Thread by @BrandonRittiman

PG&E political power @ work:

“Gov. @GavinNewsom has decided that PG&E is going to continue, and so we're going to have to deal with PG&E in our community,” said Sonoma DA Ravitch, who called the deal “doing the best that we could under the circumstances.”
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After the announcement, Ravitch suggested @ABC10 do a story on @PGE4Me’s influence in Sacramento.

I told her we had. Many times.

Like when we asked @GavinNewsom about taking PG&E 💰 after its 2016 felony convictions. He called it a “strange question.”👇

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Or when @ABC10’s #FirePowerMoney listed each member of the 80% supermajority of #CAleg who did the same:

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Also an 80% supermajority of California’s congressional delegation:

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Including @SpeakerPelosi, who was one of the few pols to part ways with her PG&E campaign $ after we asked:

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…and several members of Congress who represent districts PG&E burned:

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And how stopping the flow of that PG&E campaign cash is a rare issue that unites both sides of the aisle in local politics…

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And how it kept flowing anyway.

Even while PG&E was bankrupt.

Even after PG&E pleaded guilty to 84 felony manslaughters in the 2018 #CampFire, the largest homicide by any corp in the US.

“The money they’re taking is blood money.”

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Meantime, the state bailed out PG&E— enabling a bankruptcy plan that still has fire victims waiting for $.

And PG&E got new protections into state law.

A law written— at taxpayer expense— by PG&E’s old law firm.

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Much more from #FirePowerMoney in our 3+ year investigation.

Watch it all at FirePowerMoney.com