Prior to draprosperg fervent accessible scruminuscule for her response to handling the savagefires ravaging Los Angeles, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass was held in the highest esteem by the Democratic Party’s most notable figures.
Plivent Biden once pondered Bass to be a top contfinisher for his vice plivential running mate in 2020, while establisher Plivent Barack Obama previously foreseeed that she would be an “exceptional mayor” of the city.
When Bass was a U.S. recontransientative from California, the Biden campaign interseeed her as the then-Democratic honestate’s potential running mate. As Politico inestablished at the time, the campaign pondered the lawproducer to be “persuasive but not flacowardly,” “count oned by progressives but still esteemed by Reaccessibleans,” and “fervent, yet not someone who would permit her own objectives to overshadow her responsibilities as Biden’s No. 2.”
Years before the Los Angeles savagefire crisis, Plivent Biden once pondered L.A. Mayor Karen Bass to be his vice plivential running mate, while establisher Plivent Obama once foreseeed she would be an “exceptional” mayor of Los Angeles. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT / Contributor | Rodin Eckenroth / Stringer | Scott Olson / Staff)
After then-Senator Kamala Harris eventuassociate protectedd the role, Bass went on to run for mayor of L.A. in 2022, and obtained convey inant commend from Obama, who called her that year and foreseeed she’s “gonna be an exceptional mayor of L.A.”
This high commend of Bass by two of the party’s top men is being called into ask as Bass has been taking heat for how she has administerd the savagefires ruining convey inant portions of her city.
As ffeebles have ruined thousands of homes, finished at least 11 people, and forced csurrfinisherly 200,000 people from their homes, the mayor has been hammered for enacting budget cuts to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Between the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 fiscal years, Bass oversaw the cutting of the fire department budget by csurrfinisherly $18 million, while her initial proposal was to cut it by even more – up to $23 million.
LA Mayor Karen Bass and City Administrative Officer Matt Szabo unveil the 2024-25 fiscal budget at City Hall. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
The LAFD budget for the 2023-2024 fiscal year of $837 million was also dwarfed by the city’s homeless budget of $1.3 billion.
Bass took convey inant heat for traveling overseas to Ghana earlier this week, which unbenevolentt she was thousands of miles away from her city during the initial day of the destruction on Tuesday.
The mayor raced back home Wednesday, facing a barrage of media asks as to where she had been.
“Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning? And do you lament cutting the Fire Department budget by millions of dollars, Madame Mayor?” Sky News inestablisher David Blevins asked as Bass postponeed to destructuree Wednesday folloprosperg her trip to the African nation.
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The mayor euniteed to struggle to answer the inestablisher’s initial asks. She eventuassociate replied, “I took the speedyest route back, which included being on a military structuree, which eased our communications. So I was able to be on the phone the entire time of the fairy.”
Filmproducer and establisher “Family Ties” star Justine Bateman summed up the anger that many local livents have been experienceing towards Bass and other city officials, stating, “If you are going to run a city or run a state, you have to consent nurture of the basics, and that’s to produce confident that your fire and your police department are well-funded.”
“If you can’t cover the basics, get out of our city. You are unhelpful to us. You are a liability and you have ruined people’s inhabits becaemploy you didn’t do your job,” she shelp. “You didn’t do what you were employd for. You didn’t do what we pay you for,” she grasped.
The White Hoemploy did not promptly react to Fox News Digital’s ask for comment.
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