{"id":2389565,"date":"2025-01-13T09:56:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/los-angeles-mayor-had-vowed-not-to-travel-internationally-before-taking-office-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T09:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:57:26","slug":"los-angeles-mayor-had-vowed-not-to-travel-internationally-before-taking-office-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/los-angeles-mayor-had-vowed-not-to-travel-internationally-before-taking-office-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles mayor had vowed not to travel internationally before taking office &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flos-angeles-mayor-had-vowed-not-to-travel-internationally-before-taking-office-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2389565&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u2063 content appears to be part of a webpage structure related to a news \u2062article, with some technical formatting \u200dfor mobile menus \u2064adn a search feature. 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The trip, one of several she has made out of the country while serving as mayor, broke a promise she made not to do so if she was elected to the position, according to the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Not only would I of course live here, but I also would not travel internationally &mdash; the only places I would go would be D.C., Sacramento, San Francisco, and New York, in relation to L.A.,&rdquo; Bass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/12\/us\/karen-bass-ghana-wildfire-travel-los-angeles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"told\">told<\/a> the <em>New York Times<\/em> in 2021, when she was running for the office.<\/p>\n<p>Bass has taken multiple foreign trips since taking office, including to Mexico City for Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum&rsquo;s inauguration and to Paris, France, for the Summer Olympics and Paralympics last year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, left, holds an Olympic flag, and San IOC President Thomas Bach, center, and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, right, look in during the 2024 Summer Olympics closing ceremony at the Stade de France on Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo\/Kin Cheung)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Los Angeles will host the 2028 Summer Olympics. As mayor of the next host city of the Summer Olympics, Bass&rsquo;s travel to Paris has mostly been in that capacity. During her trips to Paris in August and September 2024, Bass received the Olympic and Paralympic flags as part of the handover at the respective closing ceremonies for both events.<\/p>\n<p>In Bass&rsquo;s most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-risks-raising-stakes-of-debate-by-repeating-biden-blunders-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Harris risks raising stakes of debate by repeating Biden blunders - Washington Examiner\">recent international trip<\/a>, to Ghana, she was part of President Joe Biden&rsquo;s delegation to represent the U.S. government at the event.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The wildfires, sparked by a strong wind storm last week, have killed at least 24 people and have led to billions of dollars of property damage as they ravage several parts of Los Angeles, including the affluent Pacific Palisades.<\/p>\n<p>In response to criticism over her handling of the wildfires, Bass has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-and-environment\/3281888\/los-angeles-mayor-sidesteps-reporter-questions-wildfires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said\">said<\/a> her <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">top priority remains protecting lives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1932594\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1932594\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who vowed no international travel, has made five overseas trips since taking office, including a recent trip to Ghana amid wildfires in her city<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2389566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/karen-bass-international-travel.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[36585,4602,3951],"class_list":["post-2389565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-los-angeles","tag-mayor","tag-travel"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/karen-bass-international-travel.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389573,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389565\/revisions\/2389573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2389566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}