Gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton criticized the benefit concert FireAid for not getting enough donations directly to the Los Angeles fires victims.
FireAid was a concert held in January, days after the Palisades and Eaton fires were active for 24 days as it burned a combined 37,000 acres, damaged over 16,000 structures, and resulted in 17 deaths. While the concert raised $100 million and has distributed $75 million to date, Hilton appeared on Jesse Watters Primetime to lament that the money went to organizations over victims.
“It’s like a parody of California corruption and craziness except it’s all true,” Hilton said Tuesday night. “One of the organizations that they gave money to is in Sonoma County, nowhere near LA. Another one says that it spends its money on multigenerational power building. We don’t need power building in Los Angeles, we need housebuilding.”…