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Villaraigosa's 'Were Almost Out of Money' Media Tour
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The fact that Los Angeles will be out of money on May 5th if leadership doesn't do anything is making heads turn around the nation. So what to do? Make the media rounds. Here's Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's schedule for today (the last one is about the Census) in case you want to hear him talk about it:
9:00 AM -- LOS ANGELES -- Mayor Villaraigosa will be interviewed on Bloomberg News about the budget between 9:00am - 9:30am PST. 10:00 AM -- LOS ANGELES -- Mayor Villaraigosa will be interviewed by Ali Velshi on CNN about the budget between 10:00am - 10:30am PST.
10:45 AM -- LOS ANGELES -- Mayor Villaraigosa will be interviewed by Larry Mantle on "AirTalk" on KPCC 89.3 about the budget between 10:45am - 11:00am PST.
3:30 PM -- LOS ANGELES -- Mayor Villaraigosa will be interviewed by Neil Cavuto on Fox Business News about the budget between 3:30pm - 4:00pm PST.
7:00 PM -- LOS ANGELES -- Mayor Villaraigosa will be interviewed by Art Laboe on 92.3 fm about the Census between 7pm - 12am PST.
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