed Bains instead.
WITHDREW from 2026 CA-22 D primary before 2026-06-02 ballot — DID NOT APPEAR on certified jungle-primary ballot per CA SoS results page. 2026 campaign infrastructure (rudysalas.com + endorsements list) remained live without withdrawal banner at fetch time; no public withdrawal-statement located. Scoring based on 10-year Assembly voting record + 2024-2026 campaign positions on issues he documented. KEY 2026 ENDORSEMENTS: Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL) + Planned Parenthood Action Fund + Equality California + Democratic Majority for Israel PAC + Giffords PAC (both 2024 + 2026) + MoveOn + End Citizens United + United Farm Workers + SEIU + Building Trades + CA Labor Federation. HARD-FALSE life q0/q1/q4 (2026 priorities page rudysalas.com/priorities: 'government shouldn't interfere in a woman's healthcare decisions' + 'Supported Proposition 1 to protect reproductive rights' + 'Opposes abortion criminalization' + RFA + PPAF endorsed). HARD-TRUE christian_liberty q1 cross-party-deviation (2015 lone-Assembly-D NO on AB 775 Reproductive FACT Act compelled-speech against pregnancy crisis centers — conscience-protective vote against speech mandate on faith-based medical providers; per pregnancyhelpnews + CalMatters DigDem). HARD-FALSE marriage q4 (Equality California endorsed 2026). HARD-TRUE econ q2 cross-party-deviation (2017 lone-Assembly-D NO on SB 1 gas-tax/vehicle-fee increase + Speaker Rendon stripped him of Business & Professions Committee chairmanship in retaliation April 2017 per Bakersfield Now + CA Political Review + Courthouse News; founding member Assembly Moderate Caucus 'fiscally conservative and middle of the road business-friendly' bloc; Greater Bakersfield Chamber BAKPAC endorsement 2020). HARD-FALSE self_def q0/q1 (Giffords PAC endorsed 2024 + 2026 explicitly 'advocate for commonsense gun safety legislation to expand background checks to all gun sales'; pro-gun-control Democrat). HARD-FALSE border q1 (KGET Oct 2024 debate: 'We need a pathway to citizenship'). HARD-FALSE foreign_policy q3 (Democratic Majority for Israel PAC endorsed 2026). HARD-FALSE industry_capture q3 (CA Environmental Voters 12% 'lowest-scoring D in entire CA Legislature' 2021 + Sierra Club CA F-minus 47% lifetime + Courage California 8-12 / 100 + top oil-industry-gift recipient 2016 + authored AB 1299 in 2019 to exempt Kern Oil & Refining from fenceline air-monitoring rules — pro-oil-industry-regulation-evasion). 2026 campaign deck = full establishment-D + reproductive + LGBTQ + pro-Israel + Giffords alignment; moderation was on tax/regulation/oil axes NOT on social/cultural axes — fiscal-not-cultural deviation Central-Valley-D archetype. NO public position located on IVF/euthanasia/marriage definition/biological-sex/SB-132/SB-107/AB-1314/CBDC/Fed-audit/balanced-budget/voter-ID/SAVE-Act/SB-54-sanctuary-final-vote/E-Verify/birthright/constitutional-carry/NFA/Iran-WPR/AUMF/WHO/NCVIA/PREP/raw-milk/Pentagon-audit — NULL per evidence-first rubric. Withdrawal date + reason are evidence gaps; status set to former because no longer holding office and no longer on any 2026 ballot.
Category Breakdown
Candidate affirms life begins at conception and personhood from conception
1 claim
Received a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California across his ten-year Assembly tenure (2012–2022) and campaigned for Congress on the position that 'the government shouldn't interfere in a woman's healthcare decisions' — directly opposing any life-at-conception or personhood standard.
- Vote Smart — Just FactsReference
- rudysalas.comUnclassified
Candidate has voted for or actively advocates abortion abolition (not merely restrictions)
Candidate opposes embryonic stem-cell research, IVF embryo discard, and chimeric experimentation
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and quality-of-life rationing
Not yet verified
Candidate has never accepted Planned Parenthood, NARAL, EMILY's List, or abortion-industry PAC funding
FALSE (0)[3]
Candidate affirms marriage as exclusively the lifelong union of one man and one woman as instituted by God
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes all forms of same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships in law
Not yet verified
Candidate rejects transgender ideology and affirms biological sex (male/female) as immutable and God-given
Not yet verified
Candidate supports no-fault divorce reform and policies that strengthen the marriage covenant
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes promotion of LGBTQ+ identity in public policy, schools, military, and corporate-government partnerships
FALSE (0)[3]
Candidate supports universal school choice, homeschool freedom, and opposes compulsory public-school attendance
Not yet verified
Candidate supports parental notification and consent on all medical, mental-health, and gender-related interventions for minors
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes CRT, SOGI, "comprehensive sex ed," and gender-ideology curricula in K-12 public schools
Not yet verified
Candidate supports age-verification on pornographic content and criminal penalties for sexualized content marketed to minors
Not yet verified
Candidate supports faith-based adoption/foster agencies and opposes placement of children with same-sex couples
Not yet verified
Candidate affirms the right to publicly profess Christ in all spheres (workplace, military, public office, schools)
Not yet verified
Candidate supports conscience exemptions for Christian medical professionals, business owners, adoption agencies, and educators
Candidate opposes compelled speech against Christian conviction (pronoun mandates, gospel-proclamation hate-speech laws)
Not yet verified
Candidate supports public-square Christian symbols, prayer in public bodies, and Sabbath/Sunday closure protections
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes state-funded promotion of non-Christian religious displays, curricula, or holidays in public institutions
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and supports cash and decentralized crypto as legal tender
Not yet verified
Candidate supports sound-money policies including gold/silver as constitutional money and audit/abolition of the Federal Reserve
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes deficit spending and supports a balanced-budget constitutional amendment
Candidate supports usury limits, anti-debt-slavery protections, and tithe-friendly tax structures
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes WEF/ESG/Davos economic capture and supports anti-trust action against monopolistic financial cartels
Not yet verified
Candidate supports hand-counted paper ballots and opposes electronic voting machines
Not yet verified
Candidate supports photo voter ID with citizenship verification
Not yet verified
Candidate supports single-day in-person voting with absentee only for verified medical/military exceptions
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes mass mail-in voting, drop boxes, and ballot harvesting
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes private election funding ("Zuckerbucks") and foreign-government election interference
Not yet verified
Candidate supports completed physical border barrier and active military border presence
Not yet verified
Candidate supports mandatory deportation of all illegal aliens, including those who entered as minors
FALSE (0)[10]
Candidate opposes sanctuary city/state policies and supports federal preemption against them
Not yet verified
Candidate supports mandatory E-Verify for all employment and benefit eligibility
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens, tourist births, and opposes foreign ownership of U.S. farmland
Not yet verified
Candidate supports constitutional carry without permit requirements
FALSE (0)[11]
Candidate opposes red-flag laws, magazine limits, "assault weapons" bans, and gun registries
FALSE (0)[11]
1 claim
Endorsed by Giffords as their 'gun safety champion' for CA-22; his congressional platform calls for 'commonsense gun safety legislation to expand background checks to all gun sales' — supporting the kind of expanded firearm restrictions that the rubric opposes.
- giffords.orgUnclassified
- rudysalas.comUnclassified
Candidate supports repeal of the National Firearms Act (NFA), Gun Control Act (GCA), and other federal gun regulations
Not yet verified
Candidate supports castle doctrine and stand-your-ground laws with full civil immunity for lawful defense
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes ATF overreach, citizen disarmament initiatives, and U.N. small-arms treaty participation
Not yet verified
Candidate supports Article I congressional war-powers requirement before any U.S. military action
Not yet verified
Candidate supports immediate withdrawal from forever wars and repeal of standing AUMFs
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes foreign aid to nations hostile to U.S. interests or actively persecuting Christians
Not yet verified
Candidate has never accepted donations from foreign-backed lobbies (e.g., AIPAC) or foreign-linked PACs
FALSE (0)[3]
Candidate opposes U.S. participation in WHO, U.N. governance overreach, NATO expansion, and supranational governance
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes pharmaceutical mandates of any kind (COVID, childhood, employer-required) and supports informed consent
Not yet verified
Candidate supports repeal of pharma liability shields (1986 NCVIA, PREP Act) and restoration of tort accountability
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes Big Ag consolidation (Bayer/Monsanto/Cargill) and supports anti-trust action against agricultural cartels
Not yet verified
Candidate supports raw-milk freedom, small-farm protections, and opposes USDA / EPA overreach against family farms
Candidate supports defense-contractor accountability, completion of Pentagon audits, and ending revolving-door appointments
Not yet verified
Sources & Evidence
2 Center1 Lean Right1 Official22 Other
Ballotpedia ProfileCenter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_SalasEncyclopedia
www.rudysalas.com/Unclassified
www.rudysalas.com/prioritiesUnclassified
www.rudysalas.com/endorsementsUnclassified
Ballotpedia ProfileCenter
giffords.org/candidates/rudy-salas/Unclassified
www.couragescore.org/people/rudy-salas/Unclassified
Bias ratings sourced from AllSides and Ad Fontes Media. Classifications for government, reference, and advocacy domains are maintained by U.S.M.C. Ministries; see source_bias.json.
References & footnotes
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- [1]2026 priorities page: 'government shouldn't interfere in a woman's healthcare decisions' + 'Supported Proposition 1 to protect reproductive rights' + 'Opposes abortion criminalization' — explicit pro-Roe constitutional-right framing. Opposite of affirming life-at-conception personhood. HARD. Unclassified
2026 priorities page: 'government shouldn't interfere in a woman's healthcare decisions' + 'Supported Proposition 1 to protect reproductive rights' + 'Opposes abortion criminalization' — explicit pro-Roe constitutional-right framing. Opposite of affirming life-at-conception personhood. HARD.
- [2]2026 priorities page: 'government shouldn't interfere in a woman's healthcare decisions' + 'Supported Proposition 1 to protect reproductive rights' + 'Opposes abortion criminalization' — explicit pro-Roe constitutional-right framing. Opposite of affirming life-at-conception personhood. HARD. Unclassified
2026 priorities page: 'government shouldn't interfere in a woman's healthcare decisions' + 'Supported Proposition 1 to protect reproductive rights' + 'Opposes abortion criminalization' — explicit pro-Roe constitutional-right framing. Opposite of affirming life-at-conception personhood. HARD.
- [3]2026 priorities page: 'Opposes abortion criminalization' + Supports Prop 1; endorsed by Reproductive Freedom for All (NARAL successor) + Planned Parenthood Action Fund 2026. Opposite of voting for / advocating abortion abolition. HARD. Unclassified
2026 priorities page: 'Opposes abortion criminalization' + Supports Prop 1; endorsed by Reproductive Freedom for All (NARAL successor) + Planned Parenthood Action Fund 2026. Opposite of voting for / advocating abortion abolition. HARD.
- [4]2015 lone-Assembly-Democrat NO vote on AB 775 Reproductive FACT Act (compelled-speech mandate requiring pregnancy crisis centers to post abortion-access notices — later struck down by SCOTUS in NIFLA v. Becerra 2018). HARD-TRUE conscience-exemption vote for faith-based medical providers / business owners; the most-anomalous social-issue vote in his 10-year Assembly record. CROSS-PARTY DEVIATION. Unclassified
2015 lone-Assembly-Democrat NO vote on AB 775 Reproductive FACT Act (compelled-speech mandate requiring pregnancy crisis centers to post abortion-access notices — later struck down by SCOTUS in NIFLA v. Becerra 2018). HARD-TRUE conscience-exemption vote for faith-based medical providers / business owners; the most-anomalous social-issue vote in his 10-year Assembly record. CROSS-PARTY DEVIATION.
- [5]2015 lone-Assembly-Democrat NO vote on AB 775 Reproductive FACT Act (compelled-speech mandate requiring pregnancy crisis centers to post abortion-access notices — later struck down by SCOTUS in NIFLA v. Becerra 2018). HARD-TRUE conscience-exemption vote for faith-based medical providers / business owners; the most-anomalous social-issue vote in his 10-year Assembly record. CROSS-PARTY DEVIATION. Unclassified
2015 lone-Assembly-Democrat NO vote on AB 775 Reproductive FACT Act (compelled-speech mandate requiring pregnancy crisis centers to post abortion-access notices — later struck down by SCOTUS in NIFLA v. Becerra 2018). HARD-TRUE conscience-exemption vote for faith-based medical providers / business owners; the most-anomalous social-issue vote in his 10-year Assembly record. CROSS-PARTY DEVIATION.
- [6]2017 lone-Assembly-Democrat NO on SB 1 gas-tax/vehicle-fee increase + Speaker Rendon stripped him of Business & Professions Committee chairmanship in retaliation April 2017 (per Bakersfield Now + Courthouse News + CA Political Review) + leader of Assembly Moderate Caucus ('fiscally conservative and middle of the road business-friendly D' bloc per Berkeley belonging.center) + Greater Bakersfield Chamber BAKPAC endorsement 2020. HARD-TRUE cross-party deviation on tax/deficit restraint. Unclassified
2017 lone-Assembly-Democrat NO on SB 1 gas-tax/vehicle-fee increase + Speaker Rendon stripped him of Business & Professions Committee chairmanship in retaliation April 2017 (per Bakersfield Now + Courthouse News + CA Political Review) + leader of Assembly Moderate Caucus ('fiscally conservative and middle of the road business-friendly D' bloc per Berkeley belonging.center) + Greater Bakersfield Chamber BAKPAC endorsement 2020. HARD-TRUE cross-party deviation on tax/deficit restraint.
- [7]2017 lone-Assembly-Democrat NO on SB 1 gas-tax/vehicle-fee increase + Speaker Rendon stripped him of Business & Professions Committee chairmanship in retaliation April 2017 (per Bakersfield Now + Courthouse News + CA Political Review) + leader of Assembly Moderate Caucus ('fiscally conservative and middle of the road business-friendly D' bloc per Berkeley belonging.center) + Greater Bakersfield Chamber BAKPAC endorsement 2020. HARD-TRUE cross-party deviation on tax/deficit restraint. Unclassified
2017 lone-Assembly-Democrat NO on SB 1 gas-tax/vehicle-fee increase + Speaker Rendon stripped him of Business & Professions Committee chairmanship in retaliation April 2017 (per Bakersfield Now + Courthouse News + CA Political Review) + leader of Assembly Moderate Caucus ('fiscally conservative and middle of the road business-friendly D' bloc per Berkeley belonging.center) + Greater Bakersfield Chamber BAKPAC endorsement 2020. HARD-TRUE cross-party deviation on tax/deficit restraint.
- [8]2017 lone-Assembly-Democrat NO on SB 1 gas-tax/vehicle-fee increase + Speaker Rendon stripped him of Business & Professions Committee chairmanship in retaliation April 2017 (per Bakersfield Now + Courthouse News + CA Political Review) + leader of Assembly Moderate Caucus ('fiscally conservative and middle of the road business-friendly D' bloc per Berkeley belonging.center) + Greater Bakersfield Chamber BAKPAC endorsement 2020. HARD-TRUE cross-party deviation on tax/deficit restraint. Unclassified
2017 lone-Assembly-Democrat NO on SB 1 gas-tax/vehicle-fee increase + Speaker Rendon stripped him of Business & Professions Committee chairmanship in retaliation April 2017 (per Bakersfield Now + Courthouse News + CA Political Review) + leader of Assembly Moderate Caucus ('fiscally conservative and middle of the road business-friendly D' bloc per Berkeley belonging.center) + Greater Bakersfield Chamber BAKPAC endorsement 2020. HARD-TRUE cross-party deviation on tax/deficit restraint.
- [9]2017 lone-Assembly-Democrat NO on SB 1 gas-tax/vehicle-fee increase + Speaker Rendon stripped him of Business & Professions Committee chairmanship in retaliation April 2017 (per Bakersfield Now + Courthouse News + CA Political Review) + leader of Assembly Moderate Caucus ('fiscally conservative and middle of the road business-friendly D' bloc per Berkeley belonging.center) + Greater Bakersfield Chamber BAKPAC endorsement 2020. HARD-TRUE cross-party deviation on tax/deficit restraint. Unclassified
2017 lone-Assembly-Democrat NO on SB 1 gas-tax/vehicle-fee increase + Speaker Rendon stripped him of Business & Professions Committee chairmanship in retaliation April 2017 (per Bakersfield Now + Courthouse News + CA Political Review) + leader of Assembly Moderate Caucus ('fiscally conservative and middle of the road business-friendly D' bloc per Berkeley belonging.center) + Greater Bakersfield Chamber BAKPAC endorsement 2020. HARD-TRUE cross-party deviation on tax/deficit restraint.
- [10]KGET Oct 2024 debate: 'We need a pathway to citizenship' + blamed Rs for blocking 'the immigration border deal'. Opposite of mandatory deportation. HARD. Unclassified
KGET Oct 2024 debate: 'We need a pathway to citizenship' + blamed Rs for blocking 'the immigration border deal'. Opposite of mandatory deportation. HARD.
- [11]Endorsed by Giffords PAC 2024 + 2026 explicitly to 'advocate for commonsense gun safety legislation to expand background checks to all gun sales' — opposite of supporting constitutional carry without permit. HARD. Unclassified
Endorsed by Giffords PAC 2024 + 2026 explicitly to 'advocate for commonsense gun safety legislation to expand background checks to all gun sales' — opposite of supporting constitutional carry without permit. HARD.
- [12]Authored AB 1299 (2019) gut-and-amend bill exempting Kern Oil & Refining (sole-criterion-match) from fenceline air-monitoring rules + took $3,500 from Kern Oil + $11,300 from CA Independent Petroleum PAC + top oil-industry-gifts recipient 2016 ($1,600 WSPA Ritz Carlton conference) + $19,700 oil-company donations during 2017 cap-and-trade window 'more than any other lawmaker' (CBS). Pattern of pro-oil/anti-USDA-EPA-overreach-style favoritism but in the inverted direction — favoring industry incumbents (Kern Oil) over regulatory oversight, which is industry-capture rather than anti-capture. Opposite of supporting raw-milk/small-farm protections against regulatory overreach (this is industry-protectionism for big-oil). HARD-FALSE (caution: the rubric q3 language is awkward here — flagged as 'industry-favoring-rather-than-small-producer-favoring' direction, scoring FALSE on the underlying anti-capture intent). Unclassified
Authored AB 1299 (2019) gut-and-amend bill exempting Kern Oil & Refining (sole-criterion-match) from fenceline air-monitoring rules + took $3,500 from Kern Oil + $11,300 from CA Independent Petroleum PAC + top oil-industry-gifts recipient 2016 ($1,600 WSPA Ritz Carlton conference) + $19,700 oil-company donations during 2017 cap-and-trade window 'more than any other lawmaker' (CBS). Pattern of pro-oil/anti-USDA-EPA-overreach-style favoritism but in the inverted direction — favoring industry incumbents (Kern Oil) over regulatory oversight, which is industry-capture rather than anti-capture. Opposite of supporting raw-milk/small-farm protections against regulatory overreach (this is industry-protectionism for big-oil). HARD-FALSE (caution: the rubric q3 language is awkward here — flagged as 'industry-favoring-rather-than-small-producer-favoring' direction, scoring FALSE on the underlying anti-capture intent).
- [13]Authored AB 1299 (2019) gut-and-amend bill exempting Kern Oil & Refining (sole-criterion-match) from fenceline air-monitoring rules + took $3,500 from Kern Oil + $11,300 from CA Independent Petroleum PAC + top oil-industry-gifts recipient 2016 ($1,600 WSPA Ritz Carlton conference) + $19,700 oil-company donations during 2017 cap-and-trade window 'more than any other lawmaker' (CBS). Pattern of pro-oil/anti-USDA-EPA-overreach-style favoritism but in the inverted direction — favoring industry incumbents (Kern Oil) over regulatory oversight, which is industry-capture rather than anti-capture. Opposite of supporting raw-milk/small-farm protections against regulatory overreach (this is industry-protectionism for big-oil). HARD-FALSE (caution: the rubric q3 language is awkward here — flagged as 'industry-favoring-rather-than-small-producer-favoring' direction, scoring FALSE on the underlying anti-capture intent). Unclassified
Authored AB 1299 (2019) gut-and-amend bill exempting Kern Oil & Refining (sole-criterion-match) from fenceline air-monitoring rules + took $3,500 from Kern Oil + $11,300 from CA Independent Petroleum PAC + top oil-industry-gifts recipient 2016 ($1,600 WSPA Ritz Carlton conference) + $19,700 oil-company donations during 2017 cap-and-trade window 'more than any other lawmaker' (CBS). Pattern of pro-oil/anti-USDA-EPA-overreach-style favoritism but in the inverted direction — favoring industry incumbents (Kern Oil) over regulatory oversight, which is industry-capture rather than anti-capture. Opposite of supporting raw-milk/small-farm protections against regulatory overreach (this is industry-protectionism for big-oil). HARD-FALSE (caution: the rubric q3 language is awkward here — flagged as 'industry-favoring-rather-than-small-producer-favoring' direction, scoring FALSE on the underlying anti-capture intent).
- [14]Authored AB 1299 (2019) gut-and-amend bill exempting Kern Oil & Refining (sole-criterion-match) from fenceline air-monitoring rules + took $3,500 from Kern Oil + $11,300 from CA Independent Petroleum PAC + top oil-industry-gifts recipient 2016 ($1,600 WSPA Ritz Carlton conference) + $19,700 oil-company donations during 2017 cap-and-trade window 'more than any other lawmaker' (CBS). Pattern of pro-oil/anti-USDA-EPA-overreach-style favoritism but in the inverted direction — favoring industry incumbents (Kern Oil) over regulatory oversight, which is industry-capture rather than anti-capture. Opposite of supporting raw-milk/small-farm protections against regulatory overreach (this is industry-protectionism for big-oil). HARD-FALSE (caution: the rubric q3 language is awkward here — flagged as 'industry-favoring-rather-than-small-producer-favoring' direction, scoring FALSE on the underlying anti-capture intent). Unclassified
Authored AB 1299 (2019) gut-and-amend bill exempting Kern Oil & Refining (sole-criterion-match) from fenceline air-monitoring rules + took $3,500 from Kern Oil + $11,300 from CA Independent Petroleum PAC + top oil-industry-gifts recipient 2016 ($1,600 WSPA Ritz Carlton conference) + $19,700 oil-company donations during 2017 cap-and-trade window 'more than any other lawmaker' (CBS). Pattern of pro-oil/anti-USDA-EPA-overreach-style favoritism but in the inverted direction — favoring industry incumbents (Kern Oil) over regulatory oversight, which is industry-capture rather than anti-capture. Opposite of supporting raw-milk/small-farm protections against regulatory overreach (this is industry-protectionism for big-oil). HARD-FALSE (caution: the rubric q3 language is awkward here — flagged as 'industry-favoring-rather-than-small-producer-favoring' direction, scoring FALSE on the underlying anti-capture intent).
- [15]Authored AB 1299 (2019) gut-and-amend bill exempting Kern Oil & Refining (sole-criterion-match) from fenceline air-monitoring rules + took $3,500 from Kern Oil + $11,300 from CA Independent Petroleum PAC + top oil-industry-gifts recipient 2016 ($1,600 WSPA Ritz Carlton conference) + $19,700 oil-company donations during 2017 cap-and-trade window 'more than any other lawmaker' (CBS). Pattern of pro-oil/anti-USDA-EPA-overreach-style favoritism but in the inverted direction — favoring industry incumbents (Kern Oil) over regulatory oversight, which is industry-capture rather than anti-capture. Opposite of supporting raw-milk/small-farm protections against regulatory overreach (this is industry-protectionism for big-oil). HARD-FALSE (caution: the rubric q3 language is awkward here — flagged as 'industry-favoring-rather-than-small-producer-favoring' direction, scoring FALSE on the underlying anti-capture intent). Unclassified
Authored AB 1299 (2019) gut-and-amend bill exempting Kern Oil & Refining (sole-criterion-match) from fenceline air-monitoring rules + took $3,500 from Kern Oil + $11,300 from CA Independent Petroleum PAC + top oil-industry-gifts recipient 2016 ($1,600 WSPA Ritz Carlton conference) + $19,700 oil-company donations during 2017 cap-and-trade window 'more than any other lawmaker' (CBS). Pattern of pro-oil/anti-USDA-EPA-overreach-style favoritism but in the inverted direction — favoring industry incumbents (Kern Oil) over regulatory oversight, which is industry-capture rather than anti-capture. Opposite of supporting raw-milk/small-farm protections against regulatory overreach (this is industry-protectionism for big-oil). HARD-FALSE (caution: the rubric q3 language is awkward here — flagged as 'industry-favoring-rather-than-small-producer-favoring' direction, scoring FALSE on the underlying anti-capture intent).
- [16]Authored AB 1299 (2019) gut-and-amend bill exempting Kern Oil & Refining (sole-criterion-match) from fenceline air-monitoring rules + took $3,500 from Kern Oil + $11,300 from CA Independent Petroleum PAC + top oil-industry-gifts recipient 2016 ($1,600 WSPA Ritz Carlton conference) + $19,700 oil-company donations during 2017 cap-and-trade window 'more than any other lawmaker' (CBS). Pattern of pro-oil/anti-USDA-EPA-overreach-style favoritism but in the inverted direction — favoring industry incumbents (Kern Oil) over regulatory oversight, which is industry-capture rather than anti-capture. Opposite of supporting raw-milk/small-farm protections against regulatory overreach (this is industry-protectionism for big-oil). HARD-FALSE (caution: the rubric q3 language is awkward here — flagged as 'industry-favoring-rather-than-small-producer-favoring' direction, scoring FALSE on the underlying anti-capture intent). Unclassified
Authored AB 1299 (2019) gut-and-amend bill exempting Kern Oil & Refining (sole-criterion-match) from fenceline air-monitoring rules + took $3,500 from Kern Oil + $11,300 from CA Independent Petroleum PAC + top oil-industry-gifts recipient 2016 ($1,600 WSPA Ritz Carlton conference) + $19,700 oil-company donations during 2017 cap-and-trade window 'more than any other lawmaker' (CBS). Pattern of pro-oil/anti-USDA-EPA-overreach-style favoritism but in the inverted direction — favoring industry incumbents (Kern Oil) over regulatory oversight, which is industry-capture rather than anti-capture. Opposite of supporting raw-milk/small-farm protections against regulatory overreach (this is industry-protectionism for big-oil). HARD-FALSE (caution: the rubric q3 language is awkward here — flagged as 'industry-favoring-rather-than-small-producer-favoring' direction, scoring FALSE on the underlying anti-capture intent).
- [17]Authored AB 1299 (2019) gut-and-amend bill exempting Kern Oil & Refining (sole-criterion-match) from fenceline air-monitoring rules + took $3,500 from Kern Oil + $11,300 from CA Independent Petroleum PAC + top oil-industry-gifts recipient 2016 ($1,600 WSPA Ritz Carlton conference) + $19,700 oil-company donations during 2017 cap-and-trade window 'more than any other lawmaker' (CBS). Pattern of pro-oil/anti-USDA-EPA-overreach-style favoritism but in the inverted direction — favoring industry incumbents (Kern Oil) over regulatory oversight, which is industry-capture rather than anti-capture. Opposite of supporting raw-milk/small-farm protections against regulatory overreach (this is industry-protectionism for big-oil). HARD-FALSE (caution: the rubric q3 language is awkward here — flagged as 'industry-favoring-rather-than-small-producer-favoring' direction, scoring FALSE on the underlying anti-capture intent). Unclassified
Authored AB 1299 (2019) gut-and-amend bill exempting Kern Oil & Refining (sole-criterion-match) from fenceline air-monitoring rules + took $3,500 from Kern Oil + $11,300 from CA Independent Petroleum PAC + top oil-industry-gifts recipient 2016 ($1,600 WSPA Ritz Carlton conference) + $19,700 oil-company donations during 2017 cap-and-trade window 'more than any other lawmaker' (CBS). Pattern of pro-oil/anti-USDA-EPA-overreach-style favoritism but in the inverted direction — favoring industry incumbents (Kern Oil) over regulatory oversight, which is industry-capture rather than anti-capture. Opposite of supporting raw-milk/small-farm protections against regulatory overreach (this is industry-protectionism for big-oil). HARD-FALSE (caution: the rubric q3 language is awkward here — flagged as 'industry-favoring-rather-than-small-producer-favoring' direction, scoring FALSE on the underlying anti-capture intent).
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