What if over a thousand Los Angeles area homes and businesses had to be  rebuilt after fires in 1970?  A few months after the fire, the debris  would have been cleared, and rebuilding would have started.  Now, the  bureaucrats in the South Coast Air Quality Management District will slow the debris clearing to  a crawl and make it far more costly than the same work elsewhere in the  USA. The Coastal Commission will add years and great expense for  obtaining approvals before much of the rebuilding is started. All kinds  of other bureaucrats will be adding cost and delay. It would be no  surprise if rebuilding takes more than a decade. Who is behind all of  the bureaucracy? Democrats. Will California finally wake-up and vote  them out? F. Stephen Masek, Mission Viejo Related Articles Letters to the Editor | Letter: Newsom should spent less time on plastic bags, more time preventing wildfires Letters to the Editor | Letter: Trudeau’s resignation is a positive development for Canada and North America Letters to the Editor | Letters: Carl DeMaio’s revealing op-ed about how the crooked Assembly really works Letters to the Editor | Letter: Americans are ready for a female president, just not Harris or Clinton Letters to the Editor | Letter: We MAGA supporters are overjoyed and Democrats need to get over it