Antonio Villaraigosa
Former Speaker of the California State AssemblyWikipedia
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Oct 11, 2026
Harold MeyersonGUEST
issues here, Bonta did and enlisted other attorneys general.
Harold MeyersonGUEST
So what the what the Ellisons did was David had several meetings with Governor Newsom and managed to enlist some powerful Democrats, notables of yore, beginning with Fabian Nunez, who was an assembly speaker during the Schwarzenegger governorship in in California, former Senator Barbara Boxer and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Harold MeyersonGUEST
And, you know, Bonta could sort of feel the tide going out on him, leaving him alone on the beach.
Harold MeyersonGUEST
And he finally decided he had really no option but to cut a really pretty nominal, not very strong deal.
Katy YaroslavskyGUEST
So thinking about it from how do you use a piece of property to benefit a department to serve the needs of the city bureaucracy, but not thinking about how these properties could also at the same time better serve Angelenos.
Katy YaroslavskyGUEST
And, you know, there was an effort under Mayor Villaraigosa to create a redevelopment agency, and he couldn't quite get it across the finish line before he left office.
Katy YaroslavskyGUEST
And so Mayor Garcetti inherited it.
Katy YaroslavskyGUEST
And he warmed to the idea and started to push it forward.
Harold MeyersonGUEST
And I was reliant on a story in some of the back business pages of the Wall Street Journal, which noted that the Ellisons very smartly enlisted all kinds of Democratic notables to essentially pressure Bonta to the state attorney general to abandon what looked like, to me at least, a pretty persuasive lawsuit, an antitrust lawsuit, you know, opposing Bonta.
Harold MeyersonGUEST
the purchase of Warner Brothers, they included former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, former L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and former Senator Barbara Boxer.
Harold MeyersonGUEST
What eventually happened was that Bonta, having filed, as I said, what I think was a pretty persuasive lawsuit and enrolled, managed to get the support of 11 other state attorneys general, found himself really isolated within California politics.
Harold MeyersonGUEST
And of course, Ellison had levied the threat that if he didn't get that suit removed and if he lost he would essentially try to relocate Hollywood to Nashville.
George SkeltonGUEST
There's too many games being played now with the top.
George SkeltonGUEST
Newsom did that against, uh, Antonio Villaraigosa also in 2018 in the primary.
George SkeltonGUEST
Got a Republican in, into the top two with some sneaky advertising, kind of sleazy, and knocked out Villaraigosa in the primary.
George SkeltonGUEST
So for reasons like that, I'm against the top two now, and I'd like to see it go back for the top Republican and the top Democrat qualify for November.
John PhillipsHOST
Dick Riordan ran for governor and lost.
John PhillipsHOST
Antonio Villaraigosa has run for governor a couple of times and lost.
John PhillipsHOST
And it's true.
John PhillipsHOST
If you are in Orange County, if you are in the Central Valley, if you're in the Inland Empire, do you want your city to look like LA? And the answer is no.
John PhillipsHOST
Dick Riordan ran for governor and lost.
John PhillipsHOST
Antonio Villaraigosa has run for governor a couple of times and lost.
John PhillipsHOST
And it's true.
John PhillipsHOST
If you are in Orange County, if you are in the Central Valley, if you're in the Inland Empire, do you want your city to look like LA? And the answer is no.
Mike DawsonHOST
Jesus
Adam CarollaHOST
... to Antonio Villaraigosa.
Mike DawsonHOST
Yeah.
Adam CarollaHOST
Why was he doing that?
Mike DawsonHOST
Panhandle.
Adam CarollaHOST
Why do you go by Tony Villar your whole life and then change it in the middle to Antonio, not, not Tony, Antonio Villaraigosa, so you can appear to be more Mexican so you can get dumbshit Mexicans in your town to vote for you?
Mike DawsonHOST
I'm curious because-
Adam CarollaHOST
And then, and then, and then by the way, claim you're being discriminated against or some bullshit like that.
Katy YaroslavskyGUEST
So thinking about it from how do you use a piece of property to benefit a department, to serve the needs of, of the city bureaucracy, but not thinking about how these properties could also, at the same time, better serve Angelenos.
Katy YaroslavskyGUEST
And, uh, you know, like, there was an effort under Mayor Villaraigosa to create a redevelopment agency, and he couldn't quite get it across the finish line before he left office.
Katy YaroslavskyGUEST
And so M- Mayor Garcetti inherited it, and he warmed to the idea and, and started to push it forward.
Katy YaroslavskyGUEST
But there was some reluctance on the part of council leadership, um, in the, in the mid to late, uh, twenty-teens, and I think that's because when a parcel of city-owned property is sold, right now the benefit of that is split between going back to the council office and to the general fund.
Steve HiltonGUEST
I'd asked the legislature to reduce the gas tax.
Steve HiltonGUEST
In fact, two of my Democrat colleagues in the primary, Antonio Villaraigosa and Matt Mahan, mayor of San Jose, both had the same approach.
Steve HiltonGUEST
We're actually pretty aligned on energy policy.
Steve HiltonGUEST
There are really four drivers of the fact that we've got the highest gas prices in the country.
Marshall TuckGUEST
You had a lot of district magnet schools.
Marshall TuckGUEST
The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, which I helped launch with former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, that Paige and I are both on the board on now, was a unique transformation where the city and the district came together and said, "Let's turn around the lowest performing schools, and let's..." Because we felt that the schools that had wonderful kids but real challenges needed not just a school district, they needed a school district and the city and the philanthropic community.
Marshall TuckGUEST
But at the core, what did we do? Found really strong principals to be in those schools and train the heck out of them.
Marshall TuckGUEST
Made sure that we were paying teachers more to work in the highest poverty schools and did great teacher training.
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