State Senator For Sale: How Real Estate Interests Killed OC Preservation Bill

$362,607.25 was given to State Senator Skoufis while he helped kill a bill to permit Orange County towns and villages to tax property sales in order to preserve land.

On August 14th, 2020, State Senator James Skoufis voiced his concerns to The Times Herald Record about a land preservation bill involving Orange County.

This struck many as odd at the time. Why would a Democrat be against land preservation during a climate emergency?

Today, we know why.