Lobbying for anti-gang dollars

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will lobby state leaders for critical gang reduction and public transportation funds today.May 23 at the State Capitol, Sacramento, CA 95814.

Villaraigosa will also join Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez for a to make his case that legislators reject Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Revised Budget Proposal that would divert hundreds of millions of gas tax dollars to pay for non-transit expenditures.

The mayor will urge state legislators to restore the funding, which is critical to maintaining current Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) bus service without massive fare increases.