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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So when the right is politicizing this and claiming that the Dems in charge cut the LAFD budget...they are lying.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/wildfire-threatens-karen-bass-extended-honeymoon-00197228

[i]Bass also took heat from far-left activists online, who accused the mayor of cutting the fire department’s budget in order to pay for a costly new contract with the city’s police. Also weighing in against her was Patrick Soon-Shiong, the politically idiosyncratic owner of the Los Angeles Times, who echoed the attack, posting on X that “the Mayor cut LA Fire Department’s budget by $23M.”

That assertion is wrong. The city was in the process of negotiating a new contract with the fire department at the time the budget was being crafted, so additional funding for the department was set aside in a separate fund until that deal was finalized in November. In fact, the city’s fire budget increased more than $50 million year-over-year compared to the last budget cycle, according to Blumenfield’s office, although overall concerns about the department’s staffing level have persisted for a number of years.[/i][/quote]

Of course. Republicans are liars. 
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Karen Bass is not going to come out of this smelling of roses. She left LA to go to a random inauguration in Ghana when the fire risks were already emerging. This is not what a smart city leader does. There will be a lot of fingers pointed by everyone at each other, which is human nature and understandable in its own way as we want to think if only XYZ was done therefore everything would be perfect. This was a natural disaster made worse by substantial human settlement in a high risk area. [/quote]

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