News (Noticias) Tagged ‘mayor antonio villaraigosa’

To start off day two I realized that for the next two days I would have trudge about 2 miles across Denver to get my media credentials. (Lots of 2s in that sentence) For some crazy reason the DNC has made all bloggers and some other segments of the media do this everyday. Strange.

So I made it there, waited in line, got my credentials and then hoofed it back to the Colorado Convention Center where I had to go in to just cool off. I haven’t mentioned this before but I am hauling a good-sized backpack with me everywhere I go with my laptop and assorted blog-worthy gear.

Once I had cooled off I was determined to get to the Pepsi Center and blog away but by some happy circumstance as I was strolling down the street I look up and see a big marque for the Latino Leaders Network Luncheon. Now I had known about this event but didn’t know where it was going to be held. I had called and e-mailed to find out and no one had ever responded.

I don’t look a gift horse in the mouth so I went right in and flashed my press pass and my best smile and got in. (not that my smile had anything to do with it) It turned out to be a good event honoring Federico Peña the co-chair of Obama’s national campaign and former mayor of Denver. Lots of politician were there as well as Eva Longoria-Parker.

Others that spoke include: Senator Kenneth McClintock from Puerto Rico, Senator Leticia Van de Putte from Texas, Janet Murguia from NCLR, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Governor Bill Richardson, Senator Ken Salazar and then Federico Peña. I was most impressed by Bill Richardson and Federico Peña.

Right before the event I met a woman who worked with the "Hispanic Media Assistance Team" and I was so happy that someone was there to help organize and coordinate things because truthfully communication and information are so hard to come by that you get used to it here fast. All the same, I really was happy to see someone, anyone trying to do something afterall I am all about easy access to organized information.

Afterwards, I hung around watching the media frenzy and while not wanting to be part of it, I felt the pull to met some of these leaders. I did make a few contacts etc., so it was fine.

After that I had lunch as I had been watching everyone else eat their lunches and had developed a mighty fine appetite by then. Finally made it to the Pepsi Center and setup camp and somehow managed to post 80+ stories in between chatting with other bloggers, journalist etc. I have to admit that it was a good day and I thought Hillary’s speech was very good.

So take a look at HispanicTips.com’s homepage for the latest.

Now I am headed to see Pancho Sanchez and if for some reason I can’t get in there is another event/party put on by the National Latino Institute but that is a good stretch of the legs. (edit: didn’t make it to either) I guess it is good that I am getting so much exercise but my feet are hurting. Tomorrow is another big day and I finally got an invite to the big Voto Latino party.

Lesson for the day :: Again levels of access - but maybe if you are in the right place at the right time and either know someone or have a big blog and a great smile some barriers can melt away.

At the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, Calif., Power Media Group, Inc. (PMG) President Patricia Gracia, Peruvian, and CEO Tony Gracia, Puerto Rican, are the winners of Latin Business Association Sol Awards 2008. The Sol Awards achievement is accorded in recognition and appreciation for exemplary commitment to the Latino business community through PMG’s leadership and service. Held each year, this year’s Sol Awards Gala held on July 26, 2008, set the backdrop for a premier Latino business networking and recognition event. The black-tie event attracts a who’s-who of the Latino entrepreneurial, corporate and political worlds. PMG qualified earlier in 2008 under very strict SBA guidelines for a Small Business Administration (SBA) Real Estate Loan, based on the firm’s projected productivity and on its delivery of innovative services to clients. Along with the beautiful Sol Awards Statue, PMG received Certificates of Recognition from:

– California Legislature, Assembly
– The Honorable Jhon Chang, California State Controller
– State Of California Board of Equalization

Also PMG and received an elegant LBA book program with warmest greetings from:

– The White House, President George Bush
– Ruben Guerra, LBA Chairman
– Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
– Lieutenant Governor Jhon Garamendi
– Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
– Dianne Feinstein, United States Senator
– Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States Senator
– Grace Napolitano, House of Representatives (Washington, D.C.)

About POWER MEDIA GROUP

A premier advertisement agency offering innovative and effective media buying, marketing and public relations services. Situated in the #1 Hispanic market by research firm Syncopate, PMG crafts magnetizing messages designed to harness the Hispanic consumers buying power of a trillion-dollar market segment.

Power Media group, Inc. Clients: Universal Music Latin, Vivendi Visual Entertainment, NYX Cosmetics, Xenon Pictures, Creativa Interiors-Primor, The Perfume Club, AB Underwear, Costamar Travel Intl., New Concepts, Success Masters by Design, Laboratorios Mallo, and Selman Chevrolet, among others.

PMG serve clients with respect and care they’ve presented since the beginning of the firm and stand true to their motto: “We love your business, as we love our baby.” Visit www.powermediagroup.com/testimonials.html to view client testimonials.

Contact: Patricia Gracia

818.415.3230″

Award-winning journalist Jackeline Cacho is chosen as Master of Ceremonies for the 79th Annual LULAC National Convention’s Presidential Reception featuring Senator Hillary Clinton on July 11, 2008. In Addition Jackeline is meeting personally with leaders and politicians such as LULAC National President Rosa Rosales, Treasurer of the United States Ana Cabral, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles as well as Senator John McCain, to discuss the image of Latinos in American media and her new television show entitled “En Familia with Jackeline Cacho” which is designed to show the real face of Latino’s on American television.

Washington, DC (PRWEB) July 10, 2008 — Award winning journalist Jackeline Cacho is chosen as Master of Ceremonies for the 79th Annual LULAC National Convention’s Presidential Reception featuring Senator Hillary Clinton on July 11, 2008.
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The largest annual event of its kind in the United States, the 79th annual LULAC national convention is being hosted in Washington, D.C., and runs from July 7 through July 12, 2008 where an estimated 15,000 political, community and business leaders are uniting in the nation’s capital to discuss the impact of the Latino vote that is taking center stage at this year’s presidential election.

“This election year is a true reflection of the increased mobilization of Latinos,” said LULAC National President Rosa Rosales. “We are delighted to have Ms. Jackeline Cacho to be Master of Ceremonies for our Presidential reception with Senator Hillary Clinton. Jackeline is a true leader in the Latino community and we support her new TV show which will show the Real Face of Latino’s in America.”

Ms. Jackeline Cacho, who has most recently been selected as one of the Top 25 Most Influential Latina Women in America by Latino Leaders Magazine in it’s April 2008 edition and is in development on her ground-breaking TV show entitled “En Familia with Jackeline Cacho” says, “I am very honored to be representing fellow Latinos at such an important event where our voting power in America is being recognized and promoted by the current and future leaders of this great country”.

On the first day of the convention Jackeline met personally with Senator John McCain, Treasurer of the United States Ana Cabral and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles to discuss how the Latino population is not being presented properly today in the American Media and how her new TV show “En Familia with Jackeline Cacho” is a catalyst for positive change. Both leaders were very supportive and offered their support as Jackeline develops her ground-breaking show. “I am the Mayor of the most diverse Latino population in the country so I know it is very important to have the real face of Latino’s presented properly in the media, and I believe that your show has the right format for today’s Latino’s,” said Mayor Villaraigosa.

Presidential candidate Barack Obama also attended the conference and delivered a moving speech to to the LULAC conventions highly influential Latino leaders in an effort to capture the powerful Latino vote in time for the Presidential election.

The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) advances the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, health and civil rights of Hispanic Americans through community-based programs operating at more than 700 LULAC councils nationwide
Ms. Cacho’s television show is currently in development and is designed to be a magnet for today’s American Latino’s. “We are so excited to be receiving such great support from the entire Latino community and we are working very hard to make sure that the Real Face of Latinos in America will soon be seen on American TV.” Said Ms. Cacho.

In addition to being recognized by Latino Leaders magazine, Ms. Cacho is also currently Ambassador and National Spokesperson for The Peace Alliance, has proudly represented The City of Hope as Official National Spokesperson for The “La Gota De La Vida” campaign, and has also been awarded “Advocate Of The Year” from the Latin Business Association (2007), “National Television News Personality of the Year” from the Hispanic Women’s Professional Association (2006), and has received many other awards and recognition throughout her vast career in media.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, Ca., Ms. Jackeline Cacho is co-founder of JC Enterprises, Inc., Finding Productions, and Sunlight Art Designs which are privately held companies focused on bringing the best television, events, entertainment, and publications to the Latin community. For business inquiries or customized sponsorship packages please contact business manager Gary Christmas at 714.915.1183 or just visit Jackeline Cacho’s website.”*

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, speaking Saturday to the nation’s largest Latino civil rights organization, urged its members to campaign hard for Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, saying the presumptive nominee was their best hope for reforming federal immigration policies.”*

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is hitting the road to campaign for Barack Obama.

The Los Angeles mayor will travel to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to introduce the Democratic presidential candidate at a League of United Latin American Citizens convention. “*

nivision Communications Inc., the nation’s leading Spanish-language media company, and the “Ya es Hora” (It’s Time) national partners, announced the expansion of this award-winning civic engagement campaign through new local efforts in partnership with mayors in the top Hispanic cities to register and mobilize voters. Mayors partnering in this effort include New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Houston Mayor Bill White.

As part of the partnership, the mayors will participate in public service announcements (PSAs) to run on Univision, Univision Radio and Univision.com (Keyword: Ya es Hora), which will support local grassroots activities taking place in their communities. In addition, Univision will also launch new PSAs focused on informing its audiences about absentee voting.

“The fact that today we are able to engage the mayors of cities with large Hispanic populations in this effort means that we will be able to further enhance our reach and mobilize our community,” said Cesar Conde, executive vice president and chief strategy officer, Univision Communications Inc. “Hispanics will be instrumental in electing the next president of the United States and we are committed to doing our part to empower this important constituency.”

”Our ability to ensure our constituents are informed and able to participate in local, state and national elections is critical,” said Mayor Diaz. ”One of our priorities at the U.S. Conference of Mayors is promoting civic engagement which makes the partnership between the mayors of these Hispanic cities, Univision and the ‘Ya es Hora’ partnership crucial to our efforts.”

“We have seen unprecedented engagement by Hispanics in the primaries because of the ‘Ya es Hora’ campaign,” said Arturo Vargas, executive director of the NALEO Educational Fund, a national “Ya es Hora” partner. “This speaks to the power of ongoing outreach and information efforts. Most importantly, it once again highlights the commitment of Hispanics across the country to become active, and have a voice, in their communities.”

“In the last few months we have had thousands of Hispanics become naturalized citizens in the Los Angeles area because of the ‘Ya Es Hora’ campaign,” said Mayor Villaraigosa. “By helping these new citizens, as well as any other eligible voters to register to vote, we will increase participation at the polls and enhance civic participation, which is vital in a thriving democracy.”

“Latinos comprise a powerful and growing segment of voters in America,” said San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. “In this day and age, candidates for the most powerful offices in the country know that to win, they must appeal to Latinos. Thanks to the great work of Univision and NALEO on the ‘Ya es Hora’ campaign, I expect Latinos to flood the polls this November and play a major role in deciding who becomes the next President of the United States.”

The Peabody award-winning “Ya es Hora” initiative is a national civic engagement campaign developed to inform, educate and motivate Hispanics to participate in the American political dialogue by leveraging the power of a coalition of the nation’s largest and most established Hispanic organizations and the country’s largest Spanish-language media companies. Since January 2007, the campaign has mobilized close to 1.4 million eligible immigrants to apply for citizenship, secured more than 400 local community based organizations as partners, generated more than 40,000 calls to the 888-Ve-Y-Vota toll free number, driven more than 94,000 unique visits to www.yaeshora.info, distributed more than 110,000 brochures and conducted more than 200 citizenship workshops. Univision, the NALEO Educational Fund, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), National Council of La Raza, ImpreMedia, Entravision Communications, Mi Familia Vota Educational Fund and more than 400 organizations are partners in this effort.

About the NALEO Educational Fund:

The NALEO Educational Fund is the leading nonprofit organization that facilitates the full participation of Latinos in the American political process, from citizenship to public service.

About Univision Communications Inc.:

Univision Communications Inc. is the premier Spanish-language media company in the United States. Its operations include Univision Network, the most-watched Spanish-language broadcast television network in the U.S. reaching 97% of U.S. Hispanic Households; TeleFutura Network, a general-interest Spanish-language broadcast television network, which was launched in 2002 and now reaches 85% of U.S. Hispanic Households; Galavisión, the country’s leading Spanish-language cable network; Univision Television Group, which owns and operates 63 television stations in major U.S. Hispanic markets and Puerto Rico; Univision Radio, the leading Spanish-language radio group which owns and/or operates 70 radio stations in 16 of the top 25 U.S. Hispanic markets and 5 stations in Puerto Rico; and Univision Online, the premier Spanish-language Internet destination in the U.S. located at http://www.univision.com. Univision Communications also has a 50% interest in TuTv, a joint venture formed to broadcast Televisa’s pay television channels in the U.S. Univision Communications has television network operations in Miami and television and radio stations and sales offices in major cities throughout the United States.

For more information, please visit www.univision.net.

Contacts

Univision Communications Inc., New York
Mónica Talán, 212-455-5331 or 917-331-9327
marketingcomm@univision.net

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Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa plans to meet with Barack Obama this weekend to discuss what role the mayor might take in the presidential campaign, his office said Thursday.

Villaraigosa was a national campaign co-chair for Hillary Rodham Clinton, but he quickly embraced Obama’s candidacy after the New York senator pulled out of the race. “*

The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., announced today that presumptive presidential nominees Senators John McCain (R–AZ) and Barack Obama (D–IL) will speak at the 2008 NCLR Annual Conference held at the San Diego Convention Center, July 12-15. Other speakers at the Conference include San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, former NCLR President and CEO Raul Yzaguirre, CEO of Freddie Mac Richard F. Syron, New York Times best-selling author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez and internationally renowned motivational speaker Samuel Betances.

“NCLR is excited to be in San Diego as we celebrate 40 years of strengthening America by promoting the advancement of Latino families. The presumptive presidential nominees and other government and business leaders speaking at NCLR’s Annual Conference will address a Latino community that is strengthening its political voice and engaging in campaigns, voter registration, and citizenship drives as never before,” said Janet Murguía, NCLR President and CEO.

The NCLR Annual Conference is the single largest gathering of its kind in the Latino community. More than 20,000 community organization leaders, activists, and volunteers; elected and appointed officials; members of the corporate, philanthropic, and academic communities; senior citizens; college students; and youth are expected to participate this year. A popular Conference attraction is Latino Expo USA with more than 250 exhibits from leading Fortune 500 companies, Hispanic-owned businesses, nonprofit organizations, colleges and universities, and government agencies.

Some highlights of the 2008 NCLR Annual Conference include:

Saturday, July 12

* The NCLR Diabetes Dash—a 5k fun run—will kick off this year’s Health Fair, which will provide free health screenings, information, and counseling on key health and lifestyle issues affecting the Hispanic community.
* A naturalization session, sponsored by ConAgra Foods, will provide information on the citizenship application process and step-by-step guidance on how to complete the required forms to become a U.S. citizen.
* Artists from MTV, MTVtr3s, and Sí TV along with NCLR youth leadership participants will participate in a youth-led Town Hall sponsored by GEICO and Microsoft that explores the growing influence of youth in the media.

Sunday, July 13

* A HOME Clinic, held in partnership with the San Diego Housing Opportunities Collaborative, will offer pro bono legal advice, housing counseling, and loan negotiation to help families facing foreclosure identify resources and assistance.
* A Town Hall presented by the Office of Minority Health and led by a panel of health experts, will address the need to reform a health care system in which millions of Latinos remain uninsured.

Monday, July 14
· Government and community leaders will come together in a Town Hall presented in part by Freddie Mac aimed at finding a solution to the national foreclosure crisis.
· The Heroes & Heritage Award for Valor and Service to Country will be presented to Sergeant Major Irene Zamora O’Neal.

Other workshops and activities will examine issues such as education, workforce development, community and family wealth-building, voting,juvenile justice, children’s health, the impact of immigration enforcement policy,and nonprofit management.

“Our Conference reflects the broad interests and involvement of Latinos in this great nation. We are working for better policies and programs in everything from education and health care to homeownership and financial security. When Latino families can get opportunities to advance, it strengthens America,” said Murguía.”*

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, one of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s most loyal and active supporters in her bid for the presidency, went on national television Friday to throw his enthusiastic support behind Barack Obama, now that the Illinois senator has locked up the Democratic nomination.

The mayor, one of the nation’s most prominent Latino politicians, had served as the Clinton campaign’s national co-chair and campaigned hard for her during primaries in California, Nevada and Texas — helping Clinton’s successful effort to court Latino voters.

Appearing Friday afternoon on CNN, Villaraigosa promised to work just as hard for Obama, saying he would go “anywhere they ask me to go” to help defeat presumptive GOP nominee Sen. John McCain in November.”*

Unfortunately, the significant Hispanic contribution to the U.S. military has often gone overlooked. Just last year, the original version of Ken Burn’s 15-hour PBS documentary, “The War” was justly criticized for not covering the Hispanic experience. It took pressure from several community and veteran organizations, and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus before 28 minutes of footage from Hispanic veterans was added.

It is time that we honor these brave soldiers and remind our community of the proud tradition of Latino sacrifice for this nation and courage in the line of duty.

The Eugene A. Obregon Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial Foundation was created to finance and construct a monument in downtown Los Angeles to honor the 40 Latino recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. The monument, which has the unanimous support of the Los Angeles City Council, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other community leaders, will educate and inspire Angelenos and visitors about the heroic Hispanic contributions to our nation’s armed services.”*

The group this week condemned the conservative radio host for saying he thought Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, was “a shoe shine guy” or a Secret Service agent when he met him at an event last year. Former President Bill Clinton introduced the two.

Limbaugh made the comment on his radio show.

In a letter to Limbaugh, MALDEF President John Trasvina said the characterization “speaks volumes about your view of America and the role or status of people who do not fit your preconceived notion of what an elected official should be.””*

Yesterday, as ThinkProgress reported, Rush Limbaugh went on Fox News and insulted Los Angeles’s Hispanic mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Limbaugh said that when he first met Villaraigosa, he thought he “was either the shoe shine guy or a Secret Service agent.” “*

The family of a Los Angeles high school football star allegedly killed by a gang member in the country illegally is getting behind a proposed city ordinance intended to crack down on illegal immigrant gangs in the city.

The proposal, dubbed “Jamiel’s Law” after shooting victim Jamiel Shaw Jr., was drafted by Walter Moore, a political opponent of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.”*

*From: http://www.foxnews.com
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Following a nationwide search, the Board of Directors of Public Counsel voted to approve the appointment of Hernan D. Vera to be its new President and Chief Executive Officer. Vera assumes the position effective immediately.

Public Counsel Chairperson Wayne Barsky of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP observed, “Our Search Committee and Board of Directors were extremely impressed by Hernan’s extraordinary success as Directing Attorney of Public Counsel’s Consumer Law Project, his passion and commitment to our mission, and his distinctive vision for the growth and expansion of Public Counsel. Hernan has our complete confidence, and we look forward to his leadership.”

Last year, Vera worked with the Los Angeles City Attorney, the ACLU and private law firms on nationally publicized litigation to end the abusive practice known as “hospital dumping,” which has been covered by world press and media including 60 Minutes, CNN and NBC Dateline and led to widespread systemic reform at local, state and national levels. In 2003, working in coalition with the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Vera led a successful lawsuit that led to landmark legislation — the “Wondries Bill” — expanding consumer protections for limited- English speaking consumers.

Vera joined Public Counsel in May 2002 as Directing Attorney of its Consumer Law Project. He has risen to become one of the nation’s leading consumer rights’ advocates and has supervised hundreds of individual client litigation matters involving consumer fraud. Currently, he is overseeing dozens of cases involving alleged fraud by home loan brokers and lenders, which threaten families and senior citizens with the loss of their homes. “I want to congratulate Mr. Vera, and I look forward to working with Public Counsel. It’s clear that there’s a real need for representation for homeowners who’ve been harmed in the subprime mortgage crisis,” commented United States Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).

The 37-year-old Vera, who will be Public Counsel’s seventh President and C.E.O. said, “It is an honor to have been selected to lead Public Counsel. For nearly four decades, Public Counsel has been a beacon of justice, hope and opportunity — a voice for the voiceless in our society. I look forward to working closely with our dedicated Board members, generous supporters and immensely talented staff to uphold and strengthen the fundamental principle that every man, woman and child is entitled to equal access to justice. It is the cornerstone of our democracy.”

Vera joined Public Counsel in May 2002 as Directing Attorney of its Consumer Law Project, one of its largest and busiest legal projects. In this role, he has supervised and managed hundreds of individual client litigation matters involving consumer fraud. The Consumer Law Project also operates the largest Debtor Assistance Project in Los Angeles, assisting low-income individuals and families facing bankruptcy, as well as a variety of consumer education programs and legislative advocacy initiatives.

Prior to joining Public Counsel, Vera worked for O’Melveny & Myers LLP and the Mexican American Legal and Educational Defense Fund. After graduating from the UCLA School of Law, he clerked for the Honorable Consuelo B. Marshall in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. He received his B.A. with Distinction from Stanford University in 1991. Vera is fluent in Spanish and the son of Argentine immigrants.

Hernan D. Vera succeeds Dan Grunfeld, who left Public Counsel last September after ten years to become Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Grunfeld said, “Hernan has distinguished himself as one of the top public interest lawyers in the country. His compassion for clients, extensive experience dealing with the legal issues they face and his deep understanding of the systemic issues involved make him the perfect choice to lead Public Counsel in the years ahead.”

About Public Counsel
Founded in 1970, Public Counsel is the largest public interest pro bono law firm in the world. Over the last 38 years, Public Counsel has recruited and trained over 35,000 volunteers and delivered over a quarter of a billion dollars in free assistance to those who need it most. Last year, with the help of more than 3,400 volunteer lawyers, law students, social workers and others who donated more than 150,000 hours of time, Public Counsel assisted nearly 27,000 individuals, including hundreds of nonprofit organizations and micro businesses, ultimately providing almost $70 million in free services.

Nationally, Public Counsel has been a leader in developing model programs and assisting other pro bono public interest law firms to bring these programs to their communities. In addition to serving the vast Los Angeles metropolitan region, Public Counsel is actively helping to strengthen pro bono public interest law internationally. In 2000, Public Counsel was instrumental in creating the Instituto Pro bono in Brazil, that country’s first public interest pro bono law firm. Since that time Public Counsel has played a central role in nurturing other pro bono programs in Brazil, Argentina, Europe, Africa and Australia.”*

*From: http://www.hispanicprwire.com
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The Zapantas are fourth-generation Mexican Americans from East Los Angeles, part of a wave of doctors and lawyers, small-business owners and school administrators who are remaking Whittier into a center of upper-middle- class and upper-class Latino life in Southern California.

Like Reilly years before, the Zapantas host political events at the spacious mansion. But their preferred candidates are Latino Democrats. They have held two fundraisers for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and one for former presidential candidate Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico. Once a year, they offer tours of their vast collection of Mexican art.

The last U.S. census counted Whittier’s population at 83,838. Latinos constituted 23% of Whittier residents in 1980; they were 56% as of 2000 and that number is presumed to be more than 60% by now.”*

*From: http://www.latimes.com
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Have you been to London recently? How about Dubai? For that matter, how about Bogotá, Colombia? Each of these cities is thriving, and their collective success makes clear the battle Los Angeles faces during the next several decades to stay successful on a global scale.

It also raises a question: Is Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who came into office nearly three years ago with brio and youthful promise, doing enough to keep L.A. from slipping from the top tier of world cities? In many ways, his political legacy may depend on it. And in an age of hyper-competition among world cities, so will the health of the metropolitan region–and maybe of California as a whole.

The idea that major cities of the world, rather than the nations they belong to, will be the rising powers of the 21st century is a fashionable one these days. Paul Saffo, a futurist based at Stanford University, calls the rise of the city-state and the fall of the nation-state one of the biggest stories to watch in 2008.”*

*From: http://www.latimes.com
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Former Latino TV reporter Mirthala Salinas, who gained unwanted publicity last year when she was linked romantically to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa — contributing to the breakup of his marriage — announced Friday her return to journalism as a co-host on Spanish-language radio.

Salinas joins radio journalist Gerardo Lorenz on W Radio 690-AM’s Hoy x Hoy morning show. She began her new job Feb. 18.”*

*From: http://www.wavenewspapers.com
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For those who doubt the power of political machinery, take a look at how Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama went about appealing to the hearts and minds of Latino voters here on Super Tuesday.

As early as 2006, Clinton began actively courting support from movers and shakers in the Hispanic community, among them popular Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa who commands a political organization that can crank out the vote as well as anything patented in Chicago.”*

*From: http://www.chicagotribune.com
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One of the major media narratives since the Nevada caucuses, when entrance polls showed Clinton winning widely among Hispanic-Americans (64 percent to 25 for Obama), has been the presumption that the New York senator had the Latino vote similarly locked up on Tsunami Tuesday in California and other states.

The news that Ted Kennedy (and most of his organization) is now backing Obama has spurred a second look. The presumption that Clinton has been a leader on immigrant rights - spun heavily by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other surrogates - is not withstanding scrutiny of her actual record.”*

*From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com
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As the presidential campaign moves south and west from the mostly white, heavily rural states of Iowa and New Hampshire, Democrats are reaching out to Latino voters as never before — and not just through strained similes, or rallies set to mariachi music.

In California, Nevada, Arizona and elsewhere across the country, the candidates are advertising extensively in Spanish, running bilingual phone banks and dispatching door-knockers fluent in English and Spanish.

They have ardently wooed and won the support of Latino political luminaries — among them Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for Clinton and former Transportation and Energy Secretary Federico Pena for Barack Obama — and dispatched them to key states to campaign on their behalf.”*

*From: http://www.latimes.com
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Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will resume campaigning for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in Iowa today as the state holds its caucuses, which mark the start of the process to select the major party presidential nominees.

Villaraigosa is scheduled to greet diners at three Des Moines restaurants, call caucus goers, speak to precinct captains, greet caucus goers and attend Clinton’s caucus night celebration, a campaign official said.”*

*From: http://www.dailynews.com
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Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa slipped quietly out of the city last week to campaign in Iowa for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a rare public foray into presidential politics since his marital meltdown dominated front pages last summer.

Clinton made a splash in May when she snagged the Democratic mayor’s endorsement, and even former President Bill Clinton was called in to help lock up Villaraigosa’s support. The New York senator said at the time that Villaraigosa, one of the nation’s most prominent Hispanic politicians, would be “reaching out to a broad range of voters across the country.”"*

Last year at this time, Democratic Party loyalists saw Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as the early favorite to succeed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Not any more.

The collapse of Villaraigosa’s effort to gain substantial control of Los Angeles public schools, followed by revelations of an extramarital affair, have opened the door to others — most notably Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown.”*