'No experience' Ohio Republican buried by CA firefighter rep over defunding threat
During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," the chair of the CA Fire Foundation that provides support for the state's firefighters called out a Ohio Republican who has proposed defunding disaster relief.
On Friday Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) told Fox host Maria Bartiromo that Californians "... there should be consequences where they have to change their policies” when it comes to forestry management.
He then. added, "I mean, we support the people that are plagued by disaster, but we have to put pressure on the California government to change course here.”
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Appearing with the MSNBC hosts on Sunday morning, Brian Rice was speaking about misinformation about the devastating California fires when he brought up Davidson.
"I try to really stay away from the social media tweets. it does get very frustrating," he told the hosts. "I didn't follow the tweet on X, but it followed a newspaper article from a print media and they were quoting a congressman from Ohio who probably has little to no experience with a wildfire, and certainly not a California wildfire."
"But opining that the federal government should stop aid until we control the fire problem, people need to understand fire has been a part of the nature of California in this country since the beginning of time," he lectured. "When you add people, there's 40 million people in California, changes the fuel load. You can't manage every acre of forest land."
"And this is not a forest fire, this is a brush fire that transitions at the higher levels to more forested areas at the lower level, to urban areas and urban conflagration areas," he elaborated. "When the wind is blowing and the fire gets a head of steam, you are not going to stop it. California firefighters are the best in the world at fighting this type of a fire."
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