Posted on 06/23/2021 7:56:20 PM PDT by george76
An investigation found that California Governor Gavin Newsom grossly exaggerated the amount of fuel reduction projects that have been completed on state lands, and he reduced the fire prevention budget.
From Capradio, June 23, 2021:
“An investigation from CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom found the governor has misrepresented his accomplishments and even disinvested in wildfire prevention. The investigation found Newsom overstated, by an astounding 690%, the number of acres treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns in the very forestry projects he said needed to be prioritized to protect the state’s most vulnerable communities. Newsom has claimed that 35 “priority projects” carried out as a result of his executive order resulted in fire prevention work on 90,000 acres. But the state’s own data show the actual number is 11,399.
“Overall, California’s response has faltered under Newsom. After an initial jump during his first year in office, data obtained by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom show Cal Fire’s fuel reduction output dropped by half in 2020, to levels below Gov. Jerry Brown’s final year in office. At the same time, Newsom slashed roughly $150 million from Cal Fire’s wildfire prevention budget.”
So he MISLEAD THE PUBLIC. What else is new?, Or more like what else has he mislead.
Do they mean “lied to”?
Well, what else do you expect from a lying sack of it?
Oops, NPR had this?
The acreage protected is a pittance in any way.
About one medium size forest fire.
Large forest fires are in order of hundreds of thousands acres each, and even million acres fire was recorded.
Basically Gavin Newson did nothing, but he is bragging about it. Typical Democrat.
If we get more fires this year, and we will, I don’t see how this guy survives recall.
Fires, power outages and masks could be that confluence of events that works.
California, the Newsom-alia...
What? Newson lied? What did you expect from this megalomaniac Marxist (aka Democrat)? The truth?
As Joe Biden would say, “Come on. Don’t be stupid”.
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