More Democrat political incompetence that led to LA wildfire disaster | Eastern NC Now

Democrat political incompetence leading to the Los Angeles wildfire disaster just keeps coming.

The time when a wildfire can be headed off to prevent it getting out of hand and out of control is in the early stages.  Using all resources in that period is critical. Some of the most effective resources are military firefighting assets like high capacity military firefighting aircraft.  To deploy those resources, however, it is necessary to have a local state of emergency declared by local government, and Los Angeles failed to do that for over six critical hours.

Normally, the mayor is the one with the authority to declare a local emergency, but Mayor Karen Bass was on a political junket to Africa, paid for by taxpayers.  She left on that junket even though she knew weather reports called for critical fire danger due to the Santa Ana winds.  As the liberal New York Times has reported, Bass also pledged during her mayor campaign NOT to travel abroad. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/us/karen-bass-ghana-wildfire-travel-los-angeles.html

With the mayor out of town off on a political junket, the authority to declare a local emergency fell to the Democrat president of the city council as Acting Mayor.  Acting Mayor Marqueece Harris-Dawson sat on his hands for over six critical hours without declaring a local emergency, thus preventing federal military resources from being deployed against the fire in its key early stages.  Harris-Dawson fiddled while Los Angeles burned.

Why was Harris-Dawson so irresponsible?  Apparently he is afraid to do anything without Bass' approval and could not reach Bass off on her junket to Africa.  So he waited and waited while the wildfires kept expanding.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/meet-man-who-waited-six-hours-issue-state/

The level of Democrat incompetence in this whole fiasco is enormous from the local to the state level but they have the gall to blame it on their usual boogey man "climate change" ???  California Democrats have clearly demonstrated that they are not fit or able to govern.

It is interesting that one actor who lost his house has already announced he is going to sue these hapless politicians for negligence.  He might not be the only one to do so.  They seem to deserve it.