Government Code 8314<\/a>, DeMaio told The Center Square.<\/p>\n\u201cIt is unlawful for any elected state or local officer, including any state or local appointee, employee, or consultant, to use or permit others to use public resources for a campaign activity, or personal or other purposes which are not authorized by law,\u201d the code says.<\/p>\n
In this case, the law code defines \u201cpersonal purpose\u201d as \u201cthose activities the purpose of which is for personal enjoyment, private gain or advantage, or an outside endeavor not related to state business.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Center Square reached out to Newsom\u2019s office, which answered by email.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs he has for the last 18 months, the President and his Administration are attacking the Governor, this time through a politicized fishing expedition, because of the work he\u2019s doing as the Governor, where he has consistently been one of the most effective voices pushing back on Trump\u2019s lawlessness,\u201d said Tara Gallegos, Newsom\u2019s chief deputy director of communications.<\/p>\n
But DeMaio said Newsom should be fined because the DOJ investigation into the governor focused on personal matters rather than the Office of the Governor.<\/p>\n
The law lays out the terms of such a fine.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny person who intentionally or negligently violates this section is liable for a civil penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each day on which a violation occurs, plus three times the value of the unlawful use of public resources,\u201d the code says.<\/p>\n
The Center Square reached out to the Fair Political Practices Commission, which referred questions to the Attorney General’s Office. Bonta’s office did not respond by the time of publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(The Center Square) – Assemblymember Carl DeMaio, R-San Diego, has commented further about his call for California Gov.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,54523,457],"class_list":["post-367474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-carl-demaio","tag-gavin-newsom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367474","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=367474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}