California Governor Gavin Newsom is Running from His Past With Fire Response

California Governor Gavin Newsom who is clearly play-acting at being the governor of the largest state in the country, went on Meet the Press Sunday in an attempt to control the narrative on the devastating Pacific Palisades fires. He failed epically.

On rebuilding Pacific Palisades, he said he has a team “looking at reimagining L.A. 2.0. We’re just starting to lay out. I mean, we’re still fighting these fires, so we’re already talking to city leaders. We’re already talking to civic leaders. We’re already talking to business leaders, with nonprofits. We’re talking to labor leaders.”

When asked “does the buck stop with you?” Newsom did not say “yes” as he should have. “We’re all in this together” he claimed.

“We work together” he said.

I remember the last time he said “We’re all in this together,” and then he locked down the entire state of California for three years over a flu virus.

Gov. Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass will try to control the narrative solely to save their own necks, but the truth is far more powerful. There is no altruism in their actions.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass attempted to do the same with a pathetic press conference in which she deflected from her responsibility as the Mayor: “Rest assured that when that is done, when we are safe, when lives have been saved and homes have been saved, we will absolutely do an evaluation to look at what worked, what didn’t work, and to correct or to hold accountable anybody, department, individual, etcetera,” Bass said. “But my focus right now is on the lives and on the homes.”

Bass cut the LA Fire Department budget by $17.6 million last year. She wanted to cut it by $23 million.

What we are watching is the most incompetent buffoonish local and state government officials patting each other on the backs for their planning, togetherness, “solutions,” and blaming technology, rather than each other. They were chosen by other incompetent buffoons for their jobs. And now we have a catastrophe of epic proportions. 

I fully expect that there will be a mass of recall elections in the near future. 

Now Gov. Newsom is proudly announcing he is cutting bureaucratic red tape and CEQA to facilitate rebuilding. This is an admission that California’s environmental regulations and permitting process is always the first disaster anyone who wants to build experiences. 

“Just issued an Executive Order that will allow victims of the SoCal fires to not get caught up in bureaucratic red tape and quickly rebuild their homes. We are also extending key price gouging protections to help make rebuilding more affordable.”

There are no references to failures. There are only positive comments about brotherly love, and what the liberals are going to do.

There were numerous questions from the press trying to blame Donald Trump. 

Bass said  she’s having “Good communication with the Trump people.” Bass has pivoted to what they are going to do to be prepared.

When I heard that,  I harkened back to my article last week and Newsom’s  misrepresentation of the facts regarding his executive order for controlled burns and fuel breaks:

The joint CapRadio and NPR investigation unveiled in June 2021, Governor Newsom was found to have overstated the number of areas treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns by 690%, the Globe reported. Governor Newsom claimed that, due to his executive order, 35 of his priority projects had treated over 90,000 acres with wildfire prevention treatments. However, data from the state only showed 11,399 acres treated.

“The data show Cal Fire treated 64,000 acres in 2019, but only 32,000 acres in 2020 and 24,000 acres through Memorial Day this year,” CapRadio and NPR reported, explaining that the governor even “disinvested in wildfire prevention.”

They will try to control the narrative solely to save their own necks, but the truth is far more powerful. There is no altruism in their actions.

As I find myself saying far too often, “the stupid people are in charge of everything right now.” It is coming to fruition. I hope this is the precipice of a political change in California. Time will tell. 

Newsom is making all the wrong moves to save his flailing career. He launched a misinformation “fact-checking” website over the weekend to control the narrative, and should you want to contribute to the recovery, Newsom had a link which sends people to the corrupt ActBlue to contribute. He really tried to politically capitalize on these fires. 

The New York Post reported:

Newsom, 57, posted a link on X to californiafirefacts.com, a website set up by his campaign committee, in response to what he claimed was misinformation on the wildfires.

But the site urges users to give money to the California Fire Foundation and links them to a module from ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s fundraising platform. The ActBlue donation box says the money is being raised by Campaign for Democracy, Newsom’s super PAC.

It appears that has been replaced/removed.

We also saw in real time as he was having negative comments deleted from his Instagram account.

Gavin Newsom is deleting all Instagram comments on his official government account with the word “resign.” His COVID playbook has been resurrected to illegally censor and label any criticism as “misinformation.”

Nothing Newsom or Bass or any of the LA County officials says or excuse they make will answer “Why was the 117 million gallon water reservoir empty?”