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Karen Bass: Part-Time Mayor

It’s said that Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass did no such thing — she just took a taxpayer-funded trip to the Paris Olympics while cutting $17 million from the fire department’s budget and ignoring the cries of her fire chief. 

Three,actually.Threetaxpayer-fundedtripstotheParisOlympicsthatlastedtwoweeks.Butjustthinkofthemilessheearned. Sure,BasswasinGhanaonaWhiteHousejunketwhenthefiresbrokeoutlastweek,butthatwassheerdumbluck.ANewYorkTimesreporttodayindicatesthatBassviewsherpositionaspart-timeatbest. “AreviewofherpublicdailyscheduleforthepastyearshowsthatMs.BasshastraveledoutofthecountryatcityexpenseatleastfourothertimesinrecentmonthsbeforetheGhanavisit,”theNYTreported.“OncetoMexicofortheinaugurationofPresidentClaudiaSheinbaumandthreetimestoFranceforthe2024OlympicGamesinParis.” Itgetsworse.Basshadexplicitlypromisedduringthe2022mayoralracetoreduceherforeigntravel,eventhoughshedidn’twantto. AndAnotherThing:HowdoesanyonetraveltothesameEuropean