Here’s Some Of The Woke Nonsense LA Was Funding As Its Fire Department Withered

As much of the nation’s second-largest city burns to the ground, there has been plenty of blame cast from all sides.

Most of the harshest opprobrium, however, has been reserved for state and local Democratic leaders who have been accused of prioritizing leftist political projects over the safety of their own constituents.

One recent Daily Caller article shed additional light on the issue by listing some of the controversial ways L.A. officials had been spending taxpayer money in the lead-up to the ongoing disaster:

Los Angeles allocated $100,000 to the Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department for a “Midnight Stroll Transgender Cafe,” according to its 2024 to 2025 budget. The funding’s purpose is to “support a safe haven for unsheltered transgender individuals in Hollywood,” the document noted.

Similarly, the Cultural Affairs Department Special Appropriations budget allocated $100,000 for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Awards.

The budget also appropriated $8,670 for the “One Institute the International Gay and Lesbian Archives.”

The ONE Archives at the University of Southern California (USC) Libraries currently has an exhibit titled “Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation,” which focuses on the occult and “the LGBTQ movement.”

The budget also allocated $13,000 for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Heritage Month Programs” and $14,010 to the “Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles.”

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Los Angeles’ African American History Month, American Indian Heritage Month, Latino Heritage Month and Asian American History Month Programs were each allocated $13,000.

The apparent mismanagement on display by local and state officials has been widely chronicled on social media in recent days:

um wtf? The real story is NOT that Los Angeles cut $17.6 mil from their fire budget (2% cut). The real story is their budget was $819,637,423, and they still couldn't get the job done. pic.twitter.com/wCNwAmKLEx

— TruthHammer4EVA (@TruthHammer4EVA) January 10, 2025

LA Fire Chief is not going down alone. She is taking everyone with her………pic.twitter.com/cEZlm5RB4i

— Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) January 11, 2025

I like Charlie Kirk's take on the LA fires! pic.twitter.com/mPPEEdKVOb

— I am Ken (@Ikennect) January 10, 2025

This is my house in LA.

LA sent fire fighters to my home, but they didn't look like me, so I sent them home.

My kids will now be homeless, but equity is that important to us. pic.twitter.com/PQvb9deBF8

— Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 (@jeremykauffman) January 10, 2025

I love a lesbo but LA fire is run by THREE lesbians? Are you allowed to just only recruit people in your dating pool? pic.twitter.com/ZA3ez92aUA

— Whitney Cummings (@WhitneyCummings) January 10, 2025

The L.A. Fire Department, which has received its own dose of criticism in recent days, warned just weeks ago that departmental budget cuts could prove detrimental in the case of an emergency.

According to Fox News:

LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley sounded off on the budget cuts in a Dec. 4 memo viewed by Fox News Digital where she foresaw what she described as the “cascading impacts” the cost-saving measures would have on the department.

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The city slashed $17.6 million from the LAFD in its latest budget and the decision has come in for scathing criticism as several monster fires rip through the county with at least 10 people already announced dead from the disaster.

The budget measures were signed off by LA Mayor Karen Bass — whose leadership has also come in for scrutiny — and she has denied the cuts have hindered the city’s response. The cuts come into effect on July 1, 2024.

Crowley wrote that those reductions eliminated critical civilian positions and about $7 million from the LAFD’s overtime budget, known as “v-hours.”

“These budgetary reductions have adversely affected the department’s ability to maintain core operations, such as technology and communication infrastructure, payroll processing, training, fire prevention and community education,” Crowley wrote.

“The reduction in v-hours … has severely limited the department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires, earthquakes, hazardous materials incidents and large public events,” Crowley wrote in the memo.

Here’s some coverage of Crowley’s latest remarks on the matter: