LOS ANGELES—After weeks of backlash over January’s wildfires, Mayor Karen Bass has struggled to gain her political footing and many residents were dissatisfied with her response to the fire emergencies, a new poll showed Tuesday.
According to a survey from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times, slightly over 40 percent of registered voters in the city thought Bass did a “poor or very poor job in responding to the fires,” while another 19 percent of respondents thought her response was “excellent or good.”
A little more than 1 in 5 city residents, or about 22 percent, thought she was doing a fair job, and the remainder had no opinion….