Selling new chief ...and himself

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's teenage daughter Natalia Fe saw the forlorn look on her father's face and sensed a sadness in his voice as he finished making phone calls to the two candidates passed over to be the next chief of police.Tony Castro in the Daily News.

"Dad," she said, standing next to him at Getty House, the official mayoral residence, "that must be the toughest call you've ever made." "It's certainly one of them."

But while the selection process presented the mayor with one of the toughest political decisions he's faced, the confirmation process of his pick, Deputy Chief Charlie Beck, is giving him a chance to jump-start his waning public image.