{"id":409,"date":"2007-07-07T22:01:45","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T04:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2007-12-08T23:33:41","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T06:21:41","slug":"la-times-hopes-for-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"LA Times Hopes For Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Mickey Kaus wrote: &quot;When Villaraigosa announced his marital trouble last month, the hapless <em>LAT<\/em>, in its <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-mayor16jun16,1,3042242.story?page=2&amp;coll=la-util-news-local\">traditional life-draining thumbsucker<\/a>, listed Gary Hart as one of the politicians who emerged from personal scandal &quot;with their careers largely intact, or enhanced.&quot; I&#8217;m sure ex-Sen. Hart, now a prestigious <em>HuffPo<\/em> blogger, will be happy to learn this. &#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-mayor7jul07,0,6952585.story?coll=la-home-local\">Here&#8217;s another &quot;traditional life-draining thumbsucker<\/a> from the July 9 edition.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I love the hopeful headline and kicker:  &quot;Villaraigosa affair may not be one to remember. In the long run, voters could focus more on how well he does his job.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s stupid to write all these analysis pieces saying the mayor can overcome this scandal until we know how many more scandals are coming down the pike on this score. I predict several. This story is still developing. The Times should spend its resources getting the story instead of writing these endless opinion pieces masquerading as news.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Mickey Kaus wrote: &quot;When Villaraigosa announced his marital trouble last month, the hapless LAT, in its traditional life-draining thumbsucker, listed Gary Hart as one of the politicians who emerged from personal scandal &quot;with their careers largely intact, or enhanced.&quot; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=409\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antonio-villaraigosa","category-los-angeles-times"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}