Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass proved that she can’t be bothered by her city during a crisis. She should be recalled, and Los Angeles residents have kickstarted that effort.

Recall paperwork has been filed with the Los Angeles Ethics Commission, and Los Angeles residents can now raise money for the recall process, which will include gathering over 330,000 signatures. That means that Bass will spend the next four months whining about the recall being an “extreme right-wing political stunt,” as her team is already doing, and is customary for California Democrats facing recalls in their Democrat-dominated cities and states.

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If anyone has earned a recall, it is Karen Bass. Emails showed that Bass’s team was, in fact, warned about the fire conditions before she hopped on a plane to Ghana and Los Angeles went up in flames. Hundreds of officials across multiple departments were warned of “critical fire conditions” the day before Bass’s flight. Deputy Mayor Zach Seidl said that he saw the emails but did not speak to Bass about them. Instead, he blamed now-fired Fire Chief Kristin Crowley for not directly calling Bass.

Evidently, Bass can get information about fires from the fire chief and the fire chief alone. Local media was talking about the risk of fires publicly well before the fires broke out, and again, the city’s Emergency Management Department warned people across the city government of the “critical fire conditions” that the city would be facing.

What exactly do Bass and her team do to justify being so busy that only the fire chief can relay this knowledge?

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Lost in this blame game is that Bass left the country at the time of the fires despite promising during the campaign that she would not leave the country as mayor. Bass told the New York Times that she “would not travel internationally” and that the only places she would travel to “would be D.C., Sacramento, San Francisco, and New York.” For those unaware, none of those cities are in Ghana, which is where Bass was while her city burned.

Being blissfully unaware of the fire threat despite ample warnings is proof that Bass is incompetent. Pinning this all on the fire chief proves she doesn’t want to be held accountable for her decisions. Being absent during the crisis after lying to voters about international travel is proof that she is not qualified to hold any office, much less one running a city of nearly 4 million people.

Los Angeles residents should try to replace her as soon as possible. And that starts with a recall.