Re: Newsom's 'Compassion' for Wildfire Victims

On Jul 18, 2025 at 1:30:46 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

In article <1056d78$8u20$2@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:

 On Jul 12, 2025 at 4:12:08 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

 BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

 

 In case you were wondering where we stand with the wildfire recovery…
 
 When the fires were still burning, Newsom was on scene speaking his
 normal mix of gibberish, platitudes, and tech jargon, saying that the
 government at all levels would have the backs of those who lost
 everything.
 
 Fast forward seven months. Newsom is now issuing $1700 fines to any
 wildfire victim who still has any debris on their property, even while
 he (and his accomplice, Karen Bass) refuse them permits to rebuild. And
 at the same time, he's announcing a $200 million state program to
 appropriate (read: steal) what used to be entire neighborhoods in Pacific
 Palisades and use them to build 'affordable housing', which is prog-speak
 for 'dorms for bums, addicts, and criminals'.
 
 Now vote for him for president!

 
 Maybe this is why the city of Scottsdale this week came by issuing
 citations for potential fire hazards. They hit me because I had a couple
 of palm fronds on the ground at the base of my palm tree as if they hadnâ
 €™t noticed there was wind the night before.

 
I knew it. Back when the fires were still raging, I posted right here on RAT
that when all this is over, look for the government to muscle its way and
try to convert a significant portion of the burned land into "affordable
housing". Welp, here we are.

 
I immediately thought of you whne I heard the news about it, but it was a 
predictible prediction. :-)

The outrage over the past week was apparently quite significant. The
switchboards and email servers in Sacramento overloaded to the point where
they couldn't do their typical schtick and ignore the people they're being
paid to represent, so SB 549 got yanked and shelved. Of course things like
this are never truly dead, so now I predict the ghouls and reptiles in the
Assembly will let it lie dormant for a year, then reintroduce it under another
name and try and sneak it through.