You must understand something. The influential people who run Los Angeles and much of California saw that their plan of allowing millions of illegal alien foriegn nationals to invade California, especially Southern California, now needed someone who could control them. That someone they put in office was ex- gangbanger, reconquista, and Mexican nationalist malcontent Antonio Villaraigossa. Any more questions? I have lived in California most of my life and watched how politics is done hear. You really didn't think that some buffoon like Villaraigossa could become Mayor of the second largest city in the U.S. because of his intelligence, did you?