Peter Hamby
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 24 Jun
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And she made the decision on Saturday, January 4th, a day after the National Weather Service issued an extreme high wind and fire threat warning to go on this delegation trip to Ghana to attend the swearing in of their new president. And so if you think about, you know, New Orleans, a cat five is heading toward you guys and
And the mayor's like, well, you know, I already got a trip planned to London.
And that was the thing. Like that was the one thing, the one thing that people cared about was the economy. And when you, you know, light yourself on fire, to use a bad phrase, in that moment, why should I trust you? And like, this is the other thing too.
If she had gone and come back as soon as possible, and that Sky News reporter saw her in the airport and said, do you have a message for the people of LA? Give a response. Act like a human. I'm really worried. My friends are worried. We're running back. I've been talking to the president and blah, blah, blah. I've been talking to officials. We're going to get through this. Go straight.
to whatever the, you know, the fire line is just go there, be on camera, be present. I talked to somebody who's worked for a bunch of mayors in California and elsewhere when I was writing my piece. And this person made the point that like in politics, generally he called it like the horseshoe theory.
Like, you know, you're supposed to like land the horseshoe when you throw it on the little spike, like, and get it perfect every time. He's like, horseshoe theory doesn't really apply to crises. Like you, They will give the mayor, the governor, the president some latitude if they don't get it perfect. But she lost it in that moment. And that video, you can erase a previous statement.
Maybe you can fix it. You can tweak it. It's on camera for 92 full seconds. I count it. just staring stone-faced in silence after she was gone. And we found out later after she chose to leave knowing the threat. And beyond that, Tim, we had three different fire warnings this whole winter because it's been so dry this winter after the last two very wet winters. She just left. She made the choice.
And that is... especially in the climate change era when things are burning faster and hotter. Fires are the thing out here. And yes, homelessness is incredibly important. And she has brought more homeless folks indoors. And that's been good. I see it in Venice. That's also thanks to our councilwoman, Tracy Park. But there are other things beyond homelessness in this city.
And fires, the threat was there. She left. No one trusts her. So that's the thing. All the budget stuff, the reservoir stuff, the fire department chief fights. If you don't have any more trust, you do not get the benefit of the doubt anymore. Whereas all these other officials are kind of getting the benefit of the doubt, at least they're trying.
And Newsom, for all his faults, and he comes off as stiff, He's doing interviews. He's signing executive orders. He's bringing in firefighters from Mexico. He's bringing firefighters from all over the state. He's talking about how to hopefully work with Donald Trump. He's pushing back on misinformation. He's there. He's out there. He's doing stuff.
I would say he's much more of a leader of Los Angeles in this moment than Karen Bass is.
Before I empty the clip on the nerd from Shreveport, I have some dim memories of... emergency federal aid being tied to like budget negotiations or debt limits or something so that might not be new okay this is disgusting it's offensive this falls under the category of what i was saying people in los angeles want outsiders to shut the fuck up I could go a lot of directions with this.
Let's start with his home state and your home state, which I love and adore, and I'll be there in a couple weeks to see you and Tyler. Imagine if some president or congressional leader said that after a hurricane or a flood destroyed your church in your neighborhood, Mike Johnson. Imagine, Mike Johnson, what California must be like. Because I know you don't spend a lot of time out here.
Maybe you come out on the Trump jet when you're hanging out with the UFC guys. I don't know. California is more Republicans than any state in the country. California makes up a significant portion of your Republican caucus. It is...
disgusting that you would put politics and your assumptions about other people in front of helping people here in California, including many Republicans who probably voted for Trump, who have lost their houses. Disaster aid
helps people uh not just in the way like imagine like hurricane helene okay like this is why i get so mad about this like helene and this fire like you know i think i know you make fun of me for my college basketball coaching tree or whatever but like those are two events that like fucked with my people like western north carolina is where my family's from and like here.
And so, you know, there are a lot of people who don't believe in climate change that live up in those hollers in Western North Carolina and in Florida. So what? They're Americans. And for, you know, as long as we've had federal disaster aid, it doesn't, like, it's agnostic what you believe in.
Federal aid, you know, it can create jobs, you know, those firefighters and cops that you supposedly adore. Like, I'm sorry. We don't have all the answers yet. If this happened in any other state, it's just that Newsom and now Karen Bass, and I think Karen Bass deservedly in some ways, they deserve criticism. But there are a lot of Republican humans here. And I just think it's gross.
It's a real... I don't know. I've been watching so much local news out here in LA and it's wonderful. The television coverage and brave in certain ways. Like some of these reporters, like their houses were in jeopardy while they were out covering the fires. I want to see one of my local news friends out here.
go over to Arcadia and talk to some people whose house is burned over there in Altadena or elsewhere. And by the way, there was a fire last night, Tim, in Riverside, which is a Republican county represented by Ken Calvert.
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