California Governor Gavin Newsom published a tweet yesterday that must be seen to be believed. Nearly a year after wildfires tore through Los Angeles and destroyed thousands of homes, Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass have accomplished nothing in terms of rebuilding, and Newsom blames… Trump. Just amazing:
Karen Bass has tried to single out one particular house as a success story, but she is not being candid about it.
The Daily Mail reported:
LA Mayor Karen Bass accused of telling shocking lie about first house rebuilt in fire-ravaged Pacific PalisadesThe Los Angeles mayor has come under fire over a seemingly misleading update about the first home to be rebuilt after the deadly Palisades Fire.Karen Bass, 72, announced Friday that the city has issued its first certificate of occupancy for the reconstruction of a property in Pacific Palisades, a neighborhood ravaged by fires last January.She hailed the certificate as an ‘important moment of hope’ in a statement obtained by the Daily Mail, which heralded LA’s commitment to ‘expediting every aspect of the rebuilding process, until every family is back home.’But Bass failed to note that the newly constructed home on Kagawa Street was not a rebuild from the blaze – as the demolition project began before the Palisades Fire erupted.Thomas James Homes applied for a permit to demolish the one-story single-family home and its attached garage in November 2024, LA building and safety records revealed.Although city records show the residence was impacted by the fire, the property was declared ‘non-eligible’ for the wildfire project.
As for Newsom’s claims about Trump, he should be laughed off the national stage. Instead, at least one outlet, Politico, is taking him seriously:
Newsom accuses Trump of wildfire aid snubGavin Newsom accused the Trump administration of rebuffing a meeting request as the California governor seeks more wildfire recovery aid in Washington, casting the refusal to make a staffer available as an unprecedented breach.The Democratic governor’s staff said the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Federal Resources Management Agency, told them FEMA’s acting director was unavailable and did not offer another official to meet with as Newsom presses Congress for $33.9 billion. The Newsom administration framed that freezeout as part of a larger abandonment of the Los Angeles area, arguing the White House has broken with precedent by not sending a funding proposal to Congress.“The Trump Administration refused a routine wildfire recovery meeting — a rejection we’ve never seen before — even as LA families near a year without long-term federal financial help,” Newsom spokesperson Izzy Gardon said in a statement. “The message to survivors is unmistakable: Donald Trump doesn’t care about them.”
It has been almost a year since the fires, yet Newsom and Bass have done almost nothing.
Adam Carolla predicted the rebuild would be nonexistent back in January. He was right.
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