LA Times endorses Villaraigosa in tight mayoral race

Bakersfield Californian ^ | 5/8/05 | AP - Los Angeles

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The Los Angeles Times has endorsed City Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa

A pity but no surprise.

What is lamentable is that many US citizens who reside in California, including some on this forum, simply sit on their posteriors as part of California drifts into the third world both politically and culturally.

Sort of a reverse NIMBY. If this goes as predicted, the Catholic Church, much as it did in southern North America during the 16th century, will be one of the few stable, social institutions in what is now the southwestern US.

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http://www.bruinalumni.com/

The BAA will make the first of multiple protest appearances at the Studio City Rally for Villaraigosa, Sunday, May 8th, 6:30 pm, at 11514 Ventura Blvd.

join the protest mailing list by emailing bruinalumni@bruinalumni.com - having as many people as possible at each selected Villaraigosa campaign event will put this issue into the news.

Antonio Villaraigosa:
Racista MEChista

On May 8, 2005, the Bruin Alumni Association announced an educational media campaign about Los Angeles mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa.
Villaraigosa, while an undergraduate at UCLA, helped lead the violent seperatist Chicano student organization Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), and personally headed a successful campaign to depose the director of the Chicano Studies Center for refusing Villar's demands to involve in Center operations such 'community groups' as the radical Marxist 'National Campaign to Free Los Tres.' Villaraigosa has never renounced the racism of MEChA nor his radical past, and proudly spoke at the MEChA National Conference on the UCLA campus in 1998.



Antonio Villaraigosa, a one-time juvenile delinquent still tattooed with the slogan “Born to Raise Hell,” entered the UCLA campus as a transfer student from East Los Angeles Community College in 1972. Known then simply as Tony Villar, he would not successfully graduate by the time he left in 1975.(1) But Villar did leave a wide swath of influence in other, more radical ways.

While on campus, Villar joined the UCLA chapter of Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), and was part of its leadership by 1974. MEChA had only been founded as a regional movement in 1969, and in many ways, the UCLA chapter, and the radical Chicano student left today, is a direct product of Villar’s work then.

Fellow MEChA alumni from the period remember Villaraigosa’s exploits well:
"He was one of the guys that would go out there and start the slogans because he was the loudest one," said Arturo Chavez, a fellow activist in college. "He was one of the people who would make sure people were riled up." ~snip~ read all about Tony Villar here:
http://www.bruinalumni.com/antonio/antonioindex.html