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Source: www.moreover.com --- 9 days ago
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa finishes his first four-year term on a perch that any big-city politician would envy -- no strong opposition, cash in his campaign coffers and a City Hall that is closely in sync with his agenda. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 46 days ago
Far from struggling in the recessionary economy, L.A. is blooming like a desert rose. 'You see cranes all over the city for the first time in decades,' said Mr. Villaraigosa, who is the first Hispanic mayor of L.A. in 133 years. ...
Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 47 days ago
Antonio Villaraigosa just might score a fundraising three-peat this week –- at least when it comes to some delicate healthcare politics in the San Fernando Valley. Just as a Superior Court judge is taking aim at a $180-million hospital expansion project in Mission Hills, L.A.'s mayor held three different fundraisers for his reelection campaign involving people on each side of the hospital fight. The mayor appeared Friday at an event hosted by Mayer Brown LLC, the law firm that represents Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in its effort to complete a 101-bed expansion. He went Sunday to a fundraiser hosted in part by members of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, a pro-labor group that waged an active campaign against the expansion, arguing that it needs more review. And today, Villaraigosa is scheduled to appear for a fundraiser hosted at the offices of the powerful Los Angeles Federation of Labor. That group’s executive secretary-treasurer, Maria Elena Durazo, lobbied council members last year to reject the hospital expansion and force it to complete more extensive environmental review. Durazo is seen as an ally to Service Employees International Union, which represents healthcare workers and played a major role in the challenge to the hospital expansion. All these events are leading up to Thursday, when Superior Court Judge Thomas I. McKnew is expected to make final his decision on the hospital project. McKnew dropped ... Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 47 days ago
There's an interesting bet brewing over the Dodgers-Cubs playoff series, with Chicago's mayor, Richard Daley, offering a goodie bag of Chicago's food and drinks and sporting goods should the Cubs lose. Now comes word that L.A.'s mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa has accepted the bet -- and offered much higher stakes: “If the Dodgers win, Los Angeles gets Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid,” Villaraigosa said. “If the Cubs win, Chicago can take back Sam Zell.” Wait -- there's more. "It would be a tremendous blow to the City of Los Angeles to lose such a great corporate citizen such as Mr. Zell," Villaraigosa said. "So in unlikely event that the Dodgers lose, I’d insist that as a consolation he sell the L.A. Times back to an L.A. owner before heading back to Chicago.” At the time of this writing: Cubs 2, Dodgers zip. Who are you rooting for now? -- Veronique de Turenne Photo: EPA ... Source: www.latimes.com --- 15 hours ago
The plan, which could cost $5 billion to $6 billion, focuses on rebuilding the Tom Bradley International Terminal. For the third time in less than a decade, a Los Angeles mayor and airport officials today unveiled a grand design for modernizing Los Angeles International Airport, which has not been substantially remodeled since 1984. ... Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 5 days ago
No one knows whether U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein even wants to be governor. But a new Field Poll finds that she has by far the best favorability rating among the Democratic field for 2010. And Mayor Antonio Villaragiosa? The poll... ... Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 8 days ago
Why is this man smiling? Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa finishes his first four-year term on a perch that any big-city politician would envy -- no strong opposition, cash in his campaign coffers and a City Hall that is closely in sync... ... Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 11 days ago
Coming to you live from the City Clerk's office at Piper Tech, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is filing his official "Declaration of Intention" to run for a second term as mayor of Los Angeles. The deadline to file is Saturday. Villaraigosa,... ... Source: www.latimes.com --- 40 minutes ago
A string of emergencies -- starting with the Metrolink collision and ending with the recent Sylmar fire -- has showed the mayor as an informer and comforter for the city. In three months, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has become a continual crisis manager, as his city has been buffeted by one disaster after another. ... Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 6 hours ago
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said that he spoke to President-elect Barack Obama about the wildfires Sunday evening and that today he received a follow-up call from Valerie Jarrett, an Obama senior advisor. Villaraigosa said at a press conference today that Obama is "ready and willing to do anything he can." But the mayor also noted that Obama could not declare a federal disaster area until he took office. The mayor added that his office would be updating Obama's transition team with fire-related information through the coming weeks. -- Shelby Grad Photo: LAT file ... Source: www.latimes.com --- 10 days ago
The politician has no strong challengers in his reelection bid, is flush with cash and enjoys a City Council largely in accord with his goals. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa finishes his first four-year term on a perch that any big-city politician would envy -- no strong opposition, cash in his campaign coffers and a City Hall that is closely in sync with his agenda. ...
Source: www.latimes.com --- 11 days ago
L.A. needs to know, now, if the mayor wants a second term or if he plans to run for governor in 2010. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is running for reelection. Is he also running for governor? He owes Los Angeles an answer. Now. ...
Source: www.businesswire.com --- 6 hours ago
PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IndyMac Federal Bank (IMFB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Neighborhood Housing Services (LA NHS) are proud to announce ... Source: www.sacbee.com --- 14 days ago
On the eve of the historic referendum on gay marriage in California, opponents of the proposed marriage ban today turned to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to make their closing arguments. Villaraigosa's starring role comes after supporters of Proposition 8 made San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom the face of their campaign to end gay marriage in the state. Both mayors have been mentioned as possible Democratic candidates for governor in 2010. But Villaraigosa was chosen by the "No on 8" campaign to make more than a dozen radio and television appearances today with stations around the state. Like Newsom, Villaraigosa has long been an ally of gay causes; as speaker of the Assembly in the late 1990s, he ushered through a package of gay rights bills. But Newsom, who as mayor ordered the San Francisco officials to issue marriage licenses to gays, has been targeted in ads by the "Yes on 8" campaign. In one TV ad he is seen gloating, after the state Supreme Court overturned a 2000 voter-imposed ban gay marriages: "The door is wide-open now. . . . It's going to happen whether you like it or not." In a subsequent ad, Newsom was taken to task for officiating the wedding of a lesbian teacher attended by first-grade students. Newsom later said he was unaware the first-graders were taken out of class for the event. School officials said the students' parents signed permission slips. But since the faux pas, Newsom has taken a lower-profil ... Source: www.sacbee.com --- 14 days ago
On the eve of the historic referendum on gay marriage in California, opponents of the proposed marriage ban today turned to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to make their closing arguments. Villaraigosa's starring role comes after supporters of Proposition 8 made San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom the face of their campaign to end gay marriage in the state. Both mayor have been mentioned as a possible Democratic candidates for governor in 2010. But Villaraigosa was chosen by "No on 8" campaign to make more than a dozen radio and television appearances today with stations around the state. Like Newsom, Villaraigosa has long been an ally of gay causes; as speaker of the Assembly in the late 1990s, he ushered through a package of gay rights bills. But Newsom, who as mayor ordered the San Francisco officials to issue marriage licenses to gays, has been targeted in ads by the "Yes on 8" campaign. In one TV ad he is seen gloating, after the state Supreme Court overturned a 2000 voter-imposed ban gay marriages: "The door is wide-open now. . . . It's going to happen whether you like it or not." In a subsequent ad, Newsom was taken to task for officiating the wedding of a lesbian teacher attended by first-grade students. Newsom later said he was unaware the first-graders were taken out of class for the event. School officials said the students' parents signed permission slips. But since the faux pas, Newsom has taken a lower-profile r ... Source: www.publicradio.org --- 9 days ago
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is a member of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team. Mayor Villaraigosa will serve on Obama’s economic advisory board. The Mayor told KPCC’s “Patt Morrison” how it felt to stand alongside the president-elect during his first press conference. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa: “Well, you know, it’s was an honor and I pinch my cheek all the time; I have since I got elected to public office. Feel very honored to be able to be here to represent our city and representing cities across the country, and you know whatever input I can give I certainly want to do that, and do it both humbly, but also understanding that we have a unique perspective to share as the second largest city in America.” Mayor Villaraigosa recommended that Obama expand unemployment benefits as a buffer against the effects of joblessness on cities. He noted that unemployment rates are two percentage points higher in the city of Los Angeles than the national average of just over six percent. ... Source: blogs.laweekly.com --- 46 days ago
On Monday, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa unveiled a $5 billion housing plan for the middle class and poor. Reaction to the plan was definitely mixed, and with good reason: According to the LA Times , "many City Council members and business and housing groups said they had not yet seen" it. ... Find more results for Villaraigosa on RSSMicro.com |
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Barack who? Apparently the presidential election is old news. The editorial board has already moved on to the next political race facing Angelenos and asks Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to declare his intentions. Is he running for governor? A second term as mayor? The board writes: "The mayor may be genuinely be undecided. But now is the time to make up his mind--and to tell voters just what they will be getting if they elect him to a second term." Also in the stack, the board senses a trumped-up urgency to install city-owned solar panels on Los Angeles rooftops, and in world events, frets that the Czech Republic's assumption of the European Union presidency is going to be a headache for President Barack Obama. Across the way on Op-Ed, David Milne, a lecturer in American politics at the University of East Anglia, dissects the tendency of American presidents to turn to academics and political scientists for counsel and columnist Joel Stein tries to determine if the country should loan General Motors, Ford and Chrysler another $25 billion by test driving their cars. His rides in a Challenger, a Town & Country minivan and a Bentley-esque 300C were pretty sweet, but Stein concludes that taxpayers should keep their money: “No matter how much I liked these cars, I don’t think the government should use taxpayer money to give life support to dying, poorly managed, market ignorant, technologically outdated industries other than newspapers. ...
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a former cochair for Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, joins a list of some heavyweight economists and other politicians on President-elect Barack Obama’s economic transition team, the Obama campaign announced Thursday. Villaraigosa campaigned for Obama after the Illinois senator locked up the Democratic nomination, and last weekend traveled to New Mexico to help rally the Latino vote for Obama on election day. Villaraigosa, a former California Assembly Speaker and L.A. City Councilman, joins some of the nation’s top financial minds and wealthiest financiers, including Warren Buffet, Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway; Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary under President Bill Clinton and now a professor at UC Berkeley; and Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, among others. The group’s first meeting is scheduled for Friday in Chicago. -- Phil Willon ...
Antonio Villaraigosa, the first Latino Mayor of Los Angeles, is a Democratic party darling. Lots of observers think he has a nice career ahead of him in California state politics or maybe even national office. He shows up on TV a lot, delivered the Spanish-language response to the 2006 State of the Union, and hey, there he is lined up with Larry Summers and Robert Reich in Obama's Economic Superfriends Advisors Meetup Party! Oh, good for him. God, let's hope that his role in the Obama Administration is limited to that photo-op, because his success thus far is due mostly to how much the LA press sucks and the fact that no one out east pays attention to left coast politics. Did you hear about his sexy Telemundo Affair? Maybe you did, and forgot about it, or forgot the details, because who cares about what the mayor of Los Angeles does? The Los Angeles Times doesn't even care what the mayor of Los Angeles does! Their political reporters had the story of the end of Villaraigosa's marriage, and they put it on page B-4 . They also, oddly, left out the reason for the split, which surely they could've found out with a couple minutes of reporting—Villaraigosa was sleeping with a hot political reporter from Telemundo! The Times did get to the story eventually , but no one outside of LA noticed or really cared about Villaraigosa's infidelities. America is sort of beyond that, you know? The Republicans just ran a dude who married his mistre ...