Gavin Newsom is blaming climate change for deadly wildfires to distract from the fact that his party's policies created the conditions for such blazes in the first places, Republican Assemblyman James Gallagher told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Friday. "The Democrats who control this state, have been in charge of the legislature, and hold every statewide office have failed to take care of forestry management in California," Gallagher told host Tucker Carlson. "We have overgrown forests with brush piles ten feet high and dead and dying trees and it's a tinderbox waiting for a spark. According to Gallagher, Newsom and other Democrats are guilty of "deflecting from the 40 years of mismanagement of our forests, of kowtowing to the big special interests in California [like] the Sierra Club, who said, 'We don't want one tree cut.' Somehow, it's because we live where we live.

Source: Fox News September 12, 2020 02:03 UTC