Joe emails: Some people study history, you make it. Villaraigosa would have easily won as governor. I mean, if the election of Obama shows us anything it is that the power of myth in politics is all powerful. With Obama, the myth was that by electing a black man, America made up [...]

I think the primary reason there’s less excitement about the mayor’s latest fling is that the mayor is no longer regarded as having a significant political future. He’s yesterday’s news.
"Just like you, lad!," emails D. "You’ve been over and done for some time now. Like fair-dinkum yesterday’s paper, you are. At least you have prospects [...]

The mayor is a friend of the Jews and appears at synagogues around town. He can talk confidently about the weekly Torah portion. It’s hard to dislike this guy. He has a great smile and a sunny personality.

Jerry Brown was at a fundraiser for Barack Obama in Los Angeles ten days ago.
Brown said Antonio and Gavin would make for formidable challengers (as well as John Garamendi, the Lt. Governor).
Brown looks really old these days. He looks older than John McCain.
Villaraigosa has been visiting his wife Corina at their Mount Washington home. I [...]

I get a message from a friend this weekend. "I wanted to pass on the strangest theory involving you… Someone told me that they think that Mayor Villaraigosa is targeting Pico/Robertson with his weird one-way traffic plan in retaliation for the story you broke about him."

MayorSam posts:
Yes, like the Westside White Guy, I’ve posted some girly pictures. There’s a new anchor-babe in town, in fact she was voted the "sexiest newscaster of 2006" in an FHM Magazine reader poll.
Elita Loresca is the new weather anchor for KNBC’s "Today in LA" and the "Midday Report."
Loresca previously worked at Fox affiliate [...]

David Zahniser writes:
Months after revelations about the affair damaged the mayor’s political standing and devastated Salinas’ broadcasting career, the two sources said the relationship disintegrated weeks ago.
"They broke up earlier in the fall. They’ve both moved on. And Antonio is focused on his relationships with his kids," said one person who said he learned about [...]

ERSNews.com reports over an hour before the Los Angeles Times:

ERS News has learned that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s girlfriend and suspended Los Angeles Telemundo anchor/reporter Mirthala Salinas will return to work on Monday October 1, 2007. The announcement came today at a meeting at the Spanish language KVEA-TV Channel 52 Burbank, CA newsroom. Salina’s [...]

Robert Steve Bullock, the son-in-law (or stepson?) of veteran lobbyist Joe Cerrell and the CFO of Cerrell Associates, sold Mirthala Salinas her condo.
That the Bullock who sold the condo to Salinas is related to Cerrell was first disclosed in a comment to a July 20, 2007 MayorSam post.
Bullock claims it was total chance that he [...]

Joe writes: "Most uncovered California political story right now is how Jerry Brown is going to run for governor in 2010 and win the democratic nomination by a landslide – Antonio better hope Hillary wins in 2008 so he can chase higher quality carne in DC, because he is not going to be the governor [...]