Gavin Newsom

But I'm not convinced and forgive me, I'm not.

that a state that finally has turned and is turning DMV around wants to get in the utility business.

Well, give me one thing the state hasn't done to address an expedite permitting.

There's nothing.

The state doesn't do local permitting.

I mean, this is the same president of the United States.

president of the United States, that said he waived all federal permitting.

It's madness.

I mean, it's actual madness.

And what's more madness is there's no accountability.

It's not called out.

I mean, it's just so preposterous, so ludicrous, it's hard for me to even respond.

What he's responding to is tonality of frustration because there's been 2,981 permits that have been approved so far as of this week.

That's how I start.

I start every week with updated permits.

And by the way, stress test that, 2,981.

By the way, it's 385 a year later in Maui, or rather, forgive me, in Paradise, which had 16,000 units, roughly equivalent, about 14,000 in Los Angeles.

385 a year later approved in Paradise, 2,981, over 1,000 units under construction as we speak in L.A.,

It's been just over a year.

No one's happy, no one's satisfied, but it's unprecedented, just as was the cleanup done in six months, unprecedented.