Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Sunday

Turns out that Walter Moore was elected Mayor after all - in CD12 that is. According to the LA Times, Moore won 42.4% of the vote to Villaraigosa's 37.3%.  Perhaps Moore should consider moving to Chatsworth instead of France and running against rumored candidates Mitchell Englander and Jim Alger in 2011.

Following his election victory Tuesday, Mayor Villaraigosa's staffers started sending out notices that this win - along with his decent standings in a recent Field Poll - put him in prime position to run for Governor. Though the Villaristas hoped for a landslide, as the SF Gate said, "55 percent against nine pretenders, who most voters couldn't have picked out of a police lineup" isn't it.  In a recent Lake Poll, Villaraigosa comes in second to Jerry Brown and both Brown and fellow contender San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom would have no trouble defeating most of the so-far Republican contenders. Tom Hayden via Celeste Fremon says that Villaraigosa will run for Governor and has an excellent chance. 

Speaking of Celeste Fremon in that same piece she has an a-ha moment when she realizes that the reason Laura Chick won't seek Wendy Greuel's Council seat is she's expecting to run for Mayor when Villaraigosa is elected Governor.

Rick Orlov reports that despite the defeat of Measure B, the DWP is going to go ahead with a solar program, without all the shady parts deleted by the voters on election day. That's fine with the No On B folks as long as the DWP offers transparency in the process.

Actress Maria Conchita Alonso - a Venezuelan national - is speaking out about actor Sean Penn's legendary friendship with her homeland's strongman dictator, Hugo Chavez.  Maria says that Penn should "shut up."

John and Ken on another bombastic rant about elected officials and this time it's Governor Schwarzenegger and pro-tax members of the Legislature.  The radio talk show hosts held a rally in Orange County which drew thousands for a tax revolt.  Though most of us agree that the Governor and Legislature's response to our budget woes were basically giving the finger to the people, John and Ken - compared to hosts such as Doug McIntyre, John Phillips and Kevin James - don't have much of an idelogical committment personally and actually phone in part of their performance.  It is has been long rumored that the pair slips out of the studio whenever they feel like it during their final hour and pre-recorded bits fill the remainder of the hour.

Former GOP Presidential candidate John McCain's daughter/writer Meghan McCain finds dating following her father's defeat troublesome.  On one hand if she dates an Obama supporter who rambles on about how the President was a better choice than her fathe, it brings up old hurt.  Yet Meghan often finds herself going out with McCain voters who gush over her father and quote his lines that she says "It’s like someone taking Lisa Marie Presley out on a date and singing Hound Dog in the middle of dinner."

Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Tuesday

A judge has thrown out a lawsuit that would have forced the City to reopen an examination of the controversial Las Lomas development project, effectively killing the planned community of nearly 5000 homes in the hillside above the interserction of the 5 and 14 freeways. 12th District Councilman Greig Smith said “This victory is a great holiday gift for the community.”

If you were curious as to the types of things Mayor Villaraigosa does with the 89% of his time that he isn't working on City business - in addition to playing drums at the Conga Room - the Mayor will appear in a parade with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and former Dodger skipper Tommy Lasorda.  Villaraigosa will be Grand Marshall of Coca-Cola's 'Live Positively Holiday Parade.'  In the meantime, Villaraigosa has to figure out how to erase an $86 million City budget deficit without laying off City workers.

With cable public access in Los Angeles about to come to an end, public affairs television host Leslie Dutton of the Full Disclosure program appears to be accusing the city funded LA36 television channel of suspiciously having "technical problems" during broadcasts of her program. In a related story, Dutton says that Vin DiBona, producer of programs such as America's Funniest Home Videos has extended support to LA's public access producers.

Jed Wallace, Chief Operating Officer at High Tech High charter school in San Diego was selected by The California Charter Schools Association to serve as its President and Chief Executive Officer.  Wallace will assume the duties as head of the state’s charter schools association from former leader Caprice Young, who stepped down from her position in September.

Actor Sean Penn has quickly become a hero to some gays for his brilliant portrayal of late, openly gay San Francisco County Supervisor Harvey Milk in the bio-pic, Milk.  But at least one writer in the gay fishwrap The Advocate is taking Penn to task for his advocacy of dictators who have abysmal records on human rights for homosexuals such as the Castro brothers in Cuba and Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.