Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is making his pitch to voters in California’s 2026 governor’s race, launching his first prime-time television ad Thursday night with a focus on affordability and fiscal leadership.
“I don’t run from tough problems, I solve them,” Villaraigosa says in the ad, which highlights his record balancing budgets as Speaker of the California Assembly and leading Los Angeles through the 2008 recession…