Leroy N. Soetoro
2025-01-17 00:33:09 UTC
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/13/a-well-deserved-takedown-of-the-
california-political-class/
Actress Sara Foster captured the rage of many Angelenos who have watched
their city burn from the Palisades to Altadena in one social media post:
We pay the highest taxes in California. Our fire hydrants were empty. Our
vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared. Our reservoirs were emptied
by our governor because tribal leaders wanted to save fish. Our fire
department budget was cut by our mayor. But thank god drug addicts are
getting their drug kits. @MayorOfLA @GavinNewsom RESIGN. Your far-left
policies have ruined our state. And also our party.
This former Californian and Angeleno pretty much agrees. California
politicians spend too much time virtue signaling to the rest of America
and too little time on the unglamorous work of protecting livable
neighborhoods.
Government from the local government to the state level, everything is
failing, Sean Walsh, a consultant who served as deputy chief of staff to
former California Gov. Pete Wilson, told me. And its failing on the
fundamental things they ought to do.
Yes, Im talking about Gov. Gavin Newsom, who proudly announced this month
that the state finally started to lay track for a high-speed rail
project to connect Los Angeles and the Bay Area.
Talk about a time-suck boondoggle. In 2008, Golden State voters approved a
bond measure to fund $9.9 billion for the project. Now, the cost
projection exceeds $100 billion. And the estimates only get higher.
The worst part: There already was a way to quickly get from L.A. to San
Francisco. Flying is faster than high-speed rail.
Now would be a good time for Sacramento to take the billions budgeted for
that bound-to-fail scheme and give it back to communities.
Newsoms other big priority has been homelessness, not livability for
average Californians.
The governor has committed more than $20 billion to combat homelessness.
And guess what? Before L.A. fires destroyed thousands of homes,
homelessness only got worse. As KPBS reported this week, homelessness in
California grew by some 3% last year. Only 3%? Some Angelenos may
shrugbecause theyve come to accept failure.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass flunked this disaster. She left for Ghana to
attend the inauguration of its new president despite warnings that L.A.
weather could get gnarly.
She attended a press conference after her hasty return. She was useless.
In June, Bass cut the citys $800 million fire department budget by $17
million. In December, LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley warned the cuts have
adversely affected the Departments ability to maintain core operations.
Meanwhile, a likely conflagration was sitting on hillsides just waiting
for a match.
Dont tell me no one saw this coming. State Farm discontinued insurance
coverage for 72,000 houses and apartments last year, according to the San
Francisco Chronicle, which included 70% of its market share in Pacific
Palisades.
Could it have been prevented? Probably not. Could it have been mitigated?
Theres no doubt in my mind, billionaire businessman Rick Caruso, who
lost to Bass in the 2022 mayors race, told Fox 11.
The story isnt just about celebrities fleeing their beachfront homes,
former Democratic strategist Darry Sragow offered. Its about workers who
arent going to have jobs. For example: Central American and Mexican
women who no longer have houses to clean.
Whats next? There ought to be a discussion about what policy changes are
needed to decreasebut you cant possibly eliminatethe probability that
something like this will never happen again, Sragow responded.
Federal fire insurance? Zoning restrictions? They should be on the table.
Comedian Adam Carolla posted his show from a hotel room in Burbank after
he fled for his life from one of the many wildfires in the area. On a
happy note, I guess, Carolla quipped, all the Winnebagos that were
parked up and down PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) where theyre cooking meth
out of those things surely are gone.
Theyll be the first ones back. The comedy is, the guys who lost their
$20 million homes on the oceanside of PCH will be knee deep in the permit
process when the guys in the Winnebagos will have been back for months.
I guess it looks like were going to be the ones to rebuild it,
President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday.
Californians, rejoice. Youve been living in a NIMBY paradise. Now,
finally, you have an elected official who wants to build homes.
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california-political-class/
Actress Sara Foster captured the rage of many Angelenos who have watched
their city burn from the Palisades to Altadena in one social media post:
We pay the highest taxes in California. Our fire hydrants were empty. Our
vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared. Our reservoirs were emptied
by our governor because tribal leaders wanted to save fish. Our fire
department budget was cut by our mayor. But thank god drug addicts are
getting their drug kits. @MayorOfLA @GavinNewsom RESIGN. Your far-left
policies have ruined our state. And also our party.
This former Californian and Angeleno pretty much agrees. California
politicians spend too much time virtue signaling to the rest of America
and too little time on the unglamorous work of protecting livable
neighborhoods.
Government from the local government to the state level, everything is
failing, Sean Walsh, a consultant who served as deputy chief of staff to
former California Gov. Pete Wilson, told me. And its failing on the
fundamental things they ought to do.
Yes, Im talking about Gov. Gavin Newsom, who proudly announced this month
that the state finally started to lay track for a high-speed rail
project to connect Los Angeles and the Bay Area.
Talk about a time-suck boondoggle. In 2008, Golden State voters approved a
bond measure to fund $9.9 billion for the project. Now, the cost
projection exceeds $100 billion. And the estimates only get higher.
The worst part: There already was a way to quickly get from L.A. to San
Francisco. Flying is faster than high-speed rail.
Now would be a good time for Sacramento to take the billions budgeted for
that bound-to-fail scheme and give it back to communities.
Newsoms other big priority has been homelessness, not livability for
average Californians.
The governor has committed more than $20 billion to combat homelessness.
And guess what? Before L.A. fires destroyed thousands of homes,
homelessness only got worse. As KPBS reported this week, homelessness in
California grew by some 3% last year. Only 3%? Some Angelenos may
shrugbecause theyve come to accept failure.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass flunked this disaster. She left for Ghana to
attend the inauguration of its new president despite warnings that L.A.
weather could get gnarly.
She attended a press conference after her hasty return. She was useless.
In June, Bass cut the citys $800 million fire department budget by $17
million. In December, LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley warned the cuts have
adversely affected the Departments ability to maintain core operations.
Meanwhile, a likely conflagration was sitting on hillsides just waiting
for a match.
Dont tell me no one saw this coming. State Farm discontinued insurance
coverage for 72,000 houses and apartments last year, according to the San
Francisco Chronicle, which included 70% of its market share in Pacific
Palisades.
Could it have been prevented? Probably not. Could it have been mitigated?
Theres no doubt in my mind, billionaire businessman Rick Caruso, who
lost to Bass in the 2022 mayors race, told Fox 11.
The story isnt just about celebrities fleeing their beachfront homes,
former Democratic strategist Darry Sragow offered. Its about workers who
arent going to have jobs. For example: Central American and Mexican
women who no longer have houses to clean.
Whats next? There ought to be a discussion about what policy changes are
needed to decreasebut you cant possibly eliminatethe probability that
something like this will never happen again, Sragow responded.
Federal fire insurance? Zoning restrictions? They should be on the table.
Comedian Adam Carolla posted his show from a hotel room in Burbank after
he fled for his life from one of the many wildfires in the area. On a
happy note, I guess, Carolla quipped, all the Winnebagos that were
parked up and down PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) where theyre cooking meth
out of those things surely are gone.
Theyll be the first ones back. The comedy is, the guys who lost their
$20 million homes on the oceanside of PCH will be knee deep in the permit
process when the guys in the Winnebagos will have been back for months.
I guess it looks like were going to be the ones to rebuild it,
President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday.
Californians, rejoice. Youve been living in a NIMBY paradise. Now,
finally, you have an elected official who wants to build homes.
COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM
--
November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump. We look
forward to America being great again.
The disease known as Kamala Harris has been effectively treated and
eradicated.
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.