Mayor goes blogging

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa -- or one of his staffers -- took his dispute with the state over funding to the blogsphere today.
On Fox and Hounds, the mayor made the case that he has been trtyighn to make with state officials for the past month.
On it, he says:
Year in and year out, it seems like our state faces the same predicament: An historic deficit; a deadlocked legislature; budget negotiations hijacked by a few hard-liners making unreasonable demands, and stalled by a two-thirds rule that impedes progress and weakens our ability to govern.

A few weeks ago - after the defeat of a series of measures designed to soften the blow of our budget shortfall - a coalition of mayors and city officials came together to call on our state representatives to follow a different path; to take responsibility for the public purse; to find a better way to navigate the choppy economic waters before us and lay the foundation for a stronger, more stable financial future.