It’s a multi-layered cake of political disaster, which is what it is. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass vowed she wouldn’t leave the country, only to abscond to Ghana for that nation’s presidential inauguration ceremony. She did this when the Los Angeles County fires erupted, knowing conditions for wildfires were ripe days before she left. Her office would like to claim that she hurried back as quickly as possible when the wildfires became out of control. In truth, during her Ghana stay, as southern California burned, she was at an embassy cocktail reception (via Los Angeles Times):
Puck News’ Peter Hamby’s piece about Bass is more damning, with those who donated to her campaign, some big names, saying that if the mayor left knowing that conditions were prime for a wildfire disaster, that’s a dereliction of duty. “If it is true that she left the country on a Saturday after the warning came out, that is a dereliction of duty," Endeavor C.E.O. Ari Emanuel, who donated to Bass’s 2022 campaign, told me [Hamby].” The mayor also scrubbed memos from the Los Angeles Fire Department about the lack of manpower and how it degraded their response to natural disasters. Bass cut $17 million from the LAFD months before the blaze. And as for the fire department, maybe they shouldn’t have focused so much on DEI and other irrelevant aspects of training for their employees. Learn how to extinguish and control fires; no one cares if those people are female, black, Asian, Latino, or gay. And Mr. Newsom, you’re guilty of gross incompetence as well. It’s as if the Democrats in this state thought that because they’re liberal, it provided a shield against natural disasters. We believe in science; therefore, nothing bad can happen here with what we do. Wrong. Does Bass regret the trip? Trending on Townhall Videos |
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