California Crazy

The hellish wildfires in southern California are still raging. More homes and businesses are being destroyed, and more lives are being lost. The death toll now stands at 24.

Politicians in California have plenty of excuses. Climate change tops the list. Meanwhile, the long list of failures caused by gross incompetence at every level of California’s government is shocking.

California is entirely run by the left. The woke left controls every center of power in the state. 

The governor is a liberal Democrat. Liberal Democrats have a supermajority in the state legislature. The mayor of Los Angeles is a liberal Democrat. And how many Republicans are on L.A.’s 15-member city council? None. Nada. Zero. Zilch.

Fighting wildfires doesn’t seem to be a big priority for the left. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest budget cut $100 million from wildfire prevention programs. Mayor Karen Bass cut $17 million from her fire department. So, where were all those tax dollars going?

California is spending roughly $5 billion a year to fight homelessness. Not only are those programs not working, but many people have been made homeless by the raging wildfires. While the state struggles with a record deficit, Newsom is spending $3 billion a year giving healthcare to illegal aliens.

Newsom and other Left Coast liberals felt it was really important to shame states that protected parental rights and religious liberty. In fact, Gov. Newsom said it was too dangerous for his bureaucrats to travel to states that put religious liberty ahead of LGBTQ rights.

Apparently, the state where they are in real danger is Newsom’s California!

Los Angeles is handing out taxpayer dollars for transgender walking paths and cafes, an LGBTQ archive of “queer histories,” social justice art-worker investments (whatever that is), and paying for Mayor Bass’s international trips, which she said she wouldn’t take.

Meanwhile, as the disaster was growing (a disaster Democrats are using to demand billions more to fight climate change), the California legislature convened for a special session. To find more money to fight the fires? No. To find more money to fight Donald Trump. They want to “Trump-proof” California so his policies can’t be enforced there.

And what is Gavin Newsom doing now? He’s begging Trump to come to California to see the damage caused by this leftist lunacy.