Outgoing LA mayor Villaraigosa is broke. Metaphor alert: “Close associates and City Hall insiders… concur that Villaraigosa, the highest-paid mayor in the country, at $232,735 a year, is broke — and has next to nothing lined up.” And he doesn’t just need a job, he needs a job that pays around $750K a year to maintain a movie star/jet-setter lifestyle. Hey, if his pants’ crease measure up to David Brooks’ standards, he’s a shoe-in for president.
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Okay, let's recap -
He's been making $232,735/yr.
He "needs" 750K to CONTINUE the lifestyle to which he has become accustomed.
I guess math is not exctly his field of expertise. Not to mention reality. But then again, that alone would not distinguish him from pretty much any other dem.
So through all the years he's been mayor, never once did the thought enter his mind that one day all the perks will not be there? And how much of this brilliant ability to project the future seeped into his dialy work as "leader" of Los Angeles?
This should be a national scandal that raises the question in the mind of every single citizen. We have politicians to whom we entrust not only a significant amount of our money, but also our lives, and our children's and grandchildren's, etc. money. And this character is apparently too stupid to plan for his own future, which is as predictable as the sun rising tomorrow?
How many more are operating on this basis?
Keep all of what you said in mind when you hear people talk him up for President & cabinet positions.
Somehow I doubt we will be seeing this communist fellatio artist on the street with a will lie for food sign anytime soon.
Hell, he will be promoted for higher office or into another position aof power. Bet on it.
There may be an opening for him at the IRS.
I was thinking maybe Emperor Barakus Obutthead could name him the immigration Czar....And pay him "off the books" a cool million or so a year...Libturds take care of their buddies, this guy will leg hump someone and end up getting a free ride cause he is a democrat...I hope he ends up on the street broke, but it will never happen in Kalifornia, the liberal pricks out here stash cash to help each other out all the time.
Nothing better than a broke Democrat politician.
Actually, since the Democrats have arranged the laws such that their word is all that's needed for business A to boom and business B to go bust, it's very very strange for a Democrat pol to leave office less rich than he went in. Villaraigosa must be one inept Democrat.
Don't worry though, if all else fails he'll be doing talk radio for the LA Mexican radio stations indoctrinating La Raza.
The problem is they usually break us as well. He won't be going away though, he's a progressive Demacrat, & they never have the decency to leave when they are not wanted.
Villaraigosa has been under the radar for a few years considering how corrupt he has been. Since he is on the west coast, a Demacrat, & a Latino, he has been given a total pass. Here is some of his BS, from wiki...
Controversies
Ethics violations
On May 2, 2007, the Los Angeles Times reported that Villaraigosa was under investigation for ethics violations. "The executive director of the Los Angeles Ethics Commission...accused Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of 31 violations of campaign finance and disclosure laws stemming from his 2003 campaign for the City Council."[65]
In June 2010, a formal ethics investigation of Villariagosa was launched, due to his unreported acceptance of 81 tickets to concerts, awards ceremonies and sporting events.[66] Estimates - including the 13 Lakers courtside tickets valued at $3,100 each[67] and Academy Awards and Governor’s Ball tickets at $21,000 each—suggest that the value of the tickets could amount to tens of thousands of dollars.[68] The unreported tickets came to light after the City of Los Angeles paid $3.2 million for Michael Jackson's Memorial, including $2 million in police overtime.[citation needed]
Nepotism
In 2009 the Los Angeles Times[69] published an investigative report questioning the assignment of high-paying government jobs to those with close family or other personal connections to those in political power, pointing out that California taxpayers pay Marisela Villar, daughter of Villaraigosa, $68,000 for work as a "field representative" answering constituent calls and arranging community meetings. Ms. Villar reportedly has no degrees or other particular qualifications for the position,[69] to which she was appointed by close political allies of her father.[69] "It looks like nepotism," said Tracy Westen, chief executive of the Center for Governmental Studies in Los Angeles. "It's the kind of thing the public doesn't like: people using their power and influence to provide cushy jobs to friends and family.".[69]
Controversy arose in response to the sudden withdrawal of Ricardo Lara and Arturo Chavez from the 2008, 46th District election, which is alleged to have occurred after the two attended a secret meeting at the Getty House with Villaraigosa and his cousin, John Pérez, who had recently announced his candidacy for the seat.[70] The departure of these two serious challengers cleared the field for John Pérez to win the seat. Within months, Villaraigosa appointed Lara to the Los Angeles City Planning Commission.[71] Lara later gained criticism for concurrently serving on the Planning Commission board (restricted to residents of Los Angeles) and running for state Assembly in the 50th District (restricted to residents of the 50th District). No part of the City of Los Angeles is included in the 50th District.[72] Following the Los Angeles Times article, "Legislative aide Ricardo Lara accused of straddling communities," Lara resigned from the Planning Commission.[73]
Public opinion
After his election as Mayor, Villaraigosa was featured on the cover of Newsweek, and in Time 's story on the country's 25 most influential Latinos, but repeated questions concerning his marital infidelity issues appear to have damaged his reputation locally and nationally.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa topped a list of all-time worst Angelenos chosen by online voters who responded to the Talk Back to Lopez poll at the Los Angeles Times.[74]
Villaraigosa has also received criticism because of his membership in MEChA while attending UCLA and his alleged support for immigration reform.[75][76] He has also been criticized because of the high frequency in which he holds press conferences, attends photo-ops, and travels out of town (including campaigning for Hillary Clinton). An LA Weekly article by Patrick Range McDonald published on September 11, 2008, presented an analysis of a 10-week period from May 21 to August 1, and determined that "On direct city business—such as signing legislation and meeting with city-department heads—his schedule shows the mayor spent 11 percent of his time...Yet the 11 percent of Villaraigosa's time that the Weekly has identified as being spent in L.A. on actual city work—running, fixing or shaping government policies and actions—reveals that he frequently spends that limited time huddling with special-interest groups who have helped him attain higher office."[77]
A November 4, 2008 election day poll conducted by the Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University found that Villaraigosa had a job approval rating of 61%.[78][79] In 2009, a poll by the Los Angeles times showed his approval rating had slipped to 55%, "relatively low for a sitting Mayor who faced little name opposition in his recent re-election victory."[80] At the same time, his showing and that of the candidates he supported in the election were lackluster.
Villaraigosa was featured in the editorial cover story of the June, 2009 Los Angeles Magazine, which took him to task for a lack of effectiveness regarding many of his stated policy priorities, and a focus on election to higher office, to the detriment of the needs of the City.[81] In response, the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles devoted its June 11 cover story to a defense of Villaraigosa's record.[82]
In February 2010, La Opinion staffer Isaiah Alvarado noted that Villaraigosa's call for job and cuts in city departments did not include his own staff of 205 employees, compared to 121 staffers for Hahn and 114 for Riordan. Alvarado also noted that even after a 10% reduction, the Mayor's office spent $1.8 million more than Hahn in the last year of his administration and $1.4 million more than Riordan.[83] This budget does not include the annual $118,000 covering of the Getty House, the official residence of the Mayor of Los Angeles.[84]
Personal life
Children
At age 21, Villaraigosa fathered the first of his four children, Marisela Villar, and second at age 25, Prisila Villar-Contreras.[85][86] At age 34, as Antonio Villar, he married Corina Raigosa November 28, 1987,[87] and adopted a combination of their last names as his family name. The couple had two children, Natalia and Antonio Jr.
Divorce
In the wake of extensive media coverage of his affair with Spanish-language television reporter, Mirthala Salinas, Villaraigosa announced that he was separating from his wife, and on June 12, 2007, Corina Villaraigosa filed for dissolution of marriage in Los Angeles Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences. Villaraigosa acknowledged on July 3, 2007, that he was in a relationship with Salinas.[88][89] As a result of the affair, Salinas was suspended by her employer,[90] Telemundo, forcibly relocated to Riverside,[91] after which she resigned.[92] In a New Yorker profile published shortly before the divorce, Villaraigosa acknowledged that he and Corina had had difficulties over the course of their marriage. “In a twenty-year marriage, there are many ups and downs", Villaraigosa said.[4] The New Yorker also reported that in 1994, while Corina was undergoing treatment for thyroid cancer, Villaraigosa was involved with a friend's wife and Corina had filed for dissolution of marriage at that time. The New Yorker reported that Villaraigosa's actions had infuriated colleagues who had helped portray him as a family man and lost him key supporters.[4][85]
Villaraigosa had a relationship with Lu Parker, a local television news anchor and 1994 Miss USA, from March 2009.[93] In July 2012, Parker's publicist told the Los Angeles Times that the couple's relationship had ended on May 25, 2012.[94]
...outside banging all sorts of broads & fathering children with women he ain't married to, or who are reporting on his job, plus all of the nepotisim, & all of the other BS he pulls, he's great. That means he's not done, he will try to advance to the national political stage. Since there are no standards on the left, he will be pushed & will challenge for a place on the national stage. He may end up settling for the California stage if rejected, but like Weiner, the Clinton's & the Kennedy's, he doesn't have the decency to leave gracefully. BTW, Villaraigosa is worse then Weiner, but most folks don't know who he is, yet.
Like every other libtard idiot that thinks that other peoples' money grows on f***ing trees and decides to slide into homeplate without watching to see if the slide is full of sharp rocks, he doesn't quite make it home before being thrown out. I guess there wasn't a golden parachute for him because he was a needy greedy hispanic with nothing else to offer but a crooked smile and a crooked deal!