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Also See: Lying CouncilMEChista Villaraigosa | Rabid Mexican Menace Defeated in 2001
Tom Gray -- City Journal -- New York -- April 13, 2012  Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is in a race against the clock. Two years ago, he declared at a press conference that city finances were sound and would stay that way: "The fact of the matter is this city will never go bankrupt." Then he hedged a bit, adding, "It will never go bankrupt under my watch." Villaraigosa's watch --- his second mayoral term, after which the law obliges him to leave office... |
| Huffington Post -- April 11, 2012 On Tuesday night, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa condemned Mitt Romney's immigration stance, calling it 'far out of the mainstream' and out of line with former GOP leaders on The Rachel Maddow Show. -- 'He's taken positions that are so extreme, so far out of the mainstream, from where Republican party icon Ronald Reagan, [and] President Bush, George W. Bush were on this issue,' the L.A. Mayor said... |
Gregory D. Lee -- Family Security Matters -- March 1, 2012  In what has to be the most ridiculous recommendation by any law enforcement official, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck and his counterpart, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, have announced they support issuing driver licenses to illegal aliens. Chief Beck said, "The reality is that all the things that we've done --- 'we' being the state of California --- over the last 14, 16 years have not reduced the problem one iota." |
KPCC -- Pasadena, Calif. -- February 29, 2012  After weeks of stormy debate in public meetings and on conservative talk radio, the Los Angeles Police Commission Tuesday voted 4-1 to approve a policy that ends the practice of automatically impounding the cars of unlicensed [illegal aliens] for 30 days. -- Chief Charlie Beck [one of two numskulls at left], who proposed the policy, said it's a more "humane" one for [illegal aliens] who are unable to obtain licenses... [] |
Los Angeles Times -- February 22, 2012  Wading into a politically charged debate, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck [clown shown at left] said California should issue driver's licenses to illegal [aliens]. -- The chief becomes one of the most prominent local figures to support the idea and his stance is certain to further inflame critics who are already angry at Beck's efforts to liberalize the rules on how his officers impound the cars of unlicensed drivers... [MEChA Boy Villaraigosa agrees] |
Let the rumors begin. With Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa being named chairman of the Democratic National Convention this summer in Charlotte, N.C., the rumor mill is alive with speculation that it is seen as a grooming period for a potential cabinet post in a second Obama administration. -- These are the same rumors that circulated after Obama's election four years ago when Villaraigosa came off a successful tour...| American Patrol Report Feature -- February 15, 2012 MEChA Boy Villaraigosa will chair Democratic National Convention Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been selected chairman of this summer's Democratic National Convention, elevating his role as a surrogate in the Latino community and raising his national profile at a time Villaraigosa considers his political future. A formal announcement was scheduled Wednesday in Washington, with the mayor planning to join President Obama on Wednesday night for a presidential fundraiser in Los Angeles... |
| American Patrol Report Feature -- February 8, 2012 Lest We Forget -- Villaraigosa Reports to Mexico City Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa pounced on Mitt Romney's immigration stance Wednesday night before a crowd of Washington, D.C., lawmakers and officials honoring the mayor for his public service. -- "For the first time in modern memory, a major political party is poised to nominate a presidential candidate who has abandoned immigration reform and instead advocates self-deportation," he said... |
Contra Costa Times -- Walnut Creek, Calif -- February 8, 2012  Los Angeles -- Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will call for more action on comprehensive immigration reform in 2013 when he speaks tonight in Washington, D.C., at a dinner benefiting the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund. -- Villaraigosa will also reiterate his strong support for President Barack Obama's re-election, according to press secretary Teddy Davis... |
Brenda Walker -- VDare.com -- January 20, 2012  In Los Angeles, Mayor Tony Villaraigosa and his police chief Charlie Beck [clown shown at left] have rolled out a new policy to benefit illegal aliens that will seriously undermine public safety. Presently, when an officer comes in contact with an unlicensed driver (often an illegal alien), the vehicle is impounded for 30 days as a punishment for illegal driving plus the money needed to bail out the car... |
| Dallas Morning News -- January 18, 2012 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, offered a scathing assessment this morning of Congress --- especially House Republicans --- accusing lawmakers of blocking administration efforts to spur job creation. -- "It's interesting. The House Republican leadership has never seen a tax cut they didn't like except when President Obama proposed it," he said... |
| Doug McIntyre -- L.A. Daily News-- December 20, 2011 Politically Correct Charlie Beck [clown at left] strikes again. -- As Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's designated wingman, the police chief is the principal apologist for the sanctuary city policies that have turned L.A. into - as author David Rieff dubbed it back in 1992 - "The Capital of the Third World." -- Whenever the mayor needs to un-enforce laws against the hundreds of thousands of illegal [aliens] living here, he sends for the chief... |
| Los Angeles Times -- December 16, 2011 Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has written to Gov. Jerry Brown asking him to suspend California's participation in the Secure Communities immigration enforcement program. -- In his letter, written this month, Villaraigosa said issues with the program "have been and remain significant." -- Under Secure Communities, which began in 2008, fingerprints collected by state and local police are shared with immigration authorities... |
| Associated Press -- August 19, 2011 The city of Los Angeles will no longer hire Standard & Poor's to rate its $7 billion general investment pool because the firm recently downgraded the city's portfolio from AAA to AA. -- Interim Treasurer Steve Ongele says the city has lost faith in S&P's judgment... [See Cal Meltdown Watch] |
| Cecilia Muñoz -- Obama Regime's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs -- June 29, 2011 Last week at their annual meeting, the United States Conference of Mayors passed a resolution among their members calling for comprehensive immigration reform [amnesty]. The sponsors of that resolution, Los Angeles, California Mayor and U.S. Conference of Mayors President Antonio Villaraigosa and Laredo, Texas Mayor Raul Salinas explain why immigration reform cannot wait... |
| KOLD-TV -- Tucson -- March 15, 2011 ...['s] rants against former Democratic Gov. Gray Davis were credited with contributing to his eventual 2003 recall, and their listeners flooded Los Angeles City Hall with toilet brushes after Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said, "We clean your toilets," while praising the contribution of [illegal aliens]... |
| Southern California Public Radio -- March 15, 2011 ...[LAPD Chief and MEChA Boy Villaraigosa lackey Charlie Beck] said unlicensed U.S. citizens and legal residents stopped at checkpoints will still see their cars impounded, because unlike [illegal aliens] they have the choice to get a license... |
| Los Angeles Times -- November 22, 2010 Hoping to place cities at the forefront of global climate-change policy efforts, leaders of more than 100 urban centers, including L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, pledged on Sunday in Mexico City to commit their governments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions... |
| Los Angeles Times -- November 20, 2010 Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is going on the road again — this time to Mexico City, where he plans to attend this weekend's World Mayors Summit on Climate. -- The summit is a follow-up to last year's mega-conference on climate change in Copenhagen, an event that the mayor also attended... |
| Walter Moore -- Los Angeles -- October 28, 2010 What would you consider the highest-priority problem facing the City? -- Perhaps the unemployment rate, which is in double digits, far above state and national averages? -- Perhaps the City's overspending, which is already projected to hit $63.7 million -- and we're just in the second quarter of the fiscal year... |
| Los Angeles Daily News -- October 12, 2010 Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa voiced confidence Monday that Los Angeles will get the go-ahead to accelerate a dozen major transit projects, including the "subway to the sea," as part of the national infrastructure bank proposed Monday by President Barack Obama... |
| Los Angeles Times -- September 20, 2010 Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa added his voice Monday to those of a number of elected officials, labor leaders and others supporting the so-called Dream Act, federal legislation that would provide a path to legal status for hundreds of thousands of illegal [aliens] who arrived in the United States as youngsters... |
| L.A. Weekly -- September 11, 2010 In response to statements from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the Los Angeles Police Department that back officers involved in the shooting death of day laborer Manuel Jamines, the National Lawyers Guild, Answer Coalition, community activists and other groups gathered Friday at City Hall, condemning the mayor and police, with some calling the officers' actions "shameful, undemocratic and un-American." |
| American Patrol Report Feature -- August 29, 2010 Anchor Babies -- What Do They Mean? Political Correctness has taken over the anchor baby debate. The left is setting up a straw man – illegal aliens only come to the U.S. to give birth to a U.S. citizen. They then proceed to try to destroy this argument - pointing to lack of irrefutable evidence.... |
| Los Angeles Times -- July 19, 2010 Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan said Saturday that rising pension costs could cause the city to run out of money to pay for parks, libraries and other services within two years. -- The former mayor made his comments at a gathering of activists from across the political spectrum who are looking to push out the six City Council members... [See Cal Meltdown Watch] |
| Los Angeles Times -- June 29, 2010 The state's ethics watchdog agency has opened an investigation to determine whether Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was engaged in his "ceremonial role or duty" when he accepted thousands of dollars in free tickets to sporting events and concerts, officials said Tuesday... |
| L.A. Weekly -- June 27, 2010 Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's attorneys, after promising the public they would divulge his extensive acceptance of free tickets, meals, alcohol, parking and other goodies that he failed to report under anticorruption laws for the past five years, today instead released a log that fails to explain which corporations and other entities handed him all that largesse... |
| Walter Moore -- Los Angeles -- June 27, 2010 On March 10, 2008 -- less than a year before Mayor Villaraigosa would run for reelection -- he met with Ramon Cortines, who at the time was the Deputy Mayor for Education, Youth and Family, and Olga Garay, who was and still is the Executive Director of the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA)... |
| Walter Moore -- Los Angeles -- June 16, 2010 The next time you're pushing that Swiffer all over the house, collecting leftover pet fur, think about how nice it would be to come home from the Lakers game to find that your staff has left the whole house spotless, and has paid your phone bill, your DWP bill, and your utilities bill -- using other people's money... |
| The Oklahoman -- June 14, 2010 Hundreds of U.S. mayors Sunday gave a standing ovation to the Phoenix mayor who has spoken out against Arizona's new immigration law. -- Mayor Phil Gordon told those attending a U.S. Conference of Mayors panel that although he and his family have been the target of threats because of his criticism of the law, he regrets not speaking out earlier... [See ] |
Full Disclosure -- June 14, 2010  Veteran newsman and long time editor Ron Kaye describes the role of the Department of Water and Power and current city leadership that has presided over the rapid decline of the nation's second most populous city. From 1982 to 2008 as Editor of the L. A. Daily news Kaye acquired first hand knowledge of the inner workings of Los Angeles... [See Cal Meltdown Watch] |
| Walter Moore -- Los Angeles -- June 8, 2010 Can someone please point me to the provision in the City Charter that authorizes the City to butt into any lawsuit, anywhere in America, to file an amicus brief? -- Here's why I ask: City Council Members Garcetti, Reyes, Alarcon and Hahn have made a motion, scheduled for a vote today, to spend your tax dollars... |
| Jack Humphreville -- CityWatch LA -- June 5, 2010 Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is in full damage control mode. The Mayor's office "voluntarily initiated contact" with the City's Ethics Commission and the City Attorney regarding his acceptance of very expensive and hard to get tickets to numerous prime time events such as the Lakers, Dodgers, Angeles, Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, and Academy Awards as well as a Beyonce concert... |
| Tampa Bay Tribune -- May 23, 2010 ...Ever mindful of the Mexican vote, the Obama Administration appointed Cecilia Munoz, an open-borders advocate, who was a senior vice president for the National Council of La Raza to the executive office of the president; and nominated Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a member of La Raza, to the Supreme Court. Cruz Bustamante ...and Antonio Villaraigosa, mayor of Los Angeles, were both Mechistas -- under the Raza umbrella -- an anti-American separatist group. |
| Walter Moore -- Los Angeles -- May 23, 2010 If you want to feel your blood boil, read the article entitled "An educated weapon will combat gangs" in the Los Angeles Times. -- Long story short: You and I, the taxpayers of Los Angeles, are shelling out over $20 million a year to fund an "industry" of "gang programs," the very premise of which is the City must cede control of the streets to, and learn to "get along with," gangs... |
| Gary Pierce -- Yuma Sun -- May 23, 2010 Gary Pierce, one of five Arizona Corporation Commissioners and a former Yuma County supervisor, believes the recent call by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the city council there for a boycott on Arizona is simply political flag waving which shouldn't have a vast economic impact on private businesses in Yuma... |
| London Guardian -- May 21, 2010 ...LA, which has a large [illegal alien.... criminal] population and is opposed to Arizona's immigration law, receives a quarter of its electricity from power plants located in Arizona. -- Villaraigosa counter-attacked, saying in a statement that he would "not respond to threats from a state which has isolated itself from the America that values freedom, liberty and basic civil rights." |
| Los Angeles Times -- May 18, 2010 Less than a week after arriving home from a trip to Washington, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is headed back to the nation's capital for a two-day visit. -- He will attend a number of ceremonies for Mexican President Felipe Calderon, including a White House state dinner on Wednesday night hosted by President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama... |
| CNS News -- May 14, 2010 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told CNSNews.com Thursday that illegal immigration has not contributed to his city's budget problems, but, on the contrary, that illegal immigration adds to the "economic might" of California... [More from this clown] [See Cal Meltdown Watch] |
| Los Angeles Times -- May 7, 2010 ..."As a result of his delays in responding to the city's fiscal emergency, Mr. Villaraigosa has squandered not just his career, but his relevancy," [former L.A. Mayor Richard] Riordan wrote in a Wall Street Journal commentary co-authored by former city animal services Commissioner Alex Rubalcava... |
| Antonio "MEChA Boy" Villaraigosa -- May 1, 2010 Today, I was proud to stand with a diverse coalition of [illegal alien "rights"] and faith-based groups to declare our support for comprehensive immigration reform [aka amnesty]. -- We are long overdue for a change in our outdated and ineffective immigration policies. They do not adequately address the security concerns we face in a post-9/11 world... [Right... the borders remain wide open] [Listen to this fool] |
| American Patrol Report Feature -- April 30, 2010 U.S. Sovereignty Challenged -- Will the Bonds of Our Union Hold? Los Angeles -- The mayor ["MEChA Boy" Villaraigosa] also urges participation in Saturday's immigrant and labor rights march downtown, which police say could lure 100,000 people. -- Blasting Arizona's tough new immigration law as "unpatriotic and unconstitutional..." [This from a traitorous buffoon who flunked the Bar exam 4 times] |
| Walter Moore -- Los Angeles -- April 30, 2010 Villaraigosa, Hahn, Reyes, Garcetti and the rest of L.A.'s sanctimonious Spring Street Gang have resolved to boycott Arizona because of that state's new immigration law. -- Really? -- Do any of our local Philosopher Kings realize that the City of Los Angeles, through the Department of Water and Power, buys 21% of the power generated by a coal plant in Arizona? |
| Los Angeles Times -- April 30, 2010 Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Thursday that he supports a boycott of Arizona by the [illegal alien-packed and nearly bankrupt] city of Los Angeles, and he called that state's newly passed immigration law "unpatriotic and unconstitutional." -- "No person should be treated differently in the eyes of the law," he said at a news conference... |
| Los Angeles Times -- April 21, 2010 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Tuesday laid out his rescue plan for a city mired in its worst fiscal crisis in a generation -- an austerity budget that would cut library hours, scale back pothole repairs, freeze the hiring of firefighters and shut the agency that oversees neighborhood councils... [See Cal Meltdown Watch] |
KCBS-TV -- Los Angeles -- April 21, 2010  On the same day Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa delivered his state of the city address, political activists David Hernandez and Augusto Bisani launched a campaign to recall the mayor. -- Hernandez, who is a frequent political candidate himself, charges that Mayor Villaraigosa failed to heed warnings years ago... |
| Walter Moore -- Los Angeles -- April 21, 2010 "I will be cutting my office budget and I ask the Council to do the same." -- That's what Villaraigosa said in his "State of the City" speech. Sounds almost noble, doesn't it? -- But what if instead he had said, "I will be cutting my office budget by just 2.57%, and I'm actually going to add yet another person to my staff?" |
| Walter Moore -- Los Angeles -- April 19, 2010 The City of Los Angeles cannot afford three more years of Antonio Villaraigosa as its Mayor. -- During his first five years in office, Villaraigosa irresponsibly increased annual spending 32%: from $5.3 billion per year to $7 billion per year. Villaraigosa's spending spree included... |
| Walter Moore -- Los Angeles -- April 17, 2010 How much of L.A.’s unemployment is due to the recession, and how much is due to City Hall’s policies? -- The short answer is: 74,344 people have lost their jobs because Villaraigosa, Garcetti, Perry, Alarcon, Cardenas and the rest of the Spring Street Gang have made our city a hostile work environment... |
| American Patrol Report -- April 17, 2010 "MEChA-Boy" L.A. Mayor tweets support for invader-friendly candidate Incompetent L.A. Mayor Tony Villar, aka Antonio "MEChA-Boy" Villaraigosa, has endorsed San Francisco's for California Attorney General. Harris appears to be both illegal alien friendly and soft on crime. She declined to recommend the death penalty for the Edwin Ramos, the invader convicted of murdering Tony Bologna and his two sons in cold blood. |
| The Florida Pundit / Hot Air -- April 15, 2010 Reason TV has a put together a great video on the madness that has destroyed the economy in California: powerful public unions, raising taxes and government spending and record losses in private sector jobs. President Obama is putting the entire country on the same track... [See Cal Meltdown Watch & Obama Watch] |
| Washington Post -- April 12, 2010 Los Angeles -- The city's budget crisis and cap on overtime is forcing homicide detectives to stop work for days at a time, hurting their ability to solve cases, authorities said. -- Some detectives said they had to delay interviewing witnesses to killings after supervisors ordered them to take days off... [See Cal Meltdown] |
| Walter Moore -- Los Angeles -- April 10, 2010 L.A. City Hall budget BS and what it means You know the big story about how the City was supposedly going to run out of money, then Villaraigosa was going to shut it down two days per week, then they miraculously found $30 million in a sofa cushion or jacket pocket or whatever, and now everything's groovy again? It's total BS... |
| Walter Moore -- Los Angeles -- April 9, 2010 Foxes & Henhouses: Don't hand the City Council the DWP checkbook The City Council thinks you've never heard the one about foxes guarding henhouses. -- The City Council actually thinks you're gullible enough to hand them the DWP's checkbook, ostensibly to avoid "emergencies" like they one they miraculously "solved" today by conveniently finding an extra $30 million lying around in a desk drawer or wherever it supposedly was... |
| Los Angeles Times -- April 6, 2010 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called Tuesday for all city agencies -- except for police, other public safety and revenue-generating departments -- to close for two days a week starting April 12 because of the city's continuing budget crisis. -- "We have to act, and we have to act quickly," Villaraigosa said... [See Cal Meltdown Watch & Obama Watch] |
| Walter Moore -- Los Angeles -- April 6, 2010 L.A. City Hall goes Exxon Valdez on Cinco de Mayo That deafening scraping sound you hear is the City of Los Angeles slowly coming to rest on the big reef of Chapter 9 bankruptcy, courtesy of Captain Villaraigosa, First Mate Eric "Gilligan" Garcetti, and the entire Spring Street Crew... |
| Walter Moore -- Los Angeles -- -- April 5, 2010 Los Angeles will run out of cash on Cinco de Mayo The City Controller just issued a statement that the City will run out of cash on Cinco de Mayo. Actually, she says it will be $10 million in the hole by then. -- The City Council was counting on a $73 million transfer from the DWP, but Villaraigosa's appointees have decided... |
| Los Angeles Time -- April 3, 2010 Threats this week by Los Angeles' powerful municipal utility to withhold $73 million from the treasury helped reveal a city that has become increasingly dependent on indirect and onetime sources of revenue to pay its bills. -- Combined with the worst economic decline since the Depression, those dwindling sources of cash... [See Cal Meltdown Watch] |
