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Category Archives: Antonio Villaraigosa
Conglomeration + Womanizing = Trouble!
Mickey Kaus writes for Slate.com: Will L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa hold up NBC-Universal’s giant $3 billion development plan if it doesn’t reinstate his honey at its Telemundo subsidiary? If NBC does take care of Mirthala Salinas, does that mean Villaraigosa owes … Continue reading
Bill Boyarsky: ‘The Mayor is cheating … on L.A.’
Boyarsky writes in the Jewish Journal: I was disappointed because he offered hope for uniting a fractious city behind some common goals important to the middle class and poor — the majority of the city’s residents, which includes many Jews … Continue reading
Villaraigosa Heckled at Transportation Meeting
Eric Spillman blogs: A heckler ripped into Mayor Villaraigosa at today’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority meeting, suggesting that he get therapy for his "sex addiction." It happened during the public comment period. A man named John Walsh, who attends most MTA … Continue reading
L.A. Mayor Routinely Got Questions In Advance From Univision
It is not just Mirthala Salinas who’s been in bed with the mayor but L.A.’s entire Spanish-language news media. From Telemundo to La Opinion, Antonio is their guy. Eric Longabardi reports: ERSNews has exclusively obtained e-mails documenting that Los Angeles … Continue reading
Soccer Fans: Beckham, Si! Antonio, No!
Tony Castro writes July 13: …There was a big sigh in the Villaraigosa camp at City Hall, and speculation grew among political watchers that perhaps the mayor had weathered the worst. But then the news media has always been easy … Continue reading
The Man/The Myth: What Made Him Do It
Tony Castro writes: Power and the feeling of invulnerability made Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa do it. That and his love affair with his image in the media and finding in Telemundo’s Mirthala Salinas the narcissistic reflection of himself. “He had gotten … Continue reading
I Suffered For Your Sins
I write in The Los Angeles Times to KTLA’s Eric Spillman: As a blogger, I am despised and rejected of journalists, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. I gave my back to the smiters, and hid not my … Continue reading