And can you guess what has Mayor Villaraigosa been up to besides directing rate hikes for customers of the DWP? And wasn't the Mayor a position that takes care of CITY business? Somebody should tell Tony about this. And the rest of City Council, too, with Eric Garcetti, another who says the city is "tax starved", and include Janice Hahn who called herself the "parcel tax queen." This tells you what they are thinking about, and it's not the people of Los Angeles. But let's get back to Mayor Tony's present surfacing in today's news conference.MAYOR VILLARAIGOSA LOOKING FORWARD TO MAY DAY.
Besides being the former Pothole King, he's the Rhetoric Prince. Another May Day is coming and he's probably going to show his face. His press conference today was a warm up but the Arizona Boycott idea provoked him to grab the spotlight again.
He is not a lawyer, not even close. His expressed views can be considered as either pedestrian, or, just the echoing of some anonymous staffer paid a lot for nothing really meaningful.
He needs an attorney to do this summary for him in order to make a better grounded legal evaluation, but as it's actually rhetoric, why bother?
The Arizona Boycott gives Tony a vehicle to come out of his May Day self-imposed exile after making his "We Clean Your Toilets" revelation to the crowd where Mexican flags were displayed in abundance throughout the scenes shown on television. (He even gave instructions for the anticipated rally-goers, including bringing plastic water bottles and bags to pick up after yourself upon leaving. He's so much the civics director- but remember that plastic bottles were taken to such events but frozen first in order to get some better distance in the water toss event that became part of that earlier day's activities that came to be called the May Day Melee. It cost L.A. a pretty penny when the claims were settled. Don't you just love rallies? Tony apparently does. Darn those pranksters.
TONY IS THE ORATOR AGAIN- He Has a Dream.
If you review the recordings of the style he's used in speaking during his first couple of "State of the City" addresses, you can see that they were over-enunciated as if he was repising the "I Have a Dream" speech of Martin Luther King. I think he actually expected to be some great mayor and was planning to have some vivid recordings for the expected archival footage of his early administration. Too bad he turned out to be, instead, and increasingly certain, "the worst mayor in the history of Los Angeles."
As that complete self-delusion began to clear from his head a bit, he started talking normally (in his case, not to impressive) and make normal speeches of vapid content.
Today, he's gotten his second wind apparently, and the product was a very contrived assortment of inflections and more conclusions that only he and his staff could believe.
TONY THE DREAMER
Does anyone read these items for him in advance to try to clear out some of the puzzling phrases.
AND GUESS WHAT?
None of this helps solve the city's budget predicament which Tony helped create while travelling most of his first 5 years in office and attending a record number of press conferences and photo opps (and some of these should really be called "photo ooops" for all the silliness involved) instead of working in his office to tend to the city business that was presumably the reason for his election.
His budget plan is in trouble- it seems he's not paying attention here, too. Tony is getting so desperate to avoid bankruptcy under his "leadership", as are the other CMs, that he will sell off any city assets he can to get his butt out of the short term jam just to avoid bankruptcy of the city. The fallout from that is that he will be leaving the city to face a heavily indebted and disastrous future, but by then, he will be long gone.
Maybe Villaraigosa will be running for the Senate, or as some think, being selected to be the Ambassador to somewhere. Ambassadors attend lots of social functions and that's probably a good fit for Villaraigosa, the party mayor. Too bad he couldn't have skipped this one stop as L.A.'s mayor on the way there.
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