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Congressman Mike Garcia, R-Santa Clarita, sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Tuesday asking him to declare a major disaster for the Bobcat Fire, which would mark the second fire-related declaration for California in less than two months.
On Tuesday, Garcia sent a letter to the president in support of California’s request for a second major disaster declaration as a result of the Bobcat Fire in order to “ensure our communities have the resources they need to combat this threat.”
“Unfortunately, the Bobcat Fire is part of the unprecedented fire season in California continuing the strain on our resources and firefighting capabilities,” Garcia wrote. “Our local and state governments continue to fight for the needed resources to fight the fires and put out new fires.”
The Bobcat Fire has burned over 114,000 acres since it first broke out on Sept. 6, with firefighters managing to increase their containment of the blaze to 62 percent as of Wednesday afternoon.
Nearly 70,000 people are currently under evacuation orders, with over 100 homes being destroyed as a result of the Bobcat Fire and dozens more damaged.
“While California is instituting all possible actions at its disposal to combat this natural disaster, the size and scope of what our faces demands assistance, coordination and additional federal support,” Garcia wrote.
See Related: Congressman Garcia Writes Letter To Trump Requesting Major Disaster Declaration Due To California Wildfires
This is the second such letter that Garcia has sent to President Trump in less than two months, having sent his first on Aug. 21 due to the breakout of several major wildfires at the time.
California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris sent a similar letter to the president Tuesday, asking that a major emergency declaration be made in light of all of the active wildfires burning throughout the state.
“Governor Newsom has determined that the severity of the wildfires is beyond the State’s capabilities, and we appreciate your swift response in issuing an expedited Major Emergency declaration,” the letter reads.
Close to four million acres of land have been burned in California during the year 2020 so far, destroying over 7,000 structures and killing 26 people as of Sept. 30.
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How’d that first request work out, Mikey? “You know, at some point, you can’t, every year, have hundreds of thousands of acres of land just burned to the ground.” Was your answer something like that? Did you even receive the favor of reply from your guru? Maybe you don’t have the right hand shake or surname for the big orange toad.
Trump doesn’t care about California. You hear him talk about the fires? He think our vast Forests can be simply cleaned up, ya know pick up some dead trees and this wouldn’t be a problem. He’s a simpleton.
It is hard for President Trump help CA when Governor Newsom won’t give unemployment benefits to legal citizens, instead he tried to give $600 dollars per week to illegal immigrants, he just signed into a law that it is not a crime for adults to have sex with minors, and declared CA a sanctuary state which is against what the overwhelmingly majority of voters want. I am not surprised CA is not at the top of the President’s to-do list when Newsom is running this state against the voters. Newsom already destroyed San Francisco when he ran the city, and next he wants to be President in 2024. God save us from him, and let’s Recall Newsom. We pay his salary, he works for us, not the other way around.
California along with every other state in the union SHOULD BE on the top of the presidents’ list no matter if the people of that state voted for him or his opponent. But that’s not the case. He has gone from feathering his own nest to creating fear and doubt for the long-established voting process that has always served our country quite well since it became a country. He needs to win this upcoming election in order to stay out of prison for his crimes after he loses. That is his only priority. The man is a farce, a grifter , a con-man, nothing more than a glorified wrestling promoter and he has done nothing except to destroy our nation from within.
Let’s not forget the $35M voter outreach contract awarded to Dem consulting firm from our lovely Governor Newsom.
Imagine if Trump donated $35M to a Republican consulting’s firm. Think about it. What is happening isn’t ok.
Why aren’t you talking about Trump’s tax cuts to the already wealthy, Arielle, while what’s left of what used to be the ‘middle class’ (you and me) are stuck with the bill to the tune of an estimated 2.3 trillion?
No need to imagine that, it happened.
I thought this was about fires in our state but if you want to make it into something else of course you’re entitled to your opinion.
I was very proud of our Governor this morning when I read about Assembly Bill 3121. It’s about time we start dealing with reparations for slavery in this country. It’s long overdue! I’m sure Trump would have some trouble with his proud boy/white supremacists’ support if he got behind that initiative.
Democrats started slavery and the KKK not to mention Biden was friends with Robert Byrd.California had nothing to do with slavery so if Colonel hair gel wants to pass a law in California that provides reparations for slavery so be it that should come out of every registered Democrats wallet come tax time.
For Marco-Flatulence & Charles, who doesn’t understand our country’s history applies to both democrats and republicans. Charles also fails to realize since the 1960s, the majority of KKK members will vote Republican
From the LA Times today:
California has a long history of allowing slavery and discrimination, dating back to before it gained statehood.
Southerners brought slaves to California in 1848 to work in the gold mines during the gold rush, according to the California Historical Society. Though California banned slavery in its constitution in 1849 ahead of joining the Union the following year, loopholes in its legal system allowed slavery and discrimination against freed slaves to continue.
California’s first governor, in his inaugural address, recommended the Legislature ban freed slaves from the state.
“Had they been born here, and had acquired rights in consequence, I should not recommend any measure to expel them,” Gov. Peter Burnett said to the Legislature in late 1849. “They are not now here, except a few in comparison with the numbers that would be here; and the object is to keep them out.”
Federal fugitive slave laws compelled citizens and governments to help return those who had escaped slavery to the South. California passed its own fugitive slave law in 1852, which stated that all enslaved people who escaped to or were brought into California before it became a state were considered fugitives and the property of the slave owner from whom they fled or who brought them there to work.
The law was interpreted to allow slaveowners to bring enslaved people to California to work and eventually return with them to the South, according to an article published in the Journal of Negro History in 1918. Slave owners also sold those they enslaved if they didn’t want to pay for their return travel, or charged them for their freedom.
The California Historical Society also notes that advertisements for the sale of enslaved people appeared in local newspapers.
“The law wasn’t really enforced in California and so people brought slaves with them to California,” said Charles P. Henry, professor emeritus of African American Studies at UC Berkeley.
Until 1863, California also had laws that barred Black people from testifying against white people in court.
Instead of watching American Beauty on a loop try watching Larry Elders movie “Uncle Tom”you may learn something.
Okay Charles, I will check it out. Thanks for the recommendation. I don’t think it will sway my opinion on slavery as a part our country’s history or systemic racism, nor a sudden fan of Candace Owens, but I’ll give it a whirl. The trailer looks interesting, completely biased, but interesting none the less.
Bottom line, things happen, mistakes are made and they’re recognized and dealt with it, not simply forgotten. Better late than never.
In case you didn’t read it earlier:
California has a long history of allowing slavery and discrimination, dating back to before it gained statehood.
What’s next from you Marco? Are you Holocaust denier too?
I pay my taxes, have always, much more than our President in fact, they go toward all sorts of things. Things I’m for, things I’m not for. That’s the way it goes. I’m all for reparations.
Wrong again, Marco Maximum Flatulence. The indigenous people of California were brutalized and enslaved by Father Serra and the Spanish army. The Missions we hold so dear were concentration camps. I know this will piss a lot of folks off but they need to now this. So do you, Marco.
not expecting to follow Alabama or Mississippi’s example. be the change you want to see.