Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa went on Wolf Blitzer's The Situation Room on CNN and announced he will not seek higher office, stating, "I can't leave this city in the middle of a crisis."

Maybe someone told him that the journos in Sacramento are not as hot as the ones in LA. It's a factor for us...

Anyway, Villaraigosa seemed tired; his voice hoarse and cracking. He didn't seem thrilled about his decision. In fact, he talked very little about Los Angeles, strangely (in a video we will post when we get it) he talked about the rancid state of California and not about his task at hand - the equally rancid and impossiblly gridlocked state of LA.