So Mayor, who should be held responsible and how should they be punished. Involuntary Manslaughter?
That’s a good point. Please, no scapegoats. Hold to account the whole bloomin’ corrupt city including that mayor!
Off the Wall Ping!
Contact to be added.
Anyhow, the question I would ask of these lefties is... what do you intend to do to FIX the problem.
Lefties say they care. Fine, I take that at face value, and hold them responsible for following through. Are you going to care about safety measures, that we have no excuse for not knowing, going all to a kind of literal hell?
Somewhere between being overbearing nannies and ignoring everything, has to be an optimum.
Translation: “Your blame = Your racism. So, just hush!”
It’s not bad enough that landing a job with the City of Oakland is essentially winning the public employment lottery. For the kind of money Oakland pays, you’d think they’d get people who can (or even will) actually perform the jobs they’re being paid to do. But that’s probably too much to ask, I guess.
In my California city, the Fire Dept. conducts inspections every one or two years, in connection to Certificates of Occupancy, etc.
Responsible property owners simply comply, giving the FD access when requested.
The FD is looking for obvious dangerous conditions, proper signage for exits, the number and type of exits, etc.
Building codes require two (or more) stairways if a building exceeds certain sq. footage thresholds, etc.
Smoke detectors, fire alarms, sprinklers, etc. are inspected.
Insurance companies require evidence of compliance. Mortgage holders require insurance for their collateral.
The owner failed, the tenant failed, the city officials failed to conform to standard, good safety practices.
It is claimed to be very difficult to succeed in liability and negligence lawsuits against government entities.
With 36 dead, I predict some lawyers will test that very seriously.
Most of all, the building owner.
It was their JOB, you dunce. This is why Democrats should never run cities.
What is wrong with everyone? Listen, We pay our City Workers and Inspectors a Lot of Money to go out and inspect these businesses, their main function is to write citations for Building Code Violations and Fire Code Violations, all of which Brings in Big Money annually to the City via Civil Fines.
Why in the hell would we ever waste our time inspecting a building full of Losers,Hippies, and Drug Addicts that have NO MONEY to pay these fines??
It just isn’t cost effective to waste valuable resources on scofflaws with NO MONEY.
This is becoming the 2016 version of the Jim Jones massacre. Jim Jones was a guy that was a Bay area cult leader allowed to do shady things because he could reliably deliver democrat votes. These artists, and the building owner were allowed to do shady things because they were democrats.
this is why the owner isn’t in jail yet....the city has part of the blame. Not surprised. It is Oakland...cali. Corrupt to the core.
I’m sure the taxpayers of Oakland enjoy being “warned” by the hired help.
Heads are going to roll...lots of them.
The city is going to make a massive settlement but it doesn’t really matter because that’s other people’s money.
Mayor of Oakland has a job that seems to require nothing.
Is the Mayor in charge of city oversight? Police, Fire, Codes Enforcement?
Do they collect tax for said enforcement? No enforcement, no tax.
If the people of Oakland are being taxed for nothing, just admit it.
I know several inspectors here in Chicagoland (not just in Chicago, but in some of the ‘burbs) who make over $300k a year before bennies. Their spouses and kids are almost always employed by the city or ‘burbs as well.
People always think that as an owner of a company, I make a good buck. I lament and think I should have went into government.
And BTW, most of these inspectors are just morons, and they also make a pretty good living from cash “donations” on job site.
Contracting doesn’t pay what it used too... but government? Man, if I could do it all over again.
Im waiting for her to explode at a press conference.
Liberals don’t take to being called miserable failures at governance..
There are those who believe public officials will be taken to task for deaths resulting from failure to perform their job?
ROFLMAO
Building has not been inspected since 1986
List of Oakland mayors
44th 1966 - 1977 John H Reading (R)
45th 1977 - 1991 Lionel J Wilson (D)
46th 1991 - 1999 Elihu M. Haris (D)
47th 1999 - 2007 Jerry Brown Jr. (D)
48th 2007 - 2011 Ron V. Dellums (D)
49th 2011 - 2015 Jean Quan (D)
50th 2015 - Libby Schaaf (D)