February 10, 2025 The Sun Bay Paper Page 6 How the Dumb, Radical Left’s 6 Favorite Obsessions Made the Fire Unstoppable -- Woke DEI, Climate Extremism, Homelessness, Vaccines, Open Borders and Ukraine I left Malibu, California, 23 years ago because of high taxes and liberal morons. I just couldn’t take the liberals and their crazy, radical, extreme ideas anymore. I moved to Las Vegas. It was the best move of my life. In Las Vegas, we have no taxes -- no income tax, no business tax, no capital gains tax, no inheritance tax and among the lowest property taxes in America. Guns are legal. The sun is always out. And everyone I know is a conservative MAGA Trump supporter. You know what I call that? HEAVEN. But I loved Los Angeles in the old days. I arrived in L.A. in 1989 to start my job as lead anchorman and host of five television shows at CNBC (then known as Financial News Network). Back then, L.A. was far different than now. It was still the “old-school L.A.” of Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra and, of course, Ronald Reagan. It was a great town. We even had a Republican governor, Pete Wilson, from 1991-1999. I fell in love with L.A. But over my 13 years of living in L.A. (most of those years in Malibu), it changed dramatically. Now, look what these extreme, radical, communist nutjobs have done to my beautiful L.A. Over 2,000 homes have burned to the ground (so far). Let that number sink in. It will take decades to rebuild all that was lost. Wildfires are nothing new. No one should have been surprised about a wildfire. No one should have been caught unprepared. Wildfires are so common in L.A., a large portion of their budget should have been devoted to fire prevention, water management and forest clearing. And another large portion of the budget should have been devoted to hiring more firemen and training them for wildfires. Who didn’t know this was coming? I spend my summers in Park City, Utah. Utah is a red Republican state. Two summers ago, I was in Park City when a gigantic wildfire broke out from a lightning strike. Park City is surrounded by forest. Homeowners were scared to death this was “the big one” they’ve always dreaded. But Utah was prepared. They sent water-dropping planes and helicopters. Not one home was lost. At the time, I gave my opinion on radio and TV. I said: “This success story could never happen in California. California has no money for firefighting because they spend it all on millions of illegal aliens. And their minds are focused 24/7 on open borders, DEI, the transgender agenda, reparations and environmental extremism.” Bullseye. That’s the story of the worst natural disaster in California history that we’re all watching in shock right now. Here are the problems that turned a bad wildfire combined with a bad wind event into one of the biggest disasters in U.S. history, certainly the most expensive of all time. First, Los Angeles elected a radical, extreme, communist nutjob for mayor. She was in Africa when the fire broke out. What is the mayor of L.A. doing in Africa? Why would she abandon her own city, when everyone knew a massive wind event was on the way? This is Exhibit A for the mental illness of liberalism. I call it “criminal negligence.” She should be indicted, arrested and if found guilty, spend years in prison. Second, we come to DEI. The entire governments of the state of California and the city of Los Angeles are dedicated to DEI. Cont. on pg 7 Wildfire Alone Didn’t Destroy Los Angeles
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