Does AEG's stadium plan conflict with Comic-Con?

OC political blogger Jon Fleischman wonders if talk about tearing down the West Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center to accommodate an NFL stadium shoots in the foot Mayor Villaraigosa's attempt to lure the big Comic-Con convention away from San Diego.

Unfortunately for Antonio, he has two well known Angelinos working at cross-purposes with him on this one - AEG Chief Executive Tim Leiweke (pictured, right) and Wasserman Media Group founder Casey Wasserman. These two gentlemen have big plans to rip out a big chunk of the convention center, and replace it with a football stadium, and bring professional football back to the LA basin - or so they say....

Unfortunately for Mayor Villaraigosa, not only not only does he have Leiweke and Wasserman working hard to make the downtown Los Angeles venue an unattractive one to Comic-Con (and every other convention) with their high profile stadium idea, but at the same time Anaheim and Orange County have been aggressively courting the organizers of this massive event....

if I am the decision makers for Comic-Con, and can take the five minutes it takes to do a Google search on AEG and Wasserman, and see that these guys are very real players, then I have to think seriously how this might impact a proposal from LA to host Comic-Con.

Fleischman admits to his readers that he's been to a couple of Comic-Cons: "While it is true that a great many attendees dress up in costume, I can share that I have never been quite that enthusiastic."