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Antonio Villaraigosa's chief media adviser in the campaign, David Doak, has signed on to do the same for Fernando Ferrer in New York. Ferrer is a Democrat who trails the incumbent mayor, Michael Bloomberg, in a new poll that came out Monday.
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