Senate Republican Leader Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, recently announced two measures to prevent Governor Gavin Newsom’s practice of granting multi-million dollar contracts to vendors without going through a formal bidding process.  Wilk’s legislation is in response to the Newsom Administration awarding – and later auto-renewing – a no-bid state contract to the Valencia Branch Laboratory, where multiple whistleblowers exposed shocking ...

Senate Republican Leader Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, delivered a second letter to the California Health and Human Services Agency on Thursday  in an effort to ensure accountability on a state-funded COVID-19 testing lab in Valencia. Thursday’s letter requests the current administration under Governor Gavin Newsom halt the auto-renewal of the $1.7 billion no-bid contract until a promised final investigative report ...