[lbo-talk] Villaraigosa: football trumps human rights

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 30 17:10:48 PDT 2006


I know that L.A. does NOT need a professional football franchise. After all, we've already got USC and UCLA.

On 4/30/06, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Doug posted:
>
>
> >LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles' first
> >Latino mayor in the modern era, will skip huge pro-immigration
> >rallies planned for Monday to meet with pro football officials in
> >Dallas,
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> Villaraigosa spoke at the big rally a few weeks ago. I heard he was
> getting advice not to do it but thought it too important to not show
> up. He''s a smart guy, so I'm not going to be too quick to judge
> this. But couldn't somebody else have gone to Dallas? He could have
> at least stayed in town.
>
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