Published January 10, 2025
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has been besieged on all fronts. She doesn’t have many friends now, partially because wildfires ravaged the county, and she was AWOL when they began. Ms. Bass was in Ghana when the fires broke out, attending the inauguration of that country’s next president.
She got back home yesterday, confronted by a press corps who asked if she owed residents an apology for being absent during this crisis and whether it was a good idea to cut nearly $20 million from the Los Angeles Fire Department despite memos written showing that such an action could be detrimental toward responding to natural disasters. Bass opted not to answer.
She has stumbled through multiple press conferences. On Wednesday, she had this trip-up (via NY Post):
Embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has been ripped as the most “incompetent politician in America” after she managed to botch a fire emergency information website address by pointlessly telling locals to just visit “URL” — even while admitting the deadly firestorm is “the big one.”
Bass made the blunder as she stumbled her way through a press conference Wednesday soon after returning to the US, having already faced scorching criticism for traveling to Ghana as the wildfires ravaged her city and for slashing the fire department’s budget.
“If you need help, emergency information, resources, and shelter is available. All of this can be found at URL,” the flailing mayor said as she read from a script.
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Her gaffe came as footage was going viral on social media of a stone-faced Bass refusing to answer questions when she finally returned to the US on Wednesday to find her city up in flames.
Yesterday, she tried to deliver her talking points, only to be shot down by the press.
“My number one focus, and I think the focus of all of us here, with one voice, is that we have to protect lives, we have to save lives, and we have to save homes,” said Bass.
“But that did not happen,” interjected the reporter.
“Let me finish,” said Bass.
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SOURCE: www.townhall.com
RELATED: LA’s Disastrous Response to Wildfires Is Latest Consequence of California’s Obsession With DEI
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass tour the downtown business district of Pacific Palisades as the Palisades Fire continues to burn Wednesday in Los Angeles. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images)
THE DAILY SIGNAL | Published January 10, 2025
California prioritizes fighting “toxic masculinity” and promoting DEI instead of fighting wildfires.
I hate to appear flippant at a time when Los Angeles is going through an apocalyptic natural disaster, but the people of California should be outraged at state leaders. It is the California Democratic political machine—not “climate change”—that has ensured the Golden State will suffer through an endless cycle of cataclysmic fires.
Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., who has firefighting experience and has been a vocal proponent of federal legislation to improve fire management, told Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night that the Pacific Palisades fire is “a symbol of modern wildfire dysfunction.”
I have to agree.
For years, I’ve written about how poor land and water management is creating the conditions for major fires in the West—and especially California. Misguided environmentalist policies peddled by both federal and state governments for generations have led to the current crisis. No state has gone more all in on stopping climate change than California, and yet it burns anyway.
Los Angeles was clearly unprepared for this disaster. Fire hydrants are running out of water, they don’t have enough firefighters to man their posts, and the whole situation is starting to look like last year’s disaster in Maui, Hawaii—which was also the result of failed leadership.
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SOURCE: www.thedailysignal.com
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