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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