‘Pissed’ Hollywood Star Unleashes Tirade Against LA’s ‘Useless’ Leaders
By Russell Bartlett
Los Angeles has long been the epicenter of America’s entertainment industry, but as the city continues to be destroyed by raging wildfires even some of it’s biggest stars are starting to recognize how incompetent their local and state officials are.
“Family Ties” actress Justine Bateman, for example, recently sounded off on the situation by pointing a finger at those city leaders who have contributed to the current disaster.
As she said during a Fox News Channel interview this week:
“I’m pretty pissed, and I think a lot of people in Los Angeles are pissed,” Bateman told “Jesse Watters Primetime” Thursday, insisting that city leaders should be better at handling these types of situations.
The Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire, Hurst Fire, Lidia Fire and the Sunset Fire have ravaged LA County. As of Friday, officials had reported that the death toll was at least 11 and the fires had burned more than 36,000 acres and destroyed over 10,000 structures.
“If you are going to run a city or run a state, you have to take care of the basics, and that’s to make sure that your fire and your police department are well-funded,” the filmmaker said, stressing the importance of having “rehearsed” planning in place to hopefully minimize the consequences of natural disasters. For California, that includes wildfires, earthquakes, heavy rain and consequent mudslides.
Bateman argued California’s elected officials are ‘’incapable” of planning for these major events, saying they are “useless” if they are not doing everything in their power to tackle disasters before they occur.
“If you can’t cover the basics, get out of our city. You are useless to us. You are a liability and you have destroyed people’s lives because you didn’t do your job,” she said. “You didn’t do what you were hired for. You didn’t do what we pay you for.” Bateman added officials should “resign out of shame and responsibility for the people whose lives you’ve destroyed right now.”