Magic Man
A larger than life figure in Los Angeles for years has been Earvin "Magic" Johnson. Starting off as the legendary #32 for the World Champion Los Angles Lakers, in his retirement, Magic has re-made himself as an extraordinarily succesful businessman, becoming involved in many ventures primarily in the inner city. He has worked to bring top corporations to minority and low income areas across the country.He is now trying his hand at NASCAR.
Long the province of Southern "crackers" NASCAR or "stock car" racing has become the largest sport in America, eclipsing Major League Baseball, the NFL, the NBA and other sports. However, it is not a sport that until recently has tried to reach out to minorities. Magic has come in to boost the sport among non-whites.
As well, through his business ventures, Magic has dabbled in local Los Angeles politics. Many have suggested he could run for office some day.
What if Tony Villar came up short on election day and we then slog through four years of a lame duck Mayor Poopy. In 2009, Magic could run for Mayor. He would take office a month before his 50th birthday.
As a succesful Mayor for eight years - with all his business connections - Magic could take on the Governor's seat - or maybe - given all the connections he could earn down South with his NASCAR connections - go straight to President of the United States.
A bit fantastical I admit, but it could happpen.
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 3/14/2005 08:05:00 PM
9 Comments:
Hey Bull:
Sam's gotten into your evidence room and is smokin' Bob Mitchum's reefers again.
Has he endorsed?
Sacto: Although I don't buy your comments about AV, I have to admit that your last post was funny. Symbolism does trump substance.
How else did Rocky (who knows absolutely nothing about being an attorney and practiced law at O'Melveny for a minute ) beat Mike Freurer?
ATHENA
Exit polls also had Bradley winning in 1982 and, oh yeah, Kerry in 2004. Remember Kerry, the guy for whom Tony was suppose to moblize the Latino vote. Didn't Bush get record number of Latino votes for a Republican? I'm sure Kerry regrets his choice.
In the privacy of the voting booth people will vote with their racist, bigotted, elitist little hearts. But these White, Black and Jewish voters are astute enough to say the right thing in public. Subtle racism means telling people what they want to hear and doing something else. Just like Tony's consultants, tell Latino voters what they want to hear, they're too stupid to figure it out anyway. And if they do figure it out it will be too late or cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to rectify.
Agreed with the above. SN has always been right on the money. Look at how ridiculous the KABC poll looks now. No one believes the LAT Exit Poll because we all know they fudge the numbers for their golden boy. The Survey one is also getting slammed by everyone. Amazing how MEAT posted those laughable numbers before the election. I know people who promised Antonio to vote and campaign for him because ADV is paying off people and harrassing them. Although like they said he burned us too many times. So when they get in the booth it will be payback by punching the Hahn circle.
Here is the breakdown:
BS hertzerg will NOT be endorsing antonio. I am sure all the insiders here think it is due to some homoerotic incident when they were roommates, or because bob wants hahn to win for a clearer shot in 2008, or because hertzberg is about ideas and not fattening his book of business by endorsing someone. Nope. All you insiders forget that hertzberg's wife, who calls all the shots in godzilla's life, absolutely detests antonio. end of story.
Parks - he will not endorse. He is getting grief from some of the older pastors and people who put him in that they do not want tony in. parks is gonna do nothing.
Alarcon - he is gonna endorse walter moore.
blog away
What happened in Sacramento with ADV and Huggy? It was obvious neither of them wanted the subject to come up. IF Huggy would have laid Antonio out he would be in the run off I'm sure. Bitter Bernie won't endorse anyone who doesn't go along with his stupid idea of getting rid of 3-12. I sure wish ADV wld back him on that so we can blast his little ass back. The blacks are backing Hahn cause they don't want a Latino with that much political power and forget about them.
"You can either believe the facts..."
"Athena," thank you, again, for your Harriman-esque condescension (S/he's BAAAAAAAACK!)
You're entitled to offer any interpretation of the various sets of numbers floating around, and those that will keep surfacing anews. It's a free country! You're NOT entitled to claim your interpretations are "the facts," however. Not until May 18, 2005. Facts are based on people actions –AT THE TIME. Everything else is conjecture.
Exit polls that “isolate trends” up to the primary become useless after it. Isolated “trends” that exclude nearly one third of the votes actually and most likely to be cast (again) are even more useless. “Favorables” change every time a news story hits the street detailing some previously unknown aspect of a candidate’s legacy (over 9 more weeks…). Being “favorable” towards a candidate is not even close to being the same thing as supporting them enough to vote. In a nasty two-way contest, people who are only “favorable” may just as often stay home in disgust… (Note: 26 percent turnout WITH 5 major candidates).
In your previous post, you based a huge “landslide” prediction on all these imprecise, dated, trending numbers. The only “fact” in evidence here is that your bias is so painfully obvious it’s blinding.
Oh my GAWD. That means ADV's entering the mayor's race late was just a "double vendetta" -- get Hahn back for beating him last time, and get Hertzberg back for past grievances at the same time -- screwing him (or Parks?) out of being in the runoff. ADV must be absolutely consumed with venom to the point where he can't keep still in one job and wait a couple years. Every race is about personal animosity, first and foremost. (And his wife HAS to know what's behind all this... yikes!)
TONY'S the "Bitter" Boy here -- Antonio Villaraigo-sour!
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