Actor James Woods warned that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s rising nationwide profile masks what he referred to as an “atrocious” file in California, notably concerning wildfire administration, arguing that the Democrat’s early attraction as a future presidential candidate is not going to in the end carry him to occasion management.
Woods mentioned Newsom is filling a “energy vacuum” inside the Democratic ranks, dismissing different names being floated for occasion management as a “clown present.”
“They don’t have any chief. I imply, Kamala Harris, AOC, all these individuals, they’re — I hate to make use of the expression, as a result of it’s used so usually, however they’re a clown present, and nature abhors a vacuum,” he mentioned Sunday on “One Nation with Brian Kilmeade.”
He cautioned that Newsom’s rising nationwide presence shouldn’t be mistaken for competence.
“This slick grifter, Gavin Newsom, whose file is atrocious, however individuals don’t pay a variety of consideration to that truth. He’s filling within the slot, principally,” mentioned Woods. “However, as fruit farmers all the time say, early ripe, early rotten.”
Woods pointed to the wildfires that swept via his neighborhood, asserting that state failures, not local weather change, fueled the destruction.
“It’s actually easy. Our home did survive… by the grace of God, and since we adopted hearth division tips,” he mentioned, noting that he cleared brush and terraced his hillside. “The home subsequent to us didn’t do it — burned down.”
He mentioned the homes on his road that didn’t have their brush reduce burned down.
Woods accused the state of neglecting a close-by parcel of land that he mentioned grew to become a harmful ignition level.
“They haven’t cleared that brush because the 1978 hearth, as a result of that little piece of land there’s managed by the state,” Woods mentioned. “And so they’re defending a plant that’s actually a weed. And that’s the place the hearth began in our neighborhood.”
The acclaimed actor claimed that Newsom deflected accountability, “blaming the hearth administration failure on local weather change, that boogeyman that has labored eternally.”
Woods additionally cited what he sees as one other instance of Newsom’s management failures: San Francisco’s “infamous poop map.”
“One of the lovely cities within the historical past of this nation, San Francisco, needed to have the infamous poop map, in order that vacationers wouldn’t discover themselves wading via human waste and used heroin needles as they walked the streets of this once-beautiful metropolis, as a result of this man couldn’t discover a technique to cease that from taking place,” he mentioned.
Woods argued that California’s management tolerated worsening road situations “except a overseas chief was coming,” however wouldn’t clear up for “our tax-paying, hard-working residents.”
