California legislators call for end of state of emergency 3/18/21

(The Center Square) — Several legislators introduced a resolution on Tuesday to end the state of emergency in California.

Assemblymen Kevin Kiley, R-Rockland, and James Gallagher, R-Yuba City, who have successfully sued Gov. Gavin Newsom and are awaiting an appeals court decision, filed the resolution with Assemblywoman Megan Dahle and state Sens. Jim Nielsen and Brian Dahle.

At a news conference with county supervisors, which was posted on YouTube and later taken down from the platform “because it was too long,” according to YouTube, the legislators called for an end to all state-level COVID restrictions in California. They also presented the 14 resolutions passed by counties modeled on Kiley’s and Gallagher’s Healthy Communities Resolution. The resolutions call for the immediate removal of the governor’s Blueprint-color coded tier system to allow Californians to live their lives freely

“In a free society, the burden is on the government to provide a compelling justification for any restrictions on the liberty of citizens,” Kiley wrote to constituents in an email. “There can be no such justification, not for another day, when California’s worst-in-the-nation lockdowns have produced the nation’s worst COVID-era outcomes.”

California has the second-highest unemployment rate in the country behind only Hawaii and the lowest percentage of students enrolled in public school systems.