This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.
The mayor of Los Angeles and the host of Comedy Central's satiric news broadcast "The Daily Show" will square off face-to-face in "A Conversation With Jon Stewart and Mayor Villaraigosa" on Nov. 17 at the Geffen Playhouse.
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 10/02/2006 12:02:00 AM
Founded 10/21/04
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Square off? It sounds like a love fest!
Okay i will watch for that
So very appropriate. MAV is a joke.
Wow. This should prove to be one of the best shows ever. I can't wait.
I love the Daily Show!!!! Yeah for John Stewart. Also a good thing for the show, which needs more diversity...given that it is so east coast biased. As much as I think Pollo-Raigosa has many holes in his policy approaches, I think he will hold his own on the show and not look like a Pollo, this time. Another thought, maybe this is part of his strategy to picking up a VP nomination.
Everyone should call Comedy Central and tell them NOT to allow Antonio to plant the audience. He controls all his appearances and plants people at every meeting or event he attends with positive people who like him. Its a known fact in the city and its funny that he has to do that.
Wasn't one of Antonio's campaign promises to clean up city hall?????
Asia trip...confidant Maria Elena Durazo, Kent Wong, director of UCLA Center for Labor Research, Education….will include SEVEN AIDES,Weiss, Zine, Huizar…former state Treasurer Kathleen Brown, ,Edward J. De La Rosa, head of his own LA based firm, Donald Tang, former vice chairman Bear Stearns,Stanley Washington, VP of American Express, lawyers on the trip include David Fleming, San Fernando Valley resident whom Villaraigosa named to the MTA board, Barry Sanders,chairman of committee to bring Olympic Games to Los Angeles in 2016, Architect Christopher Pak, designed a $160-million high-rise project being built above the subway station at Wilshire Blvd./Western Ki Suh Park, a partner planning firm Gruen Associates, Ed Cunningham, top executive in Asia for Anschutz Entertainment Group, building the $2.5-billion L.A. Live,Maren Christiansen, legal counsel at NBC Universal…Peter Woo, executive of importer Megatoys, outside the business community...Bill Watanabe, executive director of Little Tokyo Service Center, Irene Hirano, executive director of Japanese American National Museum…About a quarter of the business people traveling with Villaraigosa DONATED TO HIS CAMPAIGN FOR MAYOR LAST YEAR
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Thus, 3/4s of those going did not...your point? Whats the over-all number of those who would have business in Asia donating to a campaign for LA Mayor? Probably a lot more than 1/4.
"HIS POLLONESS" one on one with the liberal comic. HAHA ! This "cult of celebrity" is growing old and stale.
Does anybody here remember when John Stewart mocked the Mayor's response to Bush's State of the Union Address? That's when they dubbed over his spanish with some Antonio Banderas wannabe voiceover with classical music playing in the background. "Come to me, my little butterfly". HA!
"square off?" Right. Stewart's of course going to go along with the mayor's gee-whiz shtick. I would be very impressed and surprised if Stewart sees through it and has the gonads to call him out.
Was abraham Lincoln gay?
Lincoln's response to Joshua Speed's marriage, February 13, 1842
Dear Speed:
Yours of the 1st. inst. came to hand three or four days ago. When this shall reach you, you will have been Fanny's husband several days. You know my desire to befriend you is everlasting - that I will never cease, while I know how to do anything.
But you will always hereafter, be on ground that I have never occupied, and consequently, if advice were needed, I might advise wrong.
I do fondly hope, however, that you will never again need any comfort from abroad. But should I be mistaken in this - should excessive pleasure still be accompanied with a painful counterpart at times, still let me urge you, as I have ever done, to remember in the depth and even the agony of despondency, that very shortly you are to feel well again. I am now fully convinced, that you love her as ardently as you are capable of loving. Your ever being happy in her presence, and your intense anxiety about her health, if there were nothing else, would place this beyond all dispute in my mind. I incline to think it probable, that your nerves will fail you occasionally for awhile; but once you get them fairly graded now, that trouble is over forever.
I think if I were you, in case my mind were not exactly right, I would avoid being idle; I would immediately engage in some business, or go to making preparations for it, which would be the same thing.
If you went through the ceremony calmly, or even with sufficient composure not to excite alarm in any present, you are safe, beyond question, and in two or three months, to say the most, will be the happiest of men.
I hope with tolerable confidence, that this letter is a plaster for a place that is no longer sore. God grant it may be so.
I would desire you to give my particular respects to Fanny, but perhaps you will not wish her to know you have received this, lest she should desire to see it. Make her write me an answer to my last letter to her at any rate. I would set great value upon another letter from her.
Write me whenever you have leisure. Yours forever.
P.S. I have been quite a man ever since you left.
DID I ANSWER YOUR QUESTION?
HUH?
Certainly, for queer theorists and gay scholars, the ability to claim the man who was arguably America's greatest president as their own would arm gay battalions with a powerful new rhetorical weapon.
"Greatest" is the operative word here. When Kramer first announced at the Madison meeting that he was setting out to get gays their "first gay president," he could have made his job easier by looking to Lincoln's predecessor, James Buchanan. The only bachelor to take office, Buchanan spent 15 years living with Sen. William King. The contemporary press ridiculed the men's relationship mercilessly, and Andrew Jackson once called King "Miss Nancy." The problem, of course, is that James Buchanan is not the guy to stake a modern civil rights movement on. Passive and ineffectual, he slowly but surely led the country into a bloody civil war. Despite the fact that it was "obvious" that Buchanan was gay, Paul Russell says he chose not to include him in "The Gay 100" -- he just wasn't anything to be proud of.
Almost missed the toilet brush in pollo's hand. Hah!
Everybody knows Abraham Lincoln was gay. At least those of us under 50.
What does Lincoln's homosexuality (or lack thereof) have to do with this thread?
I thought you were tightening things up, Mayor Sam!
939 - Nothing - but this article is open thread.
Zuma drank the KOOL AID.
He'll never come back.
David Fleming is going to Asia with the Mayor? Wow, isn't he a lawyer from Latham & Watkins? The same law firm that represents Home Depot?
No wonder the Mayor has disappeared off the radar after he voiced his opposition to Home Depot in Sunland-Tujunga. David must have told him to knock it off!
Is it dangerous travel to S. Korea when N. Korea plans to test nukes?
Nunez and friends are indeed in awkward company with CITGO.
Why does Nunez give Carte Blanche to Hugo Chavez in CALI?
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