Where in the World Is Antonio Villaraigosa?
In Detroit, the motor city, that is!"Ah oooh He looked a lot like Che Guevara, drove a diesel van Kept his gun in quiet seclusion, such a humble man The only survivor of the National People's Gang Panic in Detroit, I asked for an autograph He wanted to stay home, I wish someone would phone Panic in Detroit (oh oh oh aahh, oh oh oh aahh)"
Panic In Detroit by David Bowie
Yes our mayor cleared his schedule to attend one of the memorial services held today for civil rights icon, Rosa Parks, in her adopted hometown. He will also be speaking, according to radio reports.
No doubt, Rosa Parks is a legend, but don't we have stuff going on here that needs to be handled? Of course it's a great experience to be there at a historic moment, but there were memorials for Rosa held here in LA.
But this is a national event with people like the Clintons, John Kerry, Jesse Jackson et al who will be in the mix. Its important for Antonio to be "seen" there.
I hope that Rosa's funeral isn't turned into a cheap, Democratic party campaign event as was done with the late Senator Paul Wellstone's funeral in Minnesota. That was a shame.
Doesn't however do anything to quell the dum dums and the rumours that Antonio is looking to go national and tell LA - "See ya!"
Bad move in my view.
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 11/02/2005 12:48:00 PM
56 Comments:
Weren't you going Bye Bye mayor sam for couple of days?
I speculate Villaraigosa has doubles of himself nationwide, like Saddam Hussein did.
Weren't you going Bye Bye mayor sam for couple of days?
I speculate Villaraigosa has doubles of himself nationwide, like Saddam Hussein did.
If Sam were on the other end of the line when the Parks family asked the Mayor to attend, sam would've said yes as well.
Rosa Parks was a Los Angeles leader as well.
Sam: Villaraigosa is asked to speak at Rosa Parks' memorial -- and you think he should not go? Are you insane? You really are an officous asshole. Do you think Jim Hahn would have ever been asked?
You people have lead in your heads! Villaraigosa was not asked, it was orchestrated by prominent African American leaders so Villaraigosa can have more photo ops. I love Rosa Parks and what she did for this nation. I hate polticial whores like Villaraigosa who will use this event for political gain, just lika de Clintttttoooonnnnssss.
AV's running for VP of US, wants to do the burial brigade routine for John Kerry's White House next time around (yikes, SCARY!)
you have to be kidding - this is rosa parks, a national icon and one of the sparks that fired the civil rights movement, and you think the first latino mayor in modern los angeles' history shouldn't go?
like it or not, when you are the mayor of the 2nd largest city in the US you are by default a "national" leader.
find something else legitimate to criticize.
1:49 - I hate political idiots. No one here in LA has that kind of pull. If you know more, then name some names or shut up.
Mayor Sam - Rosa Parks changed American history more dramatically than almost any other American. My life's trajectory was changed because of her, as well as countless other Americans, INCLUDING our very own Mayor Villaraigosa.
My parents, uncles and aunts were the very ones who had to get to the back of the bus. They were the very ones who were turned away from the polls under Jim Crow politics. Please don't understate the value of this person or the celebration of her life with this critique.
There ain't nothing pressing enough right now that should cause him to pay tribute at her national memorial service.
And one last reminder: You can bash Democrats for whatever policies you want, but the fact remains that they were the ones that stood up for the Civil Rights Act of 1965. The opponents, sadly, were Republicans.
The Mayor was asked by the family to attend.
The family is in charge of the event, as is the normal procedure. The family wanted the Mayor of Los Angeles with whom they are close too - so speak at the event.
Idiots who speculate are blind when the sun shines on them.
Anyone know where I can find a video of Antonio's speech? A buddy of mine was watching it on CSPAN and told me it was pretty good.
PLEASE ANTONIO WAS NOT INVITED BY THE FAMILY. He is addicted to cameras and attention. He went because we all know he's going to run for governor in 2006. The reason so many are anry is if he was a "working mayor" we would be happy for him to be there. The fact of the matter is Antonio is the laziess mayor to date, hasn't been inside his city hall office for days and thrives being the center of attention. I would love Dr. Phil to analyze his little butt.
Well i did not see his speech on television.
His speech was crafted using a song farmworkers would sing in California during their tribulations. Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez would sing it during the tough times in their fight for civil rights. Its a little known song that the Mayor pulled from obscurity and connected it to the life of Rosa Parks.
The song's title when translated means "unmovable rock". Its exactly what Rosa Parks was that day oh so long ago.
The mayor was the only elected to get a standing ovation at the of his speech.
Everyone else got polite applause.
nice trujillo
Antonio is an embarrassment to his culture. Everyone knows it was because of Honorable Edward Roybal that Latinos are now politicans. It was stated at his eulogy. But Antonio says different comments depending on where he's at.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa eulogized civil rights icon Rosa Parks in Detroit Wednesday, saying she helped pave his way to become the first Hispanic mayor of Los Angeles.
2:13 - The envy coming from you is so thick my screen is turning green. You need some serious therapy, dude.
Mayor Villaraigosa is everywhere! How can he be accused of being lazy? Things are finally getting done in this City - and that's just over 100 days in office. Take a tranquilizer or have a stiff one.
That's the problem he's everywhere except where he's suppose to be and that's in city hall doing business. All his commission appointees haven't even been confirmed. "Getting done" what the hell has he done except get residents to pick up brooms again and sweep? He takes credit for others work. You are in a minority. At every community meeting citywide AV is trashed for being a do-nothing mayor. He did nothing in CD14 for 2 yrs now all of a sudden you think he got a work ethic over night? Your're dreaming.
Villaraigosa Praises Parks At Service In Detroit
Mayor: Parks Reminds Us To 'Give Back'
POSTED: 1:47 pm PST November 2, 2005
UPDATED: 1:57 pm PST November 2, 2005
LOS ANGELES -- At the invitation of the family and funeral organizers, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa eulogized civil rights icon Rosa Parks in Detroit Wednesday, saying she helped pave his way to become the first Hispanic mayor of Los Angeles.
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"We're here today and I'm here today, the first from my community, on the shoulders of (former Mayor) Tom Bradley and Rosa Parks," Villaraigosa told the crowd. "I'm here today because there was a Civil Rights Act. I'm here today because there was a Voting Rights Act.
"And Rosa Parks would like all of us to remember that our responsibility is not to revel in our success. Our responsibility is to give back and build back."
Parks, a seamstress, was thrust into the national spotlight in 1955 by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Ala. Parks died Oct. 24 in Detroit at age 92.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson delivered Parks' eulogy at the funeral at Greater Grace Temple and Aretha Franklin sang.
Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D- N.Y., also were among the speakers.
Parks' decision not to move to the back of the bus on Dec. 1, 1955, helped start the civil rights movement. After she was arrested, a little-known minister, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., organized a boycott that lasted 381 days, leading to the end of segregation on Montgomery's buses.
Parks had relatives in Los Angeles and in her later years spent winters in the Southland, attending services at First AME Church.
Parks left Montgomery in 1957 after losing her job as a seamstress at a department store because of her arrest and role in the bus boycott, eventually moving to Detroit, where she worked as a receptionist and secretary for Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., from 1965 until retiring in 1988.
To: 2:51pm Anon
You said..."All his commission appointees haven't even been confirmed."
You are correct, but that has nothing to do with the mayor and everything to do with the normal process of the City Council. It goes through Council Committee then the Full Chamber. In fact, his Planning Commission nominees and his pick to run the Aiport Dpet both got confirmed with a unanimous voice.
What should be notes however is the speed at which the new Mayor's Commission Appts have been approved, faster than both Hahn and Riordan.
Plus Antonio has had more commission appts confirmed then both those mayors at similar times in their adminstration as well.
Get it with it buddy -- do your homework.
2:57
That is true, but some of them were recycled from Riordan's tenor most of them with conflicts (but they were swept under the rug) because when a crisis shows up AV will look silly. I'm not being cynical just giving what Politics is all about.
Other's wrote a fat check for his campaign.
2:51 - I can't say it more bluntly, you are a liar. No matter how much you repeat it on this blog, the Mayor is NOT getting trashed at community meetings. This guy is treated like a rock star!
While I am a minority, I happen to be in the majority approving of the Mayor's work thus far.
You are simply a petty little hater who won't stop complaining no matter what he does.
What planet are you living on? Even the downtown news made fun of his first 116 days. You are one of those loving supporters in lala land. Wake up and smell the coffee. Your dear Mayor has shown total lack of leadership. He's flip flopped on the LAUSD issue, made commission appointments to family and people who endorsed him and their wives, appointed 2 who are suing the city, wants to raise trash fees, can't find money for cops, is in bed with developers giving them millions relief on taxes, wasn't MAN enough to take a stand on DWP pay hike and the list goes on.
Like I said when he left CD14 to run for mayor, there's a bigger battle to fight. Antonio was needed in the mayors seat..
Anon should I tell you the story of the emperor with no clothes? Please he was in CD14 for 2 yrs and did NOTHING. What you expect us to believe that all of a sudden he got a work ethic? NOT!
What's clear is that you oppose him. He won the election and your guy didn't. Sour grapes.
Bye-bye.
2:05
Check your history books; Southern Dems like Johnson kept it from happening sooner. It wasn't until he got rifled into the presidency that he changed his tune.
Civil rights could have been a reality SOONER if not for democrats.
4:38
And "winning" the election IS all that matters after all.
After that dereliction of duty, dishonesty, and enough broken promises to pave the Eastside all over again are just (what?)
Collateral damage?
Hip hip hooray for "our" side; screw yours!
Lovely.
3:51
Alas! Someone that sees that same thing, Antonio running for Governor.
Last week US News and World Report had the Mayor on the cover named as one of America's 25 Best Leaders. He was one of only 2 elected officials in the entire group.
Oh, but the Mayor Sam blog (the new media) knows better.
YES, and NEWSWEEK know SO much about leadership. Since AV tries to hide his last two years in city government as if it was just some paid sabbatical, hardly worth mentioning, and focus on the promise-breaking first few weeks as mayor.
If anyone else was trying to pass themselves off as a stellar "Leader" after 4 months in office everyone poster here would be laughing at the joke. Don'ttake AV so seriously. He can't possibly live up to it, and it's just going to break your heart down the road.
This is the equivalent of some coach losing all his pre-season games, and people naming him "best coach" because he gives good locker room interviews after the game (and the team LOVES him).
The only thing he's "leading" in is frequent flyer miles out of town.
4:38 - WRONG. Southern Conservatives who were predominantly Dems opposed it. When the Party was making its shift toward eliminating Jim Crow laws, they jumped ship faster than a cat can lick its ass. They became what we know as today's Republican Party (not the one's of Old Abe Lincoln), the same ones who fought de-segregation and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
5:24 - No, difference is Villaraigosa HASN'T los any preseason games.
The only loser has been Nick Pacheco who obviously did so poorly the residents kicked him out of office without the courtesy of even a run-off. Then he lost (BY 40+ PERCENT) to Steve Cooley for District Attorney.
SO your telling me that LYNDON JOHNSON, the guy who ENGINEERED blocking civil rights for years in the senate was ACTUALLY a GOP spy.
Damn that new "history."
WELL, lets see. Two of AV's most virulent support groups for mayor, animal rights activists and school reformers are already pissed and ready to string him up.
That's a "win" in your league?
Pacheco?
How the hell did Pacheco get on this thread. WHO is talking about Pacheco?
Damn you AV-lovers can't get over the hurt feeling and boo-boos from years ago.
One guy is mayor, and the other one wants to be councilman again. They're NOT in competition, HAVEN'T been for almost 3 years.
Give it a REST. AV's main "enemy" now is how OWN inability to complete anything, sit still long enought to affect ANY positive changes, and his unbridled PASSION for seeing himself on TV and telling people he's some (diabetic) kid in a candy store.
HEY, Antonio. You RUN the candy store, now, and the shoplifters are stealing it blind, while the thugs break the windows.
Sit the fuck down and come up with a solution to something, anything - for ONCE, and then SEE IT THROUGH to the damn end.
When does he REALLY roll up his sleeves??
(OOPS, there he goes again, late for another mass transit ride).
As I recall, Mayor Sam Yorty himself was a vurrry peripatetic Mayor.
Is this a recent pic of you mailander?
It's ok, but you might want to consider sitting up for the pic.
Worth it to whom?
You politicos are only ever concerned with who wins, and who losers, and who gets to move to the next big position.
Antonio V. screwed the Eastside, royally - more than just by bailing before accomplishing anything, but also by guaranteeing that there would have to be ANOTHER nasty divise fight (who cares, as long as his "boy" wins, right?) And then MAYBE another in January, and GOD -- a special election for SCHOOL BOARD if Huizar wins?
Then about the time the paint dries on the blue signs outside the field offices that says COUNCILMEMBER XYZ, CD14, the gloves come off AGAIN, for another damn year of nastiness for the 2007 campaign. Another 12 months of having neighbors spit at each other because we're all on the wrong "team." And the only way to avoid this is to roll over and just let him run some one-party state where all his people get in place, and no one contests them. We know what that's called (and it ain't NEW!)
Thanks Antonio, you're REALLY bringing L.A' "together" in a new era of "brotherhood"
Yeah, CAIN and ABEL, brotherhood.
PSST, psst. Pass it on FAKE endorsements In Huizar's column from community groups with certified city neighborhood council organizational membership AND 501(c)3s. Follow the story, people. No votes, not "advise and consent" from member groups. Low-down, in NELA town!
Duplicate boards, listing themselves twice for more bang, violating (for the NCs) city ethics laws. Dig, dig, dig. Scroll back, look around. "Pocket" endorsements only mentioned to tiny support groups (secret to others).
You're a pain in the ass Kim Thompson. We hate you at City Council meetings.
""The day that belly dancers came in, I was beyond amused," recalled Kim Thompson, a San Fernando Valley activist who frequently attends council meetings. "I'm sitting there thinking my kids are going to be home from school in three hours, and I'm watching belly dancers come belly dancing down the aisle.""
Bond issue for religious school questioned
L.A. City Council will vote on $30 million deal to fund expansion at Loyola High School, which has enrolled the mayor's son.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/1831591.html
A roof over their heads
MAYOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA'S proposal for a $1-billion city bond measure for affordable housing came as a big surprise this month, even to some of the people who build such housing.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-housing31oct31,0,2196429.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials
http://samyortysamerica.blogspot.com/2005/10/clinton-still-trying-to-score-with.html
Hey midget. Just fill the damn potholes!!! Do something useful!!
Hey Mayors you should have posted a story called "Where in the World did Nick's Lead in the Polls Go?"
Answer: it got urteaga'd.
Did anyone ever stop to consider whether Rosa Parks was merely tired?
If you ever dealt with the way her sons and handlers sold her out during the last ten years, you would think so too. Much like the Times implied about Maxine Waters, you could purchase Rosa Parks' endorsement and appearance at events.
I think of all the true leaders nationwide who stood up for rights and refused to move on busses - Rosa Parks simply was the one that came to symbolize it all.
Don't believe the hype.
I got a peek at AV's itinerary for the next several months -- look something like this:
"I've going everywhere, man; I've going everywhere, man 'Cross the deserts bare, man, I've breathed the mountain air, man Of travel, I've had my share, man, I've going everywhere.
I'm going to Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota, Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota, Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma, Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, La Paloma, Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo, Tocopilla, Barranquilla, and Padilla
It's a killer.
Going to Boston, Charleston, Dayton, Louisiana, Washington, Houston, Kingston, Texarkana, Monterey, Ferriday, Santa Fe, Tallapoosa, Glen Rock, Black Rock, Little Rock, Oskaloosa, Tennessee, Hennessey, Chicopee, Spirit Lake, Grand Lake, Devil's Lake, Crater Lake, for Pete's sake.
Louisville, Nashville, Knoxville, Ombabika, Shefferville, Jacksonville, Waterville, Costa Rica, Pittsfield, Springfield, Bakersfield, Shreveport, Hackensack, Cadillac, Fond Du Lac, Davenport, Idaho, Jellicoe, Argentina, Diamontina, Pasadena, Catalina, see what I mean'a.
Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Gravellburg, Colorado, Ellensburg, Rexburg, Vicksburg, Eldorado, Larrimore, Atmore, Haverstraw, Chattanika, Chaska, Nebraska, Alaska, Opelika, Baraboo, Waterloo, Kalamazoo, Kansas City, Sioux City, Cedar City,
Dodge City, what a pity . . .
Everywhere but THIS city..."
See that at 9:51? After assassinating the opponent's character, linking him back to old charges all legal means cleared him of, Huizar's minions like attacking the campaign staff best (remember earlier one of them was going after volunteers and contributors, even -- with racist and homophobic cracks -- lost his commission seat over it.
When they run out of that, who knows how they'll keep busy.
come on now, how stupid can you all be. Get off AV's dick. He was not invited by her family. That I can tell you for sure. The services were handled and planned by Detroit Federal Judge Damon Keith. I'm positive that AV does not know Judge Keith.
You all may not know this but Mrs. Parks' family consists of neices and nephews who are at odds with her caretakers. Her caretakers were not her family members. Her family members were treated like visitors and not like family.
Don't be stupid. AV is a media whore and can't pass up the opportunity to be in the same room with Kerry, Clinton, Jackson, Sharpton, Kilpatrick, Conyers, Lewis and the other African-American leaders in this country. Wait until the photos come out with him and several of those persons who were there.
AV will use those in the black community to show that he is down with the black folk (think Dave Chappelle's skit "I know black people")
Abe Lincoln, a republican, remember him? The civil war, remember that? Slavery ended!
TROUBLE. Front page LA Times.... Already the racist John Mack and the rest of the police commission morons overruled Bratton on a shooting with a top SIS officer. Every patrol officer should just sit in their cars like Jack Dunphy says and wave. Screw them!! An officer will hestitate and its not worth risking his career to have a racist ass like Mack, the dyke lesbo, the conservative attorney and the only nice one Anthony Pacheco decide. Bratton as Chief knows better than anyone and for those losers to go over his head is trouble.
Daily News..
Look who's talking
Re "Mayor rates Arnold low" (Nov. 1):
So the new mayor who so far is acting just like the clown who preceded him rates Arnold low on the reform issues. This coming from someone who so far has done nothing but look the other way on the DWP contract, kill the $10 billion boondoggle LAX fiasco, and push for a $10 billion gopher hole subway.
Villaraigosa says, "We have a state locked in budget gridlock." Well, L.A. is doing its part to put all of us further in the red. If the economists are right about the inflation rate, the DWP cost-of-living allowance will make the pay raises look like chump change. Of course, it was a bunch of chumps allowing it. Did I mention he is all for the school bond. Another four years of the same old giveaway.
George Timko
West Hill
Another endorsement for Jose.
LA Weekly....at least they state the truth.
...But does Huizar have the vision? We admit to falling back on hope here. We’d sure like it better if he stopped trumpeting his good relationship with Villaraigosa, against whom he campaigned in 2003. We picked Villaraigosa then, too, but the vision we were hoping for was kept in check until he became mayor
LOL 1:38 I see you're a Johnny Cash fan.
5:43(Dumb Sh*t) -
Your "Suthurn" conservative friends who are now the core of the Republican Party actually rebelled against yur good ol' President Lincoln; it was called the Civil War.
That same alignment of pro-slavery states that we now refer to as "Red States" are Republican.
So are you suggesting that today's Republican Party ended slavery?
6:43 - Isn't anonymity on the blog great. Kinda' like the good old days when you could protect you spew hateful terms and messages and hide under a pointy pillow case. Glad your able to come back "out of the closet" so-to-speak. (Of course I didn't mean that in a "queer" sorta' way).
9:53
"Don't believe the hype"?
Admittedly, Rosa Parks didn't want to get up because she was tired. However, when asked why she didn't get up, she said:
"I thought about Emmett Till, and I couldn't go back," referring to the August 1955 lynching in Mississippi of Till, a black teen from Chicago, Illinois.
You clearly don't have a sense of the actual threat of violence involved at that time. Here home state was about as tolerant of Blacks as the Iran is of Jews.
just tell me now who is you mayor? or who is your governor, nobody from usa
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