Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher laid into Governor Gavin Newsom during a recent TMZ interview, arguing that if California leadership could cut through oppressive regulations and “red tape,” they should have done so before the southern part of the state had burned to the ground.
Maher argued that it wasn’t really a Left or Right issue, but one of accountability, telling TMZ hosts Harvey Levin and Charles Latibeaudiere that he’d had previous run-ins with California’s extensive building regulations when he had tried to install a shed and some solar panels on his own property.
“I always think there’s a middle of the road, actual practical solution to everything and for this I would say, was California’s uber progressive politics the cause of this fire? Of course not. Did it impede them to some degree? Absolutely. That’s the margin of error that I’m saying we can’t…
