A petition demanding the resignation of LA Mayor Karen Bass has been signed by more than 92,000 people
More than 92,000 people have signed Change.org petition as of Sunday morning demanding the resignation of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass as wildfires continue to rage in the area.
The petition was started by a user called “Frustrated Californian” who accused Bass of “gross mismanagement” during the natural disaster crisis, even calling her out for not being in the country when the fires started.
Bass took a lot of heat as she traveled overseas to Ghana last week, which meant she was thousands of miles away from her hometown during the first day of destruction on Tuesday.
“Water supplies have been severely strained, billions of taxpayer dollars have been misallocated or unaccounted for, and countless lives have been lost,” the petition reads.
A helicopter drops water on the Palisades Fire in Mandeville Canyon on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)
They currently exist five active forest fires in Los Angeles County — Palisades, Eaton, Kenneth, Hurst and Archer.
Bass has been active on social media since returning to the US, with her most recent posting on X and Facebook on Saturday night.
“Angelenos, we’re still going through it and all of you and all of you who have experienced loss, grief, anger, complete shock. I’ve seen the devastation. It’s incredible the amount of loss that people have experienced, but we have to get through this crisis and I know we will.” she said in the one-minute video.
Before she attracted intense public attention for her response to the wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles, Bass was highly regarded by the most prominent figures in the Democratic Party.
President Biden once considered Bass a front-runner to be his 2020 vice presidential running mate, while former President Barack Obama previously predicted she would make an “extraordinary mayor” of the city.
Sarah Michelle Gellar was one of many to criticize LA Mayor Karen Bass as the wildfires roared through Los Angeles. (Getty Images)
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Sarah Michelle Gellar, Patricia Heaton and Jillian Michaels are among the vocal celebrities who have issued scathing criticism of government officials.
“This disaster didn’t come out of left field,” Aurora Culpo, host of the “Barely Filtered” podcast, told Fox News Digital. “We were well aware of the possibility of a fire and we had the preparedness of a third world country in a place that pays some of the highest taxes in the world. Those in power should be forced to take responsibility and resign.”
FOX News’ Gabriel Hays and Gabrielle Regalbuto contributed to this report.
