In a podcast episode for the upcoming one-year anniversary of the California wildfires, Palisades resident Elaine Culotti lays out the state’s inept response and how the outrage over it is bipartisan.

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Hi, my name’s Elaine Culotti, also known as the “Lipstick Farmer.”

I am presenting my first podcast for The Daily Signal. The subject of the podcast today is the Pacific Palisades’ celebration of the one year anniversary of the fires. Now, I’m not calling them a celebration, but some people are. We are about to be descended upon here in the Pacific Palisades and in California on Jan. 7 by media from all across America.

I’ve had multiple phone calls from different media outlets asking if I had a place where they could post up and where they could spread the news about what’s happened and what has not happened in the Pacific Palisades. I’m here to tell you, not enough has happened. I’d like to just kind of give everyone a rundown so you know what to expect, and then I’d like to give you my take on what I think this means for California going forward.

So as it sits, the Pacific Palisades has lost about 7,000 structures, of which about 180-ish permits have been issued. 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 work. We also have Altadena, which has a little bit more permits, but it’s also a bigger area.

And in addition to that, the houses are smaller and they are easier to permit than the more complex houses on the hillsides by the ocean. Malibu, unfortunately, is so far behind, and this is a product of being on the water and not having any sewage that has been there, historically.

Instead, it’s been septic and septic tanks, they rot, and then once they’re gone, it’s difficult to put them back because the rules and the laws have changed, and you have to have sewage and there is none in Malibu.

So, with that, it........

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