After months of the dirtiest political campaign in a generation, Los Angeles has elected challenger Antonio Villaraigosa as its new mayor. Tony Rap, as the verbose Villaraigosa was known in high school, buried fellow Democrat and incumbent Jimmy Hahn in a veritable double-digit landslide.
The election of a Spanish-speaking liberal Latino to preside over America’s second largest city carries huge political symbolism especially at a time when the national immigration debate is simmering. And before Villaraigosa even takes over his...
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