Move Over Governator, Antonio is Next in Line

There's a lot of buzz this week about Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's potential run for governor. We're less than a couple of hours away from his appearance on CNN's Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer, where he is expected to make the rumors official.

The San Francisco Chronicle's website has the basic story, while the Los Angeles Times is editorializing on the Mayor's performance in his current office. In a recent LA Times poll, many residents described feeling disgruntled by the effects of the recession and are hardly optimistic about how the government is handling this economic crisis. Villaraigosa's favorable job approval rating was 55%.

Other potential candidates for the governor's job are San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Jerry Brown, former Rep. Tom Campbell, Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner and former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman, according to the Chronicle.