Celebrities turn on Democrats, blast LA mayor for fire response
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Big Hollywood names have started to turn on Los Angeles’ Democratic leadership, including Mayor Karen Bass, over
the botched response to
the wildfires raging across the ritzy, celeb-filled Pacific Palisades and surrounding areas.
Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar led the charge, criticizing the Democratic leadership on Instagram for failing to direct the tens of thousands of Southern California residents trying to flee as the fires burned uncontained Wednesday.
“City of LA you want everyone to evacuate yet you have complete gridlock and not one traffic cop on the roads helping,” Gellar wrote, tagging Bass and the city of Los Angeles.
The Palisades Fire has been ravaging neighborhoods since Tuesday and has burned a horrifying 17,234 acres (27 square miles) over the past 36 hours.
Actor James Woods, who lost his home in the Palisades Fire,
vented on X that the wildfires weren’t caused by “climate change” but by “liberal idiots like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass.”
“One doesn’t understand the first thing about fire management and the other can’t fill the water reservoirs,” he added.
Actress Sara Foster also took to X to lament how Los Angeles residents pay exorbitant taxes but the state was still completely unprepared to take on such massive wildfires.
“Our fire hydrants were empty. Our vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared. Our reservoirs were emptied by our governor because tribal leaders wanted to save fish. Our fire department budget was cut by our mayor. But thank god drug addicts are getting their drug kits,” she wrote.
The politically active actress, who is the daughter of music mogul David Foster, called on Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom to resign, writing, “your far left policies have ruined our state. And also our party.”
Former “Dancing with the Stars” professional dancer Valentin Chmerkovskiy also vented his frustrations over the state’s lack of preparedness, writing on social media Wednesday, “5th largest economy on the planet. Firefighters didn’t have enough water pressure to do their jobs?! Are you joking me?! The taxes we pay for 3rd world infrastructure is unbelievable?! Come on.”
“Shazam!” star and longtime Los Angeles resident Zachary Levi also ripped into Newsom and Bass for their handling of the crisis.
“This is just incredible mismanagement, incredibly poor leadership. I would go so far as to saying that it’s criminally negligent because, I mean, Gavin Newsom has been either the governor for five years or lieutenant governor prior to that for eight, nine years, some of the worst fires we’ve ever had in California under that watch. He clearly knows that the biggest problem that we suffer in California are these fires. And, by the way, the mudslides that follow,”
Levi said on “Jesse Watters Primetime”.
“And for them to do essentially not just nothing, but worse than nothing, when firefighter budgets are being cut . . .There is something that’s almost criminally intentional about this. Like, what are they doing? I don’t know.”
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