Los Angeles’ floundering Mayor Karen Bass fled from reporters after promising to answer tough “political questions” — instead escaping to another event — only hours after The California Postexposed the coverupof the Palisades Fire report.
Bass held a press conference to announce the signing of anexecutive directivebanning Immigration and Custom’s Enforcement from using city property for staging operations Tuesday. During the event, a reporter asked Bass to respond to challengerNithya Raman’s commentscalling for more police.
Bass answered the question, but told reporters any further off-topic subjects would be addressed at the end.
“The purpose of this Q & A is about the executive directive, if people do want to ask me political questions we can just do that afterwards,” Bass said. “I don’t want to hold everyone up here.”
When a California Post reporter tried to follow up withanother question about Raman— a former ally of Bass who announced a surprise bid for mayor over the weekend — it was quickly shut down.
“We’ll take that separately,” Amanda Crumley, Deputy Mayor for Communications, told The Post.
But Bass broke her promise, leaving the podium and never coming back out to answer questions from the media.
“She’s not coming out right now,” Kolby Lee, who does strategic communications for Bass, told reporters, adding that they can instead email their questions.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
