Nearly 100,000 People Sign Petition Calling for LA Mayor’s Resignation

More than 92,000 people have signed an online petition demanding the immediate resignation of Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass over her “gross mismanagement” of the devastating wildfires in the region.

The Change.org petition accuses Bass of mishandling the wildfires, noting she was not even in the country when the fires first broke out. Bass was 7,400 miles away in Ghana at the inauguration of the country’s president when the fires started raging on Tuesday.

“We . . . urgently call for the immediate recall of [Bass] due to her gross mismanagement and failure to effectively respond to the devastating 2025 fires in and around the city,” reads the petition, which was started Wednesday.

“Water supplies have been severely strained, billions of taxpayer dollars have been misallocated or left unaccounted for, and countless lives have been lost,” the petition adds.

“Families have been displaced, homes destroyed, and livelihoods shattered — yet Mayor Bass has been absent from the frontlines, choosing to travel abroad while her constituents suffer,” the petition adds.

Nearly 130,000 Californians have faced evacuation orders and at least 16 people had died as a result of the fires. Five wildfires remained active in Los Angeles County on Sunday, including Palisades, Eaton, Kenneth, Hurst and Archer. The Palisades fire has been the costliest in Los Angeles history.

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