Antonio in an Obama Administration?

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's name has already popped up in the Barack Obama camp's discussions transforming his primary organization into a political machine for the general election.

Villaraigosa has been mentioned in talks about sending organizers and surrogates into important possible swing states like Texas, Colorado and Michigan -- states with large blocs of Latino voters, which were one of Obama's noticeable weaknesses in the primaries.

Antonio was one of Hillary Clinton's national co-chairs and campaigned for her extensively among Latino voters. He endeared himself to the Obama campaign last week when on the day after the final June 3 primaries, he endorsed his Illinois senator and acknowledged he was the presumptive Democratic nominee while Clinton held out for three more days.

Villaraigosa figures to be potentially be one of Obama's important campaign surrogates among Latinos along with former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros.