California GOP leader Heath Flora expenses $11k at local dive bar amid fury at backing Dem tax hikes
Heath Flora, the top Republican in the California Assembly, is facing two state ethics investigations and could be on the brink of a leadership fight after he infuriated his party by siding with Democrats to allow tax hikes across the state, The Post has learned. Several Capitol insiders told The Post that Flora is facing blowback after he and fellow Republican Assemblymember Juan Alanis voted for Senate Bill 762 last month, which will allow 13 cities and counties to ask voters to exceed California’s longstanding 2% local sales tax cap.
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Heath Flora, the top Republican in the California Assembly, is facing two state ethics investigations and could be on the brink of a leadership fight after he infuriated his party by siding with Democrats to allow tax hikes across the state, The Post has learned. Several Capitol insiders told The Post that Flora is facing blowback after he and fellow Republican Assemblymember Juan Alanis voted for Senate Bill 762 last month, which will allow 13 cities and counties to ask voters to exceed California’s longstanding 2% local sales tax cap. “We’re disappointed by our state assemblyman and hearing from constituents,” Stanislaus County Republican Party Chairman Joel Campos told The Post. Flora received just 30.6% of the vote in the June primary election in Stanislaus County — the lowest level of support for any incumbent state legislator and all of the Republican parties within his district declined to endorse him.
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- Heath Flora, the top Republican in the California Assembly, is facing two state ethics investigations and could be on the brink of a leadership fight after he infuriated his party by siding with Democrats to allow tax hikes across the state, The Post has learned. Several Capitol insiders told The Post that Flora is facing blowback after he and fellow Republican Assemblymember Juan Alanis voted for Senate Bill 762 last month, which will allow 13 cities and counties to ask voters to exceed California’s longstanding 2% local sales tax cap.
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California GOP leader Heath Flora expenses $11k at local dive bar amid fury at backing Dem tax hikes
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