City business- making appearances? Is this what a Mayor should be doing? Being in

The mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, still does not find a purpose to staying in the Mayor's Office to get to city business, the real kind, and continues to tour city to keep his face before the cameras.

From The City Maven blog's "Morning Coffee" section,  http://www.thecitymaven.com/2011/08/10/mavens-morning-coffee-66/ today's listing of press items for city hall shows the mayor to be making four public appearnaces:

Pressers

10:30 a.m. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will help launch a bilingual Internet literacy program at Magnolia Place Family Center.
11:30 a.m. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will be at L.A. Live to announce the location of the 2012 Breeders’ Cup.
7 p.m. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will attend Summer Night Lights at Imperial Courts Recreation Center.
8 p.m. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will attend Summer Night Lights at Jordan Downs Recreation Center.

This doesn't seem to be the best use of a mayor's time when you consider what condition the city is in.  But then, why should he change his ways now as he travels the city with his security detail and assorted staffers, all paid for by tax dollars, too. 

Does anyone really want to see him out in the city instead seeing him stay in city hall, getting to know the place, and trying to get familiar with city work to be done.  The real priorities of this city don't match those of the mayor.

 Maybe there's a reason for the mayor to have over 200 staff members when the other mayor's had less than 100 to assist them.