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Antonio Villaraigosa Running Again for Mayor of Los Angeles
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is one of the rising stars in the Democratic party. He’s the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles in recent history and he also serves as a co-chairman to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
He discusses the state of the Clinton campaign after her losses in Wisconsin and Hawaii. He also discussed the dilemma that immigration reform poses to politicians across the country.Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says he intends to run for re-election in 2009.Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa informed a national television audience this week that he intended to seek a second term in the city’s top post while giving some of his most personal remarks to date about the political fallout from his extramarital affair.
But Villaraigosa, who informally has discussed his reelection intentions off and on for a couple of months, did not say directly whether he would run for governor in 2010, one year after the mayoral election.
In a wide-ranging interview with public television’s Charlie Rose on Wednesday — stemming from his support for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton — the mayor was asked about his gubernatorial ambitions.
Rose quoted an unnamed supporter of Villaraigosa who said the mayor “is thinking more about being governor than he is about being mayor.”
Of course, Mayor Villar will have to win re-election against Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky before entertaining any thought of running for Governor in 2010.
Flap’s bet is that the Mayor will have a difficult time in elective politics anytime soon.
Telemundo Channel 52 Poitical Reporter Mirthala Salinas announces “on air†her boyfriend, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s separation from his wife.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: IAEA Report – Iran Continues Uranium Enrichment
Ayatollah Mohammad Emami-Kashani is pictured at Tehran University. The top Iranian cleric has told the UN Security Council to stay out of the crisis over Tehran’s contested nuclear drive, ahead of a key report by the UN atomic watchdog.
The long awaited IAEA report on Iran nuclear program has just been released and it details Iran’s continuing uranium enrichment and development of centrifuges.
Flap will update as more details are available.
Update:
Iran more open on atom work, bomb fears remain: IAEA
Iran has shown new openness about nuclear advances earlier off-limits to U.N. monitors but not enough to prove the program is not geared to making bombs, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Friday.
While an IAEA report painted a more positive picture of Iranian cooperation than before, it also confirmed Iran was testing technology that could give it the means to enrich uranium much faster — in further defiance of demands to halt all sensitive nuclear activity or be hit with wider U.N. sanctions.
The IAEA findings, which also said Iran had failed to clear up all outstanding questions by an agreed February deadline, may be branded negative on balance by big powers and spur the U.N. Security Council to adopt more sanctions as early as next week.
So, in other words, Iran has NOT been forthcoming and has not cleared up any ambiguity whether they are developing a nuclear weapon. Look for an American and EU call for more UN sanctions which WILL be either watered down or blocked outright by Russia and China.
Key graph:
- “The (weaponization) studies is a matter of serious concern and critical to an assessment of a possible military dimension to Iran’s nuclear program,” said the confidential report, obtained by Reuters.
“The agency will not be in a position to make progress towards providing credible assurances about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran before reaching some clarity on the nature of the alleged (weaponization) studies, and without implementation of the Additional Protocol (wide-ranging, snap inspections).”
Without that, it said, there could be “no confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of the program.”
If Iran has clean hands they would immediately open up their nuclear program to inspections.
But, Iran won’t.
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- “The (weaponization) studies is a matter of serious concern and critical to an assessment of a possible military dimension to Iran’s nuclear program,” said the confidential report, obtained by Reuters.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir February 22, 2008
Michelle Obama is defining husband Barack’s message because he has none – just words and rhetoric.
Hillary has waited too long to attack Obama for being the EMPTY SUIT that he is. Instead of sending her hubby Bill out to racially attack Obama in South Carolina she should have been pounding Obama on issues since day one. Talk about a mismanaged campaign.
Flap is actually looking forward to the contrasts between Obama and McCain. The GOP may have an easier time than anyone thinks.
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links for 2008-02-22
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Why it is the New York Times……
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The story that started today’s political buzz.
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Please….Mrs. Huckabee could not get a better room?
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The New York Times has some explaining to do…..
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John Weaver seems to be the leaker here…..
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Wow! $42 mil on a failed candidacy…..
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Another big union endorses Obama. Will it make a difference to knock out Hillary?