High Stakes Gambling: LA Mayor Offers Wager on Suns/Lakers NBA Playoffs

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa offered a wager to Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon over the outcome of the NBA playoff series between the LA Lakers and the Phoenix Suns. Should the Suns win the NBA Western Conference Finals, Los Angeles will accept “‘America’s Toughest Sheriff’ Joe Arpaio.”  “Perhaps a stint in Los Angeles would teach him that you cannot deduce immigration status simply by looking at a person,” Villaraigosa wrote. Should the Lakers win, Los Angeles would give Phoenix California Republican gubernatorial candidates Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman, both of whom are “currently battling for supremacy on the issue of illegal immigration,” Villaraigosa said.

I am a fan of the Mayor but cannot endorse such high stakes gambling!

KJ