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https://nypost.com/2025/01/08/us-news/stone-faced-la-mayor-karen-bass- refuses-to-answer-questions-about-absence-as-wildfires-rage-across-her-
city/
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass became stone-faced when confronted by a
reporter as she returned to America to find her city burning Wednesday.
“Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while their homes were burning, and do you regret cutting the Fire Department budget by millions
of dollars madame mayor?” Sky News reporter David Blevins asked as Bass
waited to deplane.
“Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?” he added.
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass refused to answer when asked if she owed
residents of her city an apology for being absent during the city’s
wildfires.
Sky News
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Bass was also asked if she regrets cutting the Fire Department’s budget.
Sky News
Bass — standing a few feet away on the plane’s ramp as she awaited
clearance to leave — stared blankly as Belvins questioned her, refusing to provide an answer or even acknowledge his presence.
As she walked up the ramp into the airport, she continued to ignore the reporter as he followed and asked for comment.
“No apology for them? Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana
while this was unfolding back home?” he said.
“Madam mayor, let me ask you just again, have you anything to say to the citizens today as you return?”
Bass then walked out of the terminal and left the reporter behind without answering.
The mayor has been under fire for being 7,400 miles away in Africa to
attend the inauguration of Ghana’s president as wildfires devoured Los
Angeles Tuesday.
More than 30,000 acres are burning across three separate fires around the
city, as the Santa Ana winds fan the flames ahead of desperate
firefighters struggling to keep up.
Thousands of buildings have been lost, and after just two days the fires
have already been named the most destructive in LA’s history.
Many have blamed Bass for the disaster — citing the $17.6 million cut she
made to the Los Angeles Fire Department’s budget for the 2024-25 fiscal
year.
And that came up shy of the $20 million she wanted slashed.
For many, her absence as the fires burned spoke volumes.
“Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is on a taxpayer-funded trip to Africa as
part of a Biden administration presidential delegation WHILE HER CITY IS BURNING TO THE GROUND,” America First Works president Ashley Hayek wrote
on X.
“This is INSANE.”
Conversation
Sonny Corleone
8 hours ago
This is what happens when a member of this group is required to answer a question concerning their own personal responsibility, decisions or job performance. Having never been asked to be accountable for anything they
looked confused and get angry.
Katy
5 hours ago
LA media have really cozied up to Mayor Bass and are so proud of
themselves for helping her get elected, and we're all paying a terrible
price for it. It also reminds me of the New Orleans Police Superintendent.
We have to stop tolerating incompetence and insist on accountability. We
need people that can actually do a decent job at what office they are
elected for. I hope people stay angry at all California politicians. Their virtue signaling and pet progressive politics have cost people homes, businesses and in some cases, lives. Massive failure that we are paying
dearly for. Priorities should be the health and safety of the citizens
with the protocols and infrastructure to support that.
Andrew Castro
8 hours ago
Fani Willis. Leticia James. Alvin Bragg….they are not meant to be in power
and prove it daily. Actually by the minute.
She’s in Kenya for what reason? No other reason than her trying to show
her “heritage”
Maybe just stay there please
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