{"id":561,"date":"2007-07-27T10:18:11","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T17:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2007-12-08T16:35:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T23:23:45","slug":"conglomeration-womanizing-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"Conglomeration + Womanizing = Trouble!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2171055\/nav\/fix\/\">Mickey Kaus writes for Slate.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Will L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa <strong>hold up NBC-Universal&#8217;s giant $3 billion development plan if it doesn&#8217;t reinstate his honey<\/strong> at its Telemundo subsidiary? If NBC does take care of Mirthala Salinas, does that mean Villaraigosa owes the company? At last, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-universal26jul26,1,7935766.story?track=rss&amp;ctrack=5&amp;cset=true\">some irresponsible bloggish speculation from the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a>. &#8230; <strong>P.S.:<\/strong> Much more irresponsible speculation <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/flapsblog.com\/?p=5327\">here<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mayorsam.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a>. &#8230; <strong>Update: Womanizing = Traffic Congestion! <\/strong>Bill Bradley notes that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/news\/news\/sacramento-bites-back\/16907\/\">while Villaraigosa was distracted by the Mirthala scandal<\/a>, the state legislature cut $336 million in transit funds &quot;earmarked for Los Angeles and imperiling the long-promised Expo Line to the Westside.&quot; Since the Mayor is planning a big increase in housing density in the city, lack of a rail line should make the traffic jams even more brutal than they currently are. [<em>via <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/\"><em>LAO<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Kaus writes for Slate.com: Will L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa hold up NBC-Universal&#8217;s giant $3 billion development plan if it doesn&#8217;t reinstate his honey at its Telemundo subsidiary? If NBC does take care of Mirthala Salinas, does that mean Villaraigosa owes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=561\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antonio-villaraigosa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","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=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}