L.A. Woman: Los Angeles mayor vacations in Africa while her city burns

[Bill]

https://www.frontpagemag.com/la-mayor-vacations-in-africa-while-city-burns/

LA Mayor Vacations in Africa While City Burns


January 8, 2025 by Daniel Greenfield

Los Angeles is on fire. Outside the night sky looks orange. The current scale of fires appears unprecedented and we’re still heading into some of the worst winds overnight. (If you don’t see further updates from me, it may be because the power is out.)

And Mayor Karen Bass, the social justice candidate whose election was lubricated by some of the most obvious ballot stuffing since the glory days of Chicago is… in Ghana.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass will be part of the four-member presidential delegation attending Tuesday’s inauguration of John Dramani Mahama as Ghana’s president.

Shalanda D. Young, the director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, will lead the delegation to Accra, Ghana’s capital. It also consists of Virginia E. Palmer, the U.S. ambassador to Ghana, and Frances Z. Brown, special assistant to the president and the National Security Council’s senior director for African affairs.

As a congresswoman, Bass chaired the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations from 2019-22.

Bass is no longer a congresswoman. She took a job running a city. And decided to go off on a likely taxpayer-funded jaunt.

There were warnings of ‘life-threatening conditions’ from the National Weather Service. Bass chose to have her vacation in Africa. And with ballot harvesting, voters don’t matter, only activist groups do, resulting in a catastrophic leadership that openly shows disdain for the people it’s supposed to be working for.

This is the best government ballot harvesting can buy.

[Onebadcad]

She is a major POS, but probably not in the top 5 in her state.

LA Mayor Karen Bass cut fire department funding by $17.6M — months before wildfires turned city into hellscape

https://nypost.com/2025/01/08/us-news/la-mayor-karen-bass-cut-fire-department-funding-by-17-6m/

The Los Angeles Fire Department had its budget cut by a staggering $17.6 million this financial year, records show — as fire crews continue to battle out-of-control blazes currently ravaging the City of Angels.

The drastic decrease in funding for the fire department was the second largest cut to come out of embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass‘ 2024-25 fiscal year budget, according to city figures.

The police budget, meanwhile, increased by $126 million, a graphic shared by LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia shows.

Bass had initially wanted to cut the fire department by even more — a staggering $23 million.

[Frankie the Fink]

DEI mayor jets off to Africa while her town burns ?
This is my shocked face...

[gs568]

Another truly incompetent dem politician.

[Tikiman]

I'm hearing reports that there is no water at the hydrants. Reminds me of that Hawaiian fire.

[Swany00]

that's what you get with DEI hires

[Vince Clortho]

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Doesn't look like a great place to vacation but Californians are a different breed.

[Bill]

No thread title love here?

Rough crowd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHXjcdNIN-Q

[Steve_R]

The people of L.A. and the entire state of CA have the government they keep voting for. Elections have consequences.

[The_Dude]

Motel money murder madness

[Bill]

I'm guessing the (dis)honorable Mayor Bass isn't a Pretenders fan?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thu8DWsirJo

[LATB]

Motel money murder madness

Let's change the mood from glad to sadness

[Jughead]

She went from one shithole to another

[Onebadcad]

I'm hearing reports that there is no water at the hydrants. Reminds me of that Hawaiian fire.

Effing pathetic, the city can build high-rise luxury condos for the homeless, $165M for 278 units, total cost $170+M.

https://abc7news.com/post/new-high-rise-building-house-skid-row-homeless/14976180/

But cannot keep water in hydrants:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-08/lack-of-water-from-hydrants-in-palisades-fire-is-hampering-firefighters-caruso-says

As wildfires raged across Los Angeles on Tuesday, crews battling the Palisades blaze faced an additional burden: Scores of fire hydrants in the Pacific Palisades had little to no water flowing out.

“The hydrants are down,” said one firefighter in internal radio communications.

“Water supply just dropped,” said another.

By 3 a.m. Wednesday, all water storage tanks in the Palisades area “went dry,” diminishing the flow of water from hydrants in higher elevations, said Janisse Quiñones, chief executive and chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the city’s utility.

“We had a tremendous demand on our system in the Palisades. We pushed the system to the extreme,” Quiñones said Wednesday morning. “Four times the normal demand was seen for 15 hours straight, which lowered our water pressure.”

2 dead and more than 1,000 homes, businesses, other buildings destroyed in L.A. County fires

But the DWP and city leaders faced significant criticism on social media from residents as well as from developer Rick Caruso, who owns Palisades Village mall in the heart of the Westside neighborhood. Caruso, a former commissioner for the DWP, blasted the city for infrastructure that struggled to meet firefighting demands.

“There’s no water in the fire hydrants,” Caruso said with exasperation. Through Tuesday night, he expressed similar criticism in a series of live interviews with local TV stations. “The firefighters are there [in the neighborhood], and there’s nothing they can do — we’ve got neighborhoods burning, homes burning, and businesses burning. ... It should never happen.”

L.A. City Councilmember Traci Park, who represents Pacific Palisades and participated with Quiñones in Wednesday’s news conference, also asserted her fury over the DWP’s water supply issues.

“The chronic under-investment in the city of Los Angeles in our public infrastructure and our public safety partners was evident and on full display over the last 24 hours,” Park said. “I am extremely concerned about this. I’m already working with my team to take a closer look at this, and I think we’ve got more questions than answers at this point.”

[Bill]

https://media.patriots.win/post/QaGzSfWYyfD0.jpeg

[Onebadcad]

James Woods should have been given a job in the new administration.
We all know he is the smartest, but damn, no one takes a head off better than him.

[04 commemorative]

After being destroyed (our whole town) with Super Storm Sandy,my wife and I have nothing but sorrow and hope for these people....it will be 10+ years maybe,before they are whole again....we still are not after 12+ years.:sadangel:

[dvarapala]

D31MNyo1awo

[Old Ben]

Mayor Bass. Nuff said.

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[Bill]

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1877100471510253861?t=DhZhYJImukGKfhNd_LmfiA