TACO RUNT VILLARAIGOSA IS A MEMBER OF THE MEX FASCIST SEPARATIST MOVEMENT OF M.E.Ch.A.
Antonio Villaraigosa, former L.A. mayor, jumps into
the California governor's race
Antonio Villaraigosa at the Democratic
National Convention in Philadelphia in July. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on
Thursday began his 2018 bid for governor after a three-year hiatus from the
political limelight, joining a heady field of candidates that is expected to
grow larger in the months ahead.
The
former mayor, who was raised by a single mother in Boyle Heights, said his
campaign will focus on rebuilding the middle class and assisting Californians
who have been “left behind” in the new economy, along with improving public
schools and repairing the state’s deteriorating roads, bridges and other
infrastructure.
In
announcing, Villaraigosa took a shot at
President-elect Donald Trump, whom
the
former mayor has criticized in the past for
anti-immigrant rhetoric.
“I’m
running because I think the answer to the divisiveness we see in the country
right now is unity, and the answer to fear is hope,” Villaraigosa said in a
telephone interview with The Times.
“I’m
going to reach out to unions, to business, to every interest group in every
part of the state. Because my candidacy is about the public interest,” he said.
“I’ll call them as I see them. I’ll be as fair as the day is long.”
The
Villaraigosa campaign on Thursday blasted out an email asking for
Californians’ support — and the most generous contribution supporters
could afford.
The
Democrat’s decision and new website come
after months of relatively quiet, subtle moves to drift back into the
consciousness of the California electorate, including an extended “listening
tour” through the drought-ravaged Central Valley, where he worked to
familiarize himself with the state’s water crisis and its impact on
California’s billion-dollar agricultural industry and the people whose livelihoods
depend on it.
Though
Villaraigosa remains a familiar political figure in California, he will face tough competition among
fellow Democrats.
Longtime
political rival Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a
former San Francisco mayor, launched his campaign in February 2015 and has been
feverishly raising money ever since. State Treasurer John Chiang of Torrance also has jumped into the race,
as has Delaine Eastin, who served eight years as California's top education official.
Former state Controller Steve Westly and billionaire environmental activist Tom
Steyer, a San Francisco hedge-fund billionaire, also are considering
gubernatorial bids.
Former
mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa speaks at the Democratic National
Convention about immigration. More coverage at latimes.com/trailguide.
“I
clearly have a lot of ground to make up and I’m going to start making it
up today. I’m the underdog. I think that’s pretty clear,” Villaraigosa said.
He flirted with a run for governor in
2010, shortly after the beginning of his second term as mayor. But
the formidable Jerry Brown appeared
to have the Democratic nomination in his grasp early in that race. Villaraigosa
ultimately decided he couldn’t "leave this city in the middle of a
crisis" as Los Angeles struggled to recover from the economic ravages
of the Great Recession. At the time, L.A. was attempting to whittle down a
$530-million budget deficit, a 12.5% unemployment rate and a flood of home
foreclosures.
However,
the allure of the top statewide office never faded. Just days after he
left office as mayor, Villaraigosa said he wanted to run for governor. When
Sen. Barbara Boxer announced in January 2015 that she would not seek
reelection, the former mayor spent weeks considering a
possible run for her seat. But, again, the grail of a
California governor’s office once occupied by Earl Warren, Pat Brown and Ronald
Reagan beckoned.
For
Villaraigosa, whose eight years as L.A. mayor came to a quiet end in 2013, the
challenge will be to recapture the political electricity that enveloped him in
2005, when the former Assembly speaker and Los Angeles city
councilman made history by becoming L.A.'s first Latino mayor since 1872.
Villaraigosa’s
victory at the time was seen as a harbinger of rising “Latino Power,” which was
the headline on a Newsweek magazine cover adorned with his picture.
He quickly embraced the
urban revival underway in downtown and Hollywood, and
successfully led the campaign for Measure R, a $35-billion transportation
package passed by voters in 2008 that imposed a countywide half-cent sales tax.
The measure is credited with reshaping the region's notoriously inefficient
transit system. Under his watch, the city also hired hundreds of new police
officers and violent crime plummeted.
But
during his tenure, the city also struggled to cope with plummeting revenues
amid the nation’s economic downturn. He wrestled for concessions from public
employee unions that were necessary, in part, because of raises he
had approved before the recession.
Villaraigosa has said that his biggest failing
and disappointment during his time as mayor was personal: the breakup of his
marriage, which occurred after he acknowledged having an extramarital affair
with a television newscaster. It’s unclear if his political image has fully
recovered. The same could be said for Newsom, who had a highly
publicized affair with his former campaign manager’s wife while
serving as San Francisco mayor.
In
August, 63-year-old Villaraigosa remarried, tying the knot with Patricia Govea
in a wedding ceremony in Mexico. They now live in a contemporary
house in Hollywood Hills, with impressive views of downtown L.A. and the
Hollywood sign.
After
leaving office, Villaraigosa has worked as an advisor to
controversial nutritional products company Herbalife Ltd.,
which could become a political vulnerability. He also did work for the Banc of
California and the global public relations firm Edelman, and has been a
part-time professor at the USC Price School of Public Policy.
Over
the last six months, Villaraigosa has slowly inserted himself back into the
political scene. In June, he formed a political action committee —
Building Bridges, Not Walls — to combat anti-immigrant policies trumpeted
by Donald Trump, and a month later at the Democratic National
Convention in Philadelphia, he ripped Trump for proposing a
mass deportation of immigrants in the country illegally.
BLOG: ALL TACO RUNT'S ILLEGALS WILL
HAVE BEEN DEPORTED AND THEIR
VOTER REGISTRATION CANCELLED
BEFORE VILLARAIGOSA RUNS!
BLOG: ALL TACO RUNT'S ILLEGALS WILL
HAVE BEEN DEPORTED AND THEIR
VOTER REGISTRATION CANCELLED
BEFORE VILLARAIGOSA RUNS!
Dan
Schnur, director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at
USC, said Trump’s election could become a major asset for Villaraigosa, predicting Latinos and Democrats in California will be highly motivated to go to the polls in 2018.
USC, said Trump’s election could become a major asset for Villaraigosa, predicting Latinos and Democrats in California will be highly motivated to go to the polls in 2018.
“Running
for governor during Donald Trump’s midterm election boosts his political stock
tremendously,” Schnur said. “By the time this is all over, Villaraigosa will
have put pictures of Donald Trump on his campaign posters.”
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Sheriff: MS-13 Gang Brings Machetes, Rape,
Scalping to Texas
Members of the hyper-violent
MS-13 transnational criminal gang are bringing severe tactics like
machete-hacking murders, rape, and scalping to Texas according to the Texas
Sheriff’s Association.
REPORT:
East
Texas Child Murdered by Previously Deported Illegal Alien
THE
STAGGERING COST OF AMNESTY:
Legals
to pay trillions for open borders and Mexico’s looting
Between one-quarter and one-third of the 1.5 million
new arrivals in 2014 were illegal aliens, meaning that a conservative estimate
is that 1,000 illegal aliens a day are moving to the United States.
TRUMP'S END ILLEGAL
IMMIGRATION ACT
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/11/trumps-end-illegal-immigration-act.html
It would also establish a “2-year mandatory minimum federal
prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous
deportation, and a 5-year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those
with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions, or two or more prior
deportations.”
RAPE, MURDER, SCALPING… THE MEXICANS HAVE ARRIVED!
Sheriff: MS-13 Gang Brings Machetes, Rape,
Scalping to Texas
BY BOB PRICE
Members of the hyper-violent
MS-13 transnational criminal gang are bringing severe tactics like
machete-hacking murders, rape, and scalping to Texas according to the Texas
Sheriff’s Association.
ANOTHER LA RAZA RAPE of a CHILD
NO ONE TOLD THE MEX RAPIST WE HAVE BORDERS!
REPORT:
East
Texas Child Murdered by Previously Deported Illegal Alien
Law
enforcement officials in East Texas are reporting the alleged murderer of
10-year-old Kayla Gomez-Orozco is a previously deported illegal alien from
Mexico.