Comments for Wall Street Journal - The Governance failures that fed the LA wildfires | Eastern North Carolina Now

Preparation is the key in any natural disaster. You want to talk about hurricanes, so lets talk about hurricane Helene. The Republican governors of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina all pre-staged personnel, equipment, and supplies to deal with the storm. The Democrat governor of North Carolina failed to do that. Consequently, the states of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina had better hurricane response than we did.

Roy Cooper should have known better. North Carolina had a hurricane set up just like Helene back in 1916 and was just as big of a disaster. Yet he failed to take the steps other govenors did. Those other governors showed how to govern. Too bad for our own citizens that our governor was not paying attention.

If you don't care about your fellow liberal Bill, maybe you would think about California Democrat congressman Ro Khanna who also says California needs new leadership and Karen Bass needs to go.

Commented: Sunday, January 19th, 2025 @ 5:05 pm By: Conservative Voter

The problem here is much much deeper than racist DEI, Bigot Bob. Even the DEI hire fire chief functioned on a higher level than the woke mayor and governor. You might want to read what liberal pundit Bill Maher who lives in LA had to say about all three.

Commented: Saturday, January 18th, 2025 @ 7:12 pm By: Conservative Voter

The reason people are living in "burned out tents" is that California Democrats played politicis - DEI, not funding the basics like fire protection, paying $2.6 billion per year for health care for illegal aliens who are not even supposed to be here while cutting money for fire protection. Their woke ideology meant more to them than doing the very basic things governments are supposed to do like fire protection.

Commented: Saturday, January 18th, 2025 @ 4:18 pm By: Conservative Voter

And Gavin Newsome wants to be president ...

Just another Idiot Democratic Socialist, but with better hair.

Commented: Friday, January 17th, 2025 @ 8:35 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Bobbie is both projecting and deflecting.

Commented: Thursday, January 16th, 2025 @ 8:37 pm By: Rino Hunter

Bpbbie is just regurgitating what his cult puts in his head. He can't see the forest for the trees. The ones who are doing damage are the out of touch incompetent politicians who let this wildfire get out of control by not properly preparing for it or responding to it.

Commented: Thursday, January 16th, 2025 @ 6:36 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The governance failures by California Democrats have not stopped. Now Gov. Newsom has issued an executive order that will make it almost impossible for homeowners who have lost their homes to sell off their lots. Most of them will need to do that to buy another house to get a down payment. Some speculation is that Newsom is upset that many are planning to move out of California and is trying to keep them tied to the state by being unable to sell their lots now that their houses are gone. Newsome takes what is already a horrible situation for these people and makes it even worse. California really needs to remove that nitwit from office.

Commented: Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 @ 2:56 pm By: Conservative Voter