[AshfieldK]

I don't see how he can make LA worse.

[Mister Baredog]

Riordan was a great mayor and he couldn't get much done, even sometimes even using his own money.

[Nachum]

Antonio Villaraigosa wants to fix the schools. Uncoil gridlock. Ease racial tensions. Develop more affordable housing. Extend the subways. Hire more police. Even build more dog parks.

Translation:

Fix the schools = raise taxes
Uncoil gridlock = raise taxes
Ease racial tensions = raise taxes and bring more illegals in
Develope affordable housing = raise taxes
Hire more police = raise taxes
build more dog parks = raise taxes

[followerofchrist]

Let's support succession and just give it back. I'm serious.

[Nachum]

Villaraigosa has said the obvious – he realizes he'll make mistakes.

And make clear to all why he failed the bar exam so many times...

[norton]

"Like Bradley before him, Villaraigosa has a national stature and can call on allies from Washington, D.C. to Sacramento, including Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry...big-city mayors from coast to coast to former Vice President Al Gore to representatives from dozens of countries on six continents."

OH,
yeah,
and flag waving, foam at the mouth representatives of Aztlan, Mecha, and Lulac...in brown berets.

(whoopee!)

[Tacis]

The key, of course, is trustworthy bag men, folks who can pick up bribes, payoffs, kickbacks, skims, almost always in cash or marketable material, and deliver them without dipping into the take. The contracts can be awarded, official checks issued, folks put on the payroll and so on, al through existing procedures. It is the inward cash flow that can be tricky.

[ken21]

whatta laugh!

he wants to do what democrats have wanted to do since fdr and lbj.

[John Jorsett]

This looks a lot like the kind of fawning press Schwarzenegger got right after he was elected. It'll last just as long as it takes to actually propose some changes, then the affected groups will scream bloody murder. People love reform in the abstract, but hate it in the flesh.

[GOP_1900AD]

Redefine it to what? Westwoodish, early 70s dope smoking radicalism?

[GOP_1900AD]

Someone have that photo of him as a Westwood hippie boy to post?

[montag813]

[BIGZ]

This guy failed the Bar Exam four times, never passed it so he became a politician. Just as Hillary failed the Bar Exam, maybe he should go tho Arkansas take it there, but unlike Hillary he has no one to fix it.

What part of ILLEGAL is it you don't understand.

[Torie]

All it takes is money.

[JarheadFromFlorida]

He redifined it the day he was elected.....as a branch office of Mexico.

[JarheadFromFlorida]

Any whites that voted for this traitorous agent of Mexico have naively signed their own death warrants.

[NRA2BFree]

a poor, troubled kid from the barrio who used a mix of street smarts and hard work to ascend to the hallways of power.

Well, I hate to tell him, but he's still living in the barrio.