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https://nypost.com/2025/01/15/us-news/kevin-oleary-doubles-down-on-bass- newsom-resignation-call-over-la-fires-mishandling/
Kevin O’Leary is doubling down on his calls for top California politicians Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass to resign from office on the heels of Speaker Johnson confirming “discussions” on tying wildfire aid to the debt limit.
“I think every taxpayer in America, including those in California, would
like to tie this aid to removing Newsom and Bass. Now. Gone,” O’Leary said
on a “Varney & Co.” panel Tuesday.
“Part of the deal would be, and I know Trump likes new ideas, here’s one:
not a dime until those two are whacked from their jobs immediately,” he continued. “They are so incompetent, and all of the decisions they’ve made
led to this, and they’re still making mistakes. They’re horrific managers. Whack them.”
Four active fires are now burning in the Los Angeles area after the Auto
Fire broke out early Tuesday in Ventura County, with firefighters saying forward progress “has been stopped” with that blaze.
But further safety threats remain as The National Weather Service said
wind gusts topping 70 mph have been recorded in the area, elevating fire concerns.
Although the winds aren’t expected to be as powerful as last week’s, they
will be strong enough to hamper ongoing firefighting efforts and could potentially cause new and existing blazes to spread rapidly, according to
FOX Weather.
On Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson floated the idea of tying a debt
limit increase to providing ride-along aid to California amid the wildfire destruction, but The Hill has reported that some GOP lawmakers such as
Sen. Mike Rounds, R-SD, and Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., hold
reservations over the idea.
California’s governor is also facing backlash from within his home-state leadership, as the state Senate minority leader lambasted Newsom this week
for “lumping together” a special session about suing President-elect Trump
with wildfire relief.
Newsom “recently expanded the current special session that was focused on
suing the Trump administration to also include Los Angeles wildfire
relief,” according to State Sen. Brian Jones, R-Calif.
“I’m encouraged that Governor Newsom heard our calls to take action on the
LA wildfires in a special session,” Jones said in a statement. “However, lumping this emergency response together with a politically motivated
special session to sue Trump is unnecessary and, frankly, insulting to
those struggling through this disaster.”
Under current policy leadership, O’Leary does not believe Southern
California could look like it once did in the short or long-term future.
“I even think the Olympics are in jeopardy [due to] the infrastructure. I
think these homes, people have to realize, were built with pine timber
back in the 50s and 60s, some of them as inexpensive as $15,000 now worth
$4 million. They were dry. They basically melted,” O’Leary explained.
“That looks like Hiroshima. But [with] the infrastructure and the
policies, it’s going to be difficult in terms of building them back.”
Conversation
PatriotsofLI
18 hours ago
Dereliction of duty is the act of failing to perform one's duties, either intentionally or accidentally, without a valid excuse. It can also refer
to performing duties in an inefficient or careless manner.
People need to be charged, citizens died because of them.
Citizen
19 hours ago
Californians pay the highest state tax in the country. When Newsom took
office he inherited a one hundred billion dollar surplus. Now California
has a seventy billion dollar deficit. Where’s the money?? This fool must resign, or answer to the people why there is no money in the state coffers
to pay for this damage that he helped create.
Fitzg57
18 hours ago
Homelessness up 40%, cost of living up over 50% above the national
average, real crime up 100%, restrictions on how you can live your life up 1000%. Who votes to live under this tyranny? 5-6$ a gallon of gas. to
save the climate, what has this fire done to the climate? They hate you,
they just want you to keep paying.
Baron of Livonia.
16 hours ago
After Fed response to Carolina Hurricane Victims I do not think California should receive a dime. They make their own rules up for every thing from
gas tax to Rights enshrined in Constitution. Couple that with Illegal
Immigrant vows, that they will go against a Republican led Government, let
them create their own path out of this mess they created through
negligence. How many storm and snow runoff retention basins built in last
50 years? Yet every spring we hear of runoff they let go into ocean, then
want more water diverted from neighboring states.
Terrence Ryczek
15 hours ago
The only problem with that is not every resident goes along with that
insane ideology, just the loony leftists.
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