{"id":277976,"date":"2010-02-04T13:16:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8604c0e970b"},"modified":"2010-02-04T13:16:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:16:21","slug":"steve-lopez-to-readers-the-mayor-is-that-the-worst-youve-got","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/277976","title":{"rendered":"Steve Lopez to readers: The mayor? Is that the worst you&#8217;ve got?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordle.net\/show\/wrdl\/1612349\/L.A._villains%3F\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cloud600\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8604fcb970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8604fcb970b-600wi\" style=\"width: 600px;\"><\/img><\/a> <br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/steve-lopez\/\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lopez\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01287676c153970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01287676c153970c-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 132px; height: 129px;\" title=\"Lopez\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, so here we are in Greater L.A., with its long, dark history of land and water grabs, legendary air pollution, assassins, serial killers and gang kingpins, and according to <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/01\/rogues-villains-stranglers-and-bad-cops-point-your-finger-at-las-worst.html\">last week&#8217;s Talk Back to Lopez poll<\/a>, the worst Angeleno of all time is:\n<\/p>\n<p>L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa?\n<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone out there know any history?\n<\/p>\n<p>Sure, we got a lot of thoughtful nominations, but Villaraigosa had twice as many votes as the second-place finisher, who was another bizarre choice:\n<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Henry Waxman.\n<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m aware of his connection to our traffic nightmare. But give me a break.\n<\/p>\n<p>As for Villaraigosa, I&#8217;ve pounded him pretty good over the years. But he wouldn&#8217;t have made my top 50, and neither would Waxman.\n<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Roger Mahony third? I have no problem there, and I like O.J. Simpson at No. 4.\n<\/p>\n<p>As for the six-way tie at No. 10 &#8212; Ronald Reagan, Tom Bradley, former LAPD chief William Parker, Richard &quot;Night Stalker&quot; Ramirez, Clippers owner Donald Sterling and Steve Lopez &#8212; wait a minute, <em>moi<\/em>? I&#8217;d like to say that I would have made a much better owner of the Clippers.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Steve Lopez<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordle.net\/show\/wrdl\/1612349\/L.A._villains%3F\">Word cloud of blog reader votes<\/a> for L.A.&#8217;s worst. Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/wordle.net\">Wordle.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so here we are in Greater L.A., with its long, dark history of land and water grabs, legendary air pollution, assassins, serial killers and gang kingpins, and according to last week&#8217;s Talk Back to Lopez poll, the worst Angeleno of all time is: L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa? Does anyone out there know any history? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}