Ex-fire chief sues LA Mayor Karen Bass over Palisades Fire claims

 News Nation

Crowley’s attorneys allege she repeatedly warned city leaders budget cuts, staffing shortages and aging infrastructure had weakened the department’s ability to respond to major emergencies. They argue Bass retaliated against Crowley after she publicly criticized the city’s funding of the fire department.

"(NewsNation) — Former Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley has filed a defamation lawsuit against Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, alleging the mayor falsely blamed her for the city’s response to the January 2025 Palisades Fire and damaged her professional reputation.

"According to the lawsuit, cited by the Los Angeles Times, Crowley alleges Bass made false statements while campaigning for reelection, including allegations Crowley was responsible for inoperable fire engines and failed to properly deploy firefighters ahead of the deadly wildfire. Crowley argues those statements were made while Bass was a political candidate and are therefore not protected by government immunity.

"The lawsuit alleges Bass “sought to avoid accountability by shifting blame and lying — including by falsely claiming that she was not aware of the nationally anticipated weather event.”

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"Bass demoted Crowley weeks after the fire but did not terminate her employment with the department. Crowley remains an assistant chief in the Valley Bureau.

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The Law Has Finally Caught Up to Gavin Newsom

Victor Davis Hanson

Apparently, Gavin Newsom will be running for president in 2028. I don’t know whether his slogan will be, “I will remake the United States in the way that I remade California.” Let’s hope not. 

 

"Gavin Newsom and his wife are currently under investigation by the Department of Justice in a serious state fund scandal.

"Allegedly, Newsom transferred millions to charities operated by his wife, creating an obvious conflict of interest and funding Left-wing organizations that keep the Newsoms in power. "While Newsom claims the investigation by Trump’s DOJ is law-fare, the real law-fare may have occurred during Joe Biden’s presidency. “Now there’s no cover, no exemption and now you’re going to face scrutiny.” . . .

. . . "We have the highest gasoline taxes and the highest gasoline prices. You’re bragging that you’re stopping oil and gas exploration and production in one of the wealthiest oil and gas states naturally in the country.  

"You’ve shut down the timber industry. You’ve done all of this, and yet you’re not even addressing any of the problems. 

"You have no solutions, and you’re campaigning when you’re under a cloud of allegations of rampant fraud. What’s your future? Will you still be a candidate for president?" . . . 

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Where Are the Bill Kristols and Michael Steeles on the Democrat Side Today?

"Democrats and Republicans are not flip sides of the same coin."

The American Spectator  

"And the Democrats aren’t political adversaries anymore. They’re now enemy agents. And they’re not quiet about it. Act accordingly, and vote these bastards down as best you can, because your country is at stake."

Uncle Paul's Parodies

. . . "The outgoing leadership cadre in the Democrat Party has certainly run itself into the ground. There is little question in that. You can’t look at a single leader among the modern Democrat Party who offers new ideas or approaches or even differs with the orthodoxy in any real respect." . . .

…and this is the new breed of Democrat. It’s now a party made up of people who don’t even bother to hold down a job (James Talarico, for example, makes $80,000 a year as a DEI consultant on top of the $14,000 per year the Texas Senate pays him), who absolutely hate people who do, who choose Palestinian terrorists over Israeli farmers and music fans, who think Somali welfare pirates must be protected at all costs and can’t be sent home, and openly take the side of Iranian mullahs over American servicemen.

"Never in American history has a more loathsome and revolutionary political faction existed. The pro-slavery Democrats of the mid-19th century were fundamentally wrong in many respects, with slavery obviously first and foremost among those, but at least they hewed to some of the spirit of the founding of the country, and the structure and mission of the Confederate government were somewhat recognizable as an American idea.

"But this? Mamdani, Chevalier, Nithya Raman, the odious Janeese George, who’ll soon be the mayor of Washington, D.C.?

"It’s very much a foreign occupation of our big blue cities by a class of people with values that are largely irreconcilable with those of the rest of the country." . . .

Scott McKay is a contributing editor at The American Spectator  and publisher of the Hayride, which offers news and commentary on Louisiana and national politics, and RVIVR.com, a national political news aggregation and opinion site. 

Democrats board the crazy train in New York

 American Thinker published a consensus on this fearful tide sweeping American politics. TD

Monica Showalter  

. . . "Two is that President Obama, with his masked far-left, third-world background, swung the party leftward with his divisive executive orders and fashion-friendly exterior."  

 

"Democrats found themselves surprised by the election result in New York's primaries, where Democrat  voters chose extremists of the most repulsive sort over establishment-endorsed candidates, to win three New York primaries, driving their party to the farthest left it's ever been.

"According to the New York Post:

Democrats were shocked when a trio of anti-Israel, socialist candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani swept Tuesday’s New York House primary races, warning that their ascendance represents a changing of the guard for the party as voters embrace the far left.

“The roof is collapsing on the Democratic Party establishment tonight,” progressive political activist and CNN commentator Van Jones told Kaitlan Collins as election results rolled in.

“And you can’t write off New York City because this … is a power center for the establishment and the insurgency. And they’re going head to head tonight,” he said

"And right now, this is no longer a movement. This is a movement and a machine at the same time. And there’s just no way to sugarcoat this: If Mamdani pulls off a hat trick, this is a new era in Democratic Party politics.”

"It's so bad the winners are from the kind of left that makes Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez look like a moderate.

"They're calling for the death of Western Civilization:" . . .  More...

Democrat party dead? Marxists and RINOs ascendant? America doomed?

"Though I am a conservative, I must say that this is not good news for the United States of America."

. . . " Wokeness, suicidal empathy, and rapid demographic change have combined with the collapse of objective educational institutions and media outlets to sentence us to a sort of nation-wide version of MAID, Marxist Assistance In Dying." . . .

The other problem with socialism  

. . . "It would be tragic if the United States, which fought on the side of freedom throughout the Cold War, succumbed to socialism in the end. I worry the rising tide of suicidal empathy, coupled with a lack of knowledge about socialism’s history and sheer immorality, could bring a socialist revolution to the United States. I hope I am wrong." . . . 

 

Chris Talgo (ctalgo@heartland.org) is editorial director at The Heartland Institute.

The Democratic debate is over. The left won

 If you're ignorant enough to believe Israel attacked Hamas, you can easily believe in Democrat socialism; Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Mayor Mamdani. And be taught to shake your fist in anger on command:

Byron York  THE DEMOCRATIC DEBATE IS OVER. THE LEFT WON. When a political party loses a big election, it usually goes into a period of introspection. What went wrong? How can it be fixed?

"When Democrats lost the 2024 election, some argued the party had gone too far left, that it needed to move toward the center. Others said no, the party had not gone far enough to the left, and that it needed to move past progressivism toward outright socialism.

"A debate ensued. Now, with Tuesday's elections in New York City, the argument is settled. The socialists won, and the Democratic Party is headed further left.

"Lots of press accounts are calling New York's socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani a "kingmaker." They're right. Mamdani, who did not exactly win his own office in a landslide — he won last year with 50.8% of the vote — risked his political capital to support three far-left challengers to established Democrats. The challengers won.

"There was Darializa Avila Chevalier, a graduate student who believes in open borders, no prisons, and free everything (including her favorite, Free Palestine). Avila Chevalier took down five-term Democratic incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat, who wields quite a bit of power as chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

"There was Brad Lander, first an opponent and then a key ally of Mamdani, who took down two-term incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman. And then there was Claire Valdez, a state assemblywoman who won the nomination for a seat opened by the retirement of 17-term incumbent Rep. Nydia Velazquez. That race was remarkable because Velazquez was adamantly opposed to Mamdani's candidate and felt that Mamdani had betrayed her in the election — and she still lost." . . .  More...

‘By Zohran, he’s got it!’ - Silvio Canto, Jr.    

"Yes, they are coming, whether the party wants them or not.  They are on a mission from God, or whatever they believe in. The first target will be Governor Shapiro of Pennsylvania if he decides to run for president.  He is Jewish, and we know what just happened to Representative Goldman on Tuesday night." . . .

They saw what Hamas did to innocent Israelis that Oct 7th yet still champion their murderous cause! 

"I almost feel sorry for leftists. Almost. But I don’t. The reason is simple: so much of what they say and do runs counter to the core principles on which this country was founded.   

"Søren Kierkegaard observed that there are two ways to err: to believe what is not true, and to refuse to believe what is true. Leftists frequently demonstrate both." 

. . . "The kettle is simmering. The frog is growing restless. In much of Western Europe and the United Kingdom, citizens have watched their cultural foundations erode with little effective resistance. America still has time to choose a different path."

CHANGING HISTORY Islam’s accelerating takeover of Europe

 

Europe Diplomatic Magazine  

Their numbers are growing, too. Indeed, they’re inclined to conflate anti-Muslim hatred with any sort of criticism of Islam or its followers. It licenses them to hate virtually everybody who doesn’t share their extreme views.

"If you wanted to launch a slimming campaign, aimed at encouraging people to lose weight, you might think you need an emblem of some sort, a figure that represents your weight-loss aims. Would you choose Father Christmas (Santa Claus, if you prefer), that jolly fat man in red who allegedly squeezes down chimneys to leave presents for children? Probably not: he’s not quite the image you’re likely to favour or to ask others to copy, surely. He’s the wrong shape. By that token, would you seek to encourage gender equality with a woman who chooses to wear a Muslim veil? Probably not, but it’s what has happened in Belgium. It may sound somewhat odd, but we’ll come back to that a little later in this article. The lady in question has not suggested that other Muslim women should cast off their veils, either, and nor has she suggested that Muslim men should start wearing them. Why ever not? Surely, she should have done one or the other? Parity, after all, must surely be the aim. There’s no doubt that Islam is the fastest-growing religion in Europe. In fact, it has so many adherents that some people are predicting that in Belgium (and not only Belgium) it could, within a human lifespan, become Europe’s dominant faith. Those who don’t share it, and who remain resolutely Christian or Jewish (or determined Atheists), fear that they and their descendants could soon be a minority, mere outsiders in a Muslim entity." . . .  More...

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