Posted on 07/31/2012 9:12:55 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
LOS ANGELES — When Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gavels the 2012 Democratic National Convention into session in Charlotte this September, his role as prominent cheerleader for President Obama will be clear. It is less clear, for now, if Villaraigosa has designs on the ultimate convention role in 2016--taking center stage to accept his party's nomination on the final night. Despite running the country's second largest city and coming from the fastest growing voting demographic in America, the mayor himself is quick to wave off talk of a presidential run. "The answer is no," Villaraigosa replied when asked by Yahoo News if he wanted to be president one day. "I want to finish this job with a bang. I want to go out with my head up high. I want to say to this city, 'I put everything into this job,'" he added.
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OUCH !!!
To strong..? :)
OUCH !!!
To strong..? :)
You "get it." Tony Villar's chances are frighteningly good. The skids are being greased for him by all the Usual Suspects on the Left. When did having mistresses and not being a natural born citizen hurt any Democrat's chances?
Probably significant that the Dems have chosen another Mexican -American, the Mayor of San Antonio, to give the opening keynote speech
Villagarrosa could be radioactive on a national level because of his radical past.
No
just right...
and accurate...
:)
Not to mention his communism.
Has he ever been able to pass the bar exam?
from Wikipedia: After UCLA, Villaraigosa attended the People’s College of Law (PCL), an unaccredited law school that promotes labor union causes in Los Angeles. His desire to practice law has been prevented due to his repeated inability to pass the California Bar Exam, which he has failed four times.[7] He received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from University of Southern California in May 2006.[...failed four times?
No...He never passed it after banging his head on the wall four times...
From Wikipedia:
On May 2, 2007, the Los Angeles Times reported that Villaraigosa was under investigation for ethics violations. “The executive director of the Los Angeles Ethics Commission...accused Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of 31 violations of campaign finance and disclosure laws stemming from his 2003 campaign for the City Council.”[64]
In June 2010, a formal ethics investigation of Villariagosa was launched, due to his unreported acceptance of 81 tickets to concerts, awards ceremonies and sporting events.[65] Estimates - including the 13 Lakers courtside tickets valued at $3,100 each[66] and Academy Awards and Governor’s Ball tickets at $21,000 each—suggest that the value of the tickets could amount to tens of thousands of dollars.[67] The unreported tickets came to light after the City of Los Angeles paid $3.2 million for Michael Jackson’s Memorial, including $2 million in police overtime.
After his election as Mayor, Villaraigosa was featured on the cover of Newsweek, and in Time ‘s story on the country’s 25 most influential Latinos, but repeated questions concerning his marital infidelity issues appear to have damaged his reputation locally and nationally.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa topped a list of all-time worst Angelenos chosen by online voters who responded to the Talk Back to Lopez poll at the Los Angeles Times.[68]
Villaraigosa has also received criticism because of his membership in MEChA while attending UCLA and his alleged support for immigration reform.[69][70] He has also been criticized because of the high frequency in which he holds press conferences, attends photo-ops, and travels out-of-town (including campaigning for Hillary Clinton). An LA Weekly article by Patrick Range McDonald published on September 11, 2008, presented an analysis of a 10-week period from May 21 to August 1, and determined that “On direct city business—such as signing legislation and meeting with city-department heads—his schedule shows the mayor spent 11 percent of his time...Yet the 11 percent of Villaraigosa’s time that the Weekly has identified as being spent in L.A. on actual city work—running, fixing or shaping government policies and actions—reveals that he frequently spends that limited time huddling with special-interest groups who have helped him attain higher office.”[71]
A November 4, 2008 election day poll conducted by the Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University found that Villaraigosa had a job approval rating of 61%.[72][73] In 2009, a poll by the Los Angeles times showed his approval rating had slipped to 55%, “relatively low for a sitting mayor who faced little name opposition in his recent re-election victory.”[74] At the same time, his showing and that of the candidates he supported in the election were lackluster.
Who? Ha,ha,ha!
After the Obama experience I do not think the American electorate will cast another Affirmative Action vote for at least 75 years.
Hey Antonio, if you think it's tough being a "minority," how does killing all those niñitos help your minority status?
"Abortion is the solution...
...to the liberal boy's problem."
--Andrea Dworkin
At least for any ex-ACLU lawyers out there...
No mas por favor...
No mas por favor...
A ridiculous article from any perspective.
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