It has been over a year since a horrific fire tore through Pacific Palisades and Malibu, and the Democrats who run Los Angeles keep finding ways to make it worse. Well, one Democrat specifically is really mucking up the works. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was a study in monumental incompetence during the fire and has managed to be even more inept since.
People who lost their homes are now mired in a bureaucratic nightmare as they try to rebuild. Mayor Bass doesn’t seem to have the time or the will to help them. OK, she’s also not working with a lot of mental firepower.
Bass did, however, have the time to direct people to editorially sanitize the official report about the fire in order to cover up her own ineptitude, as well as mistakes that were made by the Los Angeles Fire Department. My HotAir colleague John Sexton covered it all here. Like everything involving Bass and the Palisades fire, it’s a sordid tale.
Bass not only ordered changes in the report in an attempt to change the narrative, but she also lied about having done so. As always with this nightmare saga, it gets worse. This is from John’s post:
Two final points about this. First, the real scandal here isn’t the watering down of the report. That’s a minor side issue. The real scandal is what the report left out, i.e. the fact that the entire Palisades fire was a rekindle of a fire set a week earlier which reportedly was not fully put out.
In other words, this fire was likely preventable but someone screwed up badly That person is not being held accountable because the failure might have an impact on Bass and maybe even on Gov. Newsom. So, the Bass story is significant, but it’s really just the tip of the ass-covering taking place here.
Put mildly: yikes.
As John notes in his column, this really should stick a fork in Bass’s career as mayor. Whoever knows in these bluer than blue cities, though? Bass is a disturbing monument to upwards-failing mediocrity, and she never would have been elected in a sane world. There is nothing sane about California politics anymore, sadly.
Bass will continue to be awful, but the lefties who put her in office and have been suffering the consequences are about to get relief from none other than President Trump.
Loud Mouth Bass trying to save face and keep the citizens of L.A. from finding out the real reason for the Fires and one loss of Homes was due to protecting a Weed instead of Homeowners