Re: Will Late Night Roast Newsom And Bass For Fires? Don’t Hold Your Breath.

On 2025-01-13 5:45 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Jan 13, 2025 at 1:59:52 PM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
 

On 2025-01-13 11:40 AM, moviePig wrote:

  On 1/13/2025 10:41 AM, Ed Stasiak wrote:

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  Ubiquitous
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  We know L.A. Mayor Karen Bass cut $17.6 million from the city's fire
  department budget. The progressive mayor wasn't even in L.A. when
  the fires broke out. She was in Ghana on a political junket.

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  Saw online that LA Mayor Bass had a firetruck, a water tank truck and
  a dozen or so firefighters stationed outside HER home, hanging out
  doing nothing while the city burned around her...

    I found this:
        "A firetruck, non-potable-water trucks and about a dozen private
  firefighters were stationed outside former Los Angeles Mayoral candidate
  Rick Caruso’s home in Brentwood on Sunday afternoon."
    Do you have a link to something else ...about current mayor Bass?
 

Where's your citation?
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I find it very unlikely that a failed mayoral candidate would have the
"pull" to get the fire department to station people at his house.

 It was a private firefighting company. Caruso is a billionaire and he was able
to afford to pay for private firefighters to protect his property.

That bit of context, the fact that he paid for it out of his own pocket,   changes everything. I'm going to bet that Bass did NOT pay for the firefighters outside HER house because they were city workers working for their boss.

 This has been controversial among the 'that's not fair!' crowd for years. A
lot of the rich people up in the hills have their own private fire
departments. And their own private well-armed security teams.
  https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-09/questions-about-private-fire-crews-in-wine-country-inspire-concerns-over-equity-safety
 During the Woolsey Fire in 2018, Kim Kardashian hired private firefighters to
save her $50 million mansion in Calabasas. She took a lot of shit from the
'everything has to be fair' crowd for it, too.
 And during the drought back in 2015, when everyone was under water rationing
and watering your lawn was not allowed, rich people like Oprah paid to have
10,000-gallon tanker trucks of water drive in from out of state to maintain
her lush landscaping and fill her swimming pool. It infuriated local officials
but they couldn't do anything about it  because she wasn't using (or
'wasting') the local water supply. And that being the case, one wonders why
they were infuriated in the first place. It certainly seems to imply that
water conservation wasn't their concern, but rather controlling what people
can and cannot do.
 

I vaguely remember that controversy.
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Rhino