California does not “deserve” any money to help with the wildfires raging in Los Angeles “unless they show that they’re gonna change their ways,” Alabama’s senior senator said Monday.

During an appearance Monday on Newsmax, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., was asked why other states should “be bailing out California for choosing the wrong people to lead their state.”

“We shouldn’t be,” Tuberville said. “They got 40 million people in that state and they voting these imbeciles in office, and they continue to do it. And it’s just a very small part of them in that state that’s doing it.

“If you go to California, you run into a lot of Republicans, a lot of good people, and I hate it for them,” the senator continued, “But they are just overwhelmed by these inner-city woke policies with the people that vote for them.

Tuberville said he does not object to some federal funds being earmarked to help California, on one condition.

“I don’t mind sending them some money, but unless they show that they’re gonna change their ways and get back to building dams and stormwater, doing the maintenance with the brush and the trees – everything that everybody else does in the country, and they refuse to do it – they don’t deserve anything, to be honest with you, unless they show us they’re gonna make some changes,” he said.

The wildfires burning in Los Angeles have led to 24 deaths so far and destroyed thousands of houses, according to the Associated Press.