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Yes, while running for Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass said she would give up her international travels for a time. She promised, “not only would I, of course live here, but I would also not travel internationally.”

Flash forward to early 2025, there are fire warnings, a strong possibility that wildfires would get out of control, and Mayor Karen decides to jet off to Ghana on President Joe Biden’s invitation.

All while her city burned.

Even worse than the lie is the result her her absence.

The city had to scramble. It delayed the state of emergency, which delayed the use of state and federal resources as the Pacific Palisades fire was ramping up.

Even The New York Times is calling the Democrat mayor out on her lies.

It was not her first trip abroad as mayor. A review of her public daily schedule for the past year shows that Ms. Bass has traveled out of the country at city expense at least four other times in recent months before the Ghana visit — once to Mexico for the inauguration of President Claudia Sheinbaum and three times to France for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris …

Now, though, her decision to leave the country at a time when the National Weather Service was warning of “extreme fire weather conditions” has set off a political crisis for Ms. Bass.

While Bass wouldn’t respond to questions about abandoning her post and leaving the country, her office provided a pretty pathetic excuse.

Zach Seidl, her spokesman, said that the mayor is ‘laser focused on ongoing response and recovery efforts.’ Of her 2021 remarks about travel, he said: ‘In light of the Olympics coming, that the city owns and operates the nation’s largest international trade hub, and that a third of Angelenos were born abroad, this was, of course, a miscommunication — mayors of Los Angeles routinely travel internationally.’

It wasn’t “miscommunication.” It was a broken promise.

And Mayor Bass being “out of town” when crises happen seems to be par for the course.

During that late April trip to Washington, pro-Palestinian protests at U.C.L.A. turned violent. She cut the trip short and flew back on May 1, issuing statements along the way to reassure residents.

While she was in France for the closing ceremony of the Olympics in August, Gov. Gavin Newsom showed up at a mid-city underpass to make the point that local governments needed to do more to clear homeless encampments. While she was in Paris for the Paralympic Games in September, the National Weather Service issued an excessive heat warning for Los Angeles, with 117-degree forecasts. Power outages forced the cancellation of a show at the Hollywood Bowl.

It almost feels like Bass is just in the job for the perks and the prestige, not to do the actual work of mayor.

There are many such cases.

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