CA State Senators urge Newsom to reclassify restaurants as essential businesses

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – A number of California State Senators are urging Governor Newsom to reclassify California’s restaurants as essential businesses.

State Senator Patricia Bates wrote Governor Newsom a letter, signed by a bipartisan group of State Senators, outlining their concerns regarding his ban on dining services, despite no evidence coronavirus is spread at restaurants.

State Senator Patricia Bates, who represents Laguna Niguel, discussed her letter with KUSI’s Logan Byrnes on Good Evening San Diego.