Bass Under Fire: Troubling Call, Wildfire Fallout, and a Shaken LA Electorate

Bass Under Fire: Troubling Call, Wildfire Fallout, and a Shaken LA Electorate

California continues its slide into disaster, and none of it is related to tectonic plates.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is one of the top contributors to state troubles.  However, there have been some recent indications that Californians may not let her slide into another comfortable election victory when given an option.

Part of her current set of troubles stems from her decision to attend the inauguration of the new Ghanaian President, John Dramani Mahama, in January 2025, despite warnings that wind conditions in the Los Angeles area put the entire region at risk of a wildfire disaster.

A New York Post article now reveals a very troubling phone call between Bass and a business owner, which appears to indicate that Bass was well aware of the high risk of wildfire before she departed.

John Alle, a Los Angeles business owner, said he recorded a phone call with the Los Angeles mayor just three days before the deadly fire when he called to warn her of the wind.

Bass is heard on the recording saying she hopes Alle is “safe,” as the eventual winds behind the devastating fire whipped up.

“I want to make sure that you are safe,” she said. “And, hopefully you can read in-between the lines.”

It’s unclear what Bass is referring to. Her office told Fox 11 that the call was about “law enforcement operations at Macarthur Park,” but Alle says a central theme was the winds.

“I warned her of the winds. It was more than MacArthur Park — it was about LA and fire,” Alle said. He said he recorded the Jan. 4, 2025, call because he feared for his safety.

In the recording, Bass tells Alle to “read between the lines,” “hold tight,” and that “you will understand soon.” This portion of the phone call is particularly troubling to many, especially those impacted by the fire.

Part of the concern is that several regional fires during that period appear to have been set by arsonists. Additionally, bureaucrats appeared to limit robust firefighting efforts to protect a particular plant species…that does well after wildfire conditions.

Then, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced $101 million in new funding for ‘multifamily low-income housing’ in the area for ‘a more equitable and resilient Los Angeles.’

Leaked phone call from January 4, 2025 (3 days before the devastating Palisades Fire)

The call is between Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and John Alle, a property manager and whistleblower in the Pacific Palisades, Westlake and MacArthur Park areas

John Alle contacted Karen Bass… pic.twitter.com/kC7RFB5L71

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) April 28, 2026

The result of these developments, coupled with all the other Bass-caused disasters, means that many Los Angeles residents do not know whom they will be voting for in the mayoral primary slated for June 2nd.

A poll from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs found that 40% of voters are undecided in a race that’ll determine who leads one of the nation’s most populous cities in the coming years.

Meanwhile, incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and former reality TV star Spencer Pratt earned support in the double-digits — the only two candidates to do so — in the poll released on April 3.

“It is unusual for 40% of likely voters to be unsure of their choice just two months before an LA mayoralty election,” Zev Yaroslavsky, director of the Los Angeles Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, said in a statement.

Pratt has been shaking things up with a very effective grassroots campaign, focused on the current LA political leadership’s failures to help residents recover from the disaster. Hot Air’s Beege Welborne had a rundown of highlights, noting that running as a Republican has not hurt his chances, apparently.

Pratt hit the ground running and has been using the same savvy innerwebs acumen that made his videos that much more compelling for advertising skewering Karen Bass and the dysfunctional Los Angeles city government.

It’s only been four months since his announcement, and it looks as if the ‘Republican label’ hasn’t hurt Pratt much at all in the crowded field of fourteen – FOURTEEN – wanna be kings or queens of LA.

They not like us pic.twitter.com/78hducHDUE

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) April 29, 2026

California’s governing class has long relied on a compliant media, a distracted electorate, and a steady stream of taxpayer-funded Band-Aids to mask systemic incompetence.

However, the massive cracks are now too wide to ignore.

When a mayor appears to hint at foreknowledge of danger, bureaucrats prioritize flora over fire suppression, and state leaders pivot to “equity” spending in the ashes of preventable disaster, voters begin to notice. The growing bloc of undecided Angelenos suggests that even in deep-blue Los Angeles, patience has limits.

Whether that translates into meaningful political change remains to be seen, but for perhaps the first time in years, the outcome isn’t preordained, and California Democrats’ failures are no longer safely insulated from voter consequences.

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