Pols walk around without a plan

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is at his cocky best, grinning from a stage toward a Saturday crowd of maybe 4,000, declaring into a microphone that he's been challenged — by an unnamed member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors — to race this morning's 5K to end homelessness instead of just walking the distance around Exposition Park like everyone else.

By Robert Greene

November 20, 2007