Dumbass Bass.
Posted on 01/10/2025 7:29:24 AM PST by TigerClaws
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass demanded her Fire Department make an extra $49million of budget cuts last week, a leaked memo revealed.
This cut is already on top of $17.6million of cuts in her latest budget.
The extra cuts, requested just days before fires broke out and devastated swathes of Los Angeles, would have shut down 16 fire stations and crippled the department's ability to respond to emergencies, sources said.
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We have fire engines we can't get parts for. When one breaks down we strip it of parts to put on other fire engines because we can't buy any more parts.
'If you shut down 16 stations, that's about 750 personnel. Then they expect us to take the same call volume. And yesterday we did 3,800 calls, almost twice of what our daily call volume usually is.
'We're already shy 200 paramedics, and we're on the verge of another 200 quitting because we can't do this any more.
'If we don't work overtime, they suspend and threaten to terminate us. It's untenable.' Chief Crowley had already warned Bass last month that $17.6million of cuts had 'severely limited the department's capacity to prepare for, train for and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires'
Chief Crowley had already warned Bass last month that $17.6million of cuts had 'severely limited the department's capacity to prepare for, train for and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires'
The sources briefed on the memo said Bass first made the demand for tens of millions from the cash-strapped department in a meeting with Chief Crowley on Friday.
'Bass wanted to cut even more,' one source briefed on the meeting said. 'They asked for $49million more on Friday last week. The Chief said "We don't have it". The Mayor said "Find it".'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Meanwhile, off to Ghana to celebrate the installing of a Marxist president, Bass wasn't even present when the outbreak began.
Who is directing this, what foreknowledge did they have and where is the money flowing?
essential services removed from the American tax payer that pay thier exorbitant salaries while they fund thier utopian radical programs
Dumbass Bass.
Bass! How low can you go?
Plus no testing of the fire hydrants before all of this started...these winds were forecast a week before they happened.
If that’s allowed to hit the LA Times, that’s a huge political ouch.
Shades of Lahaina.
Sue wanted her “legacy” to be one of “frugality”, instead she will forever be known as the dei hire who screwed up Bigly and caused the worst dei disaster in the us, and reinforced the fact that dei hires are a bad bad thing for the nation!
Once again a UK paper takes the lead in reporting the ugly truth about what’s going on in the United States.
Amazing, isn’t it? (Or maybe I should have said “depressing” instead.)
Bass is gone. She should resign now instead of putting the city through an expensive recall effort.
I know where they can find the 49 million in cuts. Like Bass said - “Go to URL.”
“Meanwhile, off to Ghana to celebrate the installing of a Marxist president...”
No wonder Dumb Bass had to be there. She was often in Cuba in the 1970 as a Venceramos Brigade coordinator. 7 times or so. Her home away from home.
There’s nothing lower in the water than a Bass turd.
The money is being redirected to leftists in DEI hiring of bureaucrats, funneled into crooked leftist NGOs, and outright stolen by politicians. Leftists are parasites that kill the host.
"Until the 12th of never, and that's a long long time."
Bass wasn’t being frugal, she was helping to expand the bureaucracy and to steal the money not spent on the fire department. Bass is a hard-core communist who went on dozens of trips to Cuba.
All the hollywood “celebrities” back Newscum with massive donations etc. They aren’t known for being the sharpest knives in the drawer.
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