Villaraigosa Adultery Hits Media Sweet Spot

The Los Angeles blogosphere (LAist, LA Observed, Intersections, etc) and other local media have been buzzing with the news that recently separated Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has revealed that he is in a relationship with local Telemundo television anchor Mirthala Salinas.

But, wait, there's more! As Kevin Roderick has been revealing, Salinas has been cutting a swath through the top of the Mexican American Princes of Los Angeles politics for quite some time. Prior to dating the current Mayor of Los Angeles, Ms. Salinas was also romantically linked with Speaker of the State Assembly Fabian Nunez in the brief period during which Mr. Nunez was divorced from his wife (whom he later re-married) and Ms. Salinas also dated Los Angeles City Council President Alex Padilla (elected to the State Senate in November 2006).

The whole affair (sic) reaches "truth is stranger than fiction" levels when it was revealed that Salinas, who stopped covering local politics for the television station soon after she started dating the Mayor(!) a few weeks ago actually read the news story of the Mayor's decision to separate from his wife on the Spanish language station where she is an anchor:

(Thanks to Daniel Hernandez of Intersections blog for the screen shot of Mirthala Salinas.)