Sen. Tuberville Says Californians ‘Don’t Deserve Anything’ After Wildfires – Until They Enact Different Policies
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) became the latest Republican lawmaker to say disaster aid to California should be conditional.
The Los Angeles area has been devastated by wildfires over the past two weeks. At least 24 people have died and thousands of homes have been destroyed or damaged. Republicans have responded by blaming California’s leaders, and some have claimed that the fires have not yet been quelled because the state has hired too many firefighters who are not White men. Some GOP lawmakers – including Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) have even suggested California will not receive any aid until the state does what Republicans want.
Appearing on Newsmax on Monday, Tuberville lent his voice to the choir.
“Senator, why should other states be bailing out California for choosing the wrong people to run their state?” host Chris Salcedo asked.
“We shouldn’t be,” Tuberville replied. “They got 40 million people in that state and they vote in these imbeciles in office, and they continue to do it. And it’s just a very small part of them in that state that’s doing it. If you go to California, you run into a lot of Republicans, a lot of good people. And I hate it for them. But they are just overwhelmed by these inner city woke policies with the people that vote for them.”
The senator then stated that while he approves of sending some money to California, the state should be forced to change its approach to preventing and combating wildfires:
I don’t mind sending them some money. But unless they show that they’re going to change their ways and get back to building dams and storing water, doing the maintenance with the brush and the trees and everything that everybody else does in the country, and they refuse to do it – they don’t deserve anything, to be honest with you, unless they show us they’re going to make some changes, Chris.
Salcedo replied, “Well, amen to that.”
It should be noted that it is still unclear what caused and exacerbated the wildfires. However, that has not prevented Tuberville and others from offering explanations that are compatible with their conservative views.
Watch above via Newsmax.
