Gavin Newsom bailed out utility responsible for California wildfires – after collecting six figures in donations, new book claims

California Gov. Gavin Newsom bailed out his state’s biggest utility, which caused some of the Golden State’s worst wildfires, after being showered in hundreds of thousands in donations from executives, according to a scorching assessment of his leadership in a new book.

Instead, he opted to go after oil and gas companies over climate change claims.

“Newsom holds oil and gas companies responsible for wildfires but not the utilities that caused most of them after he and his wife raked in hundreds of thousands in donations,” Susan Crabtree and Jedd McFatter write in the summary for their muckraking book, “Fool’s Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All.” ---More...