Californians could only look on in awe and envy as Florida pre-deployed emergency resources ahead of the storm that dumped record amounts of snow on the Panhandle this week, rather than waiting until after the damage was done.
"Wait. Ahead of time? You can do that?" - Gavin Newsom https://t.co/E9gaAyxrxZ
— NeverTweet (@LOLNeverTweet) January 21, 2025
As Breitbart News has reported, firefighters in Los Angeles were not pre-deployed to risk spots ahead of the extreme wind event on January 7 and 8, which had been predicted for a week. L.A. Mayor Karen Bass was overseas in Ghana, repeating a pattern established by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who disappeared to Mexico on a family vacation while over a dozen Californians died in a blizzard in March 2023.
Newsom has often targeted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) over the state’s conservative social policies, but DeSantis has always been able to retort that Florida trounces California on key functions of government, including on how it handles natural disasters.
California, for all its wealth — if if were a country, it would be the fifth-largest economy in the world — is constantly short of cash and scrambling to keep up with the damage after earthquakes, wildfires, blizzards, floods, landslides, droughts, and other kinds of natural disasters that are endemic to the otherwise beautiful region.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of The Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days, available for pre-order on Amazon. He is also the author of The Trumpian Virtues: The Lessons and Legacy of Donald Trump’s Presidency, now available on Audible. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
