LA fires reveal Democrat-run California's ridiculous number of catastrophes

https://nypost.com/2025/01/19/opinion/la-fires-reveal-democrat-run-
californias-ridiculous-number-of-catastrophes/

When it comes to the horrific LA fires, every new day brings more hideous 
evidence of just how much blame California’s progressive political culture 
bears for what’s now projected to be the most expensive natural disaster 
in US history at over $250 billion in damage.

Start with Wednesday’s revelation that the LAFD brass deployed only five 
trucks out of an available 40 and held back some 1,000 available 
firefighters from the Palisades Fire.

Who's more to blame for the LA fires?
GAVIN NEWSOM
69 votes
6.89%
KAREN BASS
83 votes
8.28%
WHY NOT BOTH?
850 votes
84.83%
1,002 total votes

Embattled Fire Chief Kristin Crowley and her flunkeys are defending the 
call, but to the rightly outraged citizens of LA, those words will ring 
hollow. 

Especially given the fire department’s already severe problems.

Like a response time that had grown to nearly double what’s recommended by 
the National Fire Protection Association.

Embattled Fire Chief Kristin Crowley and her flunkeys are defending the 
call, but to the rightly outraged citizens of LA, those words will ring 
hollow. 

Especially given the fire department’s already severe problems.

Like a response time that had grown to nearly double what’s recommended by 
the National Fire Protection Association.

Plus budget cuts that left a shortage of life-saving equipment and a huge 
number of trucks out of service, per a whistleblower speaking to 
investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger.

The same whistleblower also cites LA’s DEI requirements as a huge driver 
of LAFD failure, alleging that it prompts overspending on DEI-compliant 
vendors and the lowering of standards to meet quotas on the force itself.

Can the people running the City of Angels do anything right?

Don’t forget the green-freak envirocrats at the California Coastal 
Commission, who stopped the LA Department of Water and Power’s efforts to 
fire-harden the Pacific Palisades area in order to . . . save an 
endangered shrub.

Yes, the CCC (it’s just missing a P) really prevented LA from replacing 
wooden power poles with steel, enlarging fire-access lanes and installing 
wind- and fire-resistant power lines over the presence of about 200 
Braunton’s milkvetch plants.

The agency even fined LADWP for having the audacity to think of doing fire 
prevention.  

Then came the fires, one starting right by the “milkvetch protection 
area.”

Dozens are dead, thousands of structures are gone, tens of thousands of 
acres burned and the city remains in chaos.

And those milkvetches are almost certainly ash in the wind. 

Meanwhile, local political “leaders” continue to reveal their utter 
incompetence. 

Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered a bizarre shoulder-shimmy and a bright grin 
when discussing the fires on a local newscast. 

This, after he cut the state’s firefighting effort by more than $100 
million, to $2.6 billion, in June  — even as he’s rung up a $14.7 billion 
tab for his state’s bonkers green-energy transition. 

That casts his “let’s blame local firefighters” media strategy in a 
different, much uglier light. 

It’s also the megabucks version of LA Mayor Karen Bass’ own fire-
department budget slash, which the Dem diehard undertook as she spent 
beaucoup bucks on woke priorities, including corruption-riddled programs 
in the name of housing the homeless. 

And now photos have emerged of the mayor playing diplomat at a cocktail 
party for Ghana’s just-inaugurated president as the Palisades fire 
exploded. 

Not precisely Nero fiddling while Rome burns, but about as close as a 
modern politico can get. 

Oh, and we can’t neglect to mention that Bass’ hand-picked Deputy Mayor 
Brian Williams, with major oversight of the LAFD, was put on leave in 
December after feds raided his home — reportedly connected to his 
suspected involvement in a bomb threat against City Hall.

California’s turning out to be a Matryoshka doll of nesting 
incompetencies.

And fresh proof that “progressive” these days means “progressively more 
dangerous to ordinary life.” 


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