WATCH: Rudy Salas ignores 23ABC’s questions on missing gas tax vote

Rudy Salas was nowhere to be found during the big vote in the California State Assembly yesterday on whether to suspend the gas tax.

Suspending the gas tax would save Californians 50 cents per gallon at the pump. 

When 23ABC reached out for comment to ask Salas why he skipped the vote, Salas did not respond.

This is not the first time Salas has abstained from voting on the gas tax. In 2019, he abstained from voting on a measure which would have delayed a gas tax increase. 

NRCC COMMENT: “Central Valley voters need immediate relief at the gas pump, but Rudy Salas was too cowardly to stand up for them.” – NRCC Spokeswoman Torunn Sinclair