Karen Bass stiffs Valley July 4 parade –– why? – Latest News
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A starkly unpatriotic choice by Karen Bass has landed like a dud firework.
The mayor has pulled help for the Sunland-Tujunga Fourth of July parade within the San Fernando Valley, prompting its cancellation.
Her cause for the snub? Pennies, in impact.
Bass apparently discovered the price of site visitors control and street closures for the parade — about $20,000 — an excessive amount of to bear.
Mayor Karen Bass is being slammed for a last-minute choice to drag funding for a neighborhood group who needed to close their essential avenue for a Fourth of July Parade marking America’s 250th birthday. AP Photo/Scott Strazzante
This, she determined within the eleventh hour. On the nation’s 250th birthday. Leaving organizers with no time to fund-raise or discover one other sponsor.
Not cool.
The mayor would do properly to reverse course and restore help for the beloved occasion, which dates back more than 50 years.
As it’s, her transfer is puzzling, at best.
And it rankles parade organizers, given the hundreds of thousands LA spends mopping up after activism inspired by metropolis officers.
The parade is a spotlight of the group’s festivities yearly. Lydia Grant
Lydia Grant, president of the Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council, instructed The California Post: “All the ICE protests that they paid money for, now they don’t have money [for the parade]. They’re investing money into protests and activism instead of something that would bring our community together.”
She has a level. While LA does need to cowl police time beyond regulation for, and restore property broken by, anti-ICE riots, metropolis officers — together with Bass — solely encourage such bedlam by demonizing federal immigration enforcement.
Is it doable that politics performed a function in Bass’ slight of the parade?
It virtually actually did in one other latest case.
The parade has been a spotlight for 50 years. Lydia Grant
As The California Post reported in April, the notoriously left-wing California Coastal Commission blocked a long-running fireworks show in Long Beach — additionally, because it occurs, simply in time for the nation’s 250th birthday.
The coastal panel stated it acted to guard the shoreline from air pollution.
But that’s a stretch. Does 15 or 20 minutes of pyrotechnics as soon as a yr actually hurt the surroundings in a port metropolis, the place cargo ships day by day befoul the air and ocean?
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It’s clear that some leftists don’t like America a lot, and downright detest a president intent on lavishly celebrating this yr’s Semiquincentennial.
But the Founders’ imaginative and prescient, enshrined within the Declaration of Independence and honored by the Fourth of July, ought to transcend politics.
Valley residents get this. Their long-running parade options not solely veterans, however Little League groups, historic teams, cheerleaders, group volunteers and more.
It’s uplifting, unifying, family-friendly, honorable, patriotic enjoyable.
Bass ought to rethink her dud choice to impede it.
