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Tim Donnelly to Appear on 'The Daily Show'

Donnelly taped a segment with the satirical fake news show in his Sacramento office in September.

Tim Donnelly, one of Monrovia’s representatives to the California State Assembly, will appear on a future episode of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” The Sacramento Bee’s Capitol Alert blog reported recently.

The subject of the interview, according to a report in the Victorville Daily Press, will be the so-called “Amazon tax,” which Sacramento Republicans have called a job killer.

Air date details for the interview - conducted by Daily Show correspondent John Oliver - not yet been released.

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Donnelly, whose fiery rhetoric and Tea Party backing has brought him plenty of media attention since his election in 2010, is no stranger to Comedy Central’s fake news enterprise.

Donnelly appeared on “The Colbert Report” in 2006. In a segment titled “Difference Makers,” the show poked fun at the efforts of Donnelly and fellow members of the California Minute Men to erect a fence along the border between California and Mexico.

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