US Politics
The Great California Betrayal: How Sacramento is Quietly Selling Out Wildfire Survivors to Utility Giants
Governor Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers are secretly crafting last-minute legislation, allegedly via the 'gut-and-amend' process, to shift wildfire recovery costs from utilities to insurance policyholders and survivors, which would limit victim compensation and shield corporate negligence. This is a brazen, anti-democratic betrayal of fire-ravaged communities, prioritizing the profits of powerful utility monopolies over the basic rights and suffering of Californians they have harmed.
