The public doesn't typically tolerate leaders who aren't on the job when it matters most. For a mayor, I think it's the type of moment that dooms a reelect.
Conservatives from future and former president Donald Trump on down have relentlessly, and often inaccurately, blamed the climate-change-driven fire storm on the state and city's dominant party.
Bass was missing in action when the devastation began, in Ghana on a presidential delegation despite predictions of potentially devastating wind gusts that ultimately materialized.
Every public appearance since has become another scene in a brutal video loop reminding residents of her initial absence.
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