L.A. Mayor's Girlfriend Gets Harsh Punishment

Salinas interviews The Mayor in June 2006

The punishment of Mirthala Salinas has finally been announced and it is a fate worse than death: re-assignment to Riverside! Salinas is the former political reporter and fill-in anchor who announced on a local Spanish language news broadcast on Telemundo's Channel 52 that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was separating from his wife. The Mayor later admitted that he was having an affair, and later revealed that the other woman was none other than Mirthala Salinas!

Kevin Roderick at LA Observed says that Salinas is deciding whether she will accept the demotion and re-assignment or resign her position. It's hard to believe that Salinas will accept moving from an anchor position in a huge media market like Los Angeles where her boyfriend is the Mayor to Riverside where she will be a general assignment reporter. Stay Tuned.