Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you should run for mayor, to show us how to do it properly.

The guy who ran against her protected the large outdoor mall in Pacific Palisades, so that’s one guy who ran against her and showed us how to do it properly.

Being able to run a city, and being able to win elections are almost contradictory skill sets. It should come as no surprise that DC's best "elected" mayor was essentially hand-picked for the job.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you should run for mayor, to show us how to do it properly.

The guy who ran against her protected the large outdoor mall in Pacific Palisades, so that’s one guy who ran against her and showed us how to do it properly.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bass left on a political junket to Ghana when LA had red flag warnings for fire due to the draught and Santa Ana winds. Bass posted about the warnings on X and then left town.

What does this say about her critical thinking skills and her notions about what a leader should do at grave times. The first thing you do is show up, not leave town. She yeah, she blew it and it left her open for criticism, a distraction no one needs.

There are 4-7 red flag warnings in an average year in LA, and it's been up to 12 in recent years. The mayor is never allowed to leave town during any of those?

Dp. The area had greater than average rainfall over the last two years, leading to increased vegetation growth. Then this past year they had no rain. So increased fuel for fires, lack of typical December rain to dampen the area, and higher than usual Santa Ana winds predicted created a situation that led to these fires. Yea, I think she should have been in town to deal with it.

Maybe you should run for mayor, to show us how to do it properly.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with others that blame on Bass is misplaced. Sometimes bad things happen and that’s that. A NYT article I read today said the accusation that she cut the fire dept budget was misleading. And yes, she was in Ghana, so what?

Agree too that the only connection to Bowser I see is race and gender.

The Ghana trip is clearly a junket and not something a mayor should be doing at any point. It shows that being mayor isn't really her focus and her ambition is elsewhere. Much like Bowser, who seems to be phoning it in until a better opportunity presents itself.

Stop the presses! This guy figured out how the fires could have been prevented. It all wouldn't have happened if the mayor hadn't been on her trip to Ghana! Going forward, no more mayoral trips = no more wildfires!!! Genius!

Congratulations, you were presented a symptom and assumed it was a cause. Are you trying to get a job in either Bass or Bowser administrations?

Mayors go on these junkets because they have either grown bored of their duties or never cared for them in the first place. They try to curry favor with bigger fish, and direct their attention that way. That's what the Ghana trip was about, as was sending fire fighting equipment to Ukraine. That leads them to taking their eyes off the ball back home. Sometimes that leads to disastrous consequences, sometimes just to a general sense of decay.

Another thing the two have in common is that there probably aren't many residents who would say their city is moving in the right direction under their leadership. Even if they can handily win elections.

OP's idea seems to be that all black women who hold political power are the same person.

Actually, OP's idea seems to be that all black women who hold political power are the same person, who should not be allowed to hold political power.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bass left on a political junket to Ghana when LA had red flag warnings for fire due to the draught and Santa Ana winds. Bass posted about the warnings on X and then left town.

What does this say about her critical thinking skills and her notions about what a leader should do at grave times. The first thing you do is show up, not leave town. She yeah, she blew it and it left her open for criticism, a distraction no one needs.

There are 4-7 red flag warnings in an average year in LA, and it's been up to 12 in recent years. The mayor is never allowed to leave town during any of those?

From NYT, Jan 12:

Before Taking Office, L.A.’s Mayor Said She Would Not Go Abroad

After the first rally in her campaign for mayor of Los Angeles in 2021, Karen Bass spoke candidly about what she saw as a potential drawback to the job — a lack of world travel and involvement in global affairs.

Ms. Bass was accustomed to circling the globe as a Democratic member of Congress and of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and had spent decades working on U.S.-Africa relations. It was one of the most absorbing parts of her political career, she told The New York Times in an interview on Oct. 17, 2021, at her home in the Baldwin Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles.

“I went to Africa every couple of months, all the time,” she said, adding, “The idea of leaving that, especially the international work and the Africa work, I was like, ‘Mmm, I don’t think I want to do that.’”

She ultimately decided that she did, telling The Times that if she was elected mayor, “not only would I of course live here, but I also would not travel internationally — the only places I would go would be D.C., Sacramento, San Francisco and New York, in relation to L.A.”

That pledge has been spectacularly broken.

When a cascade of deadly and destructive wildfires erupted across the Los Angeles region on Tuesday, the mayor was on her way home from Ghana in West Africa, where she had attended the inauguration of a new president.

It was not her first trip abroad as mayor. A review of her public daily schedule for the past year shows that Ms. Bass has traveled out of the country at city expense at least four other times in recent months before the Ghana visit — once to Mexico for the inauguration of President Claudia Sheinbaum and three times to France for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with others that blame on Bass is misplaced. Sometimes bad things happen and that’s that. A NYT article I read today said the accusation that she cut the fire dept budget was misleading. And yes, she was in Ghana, so what?

Agree too that the only connection to Bowser I see is race and gender.

The Ghana trip is clearly a junket and not something a mayor should be doing at any point. It shows that being mayor isn't really her focus and her ambition is elsewhere. Much like Bowser, who seems to be phoning it in until a better opportunity presents itself.

Stop the presses! This guy figured out how the fires could have been prevented. It all wouldn't have happened if the mayor hadn't been on her trip to Ghana! Going forward, no more mayoral trips = no more wildfires!!! Genius!

Anonymous wrote:I agree with others that blame on Bass is misplaced. Sometimes bad things happen and that’s that. A NYT article I read today said the accusation that she cut the fire dept budget was misleading. And yes, she was in Ghana, so what?

Agree too that the only connection to Bowser I see is race and gender.

The Ghana trip is clearly a junket and not something a mayor should be doing at any point. It shows that being mayor isn't really her focus and her ambition is elsewhere. Much like Bowser, who seems to be phoning it in until a better opportunity presents itself.

Bass has no backstop, Newsom’s policies created the problem. Bowser has a backstop in the Feds can step in and clean things up.

MB has a safety net that KB doesn't have.

And yes, KB has responsibility for some of the lack of preparation for wildfires. There seems to be wildfires every year. Why don't they have enough firefighters? Why don't they have adequate equipment? Why was the fire department budget cut? They KNOW this is coming every year. Newsome should be blamed too.

The buck stops with leadership.

I agree with others that blame on Bass is misplaced. Sometimes bad things happen and that’s that. A NYT article I read today said the accusation that she cut the fire dept budget was misleading. And yes, she was in Ghana, so what?

Agree too that the only connection to Bowser I see is race and gender.

Bass is more like the mayor of Chicago.

Anonymous wrote:Having watched Bowser up close, I think its only a matter of time before something big blows up in Bowser's face similar to what is happening with Karen Bass.
For example: 911 has been awful under Bowser.
Just watching the news and seeing how Bass is taking criticism, I think Bowser is going to get her come-comeuppance soon.

You don't care about California, you're only using this incident to tear down black people

Anonymous wrote:Bass left on a political junket to Ghana when LA had red flag warnings for fire due to the draught and Santa Ana winds. Bass posted about the warnings on X and then left town.

What does this say about her critical thinking skills and her notions about what a leader should do at grave times. The first thing you do is show up, not leave town. She yeah, she blew it and it left her open for criticism, a distraction no one needs.

There are 4-7 red flag warnings in an average year in LA, and it's been up to 12 in recent years. The mayor is never allowed to leave town during any of those?