Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is upset with how the city handled its wildfires, and she wants to speak to whoever is in charge of running it.
Bass told Fox LA that she was not made aware of the warnings about the wind and the risks of fires, that she doesn’t know why no one told her, despite FOX LA’s Elex Michaelson saying that a lot of people, including his outlet, were talking about it publicly, and that the city needs to look into why she wasn’t told. Bass, of course, was in Ghana when the fires broke out, leaving the city to fend for itself. She said if she knew about the winds that everyone else knew about, she wouldn’t have even gone to San Diego.
What Bass doesn’t know is, evidently, everything else. Did the city fail the residents of the Pacific Palisades, whose houses burned down as fires raged out of control? “All of that has to be examined with experts.” Should anyone be fired for this? “We have to examine everything, and that is going to take place very soon.”
Bass wants all kinds of investigations and assessments into what went wrong and whose leadership is to blame. She wants to know who cut the city’s fire department budget and who allowed homeless encampments to grow out of control with all of their fire risks. If only we all knew!
She does know she is running for reelection, though. And she will continue to be there for you — unless she gets a White House offer to vacation in Ghana during a wind storm in Los Angeles that was warned about as a fire threat a week before the fires.
Bass’s masterclass in trying to throw everyone else under the bus while she was asleep at the wheel comes apart with one simple campaign promise. Bass justified her trip to Ghana by claiming it was a “very, very short trip over a weekend and two business days.” During the campaign, Bass promised that not only would she live in Los Angeles — such a great sacrifice — but that she “would not travel internationally.”
KAREN BASS ADMITS SHE FELT ‘TERRIBLE NOT BEING HERE FOR MY CITY’ AMID FIRES
Perhaps the investigation can determine whether a weekend and two business days in Africa is, in fact, traveling internationally, even if it’s a “very, very short trip.”
Bass is clearly more focused on her future reelection campaign than she is on being in Los Angeles during times of crisis. Wherever else blame may lie for the rapid spread of the fires and the damages they caused, it starts at the top with Bass’s decisions to cut the fire budget and bail on the city for an international vacation after promising she wouldn’t.
