California Assemblyman Josh Hoover told Newsmax on Friday that Democrats in the Golden State are unlikely to do anything to prevent the next wildfire because "climate change has become their code for inaction."
On Friday, President Donald Trump met with California Gov. Gavin Newsom to survey the damage of the devasting wildfires that have ripped through Los Angeles the past two weeks. While Newsom approved two relief bills appropriating $2.5 billion to aid the recovery efforts, Hoover said the Democrats in the state Legislature rejected an additional $1 billion in wildfire prevention.
"Number one, I don't think it's a priority, but I think the biggest barrier in California is that so many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle serve a radical environmental agenda that is strongly opposed to a lot of the things that are required for preventing these fires, meaning protecting certain plants and numerous regulations that make it difficult to actually carry out these projects," Hoover said during an appearance on "The Record with Greta Van Susteren."
The assemblyman representing Sacramento County said the Democrats, who hold a super majority in the state Legislature, are beholden to the environmental lobby. "That is what has been governing California for the last many years, and that is why the governor repeatedly has blamed climate change for the repeated fires in California. But climate change has become their code for inaction, and that has to change in our state," Hoover added.
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