Posted on 05/18/2005 4:26:12 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Except the rather large percentage of Illegals.....
Is he going to try to get the original City Seal restored?
as an angeleno, i have to wait and see. neither candidate was conservative, to say the least, and there were many charges of corruption against current mayor. however, new mayor is no prize either. we'll see if all those South of the Border get to be Angelenos too! i live in the San Fernando Valley part of the city that tried to secede -- so people are pretty cynical in general here.
PS: "Mecha" is the Spanish word for fuse, as in the fuse of the lit dynamite bomb the MEChA eagle is getting ready to drop.
The new mayor is a leftist Democrat. The guy he is replacing is a leftist Democrat. The media is having an orgasm right now because the new guy Rat is "Hispanic" (of course, before he went into politics, his name was Tony Villar. Now he's Antonio Villaigaraso, Mr. Latio Heritage).
Meet the new boss... same as the old boss...
Hahn is a liberal DemocRAT
Villaraigosa is a liberal DemocRAT
Hahn let the illegals in
Villaraigosa lets the illegals in
Hahn was in with the unions
Villaraigosa is in with different unions
Ummmm...well.... not much difference.
Until Mexico annexes us.
Given the choice between a bum, and a bum who used to be president of the ACLU, I had to go with the just plain bum. But let's see whether four more years of even leftier left wing shenanigans in the mayor's office will cause a shift in LA voting patterns. Not holding my breath. One consolation is that the mayor here really doesn't have any power. That resides with the county supervisors, the downtown business interests, and the unions. The mayor is basically a cardboard cutout with an I Love LA sticker.
He took the bar exam 4 times, flunked all of them.
He is past prez of the CA ACLU
He is a former union activist.
This is merely a stepping stone.
I live in LA, fortunately(unfortunately during Riordan's 8 years) the Mayor in LA has very little power.
If illegals are included in the equation that percentage is quite a bit higher.
"Villaraigosa, who is more fluent in English than Spanish......"
lol....that the article even had to point that out is pretty pathetic. ....and very telling.
Southern California was paradise in the 1960's- best education system in the world, also.
Now, it is a dump- the stuff of nightmares.
LOL, see my post #14. Great minds ......
Maybe if things get really really really bad the voters might get interested again, what was the turnout 25-30%?
My father was telling me that immigrants USED to anglicanize their names. For example, an uncle of mine had a very Italian name and he changed it to Jim when he immigrated.
But it's not just anglican names people used to change the spelling at AT LEAST the pronounciation to make it easier. And if they wanted to name their child a cultural or family name, they would give them an American name to go by. I actually have a friend who is Greek and her real first name is Greek. And like many Greek names it sounds very pretty but is particularly difficult to say. So her mother gave her an Anglican middle name. That's assimiliating.
Now people want to stand out.
Yup, in that range. I don't know what it takes to get LA voters interested - we may be the most accustomed to our own impotence citizens in the country. The only effective way to fix LA is to break it up into about a dozen smaller, self-governing cities - Burbank, Glendale and Beverly Hills all work better. The SF Valley, where I live, should be at least four of them. Short of that, there's no hope.
Villaraigosa, 52, the high school dropout son of Mexican immigrants...
Now, why are they failing to mention that he graduated from UCLA and also has a law degree (albeit from some half-baked law school and he's flunked the bar a few times)?
Latinos are the largest ethnic group in Los Angeles
I didn't know that. Am I the last one to find this out?
But political experts said he would be foolish to ignore lingering unease among many in the city over its shifting demographics.
Oh-oh, trouble she is a-brewing.
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