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Newsom launches webpage he says is to combat bad info spreading about wildfires
NBC Los Angeles ^ | Jan 11, 2025 | NBC Staff

Posted on 01/11/2025 6:36:42 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday launched a page on his campaign website he says is to combat "misinformation and disinformation" being spread online and by political leaders regarding the ongoing wildfires in Southern California.

He says the site will "continue to update and provide valuable, fact-based information to the public around policies, budget allocations, personnel on the ground and more.."

The webpage is notably located on Newsom's campaign website funded by Newsom for California, and not on an official government site.

“There is an astonishing amount of mis- and dis-information being spread online -- much of it by so-called leaders and partisan media outlets who seek to divide this country for their own political gain. It breaks my heart that families in Los Angeles don’t just have to worry about the fires but also this malicious disinformation as well,” Newsom said in a written statement.

Initial postings on the page took aim at several claims made by Trump about the state's water management, as well as a Fox News report that claims Newsom cut $100 million from the state's fire budget months before the latest wildfires broke out.

"A ridiculous lie. We have doubled the size of our firefighting army, built the world’s largest aerial firefighting fleet, and increased the forest management ten-fold since taking office," Newsom posted on X in response to the report.

"Time to serve these folks the facts," he added.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbclosangeles.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; campaign; disinformation; dissent; factchecking; fire; firestorms; gaslighting; internet; lafires; losangeles; lyingsos; misinformation; newscum; newsom; online; orwellian; website; wildfires
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Newsom’s desperation is palpable.....

He spent years calculatedly paving his way to the WH
only to see it crumble into ashes before his very eyes.

Every word out of his mouth now is simply to delay
the inevitable.....he’s out of politics........ for good.


61 posted on 01/12/2025 12:10:11 AM PST by Liz ((This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. ))
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Hollywood Mocks God at the Golden Globes, Then This Happens Days later...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NHBLpvIXlk


62 posted on 01/12/2025 1:58:54 AM PST by Texan4Life
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“Newsom launches webpage he says is to combat bad info spreading about wildfires”

at website:

“What wildfires? It’s complete misinformation that there are wildfires in Los Angeles. And if there were any, Donald Trump was caught personally setting them. And it’s the ‘locals” fault for not putting out the nonexistent wildfires. You really can’t expect your governor to personally go into a not-burning building and carry out people who shouldn’t have been there in the first place, now can you?”


63 posted on 01/12/2025 2:15:20 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

What does the availability of water in Orange County have to do with this? And since when is budget evidence that they have cleared sufficient brush—or done sufficient controlled burns? (Just compare CA to FL.)


64 posted on 01/12/2025 2:26:15 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

When a politician’s response to a charge is to call it “outlandish”, you know it’s true.


65 posted on 01/12/2025 2:50:42 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

He’s going to pull a Bart Simpson (I didn’t do it)


66 posted on 01/12/2025 2:53:44 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimati. )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Even with the videos of these dolts claiming crown achievements in F-ing their constituents they try to convince them that they are not at fault


67 posted on 01/12/2025 5:13:32 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Bad info?? Like his culpability?


68 posted on 01/12/2025 5:18:48 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Should be a real knee-slapper.


69 posted on 01/12/2025 5:20:34 AM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I guess he’ll have someone use autobots to give the site a lot of “hits” backing him....


70 posted on 01/12/2025 5:52:50 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: xp38

It’s ironic that the citizens who are losing lives and homes are the ones who are responsible for the disaster by electing like-minded politicians.

The area is hugely pro-Ukraine. Fire-fighting equipment was sent to Ukraine; it doesn’t “live” in CA — where the fires are — any more.

The area is woke and pro-DEI. The retards running the show in government are unqualified POC and/or sexual deviant lesbians.

The area is full of greenies. They saved the trees and brush which created fuel for fires. They tried to save a fish, which reduced by 80% water for firefighting.


71 posted on 01/12/2025 6:46:17 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: MayflowerMadam

“Thinking themselves wise, they became fools.”

Different context, but it works. If the whole passage is read it is TOTALLY the Leftists of California. Romans 1:22-32


72 posted on 01/12/2025 7:17:52 AM PST by madison10
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To: Nextrush

Actually I watched a video of Hans Gutencast ( plays Victor in soap Bold and Beautiful, also played German officer in Rat Patrol)who lost his home to the fire. He said it took him back to when he was young and their town was bombed constantly.


73 posted on 01/12/2025 7:22:24 AM PST by mware
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To: jocon307

Wonder if he can explain where money went to build water reservoir that the people voted on a decade ago.


74 posted on 01/12/2025 7:23:54 AM PST by mware
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

UTTER HUBRIS


75 posted on 01/12/2025 7:35:33 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ridesthemiles

A “Marshall Plan” CA Gov. Newsom says = Free Federal Money... Of course that’s what they’d want... sneak the money into an Omnibus Budget Plan... I SEE WHAT YOU’RE DOING...
DON’T FALL FOR IT SPEAKER JOHNSON ! ! ! ! ! ! !

https://x.com/electionwiz/status/1878698743048114336


76 posted on 01/13/2025 1:30:53 AM PST by Texan4Life
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