Peter Hamby

a single politician or political figure for any of this, because there's such a, you know, Byzantine politics here. Like there's different jurisdictions and whatever. And by the way, Cal fire, I think Gavin Newsom for all the criticism has been doing a pretty good job of responding to a crisis. Former mayor himself, uh,

He's calling for an investigation into the empty reservoir and very conspicuously copied Karen Bass on the public letter. At the bottom, it says, CC, LA Mayor Karen Bass. And so Gavin is doing his political thing where he doesn't want to throw local officials under the bus. But any of us who've worked in politics can read between the lines. Her political capital is gone. I'll explain why.

He's calling for an investigation into the empty reservoir and very conspicuously copied Karen Bass on the public letter. At the bottom, it says, CC, LA Mayor Karen Bass. And so Gavin is doing his political thing where he doesn't want to throw local officials under the bus. But any of us who've worked in politics can read between the lines. Her political capital is gone. I'll explain why.

He's calling for an investigation into the empty reservoir and very conspicuously copied Karen Bass on the public letter. At the bottom, it says, CC, LA Mayor Karen Bass. And so Gavin is doing his political thing where he doesn't want to throw local officials under the bus. But any of us who've worked in politics can read between the lines. Her political capital is gone. I'll explain why.

It's not because of these various budget things or the reservoir. It's just the leadership thing. And you and I have seen this. We've been around so many dying campaigns, and we saw this with Joe Biden in the debate last summer.

It's not because of these various budget things or the reservoir. It's just the leadership thing. And you and I have seen this. We've been around so many dying campaigns, and we saw this with Joe Biden in the debate last summer.

It's not because of these various budget things or the reservoir. It's just the leadership thing. And you and I have seen this. We've been around so many dying campaigns, and we saw this with Joe Biden in the debate last summer.

Once you lose trust and credibility, especially in this era where we don't trust politicians or institutions very much at all, and in our social media era where we're grabbing whatever information suits our priors, It was gone.

Once you lose trust and credibility, especially in this era where we don't trust politicians or institutions very much at all, and in our social media era where we're grabbing whatever information suits our priors, It was gone.

Once you lose trust and credibility, especially in this era where we don't trust politicians or institutions very much at all, and in our social media era where we're grabbing whatever information suits our priors, It was gone.

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 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 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 the mayor's like, well, you know, I already got a trip planned to London.

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.

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.

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.