UPDATE:
EXCLUSIVE
NEW PHOTOS AND VIDEO

"A FRIENDSHIP THAT EVOLVED OVER TIME" REPORTER SALINAS AND THE MAYOR OF LA:
Crossing paths professionally and personally since 2005.

(July 9th, 2007 3:55PM PST)

BY ERIC LONGABARDI

The past week brought confirmation, revelation and media madness in the still evolving story of on going "personal relationship" between anchor/political reporter, Mirthala Salinas and the Mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa.

With that in mind, ERSNews decided to try and piece together and document, as much as possible, just how much "together time" and opportunity to get to know each other Salinas, the now suspended anchor/reporter from Telemundo station KVEA-TV52 in Los Angeles has had with Mayor Villaragosia.

We decided to start looking at the point when the Mayor took office in July of 2005. What we found shows a criss-crossing of professional, social and personal contacts over the past year and half. We also found that Salinas would also sometimes run into an old boyfriend on occasion as well, State Speaker of the Assembly Fabian Nunez, who she dated in 2003/04.

ERSNews has obtained new photos of the Mayor and Salinas together at various Los Angeles public and social events in 2005 and 2006.

The "story’ in pictures and word begins on July 1st 2005, the day Villaraigosa was sworn in as Los Angeles’s 41st Mayor.

Antonio Villaraigosa is sworn in as the 41st Mayor of Los Angeles.
His wife Corina is at his side.
(July 1, 2005)

 

Mayor Villaragosia and Mirthala Salinas both attend the (SVREP)
Southwest Voter Registration Education Project Latino Vote 2005 Banquet
in Los Angeles. Salina’s former boyfriend California's Speaker of the
Assembly Fabian Nunez is also in attendance.
(July 15th, 2005)

 

The TRPI 20th Anniversary Gala Dinner. Mayor Villaraigosa and Speaker of
the California Assembly Fabian Nunez are in attendance. Mirthala
Salinas is there as well.
(May 18th 2006)

 

The Mayor is in Sacramento pushing for his takeover the LA Unified
School District. Salinas is there to cover him for her station
Telemundo. The Los Angeles Times captures Salinas interviewing the
Mayor on the steps of the State Capital.
(June 19, 2006)

EXCLUSIVE NEW PHOTOS

The Mayor and Salinas participate on a panel discussion about Latino politics.
Salinas is there in her official capacity as a reporter for Telemundo.
20th Annual William Velazquez Conference
(November 12, 2006)

 

Mayor Villaraigosa attends conference of Mayors in New York and Salinas
is there to report on it for Telemundo.
(May 16th, 2007)

 

Mayor holds press conference in LA to announce he and his wife Corina
are separating.
(June 11, 2007)

 

Mayor Villaraigosa confirms a "personal friendship" with Mirthala
Salinas to the media.
"I have had a relationship with Ms. Salinas over time. It has evolved,
and today I have acknowledged that relationship,"
(July 3, 2006)