When Karen Bass was elected Mayor of Los Angeles in 2022, voter turnout was around 46%. As a side note, here is her opponent, Rick Caruso, in 2022. Caruso was a former Republican who switched parties because, well… it’s Los Angeles.
Los Angeles needs to fully fund our fire department and restore the lost resources from 2009. As mayor, I will protect those that put their lives on the line to safeguard our communities. #CarusoCan pic.twitter.com/bXeQFpYlao
— Rick J. Caruso (@RickCarusoLA) July 1, 2022 Instead, Los Angelinos (or a majority of 46% of them) voted for Karen Bass, a Democrat Congresswoman who was on Joe Biden’s shortlist for vice president. Bass rushed home from a trip to Ghana (which she took knowing LA was experiencing record-breaking winds) to deal with the wildfire crisis. Here, she is addressing reporters.
Ted Cruz fleeing Texas in the middle of a deadly crisis is part of a larger pattern of the GOP abandoning folks in crisis.
