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I think all our tax dollars probably went for Gavin’s hair gel,
Gibson said
We’re going to keep at it,
Biden promised CaliforniansGavin Newscum should immediately go to Northern California and open up the water main, and let the water flow into his dry, starving, burning state, instead of having it go out into the Pacific Ocean.”
Trump postedIn case you haven’t noticed, there is global warming. It does change weather patterns,
Biden saidI’m going to make an appeal right now to the United States Congress. They’re going to have to step up when we ask for more help,
the president saidCreating, supporting, and promoting a culture that values diversity, inclusion, and equity while striving to meet and exceed the expectations of the communities are Chief Crowley’s priorities, and she is grateful for the opportunity to serve the City of Los Angeles.”
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This is the fish Gavin Newscum burned California down in order to save.”
Roger Stone, a Republican operative whom Trump pardoned for multiple felony convictions, shared a photo of the smelt on X on Wednesday, writingWe are fighting a wildfire with urban water systems, and that is really challenging.”
Kearns pointed to a statement from Janisse Quiñones, chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, who said WednesdayRefilling the water reservoirs would have been a welcome priority, too, but I guess she had too much on her plate promoting diversity,
Woods wrote on X next to a photo of the last paragraph of Crowley’s bioIt plays to a long-standing trope that liberals or people in cities or people in places like California or environmentalists care more about small, uncharismatic species than they care about their fellow Americans,
Scoville said of Trump’s allegations against the smelt, which he called a distraction from the climate crisis and the complexities of water policy in CaliforniaI think the blame game isn’t useful,
said Faith Kearns, director of research communications at the Arizona Water Initiative at Arizona State University and co-author of a 2021 report published by UCLA on wildfire and water supply in CaliforniaThis is a really complex, complicated and emergent issue that just hasn’t been on the radar for mostly anyone, and so I just don’t think that there is individual blame to go around at all,
she saidIt’s a way of turning a set of concrete environmental challenges into a kind of culture war,
he saidIs it their issue to try to deal with? Is it the fire service? Is it a county, a city?”
she saidThe way that firefighting has traditionally been, there are wildland firefighters and agencies, and then there are urban firefighters and agencies,
she saidGovernor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way,
the president-elect wrote Wednesday on Truth Social
One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning down to the ground,
Trump added in a second postThere is no such document as the water restoration declaration — that is pure fiction,
Izzy Gardon, Newsom's communications director, said in a statementA firefight with multiple fire hydrants drawing water from the system for several hours is unsustainable. This is a known fact,
Los Angeles County Public Works Director Mark Pestrella said at a press conference WednesdayGavin Newscum is gonna sign those papers, and if he doesn’t sign those papers, we won’t give him money to put out his fires,
he said at the time