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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been making the rounds and got some face time on MSNBC this afternoon — outside of prime time — but City Controller Laura Chick may have made the bigger media splash in Denver so far. Asked by an AP reporter on the convention floor to pick her most and least favorite states, Chick used one pick on California (of course) and said for the other: "Alabama, I guess, I just have this feeling that there is lingering prejudices there, but maybe that's totally unfair on my part." It was part of an exchange that began this way:
Laura Chick, the controller for the city of Los Angeles, was sitting with California delegates when she grabbed an Associated Press reporter's arm."This man just took my chair, knocked into me, look at this!" she said, showing a bright red nick on her arm, and then pointing to her ankle, which she said he had stepped on.
The man in question, who would not identify himself, said: "I am a Clinton delegate and these Obama delegates are mistreating us," prompting groans and eye rolls from those seated around him.
Chick was furious but said she will handle it.
"If he does it again, I'll kick his" rear end, she said.
Chick has also been blogging for Fox 11's website. It's the usual softball stuff that pols provide when asked to do these kinds of media favors, though she could have had Fox News Channel in mind when she posted, "I am surprised by some of the negative critiques in the media on Michelle Obama's magnificent speech last night. It was as if some of the talking heads didn't listen to the same speech I heard."