Reliably Democratic Celebrities Turn on Their Brethren in California Government Following Los Angeles Wildfires Failures
‘LA cannot go forward with the status quo. LA is no longer what it was. It has to be different,’ Maria Shriver writes on X.
As devastating wildfires continue to ravage Los Angeles, a number of celebrities — many of them reliably Democratic in the past — have found themselves among the thousands of residents displaced and facing the loss of their homes. In the wake of destruction, some are speaking out against state officials, criticizing their response to the deadly blazes.
Most of the anger has been directed at Los Angeles’ mayor, Karen Bass, who left for a trip to Ghana after the city was warned that the powerful Santa Ana winds that fueled the flames were coming. She was thousands of miles away during the initial destruction.
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