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CA: Scandal is affecting mayor's job (Villaraigosa - "I'm a devoted family man")
LA Daily News ^ | 7/6/07 | Daniel Guss

Posted on 07/06/2007 9:24:27 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

THE changes are quickly taking place on the mayor's Web site.

For instance, it no longer displays photos of Villaraigosa with his soon-to-be ex-wife Corina, and their children, Antonio Jr. and Natalie Fe.

But such happy-family photos used to be on display, because the mayor made his family life part of his public image during his campaigns for the California state Assembly, Los Angeles City Council, and for mayor of Los Angeles. "I'm a devoted family man," they suggested about Villaraigosa, although photos of his children from earlier relationships were nowhere to be seen.

Instead, the Web site now shows photos of Villaraigosa with celebrities like Bill Clinton and Magic Johnson, whose sexual dalliances have caused major scandals.

Whose photo will be added next? Villaraigosa with Pee Wee Herman or Paris Hilton?

How about Fatty Arbuckle?

The mayor took a bad situation and made it even worse the other day when he said that these issues are none of the public's business.

That's flat-out wrong. The mayor made his family life grist for the public mill when his career was ascending. And he continues to do this while it's on the descent by calling press conferences to talk about who

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The mayor can't have it both ways.

What happens if the mayor ends up with yet another baby at some point? Will he restrain himself from posting photos of his new family? Will it, once again, become a tool for advancing his career?

But the most troubling claim by Villaraigosa is that his scandal isn't distracting him from his work as mayor.

Really?

Couldn't the time squandered on these press conferences have been used, instead, for the LAUSD, the homeless, traffic, or why the city's animal shelters are still missing 10 of their veterinarians? What about using that time to plant some of the million trees Villaraigosa promised us?

This controversy is distracting the mayor from his job.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: affecting; california; losangeles; scandal; villaraigosa
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Daniel Guss is a Sherman Oaks-based writer who founded Stop Torture, Abuse & Neglect of Dogs, www.STANDFoundation.org.
1 posted on 07/06/2007 9:24:30 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

He must be thanking his lucky stars he isn’t a Republican.


2 posted on 07/06/2007 9:28:02 AM PDT by JZelle
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To: NormsRevenge

So, whose family is he devoted to?


3 posted on 07/06/2007 9:28:17 AM PDT by Enterprise (I can't talk about liberals anymore because some of the words will get me sent to rehab.)
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To: NormsRevenge

So he’s a devoted family man is he? I guess in his world up is down,black is white,etc.


4 posted on 07/06/2007 9:30:55 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (If there's lead in the air,there's hope.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I am a devoaaated family maing, but holy chit maing I am also a hot blooded latino maing who has his needs and dees senorita had it go-eeeng on, home!!!


5 posted on 07/06/2007 9:31:38 AM PDT by stm (Fred Thompson in 08! Return our country to the era of Reagan Conservatism)
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To: stm

LOL!


6 posted on 07/06/2007 9:34:20 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: stm

Just goes to show... family values do not stop at the rio grande...


7 posted on 07/06/2007 9:35:48 AM PDT by JoanneSD (Illegals represented without taxation.. Citizens taxed without representation)
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To: NormsRevenge
why the city's animal shelters are still missing 10 of their veterinarians?

What's the story with this??
8 posted on 07/06/2007 9:36:59 AM PDT by ChocChipCookie (Homeschool like your kids' lives depend on it.)
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To: NormsRevenge
The offending web site.
9 posted on 07/06/2007 9:40:12 AM PDT by DigitalVideoDude (It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: NormsRevenge
I'm a devoted family man

Until my big brain shuts down and my little brain takes over

10 posted on 07/06/2007 9:41:23 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Democrat Campaign Slogan - 2006: "Bring Out The Gimp!")
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To: JZelle

Yes, thank his lucky stars is right. If he were, this would be non-stop 24x7 story untill driven from office.


11 posted on 07/06/2007 9:42:07 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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Villaraigosa, in addition to being a devoted family man, must be a puzzled man from all the reflux over the dalliance. After all, isn’t it the divine right of duly elected democrats to sample the wares of all the court wenches? Think Clinton, Newsom, McGreevey (okay, maybe “wenches” is stretching it). Oh, now it’s clear. They’re gringos. It’s racism.


12 posted on 07/06/2007 9:43:00 AM PDT by DPMD (dpmd)
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To: stm

Coffee on keyboard and screen.


13 posted on 07/06/2007 9:44:16 AM PDT by randog (What the...?!)
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To: randog

I spend too much time watching the Mind of Mencina. God that guy cracks me up.


14 posted on 07/06/2007 10:00:36 AM PDT by stm (Fred Thompson in 08! Return our country to the era of Reagan Conservatism)
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To: NormsRevenge

Anyone have photos of the soon to be X wife and of the lolipop
news tart?


15 posted on 07/06/2007 10:00:37 AM PDT by Joe Boucher
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"But the most troubling claim by Villaraigosa is that his scandal isn't distracting him from his work as mayor."

THis much is almost certainly true, since he was already so ineffective.

17 posted on 07/06/2007 10:12:09 AM PDT by Redbob (WWJBD -"What would Jack Bauer do?")
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To: DigitalVideoDude

If I had to guess, it would be the woman in the photo “Sylmar2” in the photo gallery “Big Sunday”...


18 posted on 07/06/2007 10:16:07 AM PDT by Redbob (WWJBD -"What would Jack Bauer do?")
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To: NormsRevenge

Ah yes....The skirt chasing major of L.A.....fix the pot holes STUPID!


19 posted on 07/06/2007 10:18:33 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: NormsRevenge

The residents of L.A. ought to demand that the Mayor resigns.


20 posted on 07/06/2007 11:14:23 AM PDT by Norman Bates
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