Communist part-time mayor. Way to go LA!
Posted on 01/13/2025 1:01:34 PM PST by Rummyfan
It's said that Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass did no such thing — she just took a taxpayer-funded trip to the Paris Olympics while cutting $17 million from the fire department's budget and ignoring the cries of her fire chief.
Three, actually. Three taxpayer-funded trips to the Paris Olympics that lasted two weeks. But just think of the miles she earned.
Sure, Bass was in Ghana on a White House junket when the fires broke out last week, but that was sheer dumb luck. A New York Times report today indicates that Bass views her position as part-time at best.
"A review of her public daily schedule for the past year shows that Ms. Bass has traveled out of the country at city expense at least four other times in recent months before the Ghana visit," the NYT reported. "Once to Mexico for the inauguration of President Claudia Sheinbaum and three times to France for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris."
It gets worse. Bass had explicitly promised during the 2022 mayoral race to reduce her foreign travel, even though she didn't want to.
And Another Thing: How does anyone travel to the same European city (from California!) three times in two weeks? When my wife and I were invited to her best friend's wedding in the UK 20 years ago, we decided to make it a two-week stay. One does not travel that far just for a couple of nights. People would ask, "What are you going to do in London for two weeks?" And I'd say, "The same thing everybody else does: look for good Italian." Then again, we had to travel on our own dime.
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Communist part-time mayor. Way to go LA!
There trips from LA to Paris. In three weeks?! It’s an eight or nine hour flight.... And I bet she went first class. What the?!
It wouldn't bother me one bit if she were to be found hanging from a lamppost.
She’s a cleaned up Lori Lightfoot. But more marxisty.
She has the color get out of jail free card.
A barefaced communist. Spit.
Karen Bass has an in depth understanding of how Marxist revolutions work.
The Vanguard of the Proletariat live in luxury.
The peons get burned.
They talk a good game though.
The Black female mayor thing doesn’t ever seem to work out.
Karen Bass -a woke, neo-marxist, lifetime race-monger, completely political animal with zero private or managerial experience.
If one follows the dictum that “A people get the government they deserve” - Karen Bass is definitely what LA deserves.
Yep, Bass is a dedicated Marxist.
Communist part-time mayor. Way to go LA!
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FULL TIME COMMIE grifter
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Ain’t nobody got time for dat!
That card doesn’t always work any more. People are sick of the race card. Take a look at the scrutiny Tiffany Henyard of Dolton, IL, is getting for her trips and spending. The courts need to start throwing people like this in jail for embezzlement and dereliction of duty.
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why would jobama send karen ?
shes a flunky mayor , not an employee of the State Dept. or the admin..
and what about the 2 trips previous ?
what were those trips for ?
the whole thing has a grifter smell about it.
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Mayoral candidate Bass told The LA Times that if she was elected mayor, “not only would I of course live here, but I also would not travel internationally — the only places I would go would be D.C., Sacramento, San Francisco and New York, in relation to L.A.”
That pledge has been spectacularly broken.
When a cascade of deadly and destructive wildfires erupted across the Los Angeles region on Tuesday, the mayor was on her way home from Ghana in West Africa, where she had attended the inauguration of a new president.
It was not her first trip abroad as mayor. A review of her public daily schedule for the past year shows that Ms. Bass has traveled out of the country at city expense at least four other times in recent months before the Ghana visit — once to Mexico for the inauguration of President Claudia Sheinbaum and three times to France for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Her broken promise to cut off overseas travel and her busy international schedule since becoming mayor in December 2022 scarcely registered with the public before the wildfires, and Los Angeles voters accepted — and in some cases even welcomed — the mayor’s identity not just as a municipal leader but also as a Washington-style global player. Now, though, her decision to leave the country at a time when the National Weather Service was warning of “extreme fire weather conditions” has set off a political crisis for Ms. Bass.
Rivals have lashed out. Liberal supporters whose homes burned down have become outraged critics. An online petition demanding her immediate resignation has attracted more than 100,000 signatures. MAGA Republicans and their allies have swarmed social media, amplifying and exploiting the anger.
Firefighters, whose union endorsed her opponent, Rick Caruso, in the mayoral race, have accused her of slashing fire department funding, an inaccurate and misleading assertion. Kristin M. Crowley, the city’s fire chief, when pressed by a reporter for a local Fox News affiliate, conceded that she felt the Fire Department had been failed by city government.
The fallout is threatening Ms. Bass’s ability to lead as the city confronts a long road to recovery from one of the most sweeping disasters in the history of Southern California, as well as a staggering mandate to prepare for the 2028 Olympic Games. Rebuilding from the 1992 Los Angeles riots took decades.
“I think being out of state and not at her post when the crisis broke out is fairly devastating for her,” said Rob Stutzman, a Republican political consultant who was an aide to former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. “This is the biggest disaster in Los Angeles since the Watts riots. You have one job as mayor. It’s to be here and be leading. This wasn’t unpredictable, like an earthquake.”
Mayor Bass did not personally respond to multiple requests for comment.
The people of LA voted for this reprobate. She was heavily favored by the power elites. This is textbook poetic justice, unfortunately, many innocent American citizens were also punished for the stupidity of our power elite class.
Full time Leninist
LA Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong says it was a mistake for his paper to endorse Karen Bass, now says competent people should be elected, not professional politicians.
While I’m glad people are waking up, this is not some profound concept.
“We endorsed Karen Bass. I think right now, that’s a mistake. And we admit that.”
“I think we were one of the few to say competence matters... the interesting thing is that maybe we should think about how we elect people on the basis of........ “did they actually run a job? Did they actually make a payroll? Do they understand what it is?”
“Rather than having professional politicians whose only job is ready to run for office.”
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