New images of LA Mayor Bass at a cocktail party as fires began spark fury on both sides of the aisle

Photos of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass living it up in Ghana, Africa while the Palisades fire broke out are prompting more outrage.

While Californians evacuated, leaving their homes and businesses behind with the hope that there might be something to return to, Bass had traveled abroad. According to the Los Angeles Times, “Bass was in the West African nation as part of a Biden administration delegation to the inauguration of Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama, which she had attended earlier in the day.” She left America while the National Weather Service “intensified warnings about a coming windstorm” and finally touched back down in America nearly 24 hours after the fires had started making their way across the state.

“A spokesperson for the mayor said the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana hosted the reception for the delegation before the group departed for the United States on a military plane,” the outlet reported. “Bass spent most of the party making calls in a separate room, he said.”

Photos from the gathering have enraged those on both sides of the aisle.

Karen Bass was at a cocktail party while the Palisades burned. https://t.co/xjk1BcncKd pic.twitter.com/qgeulSklac

— Eric Spiegelman (@ericspiegelman) January 15, 2025

Even left-leaning voices are calling out Bass:

If this were a Republican, Democrats would be (rightly) making it an issue. The Mayor should at least just acknowledge that she made the wrong judgment here. https://t.co/j2YjR6xz4a

— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) January 15, 2025

I voted for her and she knew the Santa Ana winds were a danger. We got warnings of it from meteorologists days before it happened. She was begged by Crowley to increase the fire budget since 2023. And despite the spin, no extra funding for OPERATIONS happened

— veracity (@alohavera1) January 15, 2025

Not sure how you recover from this https://t.co/XNr2R6EtJQ

— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) January 15, 2025

Guys….if she saw the fires happening and was still at a cocktail party….its not great. Politics aside.

— Nicholas M (@Nick_Mooree) January 15, 2025

Whether people think it’s fair or not, the reality is that Karen Bass political career is over.

She will not be able to survive this if she runs for reelection. https://t.co/bnL42odLTD

— Yashar Ali (@yashar) January 15, 2025

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