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As the LA fires rage on, one question rings out: Where is the City of Angels’ Rudy Giuliani?
After 9/11, Rudy became “America’s Mayor” by leading the charge on disaster response, sparing no effort day or night to reassure the public that the city was going to fight its way back to normal and doing everything in his power to steer his town through the aftermath of the deadliest attack on US soil ever.
The images of him at Ground Zero have entered the pantheon of American political iconography for a reason.
LA Mayor Karen Bass, by contrast, ignored warnings of potentially catastrophic fires to head off on a “diplomatic” junket in Ghana, and was still there as her city started burning down.
And apart from vacantly staring at a reporter who asked if she had anything to say to the voters she left to die and the long-belated offer of platitudes like “Reject those who seek to divide us,” she’s done nothing meaningful since she got back.
Worse, her policies and personnel played a key role in supercharging the disaster, like cutting LAFD funding and prioritizing homeless services.
As for onetime Dem golden boy Gov. Gavin Newsom: The fires were a chance for him to shake off the woke trance and become the leader all Californians have been waiting for.
Instead, Newsom tried to claim that there were no empty reservoirs (the Santa Ynez one is bone dry) after shifting blame for dry hydrants to “local folks.”
This weekend he debuted a new website to fight alleged misinfo on the fire and allow for charitable donations — with the giving funneled through shady Dem mega-bucks machine ActBlue, which also takes a cut of such proceeds.
Thousands of structures gone, at least 24 dead, an area twice the size of Manhattan burned and the fires still not under control, and Newsom decides to ring the cash register.
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The LA fires and the Newsom/Bass flailfest remind us that political leadership really does matter — and that in moments of disaster, it’s all that matters.
That’s what Rudy’s example in Gotham shows us (and always will).
And the ever-louder outrage among Angelenos and Golden Staters more broadly shows just how clearly the public understands that.
Even if their “leaders” seem utterly blind to it.