LA’s scorned mayor can’t seem to stop calling attention to herself and therefore her incompetence in this election year.
Whether it's sparring with her newfound Mayoral opponent, her belated calls for for Casey Wasserman to depart his leadership role at LA28 or the simmering accusations over post-fire responsibility, every time the ineffective leader Bass opens her mouth in public, the collective feeling is how is she still here?
You’d think presiding over the deaths of a dozen victims during the 2025 Palisades Fire might lead her to slink off into the sunset, head hung in shame.
Oh, but wait, she didn’t preside over anything because she was in Ghana at a party when the fires broke out. For those new to the Los Angeles area, a brief recap of her incompetence and hypocrisy is in order.
Despite the most direct warning we have ever received from the National Weather Service (“e.g. life threatening windstorm”), despite Governor Newsom predeploying dozens of fire engines from throughout the state to LA in advance of the extreme weather, despite concerns from her own staff about her leaving the city–despite all that and more, she left LA in the lurch.
Most of those fire engines sat idle during the leadership vacuum that ensued while Bass was living the high life at an embassy cocktail party 7,500 miles removed from the city she is supposed to serve and protect.
More than 100,000 people were evacuated during the fires. Over 6,800 structures burned in the Palisades and Malibu. School, businesses, churches. Thousands of families lost their homes along most or all of their belongings. Architectural gems were destroyed. Countless artifacts perished.
Twelve people died.
When Bass returned from Africa she claimed to have been in contact with her staff “almost every hour of the flight.” She subsequently demoted her fire chief. She pointed fingers everywhere but at the person in the mirror. Sound like someone you know?
Now, a year later, the coverup she orchestrated is getting exposed. Softening after-report language, deleted texts and emails. If she had put half this effort into fire preparation, we might have 12 more souls living among us.
Mayor Bass, in honor of the victims whose lives you should have protected, step aside, and let somebody who cares about something more than travel and the Olympics try to fix your broken city.
In Santa Monica, a city in dire financial straits, we know a thing or two about flawed elected officials. At least ours don’t kill people.