{"id":392,"date":"2007-07-04T08:27:16","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T15:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2007-12-08T23:40:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T06:28:13","slug":"villaraigosas-media-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Villaraigosa’s Media Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Zahniser writes in the LA Weekly<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Daily News<\/em> finally got confirmation of Villaraigosa’s romance with Salinas, a political reporter who had already dated former council President Alex Padilla, among others. Daily News<\/em> reporter Beth Barrett, with help from an interpreter, brilliantly went to the most obvious source, Villaraigosa’s mother-in-law, who said that the mayor told his wife that questions about his missing wedding ring were “none of her business.”<\/p>\n

And yet despite the salacious details, information about the timing of the romance remained frustratingly fuzzy. After all, the woman dating the mayor had, as a reporter, covered Villaraigosa during many of his high-profile endeavors: staking out a position on illegal immigration, showing up on the scene of a gang shooting and, perhaps most notably, attempting to take over the Los Angeles Unified School District.<\/p>\n

Salinas made her biggest splash last year when, camera operator in tow, she got a rare peek at the stash of toilet brushes sent to Villaraigosa after he delivered his famous “We clean your toilets” speech to a crowd of immigrants.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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