“Total burn down.” That sounds like what Karen Bass and a leftist City Council have done, metaphorically, to Los Angeles.
But the phrase actually comes from court records that explain why Kenneth Bass is suing the city that his sister governs. Among the allegations: deficient fire preparation on the part of the city and its water utility, in part because the latter had left a nearby reservoir — built in part for firefighting — empty for a nearly year before the fire.
It’s hardly news that Mayor Bass royally botched the fire issue, but her brother’s move adds an exclamation point. Bass downplayed the news through advisers, who said Kenneth Bass’ loss has long been publicly known and there are thousands of plaintiffs in the legal action. It’s hardly news that Mayor Bass royally botched the fire issue, but her brother’s move adds an exclamation point.
But a loss is not the same as a lawsuit, and the fact that thousands are suing the city makes the case worse for Bass, not better. A few lowlights: Not only was the mayor in Ghana when the blaze erupted, but while she was abroad, the city declined to deploy firefighters to the burn scar of a fire an arsonist had allegedly set in the Palisades just days before — a fire that reignited and roared through the area.
Meanwhile, the LAPD failed to prioritize resident evacuations as the flames spread. Later, the mayor deflected blame for the disaster, was slow to help fire victims, and was accused of watering down an after-fire report to make herself look better.
It’s all emblematic of a city culture that prioritizes optics over accountability, ideology over common sense, and spending over results. the intended result; the city ships tax dollars to nonprofits that entrench the problem to generate more money for solutions that never come. Karen Bass must hope that voters are blind to this, or overlook it out of partisan fidelity.
But the phrase actually comes from court records that explain why Kenneth Bass is suing the city that his sister governs. It’s hardly news that Mayor Bass royally botched the fire issue, but her brother’s move adds an exclamation point.
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