While the news media is focused on the anti-ICE protests happening in Minnesota, there was another protest happening on the west coast that did not get nearly as much attention.
The people of the Pacific Palisades held a protest to speak out against the non-existent rebuilding in the area, a full year after wildfires destroyed thousands of homes and businesses.
The people there are demanding an end to red tape, fees, and other things standing in the way of recovery, as well as the leaders who are not doing their jobs.
The national media doesn’t want to cover this because the leaders in question are Democrats.
FOX News reports:
“‘They let us burn’: Palisades Fire victims protest leadership one year after catastrophic wildfires
Palisades Fire survivors protested Wednesday to demand accountability from elected officials on the one-year anniversary of one of California’s most destructive wildfires.
“We didn’t have water, we didn’t have reservoirs, we didn’t have personnel, and there was no emergency response,” said Jeremy Padawer, organizer of the “They let us burn” rally.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and fire officials were among the leaders and agencies targeted by the demonstrators. However, Padawer said it was not a politically motivated gathering.
“It’s just crazy to think that we just didn’t even have the resources here in a city that is known to have fire danger in the past years,” Palisades resident Chad Skowron said.
Los Angeles city councilmember Traci Park was among the rally’s featured speakers. She told Fox News Digital that LA had been “not well prepared” for the disaster.
“These are constituents who feel that they were really, in many ways, let down on January 7th, 2025,” Park said. “All of the systems that we desperately needed to work on that day in history failed around them.”
Many of the hundreds of rallygoers took aim at California leaders like Newsom and Bass, including fire victim Skowron.
“You’re out of here,” he told Fox News Digital. “There’s no chance you’re getting re-elected.”
This latest fire was set by a leftwing terrorist, but that being said, wild fires are a yearly thing in California. They can be contained if the resources are managed properly. Dems always manage to make a bad situation worse.
This is the rank incompetence and stupidity that caused the current hellscape.
24 DEAD. $135-$150 billion in damage. 10,000 homes and businesses destroyed.
But no water.
Instead of cleaning the forest floors, removing dead trees, capturing rain runoff, and making sure California has water in the hydrants, Dems deflect and blame “climate change”.
Gavin Newsom cut more than $100 million from California’s fire budgets. Instead, he spent it on things like tranny cafes, ‘social justice’ art, gay choirs, illegals, and the NAACP. There is no water in the reservoirs because California’s leftist regime returned it to the ocean, to ‘save a fish’, which hasn’t been seen in over a decade.
BTW: $100 million raised for Los Angeles fire victims was funneled to over 188 NGOs, many unrelated to the fire, including a musicians’ charity and an NGO whose whole entire job is to raise money for other NGOs.
As California homeowners watch their lives go up in flames, they may want to pause a moment and credit the assclowns in their own state and local governments for creating obstacles to wildfire prevention.
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