Antonio Villaraigosa's Fundraiser o' the Day -- a handy study guide

We received a lot of mail about our little series, "Antonio Villaraigosa's Fundraiser o' the Day," and some of it we were even able to publish. For those of you who missed it, or may be in need of some interesting reading over this holiday weekend, we've collected the links into a single, handy guide:

Part One: The $1,000-per-contributer event held in Koreatown, hosted by a trio of Korean American business leaders, including Chang Y. Lee, president of the Korean American Chamber of Commerce, and Alexander Hugh, chief executive of the real estate development company CIC Group.

Part Two: An event at L.A. Live, co-hosted by Tim Leiweke, president and CEO of Anschutz Entertainment Group. (And at the very same time, the mayor was also scheduled to be a featured guest at a fundraiser for his good friend, councilman and city attorney candidate Jack Weiss, at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel.)

Part Three: Villaraigosa had a noon reelection event in downtown Los Angeles, co-hosted by developer David Chang and Kerman Maddox, a consultant whose firm worked on Villaraigosa’s grand plan to gain more control over the Los Angeles Unified School District. The mayor then flew up to San Francisco for a 6 p.m. appearance with former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown and Darius Anderson, president of the lobbying firm Platinum Advisors.

Part Four: A fundraiser was held at a San Marino-adjacent address in Pasadena, hosted by Larry Gonzalez, president of All Access Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based company devoted to celebrating "Latino holidays and the Hispanic culture of Southern California," according to its website.

Part Five: The mayor squeezed no fewer than six (whew!) fundraisers for his reelection campaign into his weekend schedule: two on Saturday and four on Sunday. Click for the fascinating details.

Part Six: Another fundraiser is held in downtown L.A. at Liberty Grill, which is owned by Camacho’s Inc. One of the co-hosts? Yes! Andy Camacho is founder of the L.A.-based restaurant company, which has concessions at LAX and Ontario/L.A. International Airport -– facilities overseen by Villaraigosa’s appointees on the Board of Airport Commissioners.

And that's it, the summertime fundraising sprint by L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, with our own David Zahniser connecting the political dots.

-- Veronique de Turenne

Comments

[Ginny-Marie Case]

The neighborhood councils were asked to weigh in on the idea of public financing of campaigns. The LA Times even covered an earlier article about it (http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jul/26/local/me-cleanmoney26)

I wonder where that's at in the City Council.

[Carracticus]

So how many illegal aliens are working for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's financial donors? The fact that Los Angeles has determined it's fate, by getting a ominous label of a 'Sanctuary City'. How many illegal aliens living in Los Angeles county are contributing to this ultra-liberal Mayor, in campaign contributions to stay in the race, for his next office. Certainly don't want him masquerading as a Governor, should he be elected. His staying in office along with all the little wriggling worms, who have sold taxpayers down the tubes, in supporting millions of dollars for illegal aliens.

What a sorry lot, the majority of politicians have running this state government? All pandering to illegal foreigners, who stole across our border to receive our grateful government welfare handouts. Then even the federal government has been compromised by pandering to the special interest lobby.

At least Los Angeles legal residents, come to that California citizens or even the 80 percent of our population, have seen the this state on the verge of bankruptcy. $17 billion dollars in the red, so now they are looking for ways to cut programs. A good state would be rescinding Special Order 40., a Sanctuary City law. Then give (ICE) free access to Los Angeles, instead of not assisting them in their work. Citizens and legal residents can fight back with the SAVE ACT (H.R.4088) . All the state laws protecting illegal aliens will cease and desist and more federal funding will bring swarms of US agents down on business owners, who ignore the immigration laws.
Remember all these protection laws that Chief Bratton, Mayor Villaraigosa and all the city officials who thrive on, will be eradicated by US government statute. No more will employers have the excuse for hiring illegal aliens over legal residents.Many Governors,

Mayors and people in office have taken advantage of Americans for years, playing on their compassion for the underdog. Except now the circumstances have reversed. The U.S. Supreme Court has never ruled on the application of the 14th Amendment to the children of illegal aliens who've made the purposeful choice of evading America's laws.

The statement that only children of illegal immigrants receive emergency medical coverage is inaccurate. An illegal immigrant, single adult, pregnant undocumented/illegal woman and children may all qualify and receive state Medicaid benefits if they have a qualifying medical event. They receive this coverage almost carte blanche with hospitals & other advocates making the application for them. It is actually a big business in Clark County. Many documented immigrants bring their undocumented relatives here for 'free' medicaid coverage. Pregnant, undocumented women from Mexico come here to have their babies as the medical coverage is paid for by the state and their baby will have duel citizenship. They are covered while citizens are denied if they cannot provide adequate proof of citizenship. The Medicaid manuals and policy governing Emergency Medical is available to the public for review on both the DWSS website and libraries. You can confirm this there. The volume is also much higher than indicated in your column. It is a pretty expensive program and politically sensitive given the state of the economy and denial of citizens that are otherwise eligible due to delays in obtaining their citizenship verifications. The federal government mandates many of these programs which puts a financial burden on the states. It is much more of a fiscal burden and potentially a hot potato than folks realize, draining state resources and using a disproportionate amount of staff resources to serve this population. Medicaid benefits are far more costly to the state than a TANF grant. It is a significant chunk of our budget expenditures.

We must stop the travesty of our immigration laws, and enforce them according to the 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli bill that even Ted Kennedy endorsed.

Under the federal SAVE ACT (H.R.4088) predatory employers would be arrested, fined and possibly imprisoned and millions of illegal aliens would leave of their OWN ACCORD. It would give (ICE) more funding and build the US border patrol up to 20.000 more agents in strength, build the fence as ORIGINALLY intended. This nationwide law would also begin to remove criminal aliens, 'SANCTUARY STATES' from our society. It would give extra teeth to all immigration laws now on the books. Demand the SAVE ACT! (2022243121 ) Unsuppressed details at NUMBERSUSA.

[Diane]

Thanks so much for writing this article. Now I understand why Antonio doesn't perform his actual job of being Mayor of Los Angeles. All this time I thought he was just lazy.