Oil pumpjack, San Benito County. (Photo: Katy Grimes for California Globe)
Busybody Lawmaker Tells LA Dodgers to End Their Sponsorship Deals with Oil Companies
California has highest-in-the-nation gas prices and the highest energy costs, which have increased 50% since 2019 according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office
By Katy Grimes, March 12, 2025 7:18 am
Senate Majority Leader Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach) sent the Los Angles Dodgers a letter Tuesday telling them to end their sponsorship deals with oil companies.
“As the Senate Majority Leader, representative for California’s 33rd Senate District, and a lifelong Dodgers fan, I am writing to urge you to end the Los Angeles Dodgers’ sponsorship deals with fossil fuel companies,” Gonzalez said in her letter.
What a busybody. I can think of many more pressing issues in Los Angeles should Sen. Gonzalez be interested in actually improving the lives of Angelinos.
What is the basis of her “urging?”
“The state of California is currently suing five of the largest oil and gas companies in the world for decades of misleading the public about climate change. This lawsuit includes Philips 66, owner of the 76 brand of gas stations. As a State, we are leading the way in climate action and decarbonizing our economy. Yet, Big Oil continues to engage in climate denial and just last year spent a record amount lobbying the State Legislature against common-sense public health measures.”
“Climate denial.” It’s now a crime in California to be a climate denier.
“California’s Governor and Attorney General are suing oil and gas companies over climate woo woo and pseudoscience,” the Globe reported in 2023. “The discovery phase of their lawsuit will be delicious when Bonta and Newsom will have to produce actual evidence that 5 oil companies have caused wildfires, heat waves, snow storms, flooding, wind and rain in California.”
California has highest-in-the-nation gas prices and the highest energy costs, which have increased 50% since 2019 according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. The blame for the 50% increase in energy costs according to the LAO is California’s “ambitious climate‑related goals,” “intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation and help the state meet its larger climate goals.” This severely affects electricity prices.
Senator Gonzalez takes a different tact:
“The recent devastating wildfires in Los Angeles are focusing attention on a reality that my constituents have known for decades: that fossil fuel pollution is responsible for not only the climate crisis, but also the persistently harmful air quality in the region.”
That’s some pretzel logic. The Palisades and Eaton fires are bringing attention to LA’s climate change? Did I miss something?
Instead of making life more affordable for Californians by producing more of our own energy, and using our own resources to bring down costs and build a more affordable future for everyone, California’s lawmakers continue to push for unrealistic “green energy” mandates. They restrict our car choices, and force many people summer and winter to live uncomfortably because of high heating and cooling costs.
Gov. Newsom threatened to call a special session if lawmakers didn’t pass his Venezuela-Like price controlsproposal of the oil and gas industry – unless lawmakers passed his latest proposal to control California’s petroleum industry.
Here it is February, and once again, there are news stories that the CEC is more aggressively proposing the takeover of the California’s refineries.
Sen. Gonzalez’s colleague California Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) introduced a new bill to hold “Big Oil” responsible for natural disasters in California. Gonzalez is a co-author. Sen. Wiener proclaimed that “The fossil fuel industry is fueling climate change,” and then announced Senate Bill 222 to force the oil and gas industry to pay for all disasters in the state – and in doing so, will allow insurance companies and victims of fires, floods, rain and sleet, wind events, mudslides, and earthquakes to sue fossil fuel companies for damages, the Globe reported in January.
“The fossil fuel industry is fueling climate change,” Sen. Wiener says. “They [fossil fuel industry] knew it was leading to disaster for decades, and have incapacitated lawmakers” to make money, he said in January.
Sponsoring Wiener’s bill is the Center for Climate Integrity, which brags that they are “Exposing Big Oil’s Lies & Demanding Accountability.” The Center for Climate Integrity is a Washington DC non-profit whose “contributions” dramatically increased from $130,000 to $7.5M in 3 years – a grand total of $17,431,13 in contributions in three years. USAID anyone?
That’s a lot of moola. Their fundraising scheme goes directly to ACT BLUE.
If ACT BLUE rings any bells, it is the Democrats’ online fundraising scheme, which House investigators believe has been “channeling large, illegal foreign contributions into Democratic Congressional candidate coffers by taking names and addresses of actual American citizens and attaching them to Democrat campaigns as if they are small dollar donors when in actuality these folks have no idea their identities are being misused this way.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson said “it looks to be a money-laundering operation involving foreign nationals.”
The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) are leading an Oversight Committee investigation into potential fraud and illicit financial activity linked to ActBlue campaign contributions. In a letter to U.S. Department of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, the lawmakers requested all suspicious activity reports (SARs) related to suspicious financial activity.
Someone with the authority needs to subpoena and question Senators Wiener and Gonzalez for their strong-arm tactics, and get them on the record about the real intent of Senate Bill 222 after hooking up with ACTBLUE and the Center for Climate Integrity.
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Oh, brother! Dem Sen Lena Gonazalez is childish, irritating, clueless, and nervy, all at once.
Simply doing the bidding of her wacky green donors, I guess. In a silly, ham-handed way that can NEVER win respect. From anyone.
She has no idea what she is asking for and no business making such demands and yet she does it anyway. Does she think of herself as a “fine, well-meaning person” who is “doing good?” Who even knows.
How about this: Let’s focus our attention on increasing the number of sensible people in the legislature who are actually mature enough to address California’s many REAL and PRESSING problems. That would make a nice change from the usual, wouldn’t it.
“As a State, we are leading the way in climate action and decarbonizing our economy. …”
As a State, we are cutting our own economic throats, by leading the way in climate action and attempting to decarbonize the economy.
There, I fixed it for ya, Lena…
(what is it with California Democrats named Lena and Lorena?? Are they ALL stupid???)
In one word YES!
Nothing gives me the warm-fuzzies like seeing those big, beautiful 76 “balls” in the outfield above the pavilions at Dodger Stadium…
They were there when I was a kid, disappeared for a few years and THANKFULLY re-appeared a season or two ago, and all is well with the world again…
If they brought back the 76 STATION out beyond center field in the arroyo, that would be PERFECT….
“The Palisades and Eaton fires are bringing attention to LA’s climate change? Did I miss something?”
No, but those conflagrations DID bring attention to LA’s LACK OF FUEL management and preparation for a significant wind event, which has happened for eons, but now we have more crazy arsonists than we did fifty years ago… (or Democrat-led Governments that wish to “reimagine LA 2.0” by building ugly stack-n-pack apartments where bucolic single-family neighborhoods existed before they let the wildfires go crazy from 50 years of unmanaged chaparral growth…..not to mention empty reservoirs and fire trucks in repair shops…
Way to go, Democrats… way to go…..
CD9 – Some may think what you said about the unmanaged chaparral that borders the Palisades as part of the Santa Monica (Mountains) Nature Conservancy is an exaggeration, I’m sure, but one element of the Palisades Fire that sent it out of control was because the chaparral had not been cut back in LITERALLY 40-50 years. This, according to Rick Caruso, who has been forever intimately familiar with Pacific Palisades, and not only because he built and owned a new shopping center there, or because his daughter owned a house there. Caruso himself lived in nearby Brentwood.
And, of course, the nearby reservoir that was meant to put out fires had been empty, bone dry for years, the fire hydrants had no water, and the skeleton crew of firefighters and fire trucks (most in the shop) were not given the order to show until the entire area was already burning like Hades itself. This was a fire that could not be seriously fought anyway —- as much as L.A.F.D. rank and file wished and hoped and prayed it could —- because the shockingly overpaid ($750,000 a year [!!!]) Bass-appointed head of the DWP, one Janisse Quinones (as I recall TJ was the first on this at the time), whose responsibility it was to see to the hydrant and reservoir problems above, did NOT do her job, a job she still has, by the way. The fire chief Crowley was fired, apparently because she told the truth about Mayor Bass, but Quinones has still not been fired. Or apparently DISCIPLINED either. And won’t be.
What a stinking, unholy mess.
Does oil and gas cause arson? Seems like most of the fires over the last 20 years have had a rather obvious cause.
Democrat Senate Majority Leader Lena Gonzalez (aka “Ms. Busybody Gonzalez”) should be made aware that Chicano lowrider culture has a significant presence and history in her 33rd Senate District that encompasses Southeast LA and Long Beach. It’s where lowrider culture originated and their tricked out customized vehicles are mostly gas guzzling classics that are a part of Chicano cultural heritage. They’d probably laugh hysterically at Ms. Busybody Gonzalez trying to claim that their gas vehicles have caused climate change and also the LA fires?
No doubt Democrat Senator Lena “Busybody” Gonzalez is getting well paid from some nefarious sources to push the WEF globalist’s climate change scam?
The most destructive force in America is the democrat party – in it’s entirety.
100% @10offgrid.
They are the living embodiment of fascism, as evidenced by brownshirt Lena Gonzalez (D) 13.
To think she has the unchecked power to make such a demand on a private business falls under Fascism 101!
Here is the very definition of Fascism:
noun:
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.
Oppressive, dictatorial control.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik
Tens of thousands of acres of Amazon rainforest in Brazil are being cleared in order to construct a four lane highway so that global elites can drive to the COP30 Climate Summit after disembarking from their private jets. The BBC reports that the huge road is to be built connecting to the Brazilian city of Belém ahead of the UN Conference in November which is set to host in excess of 50,000 people at the Summit. Of course, the very same world ‘leaders’ who lecture everyday people about their carbon footprints and suggest eating lab grown meat instead of the real thing will fly in on private jets and then hop in their SUVs to travel down the new highway, all in the name of saving the planet. Everyone attending it could simply do so virtually preventing thousands of tons of CO2 emissions that they’re always complaining about?
No doubt Gov. Gavin “Hair-Gel Hitler” Newsom, Democrat Senate Majority Leader Lena “Ms. Busybody” Gonzalez along with many of California’s ruling criminal Democrat thug mafia will be jetting down to attend the summit?
(https://modernity.news/2025/03/12/hypocrites-rainforest-decimated-to-build-mega-road-for-un-climate-change-summit/)
Wow, TJ, when laugh-so-you-don’t-cry hypocrisy like this ACTUALLY HAPPENS, you can see why the Babylon Bee often reads like a news reporting agency instead of a satire and parody site.
“Busybody” is the perfect word. Virtue signaling instead of solving problems.
Four words for Lena Gonzalez: Shut the hell up!
Who does she think she is anyway? These cocooned idiots is Sacramento just aren’t seeing that things are changing in relation to our so called public servants. In the future they will be held accountable for their graft and their try at totalitarianism. Twisted Sister said it best, “We’re not gonna take it, anymore!” She and others like her should be worried
Unfortunately, climate change, (which has always occurred), is the scapegoat for a political party that uses this farce for their own gain. It’s refreshing to finally have some of our political leaders using common sense regarding this issue and not the pea under the shell game to swindle the taxpayers of their money!