The only Democratic Party state lawmaker who voted against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s bill that could punish oil refiners for making too much money has been stripped of a key legislative committee. Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains confirmed in a statement to KCRA 3 on Thursday night that Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon removed her from the Assembly’s Business and Professions Committee. “It looks like political hardball,” said NBC Political Director, Chuck Todd. “I think there’s a danger when you start to punish people like that, you could end up alienating swing voters.” Todd said he anticipates seeing more public divides within California’s democratic party, which holds a supermajority in state government.

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