Posted on 01/08/2025 4:26:46 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass faced mounting criticism Wednesday for her handling of deadly wildfires that continued to rage across the region, taking blame from influential city figures as she traveled back from a trip to Africa.
Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times, slammed Bass in an X post claiming the mayor slashed the Los Angeles Fire Department’s budget, despite the high risk of wildfires in the region, and raised questions about reports that some fire hydrants in the Pacific Palisades had run dry.
“Fires in LA are sadly no surprise, yet the Mayor cut LA Fire Department’s budget by $23M,” he wrote in the tweet. “And reports of empty fire hydrants raise serious questions. Competence matters.”
A Bass spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment on Soon-Shiong’s claim about the LAFD budget cut.
Bass’ decision to not return from Ghana sooner drew criticism Wednesday from even the left flank of political media.
“Inexplicable decision to not come back earlier,” Tommy Vietor, a former Obama staffer and Pod Save America host, wrote on X.
[Rick] Caruso, who owns a shopping complex in the Pacific Palisades that partially burned, compared Los Angeles to a “third-world country” with failing infrastructure.
“This is a window into a systemic problem of the city — not only of mismanagement, but our infrastructure is old,” Caruso told the Los Angeles Times.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in a Wednesday press conference refuted claims including those made by Caruso, that water tanks in Pacific Palisades weren’t fully filled ahead of the fire.
Bass is still flying back to Los Angeles, and her spokespeople didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment about her current location.
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MANY TALENTED & EXPERIENCED L A FIREFIGHTERS WERE FIRED WHEN THEY REFUSED THE COVID VAX.
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If she was in Africa during the fire, it’s racist to criticize her?
How many LA county fire fighters were fired for not getting the Covid 19 shot?
I heard something like 2300 were fired and not replaced for not getting the “c19 vaccine)
CD
bttt
Now they’re finding out what happens when they depend on the guvmint for everything, thinking included. There comes a time when guvmint doesn’t work and you’re left to your own devices.
LA has a steeeeep learning curve ahead and they’ll either learn it or die miserably.
Same mofos who laughed at the victims of the FL and NC Hurricanes! Let dem ESAD!
I am more compassionate. I say ESSAD. (Eat s... sandwich and die. At least give them some moldy bread.)
The leftist ideology is finally collapsing on itself under its own weight. Trump will accelerate this collapse beginning Janunary 20th.
It’s a glorious thing.
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