California Governor Gavin Newsom passed the buck when asked during an interview over the weekend if the “buck stops” with him in relation to the state’s poor response to the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles.
Newsom, who cut $100 million from California’s fire prevention budget, made the remarks during an interview that aired Sunday on NBC News’ “Meet The Press” when asked about the investigation that he ordered into why there were water supply issues.
He said that he wants the investigation to answer the question of “What the hell happened? What happened to the water system?”
He suggested that they could have run out of water due to the amount of water being used or that there would have been a problem with “pipes” or “electricity.”
“I want to know those facts,” he claimed. “I want them objectively determined, and let the chips fall where they may.”
Newsom then tried to deflect blame, saying: “This is not about finger pointing.”
When asked if he was launching the investigation to deflect blame off himself, Newsom responded: “I’m not, how could it be when we’re doing an independent investigation and we just want the adjudication of the facts?”
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“As I say, it’s not about finger pointing,” he said. “It’s about answering the questions you and everybody wants answered.”
When asked point blank if “the buck stops with you,” Newsom did not answer the question and instead claimed that people were trying to “take cheap political shots” at him.
“Well, I mean, you’re governor of California. You might as well be the mayor of California,” he said. “We’re all in this together. We’re all better off when we’re all better off, and we’re all better off when we’re working together to take care of people and to make sure people are supported.”
“We’re empathetic,” he claimed. “And we’re here not just in the immediacy of the crisis, but we’re here after the crisis, as opposed to creating a crisis in the middle of this by trying to divide people and play political, take cheap political shots.”
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