Fox Hosts Torch Karen Bass and LA ‘Wacko Policies’ After Handful of Rebuild Permits Approved MONTHS After Fire
The hosts of Fox & Friends Weekend tore into Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) and her city’s “wacko policies” after only a handful of rebuild permits were approved months after the Pacific Palisades fires which destroyed thousands of homes.
Charles Hurt, Rachel Campos-Duffy, and Carley Shimkus all tore into Bass after listening to a report that the first of permits to rebuild destroyed homes have been approved two months after the widespread fires.
“This is the very end of years, decades of wacko policies, red tape and one-party domination in an area,” Hurt said.
Four permits to rebuild were approved by the end of March after dozens of applications were filed, according to the Los Angeles Times, a paper that is also currently suing Bass for access to deleted texts related to the city’s response to the fire. Bass faced immediate pushback as the fires broke out in January as she was not in the country at the time.
The three Fox hosts praised President Donald Trump after watching footage from January in which the president told Bass he’d been informed rebuild permits would not be issued for months. He urged Bass to let people begin rebuilding that very night.
Campos-Duffy also red-flagged the city reportedly paying $10 million to a consulting firm to oversee the rebuild process.
“$10 million for a consultant? Why don’t they just use the $10 million to clear the space?” she said in shock.
Los Angeles City Council Member Traci Parks said the slow permit approval process is “indicative of systemic issues that we need to continue to focus on.”
Check out the exchange below:
RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY: $10 million for a consultant? Why don’t they just use the $10 million to clear the space?
CHARLES HURT: Exactly. This is the very end of years, decades of wacko policies, red tape and one-party domination in an area. And, you know, it’s a tremendous opening for, I think, those — that one party to face real scrutiny and political punishment for their inability to do something as simple as allowing people to to clear their lots and rebuild their homes.
CARLEY SHIMKUS: Yeah, the second I saw this story, I thought about that moment when President Trump and Karen Bass were sparring and Melania Trump was sitting in the middle of them and he was like, please do not go through this permit process. This was two months ago. They can rebuild now. She says, well, we’ve got to make it safe, we’re gonna expedite it, we’re gonna make sure it’s quick, and now they’re celebrating the first permit being issued two months after the fire burned 7,000 homes down?
CAMPOS-DUFFY: Carley, even worse, what was great about this very tragic event was all the a footage that came back of Donald Trump warning that this place was going to burn down if they didn’t fix their dumb environmental policies that, you know, basically didn’t allow the city the clear the brush and deal with things or even get the water into the fire hydrants. I mean, there was just so many, so much mismanagement at every level. And Donald Trump was on record having predicted this. And then, of course, that great moment that you talked about where he was there telling her, get going here, let people into their houses.
SHIMKUS: So many people’s homes destroyed. So sad.
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