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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Ba$$. Another ‘rat politician fleeing hard-working taxpayers. When it hits close to home they get upset.
Also, Patrick Soon-Shiong refused to endorse Kamala Harris. I think he bought the paper for her liberal daughter.
“Even Democrats are slamming LA mayor over wildfires”
They just want a different democrat to vote for.
She actually attended the Fidel Castro Good commie internship program- in the 1970s in Cuba .
She was a card carrying communist.
A Leopard never changes their stripes .
how much of the trouble is in LA City?
In my opinion, these crooked politicians pocket the money and do nothing for the cities in which they are hired to run properly.
When Karen Bass Went to Work in Castro’s Cuba
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/karen-bass-cuba-venceremos-brigade/614662/
Pacific Palisades is techincally LA City actually in terms of jurisdiction, resources, infrastructure...Its residents VOTE for LA Mayor.
(Santa Monica and Malibu do not vote for mayor, but also share a lot of general Los Angeles water/energy stuff.)
But yeah the rest of LA City so far is spared.
Noticed that there were many homes and structures adjacent to the Malibu beaches that burned. Why weren’t tug boats with their water cannons deployed?
She went to Africa. Maybe she learned some voodoo that will save the city.
You Can’t Make This Up:
<><>LA County Fire Dept Donated Fire fighting Equipment to Ukraine
<><>Biden’s USAID Funded 16 Ukrainian Fire Departments
The raging fires have already claimed two lives and destroyed 1,000’s of acres and homes, as firefighters face unprecedented challenges, such as water shortages from dry hydrants. Tax paid equipment sent to Ukraine was needed to bolster these firefighting efforts.
Demented Joe Biden’s USAID tax dollars funded 16 Ukrainian Fire Depts
<><>with protective gear, motor pumps,
<><>chainsaws, rescue motor cutters,
<><>rechargeable spotlights, fire extinguishers,
<><>and hydraulic rescue tools.
The lesbian LA fire chief, govt power and water “officials” rake in massive salaries $700 and 800k per annum, plus perks, and all they can steal.
“Why weren’t tug boats with their water cannons deployed?”
Probably because salt water is bad for environment. /S
Celebrity lives matter!
Thanks for the info
Laundering money in Ghana, while LA burns.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, upon arrival at LAX was slapped in the face with a carp.
Would that be a Black Thing cash stash that Fani Willis of Georgia told us about?
-PJ
She wanted to go along with “defund the police” and factored that into her dream budget.
When citizens got angry over crime she let the police budget go on but cut funding for the LA Fire Department.
Now they say understaffed fire department is part of the problem today.
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