LA sucks for many reasons, but one big one is its mayor, Anthony Villaraigosa. It's hard to trust a guy who sits around chatting with Paris Hilton while eating succulent bone-in lamb chops. It's even harder to trust a guy who outright lies about how much time he dedicates to his public service, saying he works 18 hours a day while actually putting in 13, many of which are dedicated to traveling and winning office again.

After the jump, a look at Mayor Villaraigosa's use of time from May to August of this year, according to whistle-blowing paper the LA Weekly.

TRIPS: 34 percent of his official workload, 310 hours, was spent on out-of-town travel — 10 times in 10 weeks. Most of it was blacked out by Villaraigosa's office, but the Weekly has independently determined that he made fund-raising jaunts to New York, Chicago and San Francisco, plus traveled to Hawaii, Israel, London, Miami (where he fit in a quick fund-raiser), Oakland and San Diego.

GAP TIME: 24 percent of his official workload, or 220 hours, was only vaguely identified. These areas of his hour-by-hour schedule were dominated by gap-time activities, such as continually moving from one event to another.

BLACKED OUT: 21 percent of his official workload, or 186 hours, was largely blacked-out time the Weekly could not identify but which was said by the mayor's aides to be spent on fund-raising for his 2009 mayoral race, and personal, family and "security-related" activities.

CEREMONIAL OR PR: 10 percent of his official workload, or 88 hours, was spent on largely ceremonial or public-relations endeavors, including staged press conferences (usually on noncritical or fluffy topics rather than breaking news), prepping for staged press conferences, giving prearranged media interviews and attending ceremonies, receptions, luncheons, banquets and awards.

CITY WORK: 11 percent of his official workload, or 96 hours, was spent in Los Angeles doing direct work on city business. A big chunk of that time involved meeting with special-interest or lobbying groups, while another chunk — 11 hours — went to participating as a voting board member at Metro transit meetings. This category also included policy work, three hours and 45 minutes in discussions with his chief of staff, three hours and 15 minutes signing legislative documents, two hours and 25 minutes spent on "call time/correspondence," and occasional meetings with city department heads.

Is now a good time to mention that last year the mayor admitted to having an affair with a news anchor WHO OFTEN REPORTED ON HIM?