{"id":438083,"date":"2026-08-20T06:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438083\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T06:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:18:09","slug":"california-assembly-chief-of-staff-crashes-nick-shirley-interview-with-crude-small-penis-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438083\/","title":{"rendered":"California assembly chief of staff crashes Nick Shirley interview with crude ‘small penis’ flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"

A California Democrat collecting a $200,000-plus taxpayer-funded salary apparently had better things to do with his workday than work, like crashing journalist Nick Shirley<\/a>\u2019s sidewalk interview with a crude sign about his penis.<\/p>\n

Terry Schanz, chief of staff to Democratic Assemblywoman Tina McKinnor, barged into Shirley\u2019s interview outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento carrying a piece of paper that read:<\/p>\n

\u201cAllegedly Nick Shirley <\/a>Has a Small Penis. Prove Me Wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Terry Schanz, barged into Shirley\u2019s interview outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento carrying a piece of paper that read: \u201cAllegedly Nick Shirley Has a Small Penis. Prove Me Wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDid you guys hear that Nick Shirley<\/a> has a small penis allegedly?\u201d Schanz asked.<\/p>\n

Schanz pulls down $17,319 a month<\/a>, or $207,828 a year, in taxpayer-funded compensation.<\/p>\n

And the penis-sign stunt is hardly the only controversy surrounding the radical left-wing operative.<\/p>\n

Nick Shirley outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento.<\/p>\n

Schanz\u2019s name previously surfaced amid a 2025 wrongful-termination lawsuit involving allegations of political bullying and a toxic workplace culture within top Assembly leadership.<\/p>\n

His office also faced scrutiny in January over allegations that it pressured CalMatters to censor footage of a reporter asking McKinnor a tough question about an expensive designer handbag<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Sacramento Democratic Party chair, Schanz has additionally faced accusations from local moderates and conservatives of aggressive political bullying and freezing out opponents.<\/p>\n

Nick Shirley was in Sacramento. <\/p>\n

Now he is back in the spotlight for an incident that looked less like California state government and more like a middle-school hallway.<\/p>\n

Shirley, clearly unimpressed by the interruption, replied: \u201cWow that\u2019s so adult of you. You have never seen it. You would never see it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell I don\u2019t know, this is what they\u2019re reporting,\u201d Schanz said. \u201cProve me wrong. It was good enough for Charlie Kirk<\/a>, prove me wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shirley eventually grabbed the stack of papers, prompting Schanz to demand them back as Shirley laughed.<\/p>\n

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The spectacle unfolded while Shirley was questioning California politicians about Assembly Bill 2624, the \u201cPrivacy for immigration support services providers\u201d bill.<\/p>\n

The legislation, authored by Democratic Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, calls for protections for immigrant-run businesses, including health care providers, from \u201conline harassment\u201d and doxxing.<\/p>\n

Republicans have mockingly dubbed it the \u201cStop Nick Shirley Act<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shirley criticized the measure, saying it was created after he \u201cexposed widespread fraud in immigrant communities\u201d in Minnesota<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The bill has passed the California Legislature and is now sitting on Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s desk. <\/p>\n

Newsom has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto it.<\/p>\n

The Senate passed the measure 30-10 along strict party lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California Democrat collecting a $200,000-plus taxpayer-funded salary apparently had better things to do with his workday than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,1751,3130,457,4182,173775,3586],"class_list":["post-438083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-democrats","tag-fraud","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-metro","tag-penises","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438083","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=438083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}