One hand washes the other: Bass mysteriously drops fire lawsuit against state just as Newsom endorses her for Los Angeles mayor

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Spencer Pratt's response was: "You don't hate these corrupt politicians enough." 
  By Monica Showalter

Los Angeles's leftist Democrat mayor, Karen Bass, has been carrying on with her celebrity endorsement campaign (noted here), complete with some really disgusting ones:
But this might be the worst:
That's because Bass's rival for the Los Angeles mayor's race, conservative Spencer Pratt, spotted what looked like a quid pro quo:

The timing is interesting.

So what's a cross-complaint?

According to the California Courts Self-Help Guide:

A cross-complaint (or cross-claim) is a legal document filed by a defendant to initiate a lawsuit within an existing case. It allows the defendant to sue the original plaintiff, a co-defendant, or a completely new third party, provided the claim arises from the same events as the original lawsuit.

It's known that there are complaints against the city by Pacific Palisades residents who were burned out by the January 2025 conflagration that destroyed more than half of that subdivision, and at least as much of the Altadena area, with city incompetence in keeping a reservoir built for the purpose of fighting fires filled, fire engines and hydrants in decent repair, police services available, and in the case of Altadena, residents warned, which many weren't, until the fire was all around them, leading to higher casualties.

As the city was being sued for its failures, the city apparently filed a cross-complaint against the state for what probably was the biggest liability -- failure to stomp out a smoldering brushfire known as the 'Lachman fire' started by a bum with a fascination with Luigi Mangione during a Santa Ana wind event, and refusal to permit bulldozers to plow down the area to create firebreaks and stomp out the embers owing to a supposed threat to an obscure endangered species plant being more important.

Yes, there were good grounds for a countersuit, even with all the incompetence of the city. And now the countersuit has been dropped, which once again deprives the burned-out residents any relief from the state for its role in spreading the blame. Too bad about the victims, nothing from the state for them.

If that was quid pro quo for the 'honor' of getting Gavin Newsom's endorsement (which is probably worthless, anyway), what a vile thing to do to Los Angeles's fire victims.

As if Newsom stealing the Fire Aid millions and handing it to his NGO buddies for their pet projects wasn't terrible enough, and the state and city refusing to exempt these victims from taxes and permits to rebuild weren't an utterly awful way to treat people who lost everything. Now there's this.

There were these problems, too:

Bass may even be salting the earth for the next mayor by leaving the city alone holding the bag with the inevitable incompetence payouts.

Is Karen Bass banking on Spencer Pratt winning the election and seeing to it that Los Angeles is saddled with all the legal payouts as he takes office, even though the state is very much part of this blame for the fires, too? If so, then the act is even viler as Pratt is a fire victim himself.

As Spencer commented: You don't hate these corrupt politicians enough.

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