This is good news. Antonio Villaraigosa is one of the people that Hal
Netkin -- the guy who ran over peaceful anti-race hate protesters in
Garden Grove, California -- was opposing. It's great seeing that someone
that racists object to has gotten elected by the actual American
people of this country.
Hispanic is elected mayor of Los Angeles
Los Angeles yesterday elected its first Hispanic mayor since its pioneer
days in the 19th century, highlighting the growing power of Latinos in
America's Sunbelt.
Antonio Villaraigosa, the son of impoverished Mexican immigrants and a high
school dropout who once sported a tattoo proclaiming "Born to Raise
Hell", won a landslide victory to take control of the second largest
city in the US.
His win over the Republican incumbent, James Hahn, reflected for the first
time the real influence of Latinos in California, where decades of
population growth has so far failed to be matched by political power. It
also made Los Angeles the largest city in America to be led by a Hispanic
mayor.
One academic yesterday called Mr Villaraigosa, 52, a liberal Democrat,
"an effective prime minister for Latinos of the south-west".
Luis Miranda, a New York pollster, said that his election "will
become an instant symbolic victory for Latinos nationwide".
The last Latino to lead Los Angeles, Cristobel Aguilar, left office in
1872 when the city was a dusty outpost of a few thousand residents.
Today Latinos form the largest ethnic group in Los Angeles, comprising
nearly half the city's 3.7 million population.
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Update: The police claim they reviewed video tape of the assault and
have allegedly released this suspect without criminal charges, trying
to claim that the video shows the peaceful anti-hate protesters
surrounding and pounding on the suspect's vehicle. That's highly
doubtful and hopefully the good guys will sue and subpoena copies of
that alleged video. Were such claims even remotely true, attempted
murder should still have been an indictment, in my
opinion.
By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles
(Filed: 19/05/2005)
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