When does someone take on mayor?

Ron Kaye wonders whether LA County District Attorney Steve Cooley will ever get into the Villaraigosa ticket scandal. The silence is indeed deafening. Cooley has made a big deal over his creation of a Public Integrity Division that supposedly goes after elected officials who misbehave. So let's see: We have a mayor who has shamelessly accepted tickets to 81 sports and entertainment events without disclosing any of the whys and wherefores. That's a clear violation of city and state ethics laws. Kaye says there's more:

Little has been said about the fortune in meals at Mozza, Drago and other high-priced restaurants the mayor has taken as gifts or his taste for fine wines costing $500 to $1,000 that his "friends" have bought for him.

And apparently there are no records. That's what his lawyer told the LAT. "I'm almost speechless," Robert M. Stern, president of the Center for Governmental Studies, told the Times. Once more, Villaraigosa acts as if he is above the law - and that aside from a few gadflies, nobody in Los Angeles much cares. So far he's right.