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.

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