This week, L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti popped by All My Children to express to devious Chandler family patriarch Adam Sr. his approval of the "green improvements you've made in your factory," just 2,500 miles away from his home in small-town Pennsylvania. Then yesterday, none other than famed Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa popped up in the very same fictional municipality, demonstrating palpable chemistry with area vixen Erica Kane. What gives? Why are L.A.'s top politicians hanging out in Pine Valley, PA?
Turns out, it's for a "jobs conference." (In actuality, both spots were taped in January, right after AMC's production swapped over to the left coast.) The best part is when Erica politely dismisses the Mayor to take a phone call, and he glances downward awkwardly as he shuffles out of frame. As Curbed LA points out -- it's an odd time for a headhunting trip, what with Villaraigosa having announced this week a second round of city job cuts that could amount to 2000 dismissed city employees. [Curbed LA]