“Total burn down.”

That sounds like what Karen Bass and a leftist City Council have done, metaphorically, to Los Angeles.

But the phrase actually comes from court records that explain why Kenneth Bass is suing the city that his sister (poorly) governs.

The mayor’s brother, whose Malibu home was razed in the deadly 2025 Palisades Fire, has joined litigation against the city, the LA Department of Water and Power, and a range of other defendants.

Among the allegations: deficient fire preparation on the part of the city and its water utility, in part because the latter had left a nearby reservoir — built in part for firefighting — empty for a nearly year before the fire.

Question: How badly does a mayor have to perform for her own brother to sue the city she leads?

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