Villaraigosa talks about the pitfalls and opportunities of running for mayor

In  Los  Angeles in this month of May, the working poor and theirfamilies still  constitute a majority of city residents. Gang violence continues to  surge. Millions of Angelenos lack any medical coverage. And13  years  after the Rodney King beating, the LAPD has still not managed to   put in place a system to track  violence-prone officers,though  the  department has been under a court order for several years todo  exactly  that. All of which is a roundabout way of saying the city still  needs  Antonio Villaraigosa as its mayor. [more]