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Fox News
15-07-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Steve Hilton: California Needs A Governor Who Is Actually Willing To Enforce The Law
California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton joins Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla to shed light on why he believes voters in the Golden State are tired of the same failing policies and are ready to embrace a new kind of leader in Sacramento. 'You know, it's early days, but it's feeling good to me. Just today, new poll came out. I'm leading. I'm leading all the Democrats in a situation where they put Kamala Harris in there. She clears the field for the Democrats pretty much, but I'm right there with her as the real challenger. And I think we've got a shot because for a long time, I think there's been this sort of assumption that a Republican can never win, it's too democratic. That's not true. There's plenty of Republican votes. Here's a simple way of putting it. If everybody who voted for Trump in California last year votes for me next year, I'll win. I'll be the governor. So we've just got to fire people up and say, this time we can do it. Here's positive alternative. It doesn't have to be like this. You don't have put up with this nonsense. Let's go for it.' Steve Hilton: Everything Touched By The Government In California Is A Total Disaster PLUS, check out the podcast to hear Tuesday's full show!
New York Post
12-07-2025
- Business
- New York Post
Idiotic ‘cap-and-invest' program hurt California — and it may be coming NY next
California is seeing a staggering increase in gasoline prices, and it's all due to idiotic state policies that may also be coming to New York. On Tuesday, the campaign team of Republican candidate for governor Steve Hilton posted a picture of the especially high prices at a Chevron station in Los Angeles. 'Downtown L.A. – almost $8 a gallon!' they wrote. One reason could be the latest update of California's 'Low Carbon Fuel Standard,' a carbon credit trading program, which kicked in on July 1. The update had been estimated to add 65 cents per gallon to the cost of gasoline. 5 Sky-high gas prices across California are not just about the cost of gas — but the added cost of state policies such as the cap-and-invest scheme. Getty Images But that's only part of the state's war on petroleum products. There's also the 'cap-and-trade' program. It drives the cost of energy — and the cost of living — higher in California by requiring refineries, utilities and manufacturers to buy 'allowances' to emit greenhouse gases. The revenue from auctioning the allowances goes into the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, conveniently located in the state treasury. The legislature spends the money on projects that supposedly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Currently, 25% of the revenue is spent to build California's high-speed rail boondoggle. The state has raised tens of billions of dollars by selling these permits and has thrown hundreds of millions of dollars at such things as 'equitable building decarbonization' and an 'alternative manure management program.' More than $6 billion has gone to the high-speed rail project. Billions more have gone out in grants to various governments, agencies, authorities, commissions, districts and developers. California's cap-and-trade program is set to expire in 2030, which would immediately lower prices statewide, but Gov. Gavin Newsom now says he intends to extend the newly renamed 'cap-and-invest' program through 2045, with $1 billion per year designated for the high-speed rail project. All of this, minus the bullet train, could be coming to New York. In 2019, New York enacted The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. It created a 'Climate Action Council' to determine how the state would reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, and then achieve 'carbon neutrality' by 2050. 5 Despite the added costs and regulation, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has made clear he will extends the program's lifespan. AP The Climate Action Council spent two years formulating targets for slashing the number of homes using natural gas water heaters and furnaces, replacing gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles, and generating 70% of the state's electricity from 'renewables.' The mechanism to make this happen? A 'cap-and-invest' program. The idea of these programs is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by charging 'polluters' a lot of money for a gradually declining number of 'allowances' to operate their businesses. Then the money raised can be spent on projects that further reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But higher energy costs drive up the price of everything that's made or transported in the state, including food. According to the Census Bureau, California has the highest poverty rate in the nation when the cost of living is considered. 5 New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has put (some of) the brakes on her state's potential cap-and-invest initiative, but the plan could still come to fruition. Matt Roberts/Shutterstock In a confession that this drives up energy prices to the consumer, California's cap-and-trade program reserves some of its funds to give state residents an annual credit on their energy bills to partially compensate for the higher costs. Is it worth the cost? All of California accounts for only about 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions, but state officials maintain that California must show global leadership. Who's following, and how is it going? On January 1, 2023, the state of Washington became the only other state to implement an economy-wide 'cap-and-invest' program. Less than six months later on June 21, the Seattle Times headlined, 'WA gas prices now highest in U.S.; some experts point to new climate legislation.' 5 Some 25% of California's cap-and-invest revenue is being used to fund the state's high-speed rail system. AP One of those experts was Severin Borenstein, University of California Berkeley professor of business administration and public policy, who was invited by state lawmakers to explain the jump in fuel prices. He said there was no question that the cap-and-invest program was raising gas prices in Washington. He calculated that if carbon allowances cost $50 per metric ton of greenhouse gases, 'the price of gasoline goes up about 50 cents per gallon.' The Oil Price Information Service reached the same conclusion. In Canada, Quebec and Ontario adopted cap-and-trade programs, but Ontario bailed out in 2018. 'It was costly, it was ineffective, it was killing jobs, it's gone today,' said Environment Minister Rod Phillips. There are signs that Gov. Hochul has cold feet about going forward with the cap-and-invest program that has been in the works for New York. In March, the Department of Environmental Conservation issued proposed regulations for the state's 'Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program' revealing that even this preliminary step would not begin until June 1, 2027. That puts the start of higher gas prices safely past the next election. 5 University of California Professor Severin Borenstein says there is no doubt that California's cap-and-invest scheme has helped make the state among the costliest in the nation. Berkeley It's transparently evident that cap-and-invest programs are just a hidden tax on energy to fill up slush funds for politicians to spend on the kinds of things that people choose not to buy with their own hard-earned money. Fair warning, New York. Susan Shelley is a columnist and editorial writer with the Southern California News Group, and VP of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. On X: @Susan_Shelley.
Fox News
09-07-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
SCOTUS Approves Trump's Deep State Dismantling, Plus Is Superman Just Like Kilmar Abrego Garcia? (with Kennedy ft. Rob Bluey & Steve Hilton)
Story #1: President and Executive Editor at 'The Daily Signal,' Rob Bluey, joins Kennedy to break down the Supreme Court's ruling in favor of the Trump Administration to dismantle permanent Washington bureaucracy, James and Sean Gunn make the new Superman movie political, and can a third party ever breakthrough in America? Story #2: Republican Candidate for Governor of California, Steve Hilton, and Kennedy delve into the massive mismanagement of the state of California six months after the devastating fires with rebuilding still yet to start in L.A. As citizens grow tired over the decades of incompetency, will they look to new voices to change the direction of the state? Story #3: Can Gen Z be saved? Kennedy and The Crew discuss the differences between this and past generations following a viral Reddit post lamenting the lack of house parties in modern America. Subscribe to 'Will Cain Country' on YouTube here: Watch Will Cain Country! Follow Will on X: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
Daily Mail
17-06-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE The TV star who has Gavin Newsom quaking in his boots... and his shocking plans that'll leave Liberals in meltdown
California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton exclusively spoke with the Daily Mail, revealing new policy plans and promises. This commitment to overcome crime and homelessness comes as still reels from the explosive response to 's immigration crackdown. The former Fox News star will aim to dramatically increase prison capacity in the Golden State as part of his plan to tackle the disasters he said have ramped up over the last 15 years of Democrat rule.
Fox News
13-06-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
California candidate for governor blasts Newsom while walking through LA riot aftermath
California GOP gubernatorial candidate, Steve Hilton, and former Democratic state senate leader Gloria Romero spoke to Fox News Digital outside a graffiti-covered Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) station as anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) riots ravage the streets of LA. "I've been here for days, seeing what's going on with these riots. One of the most shocking things is the scale of the graffiti," Hilton told Fox News Digital. "Everywhere you go in downtown LA, every surface is covered in vile, disgusting graffiti. And to me it is a really vivid symbol of the total collapse of law and order of civilized values, that they just let this happen. All of this could have been prevented." Hilton, who declared his candidacy for governor in April, has not shied away from critiquing Gavin Newsom's leadership in the Golden State. But with the nation watching the battle between the sitting California governor and President Donald Trump over squelching the riots and ICE deportations, Hilton went as far as to say that "Newsom is a total joke." "He's shown in the last few days he is not fit to be governor of this state," Hilton explained to Fox. "He is certainly not fit to be President of the United States, which is the only thing he seems to be focused on, which is why right at the beginning of all this, instead of acting immediately to make sure that things didn't get out of hand and to protect communities, to protect small businesses and to prevent law and order and uphold civilized values." Hilton was joined in the interview with Fox News Digital by Gloria Romero, a former Democratic California senate leader turned Republican who previously represented East Los Angeles. "For years and years, I tried to fight for reform within the party," Romero told Fox. "Finally, like my friend[s] Leo Terrell, Bobby Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard, I said, the [Democrat] party left me. It is so woke. It is gone." "Today we are looking at what happens then when those who are unvetted come in, and we're looking at not only just the Maryland man as they described him, the California man, but we're looking at rapists, convicted rapists, sex traffickers, murderers," Romero added. Newsom has stood firm in refusing to back down from Trump as riots raged on, and some see his rhetoric and decision-making as a means to propel himself as the leader of the anti-Trump movement as well as possibly the Democrat party as a whole. Speculation that Newsom could make a run for the Democratic ticket for president in 2028 heightened during his national address this week, where he said "California may be first, but it clearly will not end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next." Newsom is termed out as California governor, giving Hilton and other GOP hopefuls a chance to flip the state red for the first time since Arnold Schwarzenegger over 14 years ago. Preston Mizell is a writer with Fox News Digital covering breaking news. Story tips can be sent to and on X @MizellPreston
