One thing about Mayor Villaraigosa, when there is an event, he is there. In contrast to the Governator, who is “probably going to be there”. So much so that I caught myself saying “The Mayor is going to be there, and maybe Arnold” on more than one occasion.
My boyfriend and I share a joke with endless manifestations; a joke that always has the same punch line: Antonio is everywhere. We speculate he has a doppelganger, maybe even several. Some wryly modify the joke from “everywhere” to “everywhere there is a c
amera”.You have to figure it is tough to get from event to event (across town from an event that ends at noon, to an event that begins at one. He once had some bad press about taking a Helicopter to get across town on time. So when I snapped this shot (at a Park opening), I knew he was stressing to beat the next deadline.
Of course, one would expect to see the Mayor in the City he runs; at events, responding to issues, on the news, etc. etc. But there is something about our Mayor that goes way beyond expectation. He is one busy man. Among other things, he says he takes public transportation to every monthly City Council meeting; he holds a “town-hall” style meeting weekly on the local news; he throws the first ball at the Dodger’s games…You get the idea.
But every time I open a program and see his smiling face, something just tickles my funny bone. Still, I left it an open question, maybe a series of coincidences that my friend and I just saw his face SO often.
That was…until...a flipped on the morning news on Yom Kippur and there he was, in a Kipah! At Shul! I shook my head,
