L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa on school-reform fallout: 'No one buys that turncoat stuff'
December 26, 2010 | 7:07 pm
A mayor with deep roots in the labor movement now finds himself denounced in some quarters as a turncoat — a description he calls absurd. "No one buys that turncoat stuff," Los Angeles MayorAntonio Villaraigosa said at a recent union-sponsored event in Watts. "But I am challenging orthodoxies in a way that we have to."
The mayor's recent branding of United Teachers Los Angeles, the L.A. teachers union, as "one
