{"id":94711,"date":"2025-05-16T06:21:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T06:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/16\/republican-state-sen-brian-jones-on-the-change-he-wants-for-california\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T06:21:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T06:21:52","slug":"republican-state-sen-brian-jones-on-the-change-he-wants-for-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/16\/republican-state-sen-brian-jones-on-the-change-he-wants-for-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican State Sen. Brian Jones on the Change He Wants for California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Republican State Sen. Brian Jones heads the Senate GOP caucus, and represents parts of San Diego County\u2013 a decidedly purple Southern California district.<\/p>\n<p>After stints in both houses of the legislature, He\u2019s serving his final term in Sacramento. Although Republicans make up a minority of lawmakers at the state capital, they\u2019ve made headway in recent months pushing against Democrats on issues like public safety.<\/p>\n<p>On this episode of Political Breakdown, Sen. Jones joins hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Schafer in studio at KQED\u2019s San Francisco office. His appearance comes just a day after Governor Newsom unveiled his updated budget proposal for the coming fiscal year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/news\/2025\/05\/15\/republican-state-sen-brian-jones-on-the-change-he-wants-for-california\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican State Sen. Brian Jones heads the Senate GOP caucus, and represents parts of San Diego County\u2013 a decidedly purple Southern California district. After stints<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}