Many a pretty young woman gives in to the lure of the powerful man, especially if he is good looking too. Such appears to have been the case with Los Angeles television reorter/anchor Mirthala Salinas, who in 2007 lost her job at Spanish-language channel KVEA-TV for having an affair with the city's mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, while also covering him as a news source.
Her initial punishment was a 2-month suspension, but at the end off that time, the station announced that she would not be back. Salinas returned to the air in 2008 as a host of a magazine-format show on W Radio 690 in Los Angeles.
Villaraigosa, a charming, charismatic young man with ties to both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, has enjoyed a stellar career, one slowed little by his fondness for the ladies. His last name at birth was Villar, but when he married Corina Raigosa in 1987, he adopted a merged version of their last names.
His public reputation took at least a temporary hit in 2007 when his affair with the lovely Miss Salinas came to light because at the time, his wife was receiving treatments for cancer.
He has survived politically, however, in the same way President Bill Clinton did following the Lewinsky affair. So long as a powerful political leader's general policies are on the side of the angels, most Americans don't really demand that he act much like one. (The rest of us would be well advised not to "try this at home.")
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