The Wolf of Los Angeles.

Throughout January and February, Hawke focused all his energy on the company, adjusting its structure, recruiting new employees, formulating a more standardized management system, and promoting the company's continued development.

The little free time she had was also used to date Erica or Megan.

During this period, he also went to Covina several times to directly direct Bryan's campaign operations.

Bryan also officially hired Hawke as a special campaign adviser with a salary of up to $500 million.

"I know you are a billionaire now, so you don't care about this little money."

In the office, Brian said to Hawke: "The rest can only be paid to you after I am elected."

How could Hawke possibly turn down $500 million? Such a sum of money was enough to hire dozens of elite mercenaries from Latin America.

He said: "The money will be transferred directly to the account of the West Coast studio just like before."

Brian immediately called the financial manager and asked, "We have already launched a weather campaign. God bless us. The weather experts said that the rainfall in the Los Angeles area will show a decreasing trend in the next few years. We don't need to spend too much effort to build momentum."

"It means the weather is helping us." Hawke said seriously, "The next step is the environmental protection organization."

Brian said: "I contacted several environmental opinion leaders, and they are willing to do something as long as they are paid."

Hawke nodded: "We can't save money on this. Let's contact the media and start building momentum."

He thought for a moment and then said, "The Oscars are coming up soon. Environmental protection has always been a public welfare activity that celebrities like to promote. Let the nominated aquatic animals appear on the Oscars and let Hollywood stars speak for them."

Brian said: "I know those people in Hollywood too well. As long as we create the heat, they will definitely follow."

On one hand, Hawke was not reassured and specifically asked, "Can the secret foundation that funds flow in and out of withstand investigation?"

"Of course." Brian lowered his voice and said, "This is a foundation established by my grandfather more than ten years ago. It is registered under the name of a person who is apparently inclined towards the Donkey Party. He has funded the Donkey Party many times over the years."

Hawke said: "The Ferguson family is investing more and more resources in you."

Brian said seriously, "I'm under a lot of pressure."

At Hawke's suggestion, a university research team conducted a targeted survey of California waters north of Los Angeles and discovered an endangered fish called smelt.

This fish is rare in California and has very demanding requirements for the aquatic environment. It mainly lives in the waters of central and northern California.

With Hawke's order, a large amount of money began to flow into the accounts of mainstream media in California, including the Los Angeles Times, through a secretive private foundation.

Therefore, during this period of late February and early March, smelt became a celebrity animal in the media.

Some media promoted the importance of smelt to biodiversity, some promoted the key role of smelt in California's food chain, and some said that protecting the rare smelt was a great advancement of human civilization.

As smelt became popular, online media quickly followed suit.

Google, Yahoo and Twitter have all reported the origin of the smelt and posted related videos and pictures online.

Twitter also set up an official Twitter account specifically for smelt, and through the background algorithm, quietly pushed news about smelt to the Twitter-related news of members of environmental protection organizations.

It is hard for these environmentalists not to pay attention to smelt.

The media reports quickly attracted the attention of several environmental organizations, including the California Conservancy, Earthjustice, the Sierra Club, and the Environmental Defense Fund.

As we all know, the real purpose of environmental protection organizations has never been to protect the environment or plants and animals.

Several environmental opinion leaders, influenced by the secret foundation's money power, organized environmentalists under their command to apply for march permits in cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento, and took to the streets on a large scale to fight for the rights of smelt.

For a time, smelt was so popular that even the upcoming Oscars ceremony was overshadowed.

On the day of the 74th Academy Awards, more than 300 environmentalists came to the Kodak Theatre, holding up flags for smelt and banners to protect smelt, and sat in silence opposite the Kodak Theatre.

A large number of reporters came from the award ceremony to interview these people.

At the subsequent awards ceremony, just as Hawke and Bryan had expected, a Hollywood star who advocates environmental protection specifically mentioned smelt on the podium.

The first to appear was Hollywood's first environmental pioneer Leonardo Dicaprio.

Environmental protection in California is biased towards the left. Leonardo, as a typical leftist in Hollywood, loudly called out after he appeared as the award presenter: "Although smelt is small, it is a member of our California family. We should protect smelt like we protect our family members!"

Later, Charlize Theron, who won the Oscar for Best Actress tonight, also thanked the smelt at the end of her acceptance speech: "It makes us realize that no matter how ordinary and insignificant our existence is, it has great significance!"

After the Oscars, the treatment Smelt received in the media was comparable to that of the Oscar winners.

The popularity of smelt is increasing.

The vice president of the California Nature Conservancy and the chairman of Earth Justice have both called on the California government to enact a special law to protect smelt and their living environment.

Things had developed to such an extent that they were out of Hawke's control, but they had achieved the effect he wanted.

Environmental protection has always been a favorite social and political movement of the California Donkey Party.

Hawke quietly prepared the dish and served it to the donkey party, who could not resist. Several members of the California State Assembly mentioned smelt in interviews, calling on more people to stand up and work hard to protect smelt.

On Twitter, protecting smelt has topped the trending news list.

Twitter statistics show that there are more than 400 million posts related to protecting smelt, with nearly 1700 million retweets.

Hawke has been observing the reactions of the media and public opinion. It is not difficult to see that there is a huge force joining the movement to further hype up the news about smelt.

They need this little fish.

In the office of Twitter's chairman, Hawke said to Brian who came to visit quietly, "Just as we expected, the donkey party who likes to make a fuss about environmental protection can't resist seeing such a good dish."

Brian couldn’t agree more: “In California, environmental protection is the base of the Donkey Party.”

Hawke said: "The bills proposed by the Donald Trump Party and the laws passed by the Donald Trump Party must ultimately find a way to make the consequences fall on the Donald Trump Party."

Brian thought for a moment and said, "Antonio will be the first person responsible."

He then asked: "When do we take the next step?"

"Let's wait a little while for the state legislature to pass a protection bill before we publicize the tragic experience of the firefighters on 911/," Hawke said.

Brian, remembering the Hawke Project, added, “My people found several cases of California firefighters, including two from Los Angeles.”

"Very good." Hawke instructed, "Do their job well and release them when needed."

These need to be done step by step. If you are too hasty, the results will be negative.

In mid-March, California Assemblymen Clint and Dalot, both members of the Donkey Party, jointly launched a proposal to protect smelt.

This move won enthusiastic support from eight major environmental organizations in California.

The media controlled by the Donkey Party is also building momentum.

Because the environmental protection movement has been going on in California for many years and is politically correct, even Fox TV is reporting on this movement.

Twitter, like other media, will not miss such hot news.

Eight major environmental organizations convened thousands of people from all over California to travel to Sacramento, to Ninth Street, and sit in front of the state capitol to support the environmental protection initiatives of the two state legislators.

This kind of environmental movement involves politics, and it is difficult for people who are not involved to understand the enthusiasm and persistence of those people.

According to Hawke's thinking from his previous life, this group of people are simply bored.

After all, smelt is rare in California, but it is not uncommon around the world.

After all, it doesn’t matter what is being protected. What is most important is the economic or political purpose achieved through protection.

The support activities that lasted for several days were widely reported by the media and occupied the commanding heights of public opinion.

Judging from the media, it seems that people all over California support protecting smelt.

When necessary, political activity can be incredibly efficient.

Congressmen Clint and Dalot formally submitted the bill, and it was passed at the California Special Assembly in March.

But the bill was vetoed by Governor Schwarzenegger.

The support movement turned into a protest.

According to the regulations, if a proposal is vetoed by the governor, it will be returned to the state legislature, which can override the governor's veto by a two-thirds majority vote and make the proposal into law.

2004 is an election year, and the election is coming soon. How can the Democratic Party give up at this time? The war has already begun.

Many members of the Donald Trump Party are jumping up and down and organizing everywhere, hoping to use this bill to continue to win the full support of environmental organizations and the California public this year.

The Donkey-controlled state legislature soon met again and ultimately overrode Schwarzenegger's veto by a two-thirds majority, turning the proposal into actual legislation.

A California state law called the Smelt and Living Environment Protection Act was enacted.

Once this local regulation is issued, it basically eliminates the possibility of transferring water from central and northern California to Southern California.

The official implementation of the "Smelt" regulations made the Donor Party excited and boosted their morale.

Many people have already seen an absolute victory in the election year.

Although the elephants won a round in California last year, California is ultimately deep blue.

In an election year, the elephants are not as powerful as imagined. (End of this chapter)