LA County set aside $10 million specifically for fire victims. A revised board motion, passed months later with little public notice, cut that fund in half — the same year the county filed a lawsuit publicly branding itself as fire survivors' defender.
This episode also covers the one Napa winery that's been paid back after a 2025 fire that destroyed dozens of others' harvests — co-founded by the governor.
California's second attempt at a law nearly identical to one already tied up in federal court.
And a San Francisco political party that voted down a billionaire tax, in the same year campaign finance filings show one of that tax's loudest opponents is among the party's biggest
donors.
Documented facts. Primary sources. No spin — just the receipts.
Phil's book "The Gilded State" is out now and available on Amazon both in Kindle and paperback.