2009 L.A. City Hall Race – Mayor Villraigosa has the Fart Joke Vote Locked

The list of candidates running for the 2009 Mayor’s race is up.  Billy Boyarsky at L.A. Observed points out that: “With nobody who is anybody running against him, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has a lock on his re-election.”

Nobody?  What about Michael Arthur Hirt, the self-proclaimed “Exorcisor of Presidents?” or “Temple 420″ founder and guy-who-was-on-one-episode of “Weeds”, Craig X Rubin?  We here at Johnny California will be looking more into these people.

We are wary of of Mayor Villaraigosa as it is unclear to us exactly what he’s accomplished during his tenure as L.A.’s Mayor. It seems like he’s never in town, and when he’s here what does he do?

Turns out, the LA Weekly wondered the same thing, and a couple of months back wrote two excellent articles about how the Mayor spends his days and the culture of self-promotion that seems to be his top priority. To be fair, we are doing some research to evaluate the Mayor’s tenure as objectively as possible and we’ll report back.  Perhaps our opinion of him we’ll change, we’re open to that.

In the meantime, here’s our favorite clip of the Mayor, where after Steve Edwards accidentally says “fart” (combined the words “funny” and “smart”), the Mayor tells us about “tushy bubbles.”