I didn't say anything about Democrats or Republicans - both parties have blood on their hands in this case, and city-level planning decisions are often disconnected from party-defining policy issues anyway.

Regardless of which party it was, the executive failures - which is what you agree is the problem when you say "they're just incompetent at their job" - cannot be in any meaningful sense a local problem when the executive is being run by a state appointee and not an official elected locally or appointed by one. The emergency manager system is just another case of the nepotism you mention.