Progressive Latino wins first round elections for LA mayor

cjhsa wrote:

I hope Arnold can help sway this election. The last thing we need is a progressive (read, liberal commie) in charge in L.A. As if it isn't bad enough in San Francisco.

Looks like you lose, comrade...

Welcome to Mexifornia. Gringo go home.

The entire U.S. will be lost soon....

Re LA politics, how fine a web are you interested in? Mayor isn't all of it...

that said, los angeles is in america, not mexico, as the billboard claims.

guess there's enough "knock it off" to go around for everyone.

But look at the bright side. You are losing the U.S., but we are winning it. That's how democracy progresses, and you just happen to be on the wrong side.

I promise we will take good care of the U.S. We will even let you stay if you want (if you don't break any of our laws).

On a balmy Spring night, I watched as a bright, charismatic politician celebrated a victory that would make him the first Mexican-American mayor in his city's modern history. That was Henry Cisneros in San Antonio in 1981. [..]

As I watched Villaraigosa bask in his victory on another balmy Spring night, I couldn't help but remember comments made by Roy Barrera in a PBS documentary that I produced about Cisneros' election. Barrera, a former Texas Secretary of State, had made an unsuccessful run for mayor of San Antonio in 1973--a defeat that he ascribed to ethnic fear:

"They just feel, 'Well, the Mexicans are going to take [the city] over.' I don't know that there'd be anything wrong with Mexicans taking it over--others have had it for 100 years. And to the extent that we've been able to show--at least in this city--what they have been able to do with it, in 100 years it hasn't been too much, really."

the truth is, even though it seems like a movie cliche, that people from all races are hooking up and having kids. another few hundred years and there won't be many thorough breds around

nimh, the billboard wasn't photoshopped, not by me, not by anyone. That's a photograph. Check the URL.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43973

If you don't like that source then Google search it yourself. It isn't hard.

The ad's sponsors defended the message. Executive Vice President Lenard Liberman told the Times Noticias 62 was a popular news program in Los Angeles and noted that people of Mexican descent made up a large portion of the city.

"We tell the story behind L.A., and we tell the story behind Mexico," he said. "If they find that offensive, I'm sorry. But you just have to drive around L.A. to know that this is a Hispanic city."

Officials from KRCA-TV Channel 62, a Spanish-language station responsible for the billboards, said that 6.8 million Latinos, mostly with ties to Mexico, live in Los Angeles and are their targeted audience.

"No one is promoting illegal immigration. Everyone has to obey the laws," said Leonard Liberman, executive vice president of Burbank-based Liberman Broadcasting, which owns 16 Spanish-language radio stations and four television stations nationwide.

Liberman said the stations want audience members to feel at ease at home.

"Our newscasters cater to them. We try to make them comfortable," he said.

About 75 billboards went up last week in Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, but mostly in Los Angeles County. [..]

The billboards, which can be found on the San Gabriel River (605) Freeway near Ramona and on Arrow Highway in Baldwin Park, are owned by Arizona-based Clear Channel, which leases them to customers.

Clear Channel officials, who said they received at least 60 complaints, said they are not responsible for content, said spokesman Tony Alwin.

Los Angeles went from 500,000 latino/hispanics in 1970 to 1.7M in 2000. How is that possible without massive (illegal) immigration? It isn't.