The Mayor And Spurned Reporter Ana Garcia

From ERSNews.com:

Ana Garcia, anchor, sometime "investigative reporter" and former communication director to Los Angeles District Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, is not happy with Mayor Villaraigosa. It seems the Mayor doesn’t want to talk to her about how and when he goes shopping with his girlfriend Mirthala Salinas and a few other issues.

Last Friday Garcia wanted to know about the Mayor’s trip to a valley mall with his girlfriend Mirthala Salinas, the now suspended Telemundo anchor/reporter. The video of the shopping trip was posted by celebrity website TMZ.com. It was the first pictures of the happy couple together and out and about in LA since the scandal involving their relationship erupted onto the headlines back on July 3rd of this year. It was not the first reports of them being together on the town, ERS reported that long ago.

The Mayor responded to Garcia’s questions saying basically he was just out buying some shoes and wasn’t aware of much else! In this case, we have to side with the mayor, can’t a man go buy a pair of shoes in peace. Then as a follow-up, Garcia asked Villaraigosa about some emails and schedules the Mayors office is refusing to release as public records to Garcia and KNBC. Garcia says they are public record, the Mayor’s lawyers say they are not.

It seems Garcia is still a bit peeved that her Telemundo rival, Mirthala got some exclusive access to the Mayor in the past that Garcia felt she was entitled too. In her last story about the Mayor, Garcia complained she only a got a few minutes with the mayor one day and Mirthala got a lot more!