[Epoch Times] The executive order will target price gouging and halt some environmental regulations to speed up rebuilding, the governor said.
"I’m worried about issues of rebuilding as it relates to scarcity, as it relates to property taxes, meaning scarcity of resources, materials, personnel. I’m worried about time to getting these projects done," Newsom said.
"But one thing I won’t give into is delay. Delay is denial for people: lives, traditions, places torn [apart], torn asunder. Families, schools, community centers, churches, you’ve seen it," Newsom said. "The number of schools that have been lost in this community, and ... we’ve gotta let people know we have their back."
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I’m worried about issues of rebuilding as it relates to scarcity, as it relates to property taxes....and to my rich donors.
[NYPOST] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Gov. Gavin Governor Hair Gel Newsom ...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland... on Sunday tried to play semantics and weasel out of blame by saying state reservoirs were ''completely full'' when the LA fires broke out — even though a county-run reservoir had been drained at the time.
Newsom made the shocking statement while addressing criticism from President-elect Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... over the state's water management ahead of the infernos.
''The reservoirs are completely full — the state reservoirs here in Southern California. That mis- and disinformation I don't think advantages or aids any of us,'' Newsom told NBC News in a pretaped interview that aired on ''Meet the Press'' on Sunday.
Reporter Jacob Soboroff pressed Newsom on his response by pointing out how the LA-County-run Santa Ynez Reservoir was bone dry — something that even has prompted a probe from Newsom.
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Given, there are 11 other smaller counties, which are North and South of L.A. county, producing literally Billions of gallons of fresh safe drinking & fire hydrant water each year.
Other than Santa Monica, which only serves 18,000 customers, and produces about 3.777 Billion Gal fresh water per year.
Why hasn't LA county added more seawater desalination units?
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Solar Farms take up a lot of real estate, NN2N1.
And that land is really really pricey around LA.
Of course, they could pull an 'Eminent Domain' and just appropriate it, I guess.
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Why lie like Baghdad Bob when everyone can check to see the water level over the last nine months pretty easily using the internet? You have to do better gaslighting than that,.
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A lot of centrally-located, prime real estate has recently become available for solar farms. Might as well make lemonade out of thousands of lemons! /sarc
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It doesn't matter if the reservoirs are full if you can't get water from the reservoirs to the fire hydrants. Democrats have a disturbing tendency to overlook basic facts like that.
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Why hasn't LA county added more seawater desalination units?
It'd take years, decades probably, to get approvals from all the layers of government in this state for such a unit.
The bigger problem is that people like Newsom believe everybody in the whole, wide world should be able to live in California in spite of the fact that we simply don't have the infrastructure or the resources to support the population we already have. The only way to make it affordable for all the people who want to live here is to turn the entire state into a giant, Third World slum and Newsom is hell bent on doing exactly that.
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Why hasn't
Why, you could power a big one with nuclear for a twofer. I wonder why no one has thought of that.
[NYPost] For the second time this week, a judge has found Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court in a case involving two Georgia election workers he baselessly claimed committed election fraud in 2020.
Washington, DC, federal Judge Beryl Howell
…appointed by Barack Obama, who shocked the world by joking with President Trump at Jimmy Carter’s funeral…
sided with lawyers for Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman,
…the ladies were observed on surveillance video in Fulton County’s State Farm Arena, where they were engaged as vote tabulators for the 2020 election. After the supervisor announced that the count was shut down for the night, Ms Freeman and her daughter, and Ms Moss and another worker pulled extra boxes of ballots from under the table where they’d been secreted, then repeatedly scanned the stacks of ballots into an election computer. That sounds like a basis for claiming election fraud to me…
finding that Giuliani violated the judge’s "unambiguous" prior ruling barring the former New York City Mayor from continuing to defame the two women, according to reporting by The Hill.
The ruling is indeed unambiguous. However, telling the truth cannot be defamation.
On Monday, a Manhattan federal judge similarly held Giuliani in contempt of court, on the grounds that he was trying to "run out the clock" to avoid paying Freeman and Moss a $148 million defamation verdict they won in 2023.
Did he appeal the verdict? What’s the status of that?
Howell chided Giuliani — President-elect Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... ’s one-time personal lawyer who was once regarded as "America’s Mayor" — for using his fame to tarnish the duo with "fabricated lies."
"You’re the most famous person in this courtroom right now, you’ve got a bigger audience, you’ve got a bigger public following than anyone in this courtroom," the judge said.
"I really hoped we were done," the judge said.
No doubt.
Earlier, Michael Gottlieb, a lawyer for Moss and Freeman, told Howell they didn’t want to be back in court but said his clients just want "Mr. Giuliani to stop defaming them," according to a report by NBC News.
He requested that Giuliani be fined $20,000 for every time he continued to defame the women even after Howell ordered an agreement promising he wouldn’t do so anymore.
Gottlieb specifically requested that the fines come from money that has been deemed off-limits — including an IRA account.
Giuliani’s lawyer, Eden Quainton, claimed a $20,000 fine per violation would be "excessive."
At one point, Giuliani took the witness stand explaining that he had roughly $163,000 in a 401k account, $100,000 in one IRA account and $1.1 million in another — all of which he claimed should be exempt.
"I claim they’re exempt, and you’re trying to take them from me," Giuliani testified.
Giuliani allegedly violated the agreement in November on a streaming show repeating claims that the two women committed election fraud against Trump during the 2020 presidential election, but Quainton argued his client had kept his promise for months prior to the slip-up.
An easy way to keep the controversy in the public eye.
Howell shot down the argument.
"Because he was good for a few months, we ought to excuse any bad behavior after that?" she asked.
There’s a solid argument that it’s the judge, defence team, and defendants who are the miscreants.
Quainton also claimed that Giuliani couldn’t have said the comments on his show with malice — a legal standard used in defamation cases — because he actually believes to be true what he’s saying about the women.
Howell was alarmed by the argument suggesting Giuliani would never cease making the claims against the women.
"He’s never going to stop because he thinks he’s right?" Howell said. "That’s chilling."
Ted Goodman, Giuliani’s political advisor, claimed Giuliani wasn’t able to sufficiently defend himself in the original defamation suit.
"This contempt ruling is designed to prevent Mayor Giuliani from exercising his constitutional rights," Goodman said.
Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Liman on Monday held Giuliani in contempt for twice blowing off deadlines and failing to turn over critical information ahead of a Jan. 16 trial in the case about whether his Florida home and his cherished Yankees World Series rings should be relinquished to Ross and Freeman to help pay down his debt to them.
"The defendant willfully violated a clear and unambiguous order of the court," Liman said, also blasting Giuliani’s testimony Monday as "self-serving."
The surveillance video:
WATCH: Footage of State Farm Arena in #Atlanta shows that after poll monitors and media were told counting was done, four workers stayed behind to count #ballots, at times pulling out suitcases containing ballots from underneath desks.
#1
In Western democracies the burden of proof is on the government.
The government must prove that elections were free and fair to legitimize its powers.
One necessary element for this is that vote counts be only conducted in public, the government must prove that measures were taken that would deny access to uncounted ballots when not under public scrutiny.
Here, we not only know that officials had theoretical access to ballots but we actually have evidence of ballots being "counted" in the absence of observers.
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How could he have done $148 Million worth of defamation on these two?
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Will Trump pardon Rudy, having seen and experienced 1st hand the fraud that many Fulton Co. GA Election workers pulled off, despite the mountain of evidence showing it happened?
Will the MSM blow a fuse for Trump doing the right thing, unlike they didn't do with the babbling Biden pardons?
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We have some really contemptible courts right now.
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This will deter anyone from pointing out possible election fraud.
Well, yeah. That's kinda to point, isn't it? I mean, I believe that is their intention.
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He seems to be his own worst enemy, when it comes to dealing with legal process. Probably getting to old for this game. You should see the vulture peanut gallery on X.
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"I’m worried about issues of rebuilding as it relates to scarcity, as it relates to property taxes, meaning scarcity of resources, materials, personnel. I’m worried about time to getting these projects done," Newsom said.
...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland...
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
