Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles
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How good is Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa?
Mayor of Los Angeles, USA
City Mayors invites its readers to assess the performance in office of Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles. Please rate his overall performance by awarding him marks out of ten. '1' signifies an extremely poor performance, while '10' would rate his performance as outstanding. Please also provide details of what in your opinion are the mayor’s best and worst decisions.Over time, Mayor Monitor will provide a valuable track record of the mayor's successes and failures as well as his popularity among residents and a wider public. The results will be published on the City Mayors website and updated regularly. The ratings will also become a contributory factor of World Mayor 2010.
Please assess Mayor Villaraigosa not more than once a month. In order to eliminate multiple submissions and/or fraudulent as well as organised rating by political friends and foes of the mayor, all submissions are processed manually and, if deemed questionable, cross-checked. Thank you for participating. How good is Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa?
RESULTS FOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA:
Performance index:
October 2009: 5.71 points ut of 10
August 2009: 5.57 points out of 10
July 2009: 5.40 points out of 10
June 2009: 5.18 points out of 10
April 2009: 5.22 points out of 10
January 2009: 6.14 points out of 10
COMMENTS:
Thumbs up:• Mario B V (Los Angeles): He did well during this summer's fires.
• NG (Los Angeles): Reduction in crime, but I think the outgoing police chief had more impact on that.
• Rene M (Los Angeles): The city taking over school system and another is the cities low crime rate in a long time
• Jose F (Los Angeles): Thank you for deciding not to run for Californian governor.
• Mary Jane H (Antelope Valley, CA): Antonio Villaraigosa has done more for the city of Los Angeles than any other mayor. I wish to God that we had him for our mayor in the Antelope Valley! Unfortunately, I live outside of the district, and therefore I cannot cast my vote for him. However, I tell everyone in Los Angeles, regardless of their party affiliation to vote for him, because he truly loves the city of Los Angeles and the Angelinos. He has done more to unite our city than any other official. My prayer is that he will continue to stay focused and encouraged and I will continue to do everything I can to support him!
Worst: He is a great mayor but he unfortunately he cannot walk on water. I cannot find fault with anything he has done so far.
He may not have gotten all of his programs passed....but it was not because he did not try. You need people to cooperate if you are going to get the desired results. He has done his part. The failure, if there was any, is on our part.
Thumbs down:• James (Los Angeles): The mayor always seems to be presenting himself as a celebrity, not a leader. Cut back on the botox and tanning beds, and focus on getting our city out of this financial MESS! Not to mention the ever worsening traffic problem.
• NG (Los Angeles): The mayor is more interested in smiling for the cameras than solving any problems.
• Mary Ann S (Los Angeles): The budget. The debt. Fear of the unions. The potholes that stay fixed for only 1 week. The showboating. Not asking for help from someone who hasn't contributed big time to him. It's so sad.
• Fred N (Los Angeles): For visiting Israel at tax payer cost for no gain! ALSO for allowing the Michael Jackson memorial and other tributes to go ahead at a terrible cost, unreasonable police protection personell while the city is realing under finacial distress and even police underpaid !
You are foisting debt on tax payers while no reduction in your or other city officials reduction in your excessive pay, pensions and personal travels for your own benefit!!
You are the epitamy of our federal, state and city personal gain at tax payers cost especially the poor. Shame on you and forget reelection !!
• Julie (LA): Nothing is being done about undocumented aliens. They are costing Los Angeles $1 billion annually. Why are they allowed to work "off the books" but the mayor imposed hefty fines on 1099 contract employees who never heard of his city tax. Why wasn't there a mailing or official statement mailed out ahead of time regarding this? Even the people I spoke to that work at the Office of Finance were unaware of it and I was told that it hardly seemed ethical. I will be contacting the tax payer advocacy regarding this.
• Paul (LA): Not following the laws as they relate to illegal immigrants. The key word here is illegal. How do you support and create rights for persons not allowed by law to be here. My familiy are immigrants. They came the hard way; Green card, military, citizenship, they learned English. If you don't like the law, change it. But don't evade it, just because you don't like it. That's no way to protect the citizens of Los Angeles. Who commits over 70% of crime? What are the worst maintained yards? How much money do I and my legal fellow citizens pay for illegal aliens?
• Anon (USA): I do not believe you do enough to help the homeless . You do not have nor have you had a program in place since you have been in office. Your comment when asked about what The Lancaster Mayor Office has done was incorrect. You do not have a plan and you do send them away to Lancaster and Lancaster sends them back.
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