The astounding absence and silence of the LA mayor as her city burns
I’m not sure that there was ever a good time for Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass to be on a presidential diplomatic mission to Ghana. But if there was, it certainly was not this week. As wildfires raged across Southern California burning over 15,000 acres and forcing tens of thousands of residents to evacuate their homes, word spread that the mayor of the City of Angels was missing in action. Her former mayoral challenger, LA realtor Rick Caruso, spoke to Fox LA about the city’s mismanagement and the scale of the disaster: “We've got a mayor that's out of the country, and we've got a city that's burning.
