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61. Very funny

Posted at 6:17PM on Aug 11th 2007 by Denny

62. TMZ, I love you and would love to sit in on a morning meeting.

Posted at 7:01PM on Aug 11th 2007 by Erika

63. san fernando valley,,,,,,,,,,,even i almost did some pornos there back n' my tweeker days!!!

Posted at 7:05PM on Aug 11th 2007 by costaMesaboy

64. The President (Clinton) has an intern play "hide the cigar" and "swallow the pole"..whoops sorry about the stains on that BLUE DRESS

Congressmen know to hire paid prostitutes.

And this guy....

Has an affair with a "friends" wife while his first wife, Corinna, is being treated for thyroid cancer, she files for divorce. Than he has an affair with a local political puta during his second marriage and she files for divorce.

His Mom and Dad and children must be soooo proud. No wait!! He abandoned his birth name "Villa" and the surname that he gave his first two children. And he abandoned the marriage vows that he took with the two wives of his children.

It is time for Angelenos to abandon TONY VILLA.........or..........ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA.......

He played us all!!!

Posted at 7:29PM on Aug 11th 2007 by east side

65. Puta and Puto.

Posted at 7:53PM on Aug 11th 2007 by whatever you say

66. Typical two talking politician. What a LOSER!!!!! She should have lost her job just like Amy Jacobson from NBC in Chicago did.

Posted at 12:16AM on Aug 12th 2007 by flightgirl

67. they will elect him again.there idiots.its la la land for christ sake.

Posted at 11:09PM on Aug 11th 2007 by rock hard

68. The Mayor is in front of a camera everday. When dose he work in his office. Every time I see him on TV I change the channel. I bet you won't be seeing him much anymore since the news channels are after him big time. The way he runs and tries to hide makes me laugh.. He is trying to do a Cinton and hope it goes away but it won't. When you have Jay Leno doing jokes about you, your done.. The man is a media PIG. Never saw a camera he didn't love.

Posted at 9:23PM on Aug 11th 2007 by studio

69. One of the reasons Latin cultures are often very corrupt and class oriented - there is no middle class, just millionaires and maids - is the lack of a truly free press. In many Latin countries the newspapers and tv stations are propaganda machines for the racist ruling class.
The spanish language tv station that this whore ( Villar is at least the third latin politician she has had an affair with ) works for was aware that she was involved with the mayor, but they did nothing about it. Why would they do such a thing ? Simple, they shared most of the mayor's political positions ( open borders, amnesty ,drivers licenses for illegals... ) and they wanted to use her to get more access to the mayor to promote these positions. They acted just like their corrupt counterparts in Latin America.
Katie Couric may be accused of promoting left-leaning politicians, but she doesn't sleep with them to get greater access. NBC would have fired her in a second if she did such a thing.
This is just another example of the Latinization of America. I don't care who screws who, but keep your corrupt way of life out of my country. Latin politicians, latin organizations ( La Raza.... ) latin tv stations and latin reporters all too often trying to bring the bad elements of latin culture ( corruption, class and racial divisions ) to America.
One more thing, take your charges of racism. nativism and any other kind of -ism you can think of and shove it ! Why do all the rich and powerfull people in Mexico have lighter skin ? Why did Vincente Fox, mexico's former president say that mexicans do jobs that " even blacks won't do ". So, according to the former mexican president, and a member of its racist ruling class, a job is truly disgusting if even a black won't do it. That statement is the definition of racism. Slowly but surely the truth about who the real racists are is getting out.

Posted at 9:23PM on Aug 11th 2007 by A Legal Immigrant

70. A man who leaves his wife for another woman has nothing to do with the so-called Latinization of America. Stop trying to make this a racial issue. White men and black men cheat on their wives. Giuliani, Clinton, Gavin Newsom and Jesse Jackson have all done the same thing, except I think Jackson's mistress had a baby.

And Telemundo is an American station, owned by NBC. What do you care about Telemundo. You don't watch it anyway.

And if you don't like Hispanic-Americans then get back on the ship that brought you here and make a U-TURN.

Posted at 10:40PM on Aug 11th 2007 by Michelle

71. # 69 Everything you said was wrong and the last statement was racist. The post by #68 was NOT about men cheating on their wives being a latin issue. The post was about how the news station that is run by latinos and reports on mainly latin issues handled the situation. Why didn't you speak to THAT issue.
NBC may own the station, but they gave the authority to the locals and look what happened. Can you name the last time an american station that reports in english to an english speaking audience let one of its reporters have an affair with the man she was reporting about. They did nothing because in much of latin america this sort of thing goes on; the truth hurts.
Your last statement shows your frustration and blatant racism. The post ( #68) didn't say anything about bad about hispanics. It talked about SOME but not ALL elements of latin political culture that are being imported by SOME latinos. So called impartial reporters sleeping with local politicians and their so called impartial news organizations may be one of the things. The truth hurts. Didn't that pig Chavez shut down a tv station last month. When is the last time an american politician was allowed to shut down a station he didn't like. Third world politics leads to a third world culture.
Why don't you tell the racist and lighter-skinned rulers of mexico to go back to SPAIN where they came from. No one is a native of anything. Every piece of land on earth once " belonged " to someone else. People with nothing intelligent to say always use it an an excuse for their problems.

Posted at 11:07PM on Aug 11th 2007 by Racist Detector

72. You screwed the numbers up on the previous post. #68 should be #69 and #69 should be #70.

Posted at 11:14PM on Aug 11th 2007 by Teacher

73. Don't go by the number of the post, they change sometimes. If you can't figure out who is talking to who then your an idiot.

Posted at 11:19PM on Aug 11th 2007 by Anonymous

74. Los Angeles- [LA Daily News]- Amid a frenzy of media coverage, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa divulged few new details today about his romantic relationship with a Telemundo newswoman but said it was a "friendship that evolved over time."

The revelation of a romantic relationship with television newswoman Mirthala Salinas came to light in a Daily News story today after the mayor had dodged months of questions about the breakup of his marriage.

Surrounded by dozens of reporters after swearing-in ceremonies for recently elected Los Angeles Unified school board members, Villaraigosa said his relationship with Salinas is a personal matter.

When asked how long the relationship had been going on, Villaraigosa said only that it was a "friendship that evolved over time."

Amid questions whether Salinas reported on the mayor while they were romantically involved, he said that about a year ago Salinas "asked to be removed" from her role in the station's political coverage.

Telemundo spokesman Alfredo Richard had said Salinas, a backup anchor and general news correspondent, moved off the political beat, which includes coverage of the mayor, about 11 months ago.

"I believe she did not cover the mayor since her new assignment," Richard said.

Richard said the move from political correspondent to backup anchor and general correspondent was intended as an expansion of Salinas' responsibilities at the station.

He said company policy prohibits any comment on employees' personal lives.

"We think she is a great reporter and professional," Richard said.

Since January, the mayor has repeatedly faced questioning that began when reporters noticed he and his wife, Corina, had stopped making public appearances together and his gold wedding band was missing from his ring finger.

The mayor glibly rebuffed all probes when the questions reached a peak in January, and aides said he had been working out a lot and lost weight so the ring was at the jeweler's getting resized.

But with the Daily News set to publish a story about his relationship with Salinas, an anchorwoman and reporter for NBC-Telemundo (Channel 52), and his mother-in-law's account of the climactic moment in his marriage, Villaraigosa issued the following statement:

"It is true that I have a relationship with Ms. Mirthala Salinas. As I've said I take full responsibility for my actions, and I once again ask that people respect my family's privacy. For my part, I intend to stay focused on my job, and to work as hard as I can every day to be the best mayor I can be."

Salinas did not respond to repeated requests for an interview.

Back in January, the buzz of the mayor's marital trouble reached a fever pitch, prompting Villaraigosa to give an unnamed Los Angeles Times reporter an interview at Getty House, calling the reports "absolutely not true" and adding, "We are not separated."

But when Corina raised the same question about her husband's wedding ring, she got a very different answer.

Basically, he said it was none of her business, according to Corina's 88-year-old mother, Manuela Raigosa.

"At first he said he didn't want to talk about it," she said in Spanish during a telephone interview last week. "When she approached him again, he said that they could stay in the house and he would move out (of Getty House) ... and if they didn't like it, he would leave."

For the sometimes rocky marriage of the mayor and his wife, who merged their surnames Villar and Raigosa when they married some 20 years ago, it was the beginning of the end.

Last month, the couple formally separated and three days later the mayor held a press conference to say he was taking responsibility for what happened, and that he felt a "personal sense of failure about it."

But he deflected inquiries about the reasons for the split and said his primary concern is for the couple's two teenage children, Antonio Jr. and Natalie Fe.

A day later, Corina filed for divorce citing "irreconcilable differences."

Corina's mom said her daughter is so upset that she said she'll take steps to have her name legally changed back to Raigosa. Corina told her she didn't want to talk about all the details because she didn't want to upset her mom.

Corina has recently been out of town, her mom said. Corina, through the Mayor's Office, declined an interview.

Unlike when the low-key James Hahn's marriage fell apart during the second year of his term as mayor and the press discretely gave him a pass, the break-up of the charismatic Villaraigosa's marriage sent dozens of newspaper and television reporters and paparazzi scurrying for the story behind the story.

That had a lot to do with Villaraigosa's high-profile visibility and his reputation as something of a womanizer.

Much of the gossip from City Hall insiders and speculation on Internet blogs has focused on Salinas as the other woman in the mayor's life.

Salinas, an attractive woman in her mid-30s, is a 6 p.m. news anchor and on-camera reporter for the Spanish language station.

Villaraigosa and Salinas have appeared together at several events, particularly those oriented toward Latino politics and culture, but neither friends nor enemies report seeing public displays of affection between them.

Still, there was evidence of a close relationship.

The mayor has been sighted at Salinas' upscale Studio City town house in recent months, a neighbor told the Daily News.

When Salinas' mom, Yolanda Avila Fernandez, died in early January the mayor cleared his usually hectic calendar and went to Phoenix for the services.

Evette Lopez, a roommate of Salinas' sister, said she met Villaraigosa when he attended the service and joined the family afterward.

The mayor, she said, arrived separately from Salinas and her sister.

"He is a very, very nice man," Lopez said.

Lynn Lawrence, director at the Greer-Wilson Funeral Home where Fernandez's visitation was held, also recalled the mayor.

"I remember him being introduced as the mayor to some of the people," Lawrence said.

The mayor's official calendar shows his usually frenetic schedule of public events across Los Angeles was cleared out Jan. 6 and Jan. 7. The only entries on it were blacked out, as is done when the mayor has personal matters slated.

The turmoil is not the first for the Villaraigosas. In 1994, they separated and Corina, who had been battling thyroid cancer, filed for divorce after Villaraigosa had an affair.

In a May edition of The New Yorker magazine the mayor's womanizing was alluded to, with writer Connie Bruck describing how on the night of his 1994 Democratic primary victory he left town with the wife of one of the Villaraigosas' close friends.

Villaraigosa, the article said, initially defended the affair as a "matter of the heart," but later admitted it was an error.

One political insider predicted any hint of scandal will make Villaraigosa's political climb tougher, but not impossible.

"He's tenacious, he keeps fighting and fighting and fighting. He fights for his image, and that's a big factor. He doesn't crawl up in a shell. He's hard to keep down."

Joe Cerrell, a political consultant often viewed as the dean of city politics, said it may be a "new era" where personal indiscretions are more easily tolerated and even political enemies are reluctant to take shots.

"People love gossip, but I don't know that it hurts," Cerrell said.

"Bill Clinton is being used all this week in Iowa by Hillary ... They must have done some polling to say it's a plus, and he was president of the United States in the White House."


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Posted at 12:51AM on Aug 12th 2007 by LMAO

75. The guy is seperated from his wife. He can do whatever he wants now. Let the guy be a mayor and MOVE ON!!

Posted at 1:40AM on Aug 12th 2007 by J2ThaRome