LOS ANGELES — Former vice president Kamala Harris’ return to her Los Angeles home on Monday was meant to be a grand affair: After she was flown to LAX by an all-woman aircraft crew, she served food to wildfire evacuees and then thanked firefighters at a county fire station in Altadena.
But for her own neighbors in the ritzy Brentwood district in northern Los Angeles, the newly unemployed politician’s would-be triumphal entry brought jeers from some neighbors — and more traffic.
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“I don’t care that she’s back, except that they block off the road whenever she comes to town,” said one resident who lives around the corner from Harris’ boudoir.
Harris has not revealed what she plans to do after her ouster from Washington, but last Friday she vowed not to “go quietly into the night,” strongly implying that she’ll stay active in politics.
And in the wake of weak showings by Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom during the worst disaster in Los Angeles history, the former vice president wasted no time trying to endear herself to her hometown.
“We wanted to come out … and just let people know that we see them and that they are cared for,” she told reporters from an LA County fire station mere hours after landing at LAX on Monday, after serving meals at a World Central Kitchen food station.
