{"id":341718,"date":"2026-06-01T18:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341718\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T18:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:29:10","slug":"tax-collector-in-chief-adam-gray-helped-make-california-unaffordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341718\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Collector-in-Chief Adam Gray Helped Make California Unaffordable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 1, 2026<\/p>\n<p>A new report details out of touch Adam Gray didn\u2019t just vote for a few tax hikes. He spent years in Sacramento helping Democrats hammer California families with more than\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcaliforniaglobe.com%2Ffr%2Ffrom-cradle-to-grave-rep-adam-gray-voted-for-over-14-billion-in-higher-taxes-and-fees%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Ccmartinez%40nrcc.org%7C916d7688f67047cbbbae08debffdd175%7Caedd1d67fa1049bea792b853edaad485%7C0%7C0%7C639159294076795865%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=2UQLRIoSNnlSHkKpyAPwE2NcNzq2UYiTOlMVStD2CrY%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">$14 billion in higher taxes<\/a>\u00a0and fees while the cost of living spiraled out of control.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"803\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88357\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Every time Californians get hammered by higher prices at the gas pump, the grocery store, or on their utility bills, they can thank\u00a0Adam Gray who spent years voting with corrupt Sacramento Democrats to raise taxes, raise fees, and make life more expensive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of touch Adam Gray spent years serving as Sacramento\u2019s tax collector-in-chief, rubber-stamping billions in tax hikes and fees while California families got crushed by soaring costs. Central Valley families can\u2019t afford another minute of\u00a0Gray\u2019s failed leadership.\u201d\u2013 NRCC Spokesman Christian Martinez\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 1, 2026 A new report details out of touch Adam Gray didn\u2019t just vote for a few&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[140743,7,9,8],"class_list":["post-341718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-ca-13","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}