From the first spark on January 7, until the rains came, Los Angeles residents wondered if losing their homes would be the worst thing to happen to them. Maui’s disastrous fire response wasn’t far from their thoughts. Suspicions grew. Now, with an announcement from city hall, their worst fears are being realized. Now, their safe old neighborhood is probably going to be turned into an urban planner’s “moonshot.”
I hope Angelenos have learned the hard lessons of Minneapolis, Portland, and Seattle. When you hire people for office and they haven’t done the first thing to make you, the citizen, safer, they don’t know what they’re doing. It demonstrates that their priorities don’t match the job. And when the worst comes — riots, police conflict, floods, disasters, and fires — these leaders lack the intellectual reservoir from which to draw their responses and solutions. When that happens, citizens, you’re screwed.
This brings us to Karen Bass, which rhymes with — you know.
After being confronted with the wave of competence from those who lost their homes in Pacific Palisades at that meeting with President Trump last Friday, Bass ignored it and, like the communist autocrat she…
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