In my last post on this topic, I had stated that I’d ordered copies of oaths and bonds from the State Senate Rules Committee on December 3, 2024 for some state senators and many staffers. Those oaths/bonds were due on December 17. As of that post on March 7, 2025, the State Senate had not provided any oaths. In that document, I’d also requested other information, as well.
In my last post on this topic, I’d also stated that I’d ordered oaths/bonds from the Secretary of State on 100 people. On February 10, 2025, the SOS stated that only two of those people had current oaths on file, and no one had a bond on file (the images of the letter are at the bottom of the previous post on the topic).
I always said that the large number of people lacking current oaths could be a mistake and that I was trying to confirm that the SOS information was accurate. However, the lack of bonds is intentional — it seems that the State of California stopped following the bond laws when Reagan was governor.
The two people with current oaths were Board of Equalization representatives Mike Schafer and Ted Gaines (Ted Gaines is currently on the board of directors for the Franchise Tax Board). Both had been elected in November 2022 for the 2023 – 2027 term and both oaths were filed at the end of November and were still valid.
On March 28, 2025, I talked to the SOS office. They said they were 3 months and 1 week behind on recordings, so they were still working on recording oaths that had been filed in December.
Of note was that Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis did NOT file an oath when she was re-elected in 2022 for the 2023 – 2027 term. Since her missing oath did not fall into the gap in recordings, it has been confirmed that she is currently working unlawfully without an oath.
On April 4, the SOS sent oaths for most of the assemblyman that I checked, some of the senators that I checked, none of the state senate/assembly staffers that I checked, and none of the people who work in the other government agencies that I checked. I have uploaded these new oaths to my Oaths page (scroll down to the bottom).
The SOS is going to look for the rest of them (my sense was he meant physically look through the stacks of papers in the “to be recorded line”) and get back to me.
Meanwhile, on April 1, 2025, the State Senate finally responded to my request for oaths. They provided only two current oaths for state senators: John Laird and Scott Wiener. They provided oaths for a few of the staffers. All of the oaths were redacted, so we have no idea if they were signed or not. Most were expired, so even if they were valid at the time, they aren’t valid now.
I am currently working on uploading the information from the State Senate. As I upload, I will update this post. Likewise, I will update again when I hear back from the SOS. Below is the complete list of people I’d asked for oaths from the SOS for and the current status:
- Arreguín, Jesse — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- Ashby, Angelique V.
- Bains, Jasmeet Kaur — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- Blakespear, Catherine
- Born, Charles
- Bowlby, Harrison
- Braverman, Sheila — oath is redacted and expired; uploaded
- Cervinka, Lynne — oath is redacted and expired; uploaded
- Choe, Stella: oath is redacted and expired; uploaded
- D’Amato, Talia
- Dahle, Brian
- DeMaio, Carl — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- Espinosa, Carlos
- Gaines, Ted — Current oath confirmed, not yet uploaded
- Garcia, Robert — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- Gipson, Mike A. — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- Gonzalez, Lena — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- Grayson, Timothy S. — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- Hanna, Tate
- Hayes, Julia
- Highland, Sue
- Jones, Brian W
- Kerkhoff, Zachary
- Kounalakis, Eleni — CONFIRMED NO OATH FILED
- Martinez Valladares, Suzette — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- McGuire, Mike
- McKinnor, Tina S. — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- McNerney, Jerry — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- Pérez, Sasha Renée — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- Quirk-Silva, Sharon — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- Robinson, Katerina
- Ruff, David M.
- Schaefer, Mike — Current oath confirmed, not yet uploaded
- Stephan, Sarah
- Summers, Haley
- Ta, Tri — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- Twilla, Jocelyn
- Umberg, Thomas J.
- Vargas, Itzel
- Whitaker, Wesley
- Williams, Kayla
- Andrews, Michelle — oath is redacted and expired; uploaded
- Arambula, Joaquin
- Barnett, Alex — oath is redacted and expired; uploaded
- Brown, Samantha — oath is redacted and expired; uploaded
- Caballero, Anna
- Case, Doug
- Cervantes, Sabrina — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- Chavez, Zandra
- Chavez Zbur, Rick — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- Contreras, Erika
- Davis, Grace
- Dehrer, Stephen G.
- Duncan, John
- Duran, Antoinette
- Durazo, Maria Elena
- Eisberg, Ryan
- Emran, Hasib
- Esparza, Anna
- Favorini-Csorba, Anton
- Fontus, Stella
- Fritz, Niesha
- Gonzalez-Parra, Rubie
- Griffiths, Diane
- Grinnell, Colin
- Grove, Shannon
- Hardeman, Nicholas
- Henderson, Vanessa
- Jackson, Corey
- Jenkins, Cara L.
- Johnson, Jr., C. David
- Jordan, Stephanie
- Kennedy, Mary
- Laird, John — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- Lee, Alex — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- Loftin, Sarah
- Londenberg, Kathryn
- Mebust, Erik
- Menjivar, Caroline
- Mohtashemi, Raayan
- Muratsuchi, Al — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- Nam, John
- Padilla, Steve
- Peterson, Jonathan
- Persons, Jack
- Pfefferkorn, Krista
- Reed, Cole
- Rincon, Omar
- Rodriguez, Kimberly
- Rubio, Susan
- Severiano, Christian (Seve)
- Sparks, Jeff
- Suseberry, Tylisa
- Thiella, John
- Vallejo, Christopher
- Wahab, Aisha
- Ward, Chris — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- Weisz, Jason
- Wiener, Scott — Current oath confirmed and uploaded
- Yeung, Elisa Rae
- Zhang, Francis