{"id":430143,"date":"2026-08-11T22:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/430143\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:26:10","slug":"roger-niello-to-take-over-as-republican-minority-leader-in-the-california-state-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/430143\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Niello to take over as Republican minority leader in the California State Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roger Niello to take over as Republican minority leader in the California State Senate<\/p>\n

\"Ashley<\/a><\/p>\n

Sen. Roger Niello will become the new Republican minority leader in the State Senate.<\/p>\n

Niello, who represents parts of Sacramento County, will take over from Sen. Brian Jones, whose term is ending. The move is effective in November. <\/p>\n

The vote happened Tuesday afternoon during a caucus meeting. Sen. Tony Strickland was also in the running for the leadership role, KCRA 3 has learned. <\/p>\n

\u201cRoger Niello brings decades of experience in business, local government and the Legislature to this role,\u201d California Republican Party Chairwoman Corrin Rankin said in a statement that also thanked Sen. Brian Jones for his service. <\/p>\n

Rankin said that Niello \u201cunderstands the importance of unity and what we can accomplish when Republican leaders, candidates, the party, donors and grassroots activists work together as one team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, California Republicans announced that they replaced Heath Flora with Alexandra Macedo to lead the minority party in the Assembly.<\/p>\n

That move was a surprise to people in and around the state Capitol<\/a> on the first day back for lawmakers from summer recess.<\/p>\n

–KCRA 3’s Daniel Macht contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roger Niello to take over as Republican minority leader in the California State Senate Sen. Roger Niello will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,44501,6214,36955,15052],"class_list":["post-430143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-california-state-senate","tag-republican","tag-roger-niello","tag-state-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430143","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=430143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}