Antonio Villaraigosa - The Mayor From Hell
Posted in Politics & Government on April 15th, 2008 by MorningStar

The residents of Los Angeles experience misery and death at the hands of violent illegal alien predators, and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, in a manner that would make any true liberal swell with pride, turns the innocent dead and his constituent’s feelings of abject misery into talking points for his proposal to raise taxes.

As Mayor Villaraigosa begins the final year of his first term of office, the city of Los Angeles is facing a $406 million dollar deficit, and is scheduled to begin eliminating more than 767 city jobs by June 30. Villaraigosa’s already shallow image took a beating last year after his illicit affair with former television reporter Mirthala Salinas became public and his wife Corina filed for a divorce the second time in the couple’s 20 year marriage. Corina Villaraigosa filed for divorce in 1994 after learning that her husband was having an affair while she battled thyroid cancer, but after a two year separation, she believed they had reconciled their problems and dropped the petition. Obviously, she was as mistaken about the character of her spouse as the people of Los Angeles were about their choice of mayorial candidates.

Mayor Villaraigosa managed curbed his sexual appetite Monday afternoon, at least long enough to deliver his third State of the City address, and for the second (possibly third) consecutive year, the mayor focused on making more sorry excuses while discussing the prevention and reduction of gang crime in the city of Los Angeles. Additionally, the somewhat promiscuous mayor laid out his plan to soak the residents of Los Angeles with a 38% increase in trash fees. Residents of the city are not so brain dead as to not remember that in 2006 Villaraigosa implemented a four year plan to increase the trash fees from $11 to $28 per month, and in 2007 he came back and accelerated the increase. Those increases were sold to the residents of the city as a way to fund the expansion of the Los Angeles Police Department. The current increase proposal is allegedly to fund more anti-gang programs in the city.

Contrary to popular belief, the average citizen of Los Angeles is not exactly rolling in money. The median household income for L.A. is around $43,518 and nearly 18% of the residents are below the poverty level. The citizens in six of the ten most impoverished neighborhoods in Los Angeles are predominantly African American. These are the folks who will suffer the greatest degree of impact from Mayor Villaraigosa’s proposed increase.

Ironically enough, while Villaraigosa acknowledged that “Public safety is the first obligation of government,â€