LA mayor (Villaraigosa) warns of Guard 'chilling' Mexican tourism, economic ties

ap on Riverside Press Enterprise ^ | 5/25/06 | Michael R. Blood - ap

[Jameison]

Hey is this Antonio Villaraigosa not the same guy who has been a rabid, radical LaRaza member of the notorious, Mexican racist LaRaza organization all his life?

[lakey]

I don't remember much of an ad campaign for "tourists" from Mexico when I lived there for 29 years.

Neither do I. I do remember the gang fights and every Monday newspaper related a wedding, anniversary, or a birthday party stabbing, sometimes a shooting, on the 2nd front page.

They really did prefer knives to guns. In junior high, girls wore "rats" in their pompadours, to conceal switch-blade knives. Boys' gang was "The Red Devils."

Somehow or other, everyone spoke English.

[bybybill]

Isn`t a tourist someone that, by definition, arrives, visits, then goes back home?

[lakey]

Your mother is correct. There were nice areas of L.A. when I was a youngster. I just happened to live on the wrong side of the street to attend the "good" junior high school.

[Amerigomag]

That's a leg up.

Recognizing the critical difference between cultural heritage and geopolitical allegiance.

The melting pot worked for both these women because the numbers and order provided time and space for assimilation and perspective.

[garbageseeker]

I think you and my mother grew up together.

[nmh]

Just shaking in my boots!

Mexicans don't come here as tourists not do they come here for trade.

How ridiculous!

[lakey]

The last politician she believed in was her cousin ...

That little house in Yorba Linda ...

[nmh]

Can it get more ridiculous than this?

Fear lack of nonexistent Mexican "tourism" or "trade" if we UPHOLD our laws on ILLEGAL ALIENS.

Try pulling this ILLEGAL ALIEN stuff in Mexico!

[lakey]

Don't know - I'm older than dirt.

[garbageseeker]

Well, my mother is sixty years old.

[lakey]

Add 13 years.

[SeaBiscuit]

Where's the barf alert? ;-)

[Txsleuth]

This guy give me a chilling effect..he want to be POTUS one day...and take a big old eraser to that border.

[freedumb2003]

In this year, he has revealed his MECHisa stripes.

We call him "VilleaReconquista" here.

His political career is over. His pro-illegal stance will make sure he doesn't go beyond maybe California Legislative Senator (which is pretty meaningless).

Thank God.

[ncountylee]

Tourists use entry points, they don't wade rivers or hike across deserts. No wonder this idiot failed the Bar Exam over and over again.

[tertiary01]

For a short time around 1914 my grandparents lived right next door to your Mom's cousin in Whittier.

[SealSeven]

Undocumented tourists.

[AmeriBrit]

What we should do as long as Villaraigosa's Mayor of Los Angeles is build a wall and station the NG around Los Angeles. That little punk is a very dangerous individual.


I would like to know what percentage of the votes that got him elected were legal.

[California Patriot]

Shove it up your a$$, Senor Mayor.