Posted on 07/03/2007 8:53:55 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
LOS ANGELES – Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who is in the midst of divorce proceedings with his wife, acknowledged in a statement published Tuesday that he is in a relationship with a Spanish-language television reporter.
“It is true that I have a relationship with Ms. Mirthala Salinas,” Villaraigosa said in a statement published in the Los Angeles Daily News. “As I've said I take full responsibility for my actions, and I once again ask that people respect my family's privacy. For my part, I intend to stay focused on my job, and to work as hard as I can every day to be the best mayor I can be.”
Villaraigosa had previously declined to comment, but issued the statement after the paper told him it was set to publish a story about his relationship with the Telemundo newswoman.
Salinas moved off the political beat, which includes coverage of the mayor, about 11 months ago, Telemundo spokesman Alfredo Richard said. He said the station wouldn't comment on employees' personal lives.
Messages left after hours by The Associated Press with Villaraigosa's office and at Telemundo, whose parent company is NBC Universal, were not immediately returned.
The mayor and his wife separated last month after 20 years of marriage. Corina Villaraigosa filed for divorce June 12, a day after the mayor told reporters in a City Hall news conference that he took the blame for his crumbling marriage.
I think she’ll be cleaning his “door knob”....
Wait, then it’s true what my sister (who lives in LA) told me that Villaraigosa used to be Villa, and his wife Raigosa, and that they combined their names to form a new surname? How gay is that?!?
To quote a friend from college:
“Hot enough to make your teeth sweat...”
<<“As I’ve said I take full responsibility for my actions, and I once again ask that people respect my family’s privacy. For my part, I intend to stay focused on my job, and to work as hard as I can every day... >>
In other words Mr. Antonio Villaraigosa is saying, the pay is good, so I’m not going to step down, the sex is good, so I’m not going to give it up, and I see nothign wrong with adultery and neither should you folks and you should be darn proud of having such a wodnerful fella as me serving you miserable folks.
Sorry...you've shown to be wholly disloyal personally in the things that matter most, and now you expect others to believe you will be loyal to them and their interests? That dog wont hunt hombre.
Reminds me of former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, proudly showing baby pictures of the kids he fathered out of wedlock.
And Henry Cisneros.
that’s one way to get the scoop on local politics
Can I ask why you emphasise that HE is the rotten tamale?
This television bimbo knew he was married. there are other ways to get a story other than sleeping with the mayor.
There is an old saying I will clean up for you.
Bait a trap with vagina and you will catch a man every time.
This woman baited her trap .
They are both at least equally as guilty. Yes: He is a rat,but is his love interest any better? I think not.
WTF is with society today?!?! I’m going to thinking long and hard before I even consider getting married again.
She is typical of the liberal fawning chick who will throw away any feminist pretenses when it comes to a liberal politician.
Reminds me of the NOW-gang chick who claimed that she would go to bed with Bill Clinton because he was pro-choice.
Great comment
Wow I just read what I wrote. Maybe I should have pressed “1” for English.
Doing the Mayors that Americans wont do.
He’s a rotten tamale at his job....
I decided to let it “slide” since it was just too “easy”.
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