Jay Leno Speaks up at CA Capitol, Hoping to Save | Political News

The California Capitol in Sacramento had a shock visitor this week, as comic Jay Leno made an look on Tuesday. The former “Tonight Show” host was there in help of Senate Bill 712, which might revise the state’s present smog test exemption to cowl more basic automobiles. 

Leno is properly generally known as an avid car collector and in his remarks, he did not mince phrases about how the state’s (majority-Democrat) authorities let high prices run the film business out of California. He mentioned he does not need to see the identical factor occur to the companies that service these treasures on wheels. More on that in a minute.

His look got here at the invitation of state Senator Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield), who wrote the SB 712 invoice. She defined, “We’re trying to bring back the old rolling exemption for a 35-year exemption to exclude classic cars.” 

“Obviously there’s people out there from the environmental groups that think that we’re trying to contaminate the air or not require smog checks,” Grove mentioned, “but that is just not true.” 

After the legislator and Leno struck up a dialog about their love of the automobiles at a charity occasion, Grove even dubbed her invoice “Leno’s Law.” Earlier in April, the invoice was introduced up within the Senate Transportation Committee.

The present rules exempt any car inbuilt 1975 and older from being required to move a smog test, however the invoice’s supporters are hoping for 2 tweaks: for the exemption to cowl automobiles made 35 years in the past or older, and overlaying solely basic collector automobiles, not automobiles that people drive day by day.

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The comic started by admitting that he is properly conscious of “annoying celebrities coming to Sacramento,” since he watches them do it on tv, and “they have no idea what they’re talking about most of the time.”

“This is a subject I’m interested in,” Leno mentioned. “I watched the movie industry get decimated, everybody moved out of California [because] they charged so much for film. Everybody went to Texas, Georgia, Atlanta.”

He defined that the Golden State has the “hot rod culture,” which pulls all of the creatives in design studios from around the globe. “Toyota, Nissan…Hyundai, they have design studios in California because this is where the new ideas come from.”

Leno mentioned that saddened him “to see all of these ideas leave, and go to Texas and all of these other places because it’s easier to do business,” including that he “doesn’t want to see the hot rod or the mechanical interests leave California the way the film business did.”

Happily, on Thursday, the invoice handed out of committee on a 12-2 bipartisan vote (with one vote not recorded). It now heads to the Committee on Appropriations for consideration.

Leno celebrated the victory in a assertion: “California helped invent car culture—from lowriders in East L.A. to muscle cars in the Central Valley. These cars tell the story,” he mentioned. “SB 712 is about keeping that story alive. These vehicles are driven occasionally, not daily, and it just makes sense to treat them differently. I’m proud to be working with Senator Grove, and I thank the committee for recognizing the importance of preserving our automotive legacy.”

Good for him. With so many celebrities utilizing their names and platforms to push loopy/unhealthy concepts and bolster their cred with leftists, it is great to see a sane well-known person–one who’s keen to stand up for one thing that can actually help others.

Editor’s Note: The Democrat Party has by no means been much less widespread as voters reject its globalist agenda.

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