George Lopez: "I'm Running for Mayor of L.A.!"

[Xicano]

George Lopez says he's gonna run for mayor of Los Angeles in eight years ... background check willing!

Lopez made the big announcement on FOX's "Good Day L.A." this morning -- saying, "If Arnold Schwarzenegger can be governor ... why can't George Lopez be the mayor of Los Angeles?"


http://www.tmz.com/2010/12/21/george-lopez-run-mayor-los-angeles-california-office/

[Renew Deal]

1. Aren't there any experienced public servants for these jobs?

LA is a major city and Lopez wants to take the crash course in governing. Not a good idea.

[nxylas]

2. As a Republican, no doubt

At least, I seem to remember a lot of anti-Castro stuff on his show, plus there was an episode that revolved around President Bush giving a speech at, IIRC, his daughter's school. He was interrupted by a protest and the actor playing Bush gave this speech about how the great thing about America is that you don't have to agree with him - something it's hard to imagine the real Shrub ever saying. If it were real life, the protestors would probably still be languishing in Gitmo even now.

[Sebass1271]

4. No. he is a Democrat.

he hates rpeublicans. He trashes republicans at every chance he gets.

[nxylas]

14. I guess I misjudged him

The stuff I mentioned upthread was probably imposed on him by the network. Goddamn liberal media!

[Xicano]

7. Lopez a republican? Whaaaaa?

First let me clarify I'm not passing judgment about this announcement at this point in time. I just posted it for its news value. Also, this youtube clip below I'm posting is ONLY to show you what Lopez thinks of Bush, nothing else other than to let you hear from his own mouth what he thinks of Bush.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3R1iZvqSZI#t=52s

[nmbluesky]

16. Respublican really?

I remember He said that he was so happy to vote Obama..He is a democratic.. maybe in his show.. He was fun of castro, Bush, etc in his show..

[Initech]

3. Never gonna happen.

A while back on KROQ radio the morning DJs took a poll of their Latino audience to see if they thought an upcoming Speedy Gonzales movie - voiced by George Lopez was offensive or not, and the listeners all thought that it was more offensive that they were being represented by George Lopez. :rofl:

[Sebass1271]

5. you guys don't recognize funny? he was joking!! he was

making fun of Arnold!

[Initech]

8. I should've realized it was from TMZ.

[Xicano]

9. Nope...

It is from "Good Day L.A." Maybe you didn't read the post or click and watch the video clip.

n/t

[villager]

6. He can't be any worse than our current library-closing, ticket-encouraging "leader"

n/t

[CreekDog]

11. The state's budget problems are not the fault of the cities

and when the state takes away money from counties that ordinarily they'd get back, it screws everything up in the counties, like libraries, hospitals, courts, etc.

if you don't like parking meters, closing libraries and so forth blame Arnold, that's where the blame belongs.

[villager]

12. "City of Airheads: Villaraigosa Dismantles L.A.'s Vaunted Library System"

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Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa executed an unprecedented, and punishing, raid on the libraries. Last spring he convinced the City Council to close the city's central and eight regional libraries on Sundays, then slashed $22 million from the 2010-11 budget and closed all 73 libraries on Mondays beginning July 19. Library officials say as many as 15,000 youths — plus an untold number of adults — have been turned away every closed day this summer.

Unlike the angry City Council in New York, which successfully fought a large library budget cut proposed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti and 4th District City Councilman Tom LaBonge, chairman of the council's Arts, Parks, Health and Aging Committee, quickly caved on Villaraigosa's proposed 2010 budget, of which the library cuts were a part.

Then, joining Garcetti and LaBonge, who claim that every bit of fat had been cut citywide, forcing them to shutter libraries, the council voted 10-3 to approve the mayor's budget. Voting yes were Garcetti, LaBonge, Ed Reyes, Paul Krekorian, Paul Koretz, Bernard Parks, Jan Perry, Herb Wesson, Bill Rosendahl and Greig Smith. Only Richard Alarcon, Janice Hahn and Jose Huizar voted no. (Dennis Zine and Tony Cardenas were absent.)

The cuts are radical, and unlike anything seen in a big U.S. city in this recession. Los Angeles now joins the dying city of Detroit as the only significant U.S. municipality to close down its entire library system twice weekly — a choice Detroit leaders made during the early-1980s recession, and from which its cultural core seems never to have recovered.

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http://www.laweekly.com/2010-09-16/news/city-of-airheads-villaraigosa-dismantles-l-a-s-vaunted-library-system/

[CreekDog]

10. Make him mayor of Hollywood

Learning on the job probably won't cause any damage in that ceremonial position.

[Nailzberg]

13. I'll work for him.

First order of business, fire whoever is in charge at Parking.

[cherokeeprogressive]

15. Could he be any worse than Tony Villar?

I don't see how.