LA Mayor Karen Bass has had an awful week. Catastrophic wildfires continue to rage across Los Angeles, reporters are asking her tough questions—something she’s not used to—and she and Gov. Gavin Newsom are getting savaged online and in the press for the sheer number of failures at play here.
Although there had been warnings that high winds would soon be hitting, creating extremely hazardous fire conditions, Bass nevertheless decided it would be a good time to head to Ghana for the country’s presidential inauguration, as if somehow that were of primary importance to the residents of LA.
But now the story gets worse, as she is exposed as a hypocrite by a campaign promise made in 2021 when she was running against developer Rick Caruso. I will “not travel internationally” if I win, she vowed.
That didn’t age well.
[Bass told the New York Times] …that…
