Why, indeed? We’ll get to the answer momentarily, but first let’s allow Bill Maher to properly frame the question, as well as his opinion about complaints of “politicization.”
TMZ’s Harvey Levin chats up Maher about the start of his new season of Real Time, which launches tomorrow night on HBO, as well as the story of Maher’s odyssey through the state and local bureaucracy just to build a shed on his own property. No one who has ever lived in California and Los Angeles would be surprised that it took well over a year to journey through that process, even though the purpose was to add solar power to Maher’s property.
Now, though, Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass are pledging to cut all that red tape to allow victims of the wildfires to rebuild their homes as quickly as possible. Maher wonders why it takes a disaster for bureaucrats to realize how bad their…