Fresh Salad Politician Takes Office in LA

It looks like LA may finally be getting the kind of Mayor it deserves, a fresh salad politician.

Antonio Villaraigosa took the oath of office Thursday afternoon to become the 41st mayor of Los Angeles in a private ceremony in his City Hall office, although he will not fully enjoy the powers of Mayor until July 1. Yet when he does assume the full duties, responsibilities, and privileges of the office of Mayor of America's second largest city; he will have taken the first steps in implementing a true change in our political landscape. Razing years of political rot across the country with ripples pulsing from our West Coast.

Villaraigosa, being the fresh person that he is, does not enter into this political office thru traditional routes. Though he enters the executive office with ample experience with the political system, he has not risen thru the ranks of the city council. Nor has he worked intensely in the machines of party organizations. Villaraigosa achieved the office by his noticed efforts of helping his fellow men & women while working with the ACLU of California and various Labour organizations.

While defending their rights, regardless of the staked positions of his party, he has proven to be a man of principle who acts only in the best interests of his fellow citizens. The finest definition of a public servant.

Though Villaraigosa has previously attempted this office, and would normally be disqualified from fresh salad praise solely because of this. His MO of working outside the established LA Democratic machine, of defending policy positions that best serve his constituents and not himself or his party, of restoring politics to the people warrant his fresh salad praise. Not to mention the fact, that in the city with the highest Latino population, restoring to power a Latin-American to the office of Mayor of Los Angeles for the first time since 1872.