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Now here's not a fun way to start your second term in office. The June cover of Los Angeles Magazine will hit homes and newsstands with a cover story, actually an open letter, perhaps to put Mayor Villaraigosa back on track to serve Los Angeles and not his political career when his new term begins on July 1st.
"We are bitter because you promised us so much," a teaser reads on LA Observed. "What you now lead is an administration in which politics almost always trumps policy... Mr. Mayor, the city you have sworn to lead is in crisis. It is time you put a stop to the betrayals and fecklessness. Time you resist the urge to bound up the career ladder."
The issue should come out in a few days. In the March election, Villaraigosa only garnered 56% of the vote. 6% less and he would have been in a run-off in next Tuesday's election.
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This article is: WIN
Come on Mayor Do-Nothing, lets see you do something.
This should take the wind out of his hopeful gubernatorial sails.
He will make it worst if he runs for governor.
If he's such a failure, then why did the voters just reelect him?
If anything, the citizens of this city are the failure.
as Zach reported two days ago, more than a third of LA students fail to graduate high school -- so does this reflect more poorly on Villaraigosa's reign as mayor, or the under-educated constituents who keep voting for incumbent candidates?
FAIL Mayor or FAIL Citizens?
"If he's such a failure, then why did the voters just reelect him?"
Because the alternative would have been Walter Moore.
I seem to recall there were 8 other candidates on the ballot as well.
A 13% voter turnout for a mayoral election in the second largest city in America is, in a word, totally unacceptable.
Get out the vote then!
If you are truly appalled by low voter turnout and want to encourage more people to vote you need to be working those tables, registering new voters, and talking what ever political view you believe in.
The way you like to debate on-line you'd probably love it!
Who says I didn't? For what good it did.
Face it, nobody gives a shit about this town until it begins to affect them in the wallet.
Good for you!
If in all your your efforts you register only one voter who votes in every election and stays engaged in the political process that's still one more than we had.
So keep up the good work!
You've hit the nail on the head with your last sentence, except I would replace "town" with "country."
I can't stand him or the equally slimey Gavin Newsome