How California's Incompetence After Wildfires Woke a Sleeping Giant | Elaine Culotti

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🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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It’s been one year since California’s Pacific Palisades fires, and “not enough has happened” to rebuild communities. “Mayors and towns are struggling” to get Sacramento to help rebuild these communities as was promised. Elaine Culotti, known as the “Lipstick Farmer,” discusses the aftermath of the Pacific Palisades fires in her first podcast episode for The Daily Signal. “These are real people that lost everything and have absolutely no one to turn to for help. Nothing has happened ... Our governor is absolutely nowhere to be seen. I have not seen him in the Pacific Palisades since a few days after the fires ... We have been absolutely left to fend for ourselves.” Support The Daily Signal’s work today by becoming a Signal Elite Supporter.   Your tax-deductible monthly gift will help: 👉Help us provide free access to Victor Davis Hanson’s video commentary 👉Fund investigative reporting on the stories the liberal media will not cover 👉Counter the liberal media's lies 👉Keep The Daily Signal free to the public http://dailysignal.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.7	As it sits, the Pacific Palisades has lost about 7,000 structures, of which about 180-ish
0:36.4	permits have been issued.
0:39.0	There'll probably be a mad push out to get some more so that those numbers look better, but at the end of the day, it's not going to
0:43.3	work. Malibu, unfortunately, is so far behind. It looks like PCH is not going to be rebuilt any time
0:49.5	in the future. What does this mean? Well, sadly, to me, it means that it's going to take a minute
0:53.8	for my town and our
0:55.8	community to come back as a community. And this should not be the case. Hi, my name is Elaine Kalati,
1:02.1	also known as the Lipstick Farmer. I am presenting my first podcast for The Daily Signal.
1:09.5	The subject of the podcast today is the Pacific Palisades celebration of the one-year
1:16.1	anniversary of the fires.
1:17.7	Now, I'm not calling them a celebration, but some people are.
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