Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris and California governor Gavin Newsome visited fire stricken Fresno county this week for a photo op.
While in the town of Auberry, the walked through the ashes of someone’s home. Turns out the homeowners family isn’t real happy the pair used the remains of their home as a political prop.
Trampas Patten, the son of the homeowner took to Facebook to air his grievances.
For the friends of mine that don’t recognize the fireplace in the background, that is what is left of my parents house! What has me really frustrated right now is the fact that these two politicians used my parents loss for a photo opportunity to push their political agenda! Political party wouldn’t have made a difference in this moment. Decent human beings that have character and class, wouldn’t air someone else’s misfortune on national television! Think about this when you go to the polls in a few weeks to vote. Look at this picture closely, imagine it is what is left of your hard work, hopes, dreams, place of sanctuary. Do you want this kind of leadership, using you and your loss for political gain?!
For the record, my parents haven’t even been let back in yet themselves, to sort through what is left of their lives, but these two felt the need to go traipsing around my parents property without permission. I guess those property taxes my parents pay allow politicians to do this! Private property doesn’t exist in California anymore!
Trampas’ sister Bailee weighed in as well;
Dear Governor Newsom you don’t know me but I’m one of your CA citizens. That truck you are standing by is my dads work truck. He has had that thing for as long as I can remember. That land with all the rubble your standing next too, that’s my house I grew up in. You never got my parents permission to go on our property, nor did you ask if we needed help. What you did do is take my families loss and parade it all over social media and news networks to push your agenda.
That agenda can wait, right now you should be caring about the families of this state. Thankfully this community is #mountainstrong and we will thrive.
See also: Covid 19 emails from Nashville. . .
Of course Newsome and Harris couldn’t help but politicize the event. Both tried to place the blame for the fires on climate change. Newsome posted the following on twitter.