Former mayor of Los Angeles and former leader of the California state assembly. He ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2018, when the state's kingmakers chose Gavin Newsom instead. Mr Villaraigosa ran again in 2026 as one of the "fixer" candidates—those with local governing records—though he had been out of office for more than a decade.
Genua had once controlled the river mouth and taxed its traffic in a way that couldn't be called piracy because it was done by the city government.