L.A. Mayor Bass Hires Illinois Consulting Firm Led by Far-Left Politician to Support Fire ‘Recovery Process’

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) has brought in an Illinois consulting firm headed by a far-left politician who took part in a George Soros-funded mayors’ program, appointed his city’s first chief equity officer, and signed a resolution to recognize that his city’s land was stolen from Native Americans by “white colonizers” to help the post-fire recovery process.

Emergency management firm Hagerty Consulting, founded by former Evanston, Illinois, Mayor Steve Hagerty (D), was selected to help with “community resilience, infrastructure restoration, and environmental mitigation” in the reconstruction process following the devastating southern California fires, Bass announced Friday.

Hagerty, who held mayoral office from 2017 to 2021, spearheaded several diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the city, including the creation of a “Equity and Empowerment Commission” led by an equity officer who worked on “training and empowering staff through a racial equity framework.”…

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