Khloe Kardashian calls Los Angeles mayor ‘a joke’ amid ongoing wildfires
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The reality star joins celebrities speaking out against Mayor Karen Bass in the wake of destruction. “I stand by YOU Chief Crowley!!!! You spoke the truth and you had tears in your eyes because I can tell you didn’t even want to say that but it was THE TRUTH,” Khloe wrote on Instagram last night (January 10). “Thank you for being honest. Mayor Bass, you are a joke!!!!”.
![[Sara Foster slams Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom amid ongoing Los Angeles wildfires]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/11/22/Screenshot-2025-01-11-at-5.24.19%E2%80%AFPM.jpg)
On December 4, Crowley issued a warning that budget cuts would negatively impact her department’s ability to effectively respond to emergencies. In Chief Crowley’s letter to the Board of Fire Commissioners, she said the reductions, including a $7 million slash to overtime hours, “have adversely affected the Department’s ability to maintain core operations” and “severely limited the Department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies" as well as brush clearance and resident inspections.
![[Jillian Michaels questions where Mayor Bass is as Los Angeles wildfires erupt]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/11/22/Screenshot-2025-01-11-at-5.28.15%E2%80%AFPM.jpg)
At a January 9 press conference, Mayor Bass claimed these previous cuts haven’t affected how the department has been able to respond to the current fires. “I think if you go back and look at the reductions that have been made, there were no reductions that would have impacted the situation we were dealing with over the last couple of days,” she said.
“It’s important to understand that we were in tough budgetary times,” she continued. “Everybody knew that, but the impact of our budget really did not affect what we’ve been going through over the last few days.”. Despite her claims, several celebrities have expressed the same exasperation as Khloe, ridiculing the mayor for funding woes and being overseas in Ghana when the fires first erupted.
