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Scott Peters: “We don't want to be spending prevention money on fighting fires, and we do that, as I understand it, because of a fealty…”

On the recordOctober 3, 2017
We don't want to be spending prevention money on fighting fires, and we do that, as I understand it, because of a fealty to this year-by-year scoring, and it is the silliest thing to say we are going to save money this year, but we know that it is going to cost us more next year.
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Scott Peters
Democratic · California

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Peters criticizes the current funding approach for wildfire prevention and response.

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