To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, KABC and the University of Southern California may find themselves really paying for who gets a chance at the microphone in their March 24 California gubernatorial debate.
Already catching flack from ex-federal Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra for his omission from the bipartisan meet-up, the Disney-owned outlet and the university are now facing possible “legal remedies” from former LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
“I write on behalf of Antonio Villaraigosa to formally demand that ABC News and USC immediately rectify his exclusion from the upcoming California gubernatorial debate,” states attorney Eric M. George in a letter sent via email Tuesday to USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Dean James VBullock and ABC 7 News’ Julie Sone. “The very ‘Candidate Debate Criteria and Formula’ published by Professor Christian Grose, on which your selection criteria purport to be based, establish precisely why Mayor Villaraigosa
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