LA’s Political Bosses Are On Fire

The ashes of the most destructive fire in Los Angeles history have settled, but a new wildfire is burning through the ranks of the elected and unelected officials who let the disaster happen.

In a truly historic event in which all sorts of glass ceilings were no doubt broken, the first black female mayor of Los Angeles fired the first lesbian fire chief for not warning her that there would be heavy winds before she set off on a trip to Africa that she had promised she wouldn’t go on.

Former Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, a paramedic like the other two lesbians also named Kirsten running the LAFD, appealed to the Los Angeles City Council leading to a historic diversity face-off between an incompetent black woman and an incompetent white lesbian.

City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson, a former Bass ally and, like her, a former community organizer, initially rejected the appeal. Harris-Dawson was hardly an objective observer since he was the one who had to declare an emergency because LA Deputy Mayor Brian Williams, another Bass ally, was being investigated by the FBI for making bomb threats.

It took Harris-Dawson six hours to declare a state of emergency. Both Bass and Harris-Dawson dismissed the delay, claiming that declaring an emergency actually made no difference at all.

In the City Council showdown, Bass and her allies blamed Crowley for not warning her about the heavy Santa Ana winds even though every local already knows about them and they had been widely covered in the media before the mayor decided to fly off to Ghana. Additionally they complained that Crowley had sent 1,000 firefighters home. According to Crowley, there was no money and no available engines for them to operate because of funding cuts by Bass.

Most damningly though, the Los Angeles City Stentorians, an association of black firefighters, popped up to accuse Crowley of racism, claiming that firefighters were yelling racial slurs while fighting the Palisades fire. This entirely plausible set of events was further backed up with “reports of white firefighters circulating MAGA hats, erecting Trump shrines in stations”.

The allegations against Crowley running a racist MAGA fire department full of Trump shrines where firefighters fight fires by shouting racial slurs at them were signed on to by the local NAACP and other Bass allies. And that was it for the LAFD’s first lesbian fire chief.

It may be acceptable to let significant parts of Los Angeles catch fire, but it is never allowable to let firefighters wear MAGA hats.

The first lesbian fire chief lost the support of black councilmembers but held on to the support of the (probably) first Chinese LAFD union head Chung Ho. Only the two more moderate city council members, including the ‘third latina to serve on the city council’, voted to reinstate Crowley who has now been replaced by the second latino fire chief in what is a historic event.

The DEI circular firing squad is mostly moot because everyone in the identity politics mess had failed on the most basic level to deal with a massive catastrophe. Text messages involving Crowley showed that the city did not move to Level 1 activation until the next morning.

Mayor Karen Bass however deleted her text messages just in time for the roughly four investigations into the devastating fires. According to the city’s lawyer, the deletions were automatic and she was not obligated to keep her text messages because they were not made for the “purpose of preserving its informational content for future reference.”

Messages from her aides however showed that they received warnings about the winds including a big red block warning of “critical fire conditions.” According to Bass, who had promised not to even leave the country, the warnings “didn’t reach that level to me, that something terrible could happen, and maybe you shouldn’t have gone on the trip.”

Her current 28-year-old deputy mayor, a former spokesman urgently promoted to deputy mayor on account of not yet being raided by the FBI for sending in bomb threats, argued, “that is not a warning of disaster. That sends the opposite message.”

While multiple investigations continue of those fires, with investigators claiming last month that they have over 235 leads, but no actual answers there’s also an investigation of a new fire which they suspect was arson that was also mishandled by the LAFD. The suspicions for those fires however revolve around New Year’s Eve fireworks and “unauthorized camping” which is locally a term for the homeless encampments unleashed by the Democrat political machine.

Without waiting for the evidence to be finalized, Los Angeles County sued Southern California Edison: the politically connected power company many are blaming for the disaster. But there’s also reason to believe that the fires may have involved the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power which was supposed to replace power lines, but was unable to do so because it was the location of 183 bushes of an endangered weed known as milkvetch which blooms after fires.

The fires are good for the milkvetch and environmentalists and bad for everyone else.

The DWP is also being sued for low water levels under its historic first latina head Janisse Quinones set to make $750,000 a year. That salary, already described as “eye-popping” will be further augmented by DWP spending another $700,000 to provide her with personal security after reported ‘threats’ due to parts of LA burning down. It would have only cost $130,000 to fix a crucial reservoir, but instead DWP will have spent more than ten times that on its boss.

While families who lost it all are still picking up the pieces, LAPD resources were diverted to protect Quinones, Crowley and assorted other public officials. Now the DWP boss will have her own Pinkerton secret service protecting her historic nature and even more historic salary.

That is what ‘equity’ looks like.

While the multiple federal, state and local investigations into the disaster continue, it’s as of yet not entirely clear which element of the state, county, and city’s historic wokeness was the cause of the historic fires, but what is clear is that every historic leader in the loop failed badly. And rather than admit fault, they have taken to blaming each other and crying that they’re the victims of ‘hate’ before getting back to business as usual without changing a single thing.

That’s what a historically corrupt California looks like.

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