{"id":1951100,"date":"2023-06-19T14:48:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T18:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-donor-arrested-for-starting-massive-fire-democrats-blamed-on-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2023-06-19T14:48:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T18:48:04","slug":"democrat-donor-arrested-for-starting-massive-fire-democrats-blamed-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-donor-arrested-for-starting-massive-fire-democrats-blamed-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Donor Arrested for Starting Massive Fire Democrats Blamed on Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-donor-arrested-for-starting-massive-fire-democrats-blamed-on-climate-change%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1951100&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<p><h2>Several firefighters injured in &#8216;ginormous&#8217; blaze; suspect also donated to the Lincoln Project<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure> \t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>What happened<\/strong>: Authorities busted a Democratic donor for allegedly starting a &#8220;ginormous inferno&#8221; in Yosemite National Park. Democratic politicians had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/jul\/24\/california-oak-wildfire-uncontained\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insisted<\/a> climate change was to blame for the blaze, which destroyed more than 100 homes and injured several firefighters in July 2022.\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2022 Edward Fredrick Wackerman (his actual name) of Mariposa, Calif., faces a number of charges including aggravated arson following his arrest on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By the numbers<\/strong>:\u00a0The arson suspect has donated <strong>$1,775<\/strong> to Democratic candidates and committees since 2020, government records <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/individual-contributions\/?contributor_name=Ed+Wackerman&#038;contributor_name=Edward+Wackerman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">show<\/a>, including a <strong>$1,000<\/strong> donation to Tim Ryan&#8217;s failed U.S. Senate campaign in 2022 and <strong>$400<\/strong> to the Lincoln Project, a disgraced liberal super PAC.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The so-called Oak Fire destroyed <strong>127 <\/strong>homes and <strong>66 <\/strong>outbuildings. Roughly <strong>6,000<\/strong> people were forced to evacuate as the inferno torched <strong>30<\/strong> square miles of land and smoke from the fire drifted more than <strong>200<\/strong> miles into parts of Nevada and the San Francisco Bay Area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What they&#8217;re saying<\/strong>: &#8220;Ed Wackerman is facing several felony charges, including aggravated arson. These charges carry serious legal consequences and the District Attorney is committed to ensuring a fair trial and upholding justice,&#8221; Mariposa County District Attorney Walter Wall said in a statement. Authorities did not say how Wackerman is believed to have started the fire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What they said<\/strong>: &#8220;Thank you to all the firefighters and first responders working tirelessly under difficult conditions to combat the #OakFire,&#8221; Sen. Alex Padilla (D., Calif.) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenAlexPadilla\/status\/1551602923670585346\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter on July 25, 2022. &#8220;Worsening drought and severe weather will only continue to put lives and property at risk from wildfire if we don&#8217;t take climate action NOW.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;More people will be killed and the survival of our civilization is at stake,&#8221; former Vice President Al Gore <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/al-gore-warns-severe-weather-lot-worse-climate\/story?id=87298602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> on July 24, 2022, citing climate change as the reason &#8220;droughts and fires are hitting us so hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Crucial context<\/b>: Several days before Wackerman&#8217;s arrest, authorities busted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/liz-warren-donor-dog-sex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic donor<\/a> Themis Matsoukas for allegedly performing sexual acts with his dog at Rothrock State Forest in Pennsylvania. &#8220;I do it to blow off steam,&#8221; the Elizabeth Warren supporter told investigators.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Matsoukas is 64 years old; Wackerman is 71.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bottom line<\/strong>: We need a total and complete shutdown of liberal Baby Boomers entering state and national parks until we can figure out what the hell is going on.\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>READ MORE<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/liz-warren-donor-dog-sex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Liz Warren Donor Arrested for Dog Sex<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several firefighters injured in &#8216;ginormous&#8217; blaze; suspect also donated to the Lincoln Project What happened: Authorities busted a Democratic donor for allegedly starting a &#8220;ginormous inferno&#8221; in Yosemite National Park. Democratic politicians had insisted climate change was to blame for the blaze, which destroyed more than 100 homes and injured several firefighters in July 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1951101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4376,6708,5103,4321,4912,3685,6498,5908,9585],"class_list":["post-1951100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-arrested","tag-blamed","tag-change","tag-climate","tag-democrat","tag-democrats","tag-donor","tag-massive","tag-starting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1951101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}