“Real Time” host Invoice Maher had a bone to select with Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom over the Golden State’s many laws, one thing the HBO host pressed him on throughout an interview.
The liberal host relayed how he personally felt the sting of huge authorities. Maher kicked off the change Friday by complaining to Newsom how he wanted to pay out-of-pocket for “two inspections” for upgrades on his roof following the devastating wildfires within the Pacific Palisades.
“It’s my roof!” Maher exclaimed. “If it falls on my head, that’s my problem.”
“Why do I need two inspections, which I have to pay for? You were here last time. We talked about regulations. You said, ‘Oh, it’s a completely new day,’” Maher stated and made a face on the governor. “You said you were working on it.”
Newsom acknowledged it’s “our job” to eradicate such bureaucratic hurdles, to which Maher interjected, “How’s that going though?”
“When we have an emergency mindset, it goes extraordinarily well,” Newsom adopted, citing how his administration received Interstate-10 up and working “within eight days” after the fires and never “months and months and months” that it usually would have taken in addition to the primary part of particles removing being completed “in less than a month.”
The Democratic governor, who Maher repeatedly urged to run for president in 2028, went on to name pointless regulation “an indictment of liberal governance and leadership,” saying “we own” years-long delays on constructing its high-speed rail and housing developments.
Maher leveled one other criticism concerning the proposed high-speed rail not going from Sacramento to San Diego however as a substitute “Merced to Bakersfield.” Newsom provided a protracted response with out addressing Maher’s criticism, which he known as out.
“It’s why you’d be a good candidate. You play this game well,” Maher advised Newsom with a smirk.
The liberal comic went on to checklist the folks concerned within the California forms, together with however not restricted to “regulators, administrators, inspectors, contract reviewers,” “project managers, fee accessors, special commissioners, zoning officers, consultants, contractors, lawyers, lobbyists, sometimes unions also.”
“Can’t you take a chainsaw? Can’t we DOGE the s— out of these people?” Maher requested.
Newsom assured Maher “we’re moving in that direction very aggressively,” however shortly pivoted to how most of the guidelines had been established by Republicans and accused the GOP of weaponizing the difficulty of regulation.
Final week, Maher warned Democrats their occasion might meet the identical destiny because the “Whigs” in the event that they don’t embrace deregulation.
