The Morning Briefing: Karen Bass Exists to Make Gavin Newsom Look Competent

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Top O' the Briefing
Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The Sine Qua Non 
Sequitur is participating in an Ayahuasca cheese-rolling "Weekend of 
Discovery" somewhere in Great Britain. 

In yesterday's Briefing we took a broad look at the current moribund state 
of the once-formidable Democratic Party. The contributing factors that 
have brought the Democrats to this point are many, but one really stands 
out — the mind-numbing mediocrity of its major players. 

We've often discussed the fact that the Democrats are out of ideas and 
have nothing to offer the disaffected voters who they've been pushing away 
for over four years. They're in desperate need of some big, bold policy 
pitches to give to the American people, and they're not going to get any 
from the party's current crop of "stars." True, there are limitations 
placed on them by their own political philosophy, but they still need 
someone to put lipstick on their socialist pig in order to win elections. 

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has been getting all of the wrong kinds of 
press since fire destroyed Pacific Palisades and other areas of her city. 
We've seen public officials not handle crises well before, but Bass is 
going to need her own wing in the Mega FAIL Hall of Shame. Bass is the 
mayor of the second largest city in the country and has performed as if 
she couldn't be trusted to keep fake houseplant alive. 

After fleeing the country on a vanity trip despite being warned about the 
fires, Bass was the epitome of a "deer in headlights" upon her return to 
whatever she does that passes for work. Here's a reminder from a post that 
Kevin wrote back in January:


johnny maga
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Mayor Karen Bass just stands there in silence as reporters ask her if she 
regrets cutting the fire department budget or being in Africa while the 
fires destroyed her community.

I’ve never seen anything like this.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1877123285038555364

Seriously, when was the last time you saw a politician shut up when there 
were cameras nearby? Bass's silence there was her way of telling the world 
that she was in way over her head. Bass has recently found her voice and 
uses it to bash President Trump whenever she can. Throwing ORANGE MAN BAD 
tantrums for the press is easier than doing any real work. She's been out 
championing illegal immigrant criminals while neglecting legal residents 
who need her the most. This is recent video from what used to be a 
charming enclave in Pacific Palisades:


Sara Miller-Woods
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I don’t think people really grasp the magnitude of what these fires did. 
Every block in the alphabet streets looks like this.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1957952524759232943

You don't see a lot of rebuilding there because Bass's government has been 
almost AWOL when it comes to issuing building permits so that people can 
begin putting their lives back together. 

In true Dem politico fashion, Bass has never taken any responsibility for 
her role in the city's lack of preparedness. Instead, she blamed a high-
ranking member of the Los Angeles Fire Department. This is from Rick:

Former Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley filed notice to sue Los 
Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and the city for "defamation, retaliation, and 
negligence." Crowley was fired in February for what Bass said was the fire 
department's "slow response" to the massive Palisades fire, which 
destroyed or damaged nearly 8,000 homes, businesses, and other structures, 
killing at least 12 people in the affluent neighborhood.

"Integrity, truthfulness, and serving others before self have guided me 
throughout my career," Crowley said in a statement. "As the Fire Chief, 
for nearly three years, I advocated for the proper funding, staffing and 
infrastructure upgrades to better support and protect our Firefighters, 
and by extension, our communities. The lies, deceit, exaggerations, and 
misrepresentations need to be addressed with the only thing that can 
refute them - the true facts."

Rick's post goes onto note that Bass had chopped $17 million out of the 
LAFD budget. Every bit of the bureaucratic bungling of this tragic 
disaster can be laid at her feet. 

Karen Bass is so bad at her job that she makes other California Dems shine 
by comparison. That's saying a lot in a state that has Gavin Newsom as its 
governor and Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff representing it in the United 
States Senate. I hope that this lawsuit has legs and can help hasten the 
end of Bass's political career. 

Then Newsom won't have any homegrown cover. 

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