Speaking in Los Angeles, Governor Newsom says companies like Pacific Gas and Electric and Southern California Edison are not doing enough to prepare for wildfires.
”For close to a year now, we’ve been meeting on a consistent basis every damn week with these guys, laying out protocols, and they’re not meeting those protocols.”
The governor’s tone marks a shift. He wasn’t as critical of the big utilities until the recent planned blackouts. In the past, Newsom has accepted large campaign contributions from PG&E. Thursday, he called his old contributors greedy.
”It’s about decades of mismanagement. It’s about focusing on shareholders and dividends over you and members of the public.”