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All you really have to know about the LA government is who the mayor is. Villaraigos - a vocal supporter of the boycott - has a history that includes the following:

He went to Cuba in the radical Venceremos Brigade to help Castro.
In college, he was an activist in Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) - a Chicano separatist group with a Commie underpinning.
He then went to the Peoples College of Law (dedicated to producing public-interest lawyers) and failed the bar exam four times.
And more... Source: Loudon: Obama, Antonio Villaraigosa and the Harry Bridges Connection