Posted on 05/27/2009 8:32:25 AM PDT by kellynla
FROM the time we are little kids and see that first big red "F" scrawled across the top of a quiz, we try to steer clear of failure. Failure is personal - which is why Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa must be very unhappy these days.
A trip to the grocery store or even his beloved LAX newsstands will be joyless for the entire month of June, thanks to Ed Leibowitz and those killjoys at Los Angeles Magazine. "Failure" is the headline plastered on the cover of the latest issue. Right there in big letters across the mayor's body, an epitaph to his political career, or is it?
I'm pretty sure the mayor doesn't look to this column for advice, but these are crazy times and anything's possible. So, I'm offering the following unsolicited advice to Villaraigosa as he triangulates his next move. He still has four full years to turn it around, but only if he has the courage to follow a different script. Here's my two cents.
First, please announce that under no circumstances will you be a candidate for governor of California.
This may seem obvious since your chances of becoming governor are slightly less than my chances of winning "Hombre of the Year" from the National Council of La Raza, but who knows what Ace Smith is whispering in your ear?
To abandon L.A. with a billion-dollar deficit is to be forever remembered as the first rat off the ship. (Councilman Jack Weiss was thrown off, so he doesn't count.) Announce you are forsaking your ambition to do the dirty work of restoring fiscal sanity to America's second largest city. L.A. desperately needs a mayor wholly focused on this job, not eyeing his next. Then actually deliver the goods. Restore fiscal sanity.
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“Liberal Idiot” is a redundant statement, but it is still effective.
Villaraigosa must not be allowed to leave office until he learns Spanish. That makes two languages he can’t handle, since his idea of English makes Mumbles Menino up in Boston sound like friggin’ Shakespeare.
The former gang and current MECHA member has a good deal of street smarts, and a certain feral cunning, but the man is as dumb as a rock. Snappy dresser, though.
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