Opinion: Antonio Villaraigosa gets with the Obama program

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Much like the losing candidate he backed in the Democratic presidential race, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa appears to be coming to grips with the contest’s outcome.

We noted Thursday that Villaraigosa, asked to comment on Barack Obama’s ascension as the party’s presumptive nominee, still had Hillary Clinton on his mind.

But just as Clinton seems ready to move on, based on comments she made today to her leading money people, so too Villaraigosa. He appeared on CNN today, singing Obama’s praises.

“His clarion call for change touched a cord all across the nation, and I’m going to work as hard for him as I did for Hillary Clinton,’’ he told Wolf Blitzer.

One of our companion blogs, L.A. Now, has more on what the mayor said here.

-- Don Frederick