{"id":2780,"date":"2009-06-03T12:16:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T19:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/la-failure\/"},"modified":"2009-06-03T10:03:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T17:03:39","slug":"la-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/la-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/village-idiot.jpg' alt='village-idiot.jpg' class='right' width='200' \/><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/08\/18\/nagin-still-in-the-running-for-stuck-on-stupid-award\/\">A while back<\/a> in a post about bad mayors (think Ray Nagin) we called out Antonio Villaraigosa for what he is &#8211; a failure. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamag.com\/featuredarticle.aspx?id=15774\">So much promise, so much disappointment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In preparing for this month\u2019s cover story, an open letter to Antonio Villaraigosa, writer-at-large Ed Leibowitz spoke to a range of civic figures to plumb their views. Whether from critics or supporters, the opinions were near unanimous: The mayor, who started his first term with such promise, has been a terrible disappointment. With a couple of exceptions, all the conversations were off the record\u2014Ed was free to quote the person but not identify them. Which is to say, these civic figures were willing to say things about the mayor in private that they wouldn\u2019t say in public. One can easily imagine some of their reasons. They didn\u2019t want to alienate a powerful elected official whose help for a project or a campaign they might need in the future. This isn\u2019t unusual. <\/p>\n<p>It would be impossible, for example, to report on Washington, D.C., and Hollywood\u2014two cultures where everyone is worried about offending the person they just knifed in the back\u2014without having off-the-record conversations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking of Ray Nagin, read <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TheWarOnGuns\/~3\/mLlD6FAsa-E\/title-regained.html\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back in a post about bad mayors (think Ray Nagin) we called out Antonio Villaraigosa for what he is &#8211; a failure. So much&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-degenerates","category-whacko-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}