LA Mayor Karen Bass’s Cruz Criticism Comes Back to Haunt Her As She Was Found Overseas During Wildfires

On February 19, 2021, Bass had some choice words for Senator Ted Cruz. When Cruz took his family to Cancun during Texas’s winter storm crisis, Bass tweeted: “Ted Cruz fleeing Texas in the middle of a deadly crisis is part of a larger pattern of the GOP abandoning citizens in crisis. We need to build a movement to kick them all out.”

Oh, the sweet irony. While Cruz was accompanying his children on a pre-planned trip during a crisis he had no direct authority over, Bass was attending an optional foreign celebration while her city, which she directly manages, burned.