Tuberville joins a growing number of Republicans who have hit out at California lawmakers for the fires. Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville said that California “doesn’t deserve” any funding for the devastating wildfires that have ravaged Los Angeles.
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The Alabama senator, a staunch Donald Trump ally, said he didn’t object to sending the state “some money,” but not unless state leaders “change their ways.”. The cause of the fires, which have so far claimed 25 lives, has not yet been determined.
“We shouldn’t be,” Tuberville responded, before calling the state’s lawmakers “imbeciles.”. “They got 40 million people in that state and they vote in these imbeciles in office, and they continue to do it,” he said. “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.”.
Tuberville added that he approved of sending “some” funds to the state but its leaders need to “make some changes.”. “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,” Tuberville said.
