Newsom Has Been ‘Trump-Proofing’ California Rather than ‘Wildfire-Proofing’

California Globe

More than 100 wildfires are tearing through Southern California burning down entire neighborhoods. Homeowners are reporting that insurance companies recently cancelled their fire insurance. Firefighters report that fire hydrants are dry or have little water pressure. The Globe called this “California’s perfect storm” earlier Wednesday – a mishmash of 1) destructive water policy, 2) ridiculous environmental policy, and 3) a very political insurance crisis.

Each of these issues can be traced to California Democrat politicians and their “progressive” policies – only their policies are anything but progressive.

This wildfire lays at the feet of California’s Democrat politicians, starting with Governor Gavin Newsom. In 2014, while Gavin Newsom was Lt. Governor, California voters approved $7.12 billion in bonds for state water supply infrastructure projects. Of that, $2.7 billion was designated for water storage projects. But more than 10 years later, there are no new dams or reservoirs, or other water storage projects to collect and store California’s winter runoff, 80% of which is sent to the Pacific Ocean for environmental purposes.

And now Southern California is in yet another drought, and on fire.

How is it that Gov. Newsom and Gov. Jerry Brown before him, hasn’t gotten any actual water storage built? The short answer is they don’t want it. Both would rather have the $30 billion Delta Tunnels project instead, which would destroy California’s very important Delta region.

Under Brown’s original Delta tunnel plan two tunnels would be 150 feet below ground, 40 feet in diameter and 30 miles in length, and would be bigger than the English Channel Tunnel.

Gov. Newsom is opting for one Delta Tunnel, ignoring that California voters have passed more than $30 billion in water bonds to build additional water storage and two new reservoirs, which would accomplish more water delivery to Southern California without destroying the Delta, its inhabitants, and its prime farmland. -- MORE...