> She went to Ghana on a taxpayer paid political junket, which doesn't seem like something the mayor of even a major city would be officially involved in

I live in a very mid-size city for my province and our mayor goes on international trips on city business maybe once a year. The fact itself is not out of the ordinary.

  She cut the fire department budget by $20 million. Equipment, supplies,
  and salaries were cut.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/wildfire-threatens-...

  That assertion is wrong. The city was in the process of negotiating a new
  contract with the fire department at the time the budget was being crafted,
  so additional funding for the department was set aside in a separate fund
  until that deal was finalized in November. In fact, the city’s fire budget
  increased more than $50 million year-over-year compared to the last budget
  cycle, according to Blumenfield’s office, although overall concerns about
  the department’s staffing level have persisted for a number of years.

So… no?

  DEI obsessed fire chief…DEI office and bureaucracy.

Ah, there it is.