GOP Senators in LA for Palisades Fire Briefing

Yeah. GOP senators.

That’s something that Spencer Pratt, formerly of MTV’s The Hills and husband of actress Heidi Montag, was noting when Florida Senator Rick Scott and Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson sat down for a hearing on the Palisades fire just a little bit ago.

Ever since the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires tore through the hillsides around Los Angeles nearly a year ago, Pratt has become an outspoken community activist. Advocating for action and exposing the devastating toll both the fires and the incompetence and neglect of the elected officials in California to the plight of the residents, not all of whom were millionaires and billionaires.

Banksy in the Palisades pic.twitter.com/F9UQU9fCX2

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) November 13, 2025

Pratt has been unceasing in his efforts to keep his neighbors and the country informed about every single roadblock they run into trying to stitch their lives back together, every waste of every dime, and every time the government shuffles off another responsibility. 

A request was put in for Pacific Palisades documents to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office

The office has over 500 lawyers

Instead of processing the request, California Democrats are spending $750,000 to pay an outside law firm to process the documents

Kick backs are most… pic.twitter.com/Wbsra0JU7D

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) November 4, 2025

..Kick backs are most definitely going to be made back to the Karen Bass’ office in exchange for the contract

Spencer Pratt “LA, we got some pretty outrageous info to share tonight. The US Senate Special Committee on Aging is investigating the Palisades fire and why 12 people died as a result of our state and local government’s negligence. 

As part of this investigation, Senator Rick Scott, Senator Ron Johnson asked the Los Angeles City Council to produce certain documents regarding the Los Angeles Fire Department. The City Council handed this request over to the City Attorney’s Office, which uses your tax dollars to employ over 1,000 legal staff, including 500-plus attorneys. 

You would think that a few of those 500-plus attorneys could handle a document request, but no. 

The city attorney asked the LA City Council to approve, and they did in fact approve, a $750,000 contract with big law firm called Munger, Tolles & Olson. $750,000 to handle a document request. Why are we employing 500-plus city attorneys if they cannot handle a document request? And why is it costing taxpayers three-fourths of a million dollars to hire outside counsel for a document request? 

What’s even crazier though is that this kind of legal outsourcing happens all the time. Did you know that in May of this year, the City Council approved a $900,000 contract with another big law firm called Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher to defend Karen Bass in a homeless lawsuit? Since then, however, the city has paid way more than initially approved. In fact, Gibson Dunn has been paid $4.97 million in LA city taxpayer dollars this year. 

So LA city residents pay taxes and utility fees, and the City Council pays millions to big law because apparently, the 1,000-plus legal staff and 500 attorneys in the City Attorney’s Office can’t do it. Hmm. I wonder how much of those big law attorneys are donating to Mayor Karen Bass’ re-election campaign”

So, he was pretty jazzed when the two senators scheduled a field hearing in his once-beautiful and thriving neighborhood to hear their stories.

The entire hearing – all almost three hours of it – is here.

Forgotten After the Flames: Stories from the Palisades Fire https://t.co/KqpB2FQdw7

— Senate Aging Committee (@SenateAging) November 13, 2025

But what you should listen to if you have time is his introduction. How he lost everything and what has happened since.

Pratt said he was baffled why it was ‘only senators from thousands of miles away who were willing to show up for the Palisades.’

It had people in tears.

You need to stop what you’re doing and take a few minutes to watch @spencerpratt‘s devastating speech from the Palisades Fire field hearing today. God bless @SenRickScott and @SenRonJohnson for elevating the Palisades. https://t.co/fQNpgszlCK pic.twitter.com/Tokg15A5lA

— Mann Made Cinema (@Hotshot_Movie) November 13, 2025

‘Where are our guys?’

Not only is this a great question, but those Senators from FL and WI are IN the Palisades today, talking to senior citizens who were victims of the fire. Meanwhile, Gavin is in Brazil, and Senator Schiff – who’s based 25 miles from the Palisades – has been completely AWOL. https://t.co/89Fyjgvogi

— Mann Made Cinema (@Hotshot_Movie) November 13, 2025

Much of the crux of the anger is the lack of fire mitigation practices.

But they shouldn’t be surprised – there’s always a money excuse, and always an ‘environmental objection’ to doing what they should have been doing years ago, to clear underbrush, dead growth, and deadfalls.

I’m in the Pacific Palisades with @SenRonJohnson and @spencerpratt to observe the damage from the Palisades Fire in January and the ongoing recovery challenges for victims.

It’s absolutely devastating. We must get answers for the victims! pic.twitter.com/pCxOlKk7qo

— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) November 13, 2025

It’s a shame California’s governor couldn’t be there to do the guided tour himself, but he was lording it over indigenous tribes in the Amazon, and banging on with jazz hands flailing about how ‘climate change’ had caused the Palisades fire.

Despite the fact that the Palisades Fire was reignited on a mismanaged burn scar on unmaintained state land, it isn’t going to stop Gavin Newsom from flying thousands of miles to a climate conference in Brazil and blaming the fire on climate change… pic.twitter.com/33mMYrLLXa

— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) November 10, 2025

It has been such a rough go for so many. We’ve written about it time and again, but the stories keep coming because the state itself is such a disaster. It compounds the misery.

In January this family lost their home in the Palisades Fire, a few months later their son was tragically killed by a drunk driver.

Thanks to the soft on DUI laws in California, the driver had a previous DUI and was driving on a suspended license.

If that weren’t bad enough,… pic.twitter.com/3SFhMWKl57

— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) November 12, 2025

…If that weren’t bad enough, the driver still has not been formally charged AND IS OUT ON BAIL DUE TO OVERCROWDING. There is no justice for victims in Gavin Newsom’s lawless California.

Meanwhile, the guy who couldn’t keep the brush cleared in his own state and watched a chunk of his biggest city repeatedly go up in flames is busy signing wildfire management agreements in Brazil for their jungle.

Brazil is a long way from Pacific Palisades. Why don’t you do your homework Gavin.. https://t.co/aj1AO6Ved7

— Barry L.A. (@barry_angeles) November 12, 2025

You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried.

Brazil would do well to take whatever Newsom says is California’s ‘research and expertise for emergency response‘ and do the exact opposite.

That first lesson is a doozy: water is always the one thing to have plenty of on hand and in reserve.

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