The individuals of Los Angeles really want to fireside Mayor Karen Bass.
As it’s now broadly identified, Mayor Bass was touring in Africa when the extremely damaging fires broke out within the metropolis weeks in the past. When she lastly made it again to LA, she was questioned by a reporter and stood there silently, unable or unwilling to clarify herself.
Now, weeks later, she has finished a TV interview the place she defined that she is launching an investigation into why she was allowed to go on her Africa journey when individuals knew there was a chance of fires.
Is that this probably the most absurd factor you will have ever heard? Is it shut?
FOX Information stories:
LA Mayor Bass factors fingers when grilled on Africa journey amid botched wildfire response
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who has come beneath intense scrutiny for touring to Africa final month amid a botched fireplace response, is deflecting blame on the controversial journey.
“I felt completely horrible not being right here for my metropolis,” Bass, a Democrat, instructed a Fox 11 Los Angeles reporter in a latest interview.
“Would I say it was a mistake, completely. The concept I used to be not current was very painful,” she added, saying that correct “preparation didn’t occur” to inform her forward of the Ghana journey.
She stated she wouldn’t have even traveled south to San Diego had she been given the correct “preparation” in regards to the fireplace hazard.
“It didn’t attain that stage to me to say ‘One thing horrible might occur and perhaps you shouldn’t have gone on the journey,’” the Democrat added.
“I believe that’s one of many issues we have to have a look at, every little thing that occurred, together with that, must be examined,” she continued, revealing that there are no less than two investigations into town’s response to the fires.
Right here’s the video:
LA Mayor Karen Bass: We’re launching investigations to seek out out why no one instructed me that I should not have gone to Africa whereas my metropolis burned. pic.twitter.com/sdpkSMYPb0
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 19, 2025
One has to surprise if her investigation will finish with… her. Isn’t she accountable on the finish of the day?
