Nuch playing by San Pedro Rules

LOS Angeles' back alley-brawling city attorney, Carmen "the Bully" Trutanich, does not believe in back stabbing.

[Celline]

Well Doug, I guess you have just proven why you are a "former" host at KABC. Your rant against the only un-behooved elected official in Los Angeles is a clear sign that you have lost sight of reality.
You admit that Jan Perry is the poster child for the arrest of corrupt politicians, yet you chose to believe her self-serving claim that she was indeed threatened by Trutanich. Why would you choose to believe her? Have you even stopped to think that Jan Perry might be lying about being threatened by Trutanich? I mean, if she's such a corrupt individual that you dream of her incarceration (and many do) why do you choose to believe she's capable of telling the truth?
OK, Trutanich has not said what it was that he told her. He says that it is protected by attorney-client privilege. That's a privilege that Jan Perry holds, and he cannot waive it unless Jan Perry agrees. So why is it that Jan Perry hasn't told Trutanich that he is free to tell the press precisely what he told her?
By the way, it is not a case of her word against his, there was at least one witness to the conversation.
So Doug, do something to prove that you're not simply a shill for Wendy Greuel, and face the fact that you've based your entire rant on Perry's statement. If you want to evaluate it fairly, ask Perry to waive her privilege and allow Trutanich to tell us what he told her. Guess what? I'll bet you a burrito it wasn't a threat. And there's a witness to back it up.
Ball's in your court, Doug.

[Bureaucratic Mess]

What I like about "Nutch": he apparently seems willing to take on corruption by city politicians, even their back-room deals with the labor unions representing the city employees they are charged with overseeing.

What I don't like about "Nutch": 1) he's adverse to financial openess in his office, 2) it's fine that he's willing to take on special interests who've socked it to LA taxpayers ... but that must be done on the right matters and without abusing political power.

I'm keeping my mind open because I still don't know much about this guy. Time will tell if he's for the people or for the same-old-same-old. Let's hope he does the right thing for the taxpaying citizens of this city.

[jan]

You don't call making promises he never intended to keep back-stabbing? Like what he did to Laura Chick to get her support, making "fancy speeches" that were not just words "but lies" he never intended to keep at all, as she said.

And just ask the medical cannabis patients and the pro-medical pot community: he got them to work for him big-time, raked in their dough when he all along planned to throw them under the bus. Promised them he'd be a lot more supportive of their position than Rocky was or jack Weiss would have been (in a flip on the Republican's position that struck critics who knew him as phony but people like you Doug, bought his "non- partisan" insistence), Got thousands of their votes and more bucks - these folks are nothing if not enthusiastic. Blogged in ecstacy about their new BBF on May 20 in blogs like aboutmedicalcannabis.com . If you want a more detailed look at :FALSEtanich," try waronme.blogspot.com , 10/13 to present.

[in eagle rock]

Well, Nuch had enough support to win the City Attorney election- and if Weiss would have won, we'd all be standing deep and not in money. Maybe the City Attorney's office would have functioned quietly if Weiss had won, with very little in the nature of City Hall conflict rising to public view. And why should there be anything other than what the CM did while holding that job for CD-5. Rubber-stamping and very little original views on solutions to much. Any different game plan as Jack Weiss, City Attorney, would have be an unexpected change in behavior, especially as Tony V's even more beholden friend.

The criticism as to not being on the air in L.A. really gives to much credit to speaking the "correct" view- more so than economics of the radio industry. Whether known or not, the L.A. radio industry has been on a cost cutting mission for years, and the downturn in the economy just heightened the tension for the masters. Many air personalities with solid credentials and years of experience are out of work. Check into that side before you believe that holding incorrect "views" (and who decides which are correct and which are not?) are the basis for anyone's presence "on-air."

Often times, as the end of a contract nears, companies decide it's a good time to make their moves and you have job-changes or eliminations.

Putting all that aside, I'd say that Doug has been on target more times than you'd care to accept, regardless of your political position. We really don't want to hear the negative side if we are in agreement with Doug because the bad news is so bad. If we disagree with Doug out of the gate, then it's Doug who must be wrong when we hear displeasing news and the facts are unneeded.

Being a lifelong resident of the city and being personally acquainted with some of the elected official before they became co-opted and corrupted, I do think simple observation supports the McIntyre summantion.

By the way in "crime rate" talk- Bratton today in city council again raised that point- but really, if it's the homicide rate, then "fatalities" can be the same or more than in the less populated L.A. of the 50's.

And 1990's compared to now was used by Bratton in relationship to homicides. Unsung advances in medical treatment and more prompt attention have kept many from becoming a "homicide statistic." "SHOOTINGS"- is there any tally on "shootings" in the city? That might be a better measure of the violent crime environment of the city, or of culture of violence.

I do believe that Nuch dropped the ball on the controller's audits and his campaign did include COOPERATION with the Controller's office- and it hasn't happened. The CM's have pounced on that to make the most of the court's ruling so as to benefit themselves in resisting future audits. All guilty there.

The city is in a mess and banning smoking in outdoor restaurants is one of the trademarks of City Council mis-prioritizatons that they choose to make and continue to let gangs, traffic, MMDs and densification expansion all linger with little solution sought. Nice job, CMs. Keep an eye on their choices and you will see pet projects overriding actual needs. Look further and you will see someone is getting pockets lined by the outcome of these pet projects. It's all there if you look.

[sandy]

I'll give Nuch points for thinking "out of the box" alright, eagle rock.

Who else would have thought of such a clever new use for the spanking shiny new jails (that we can't afford to staff with jailers)? Filling them up with Jan Perry and her colleagues and the top lawyer and exec for AEG, and toss Leiwike in there for good measure, along with the head of Building & Safety and the whole Planning Commission - with all of them jailed and then sued as our street thug-amok with power wants, they could maybe work out the city's problems right then and there, as our "guests."

And heck, since the Nooch's real goal is jailing the entire Council and Mayor and every Democrat, and head of every big company who's averse to being retroactively shaken down by him acting IN PLACE of the Controller and Mayor (who'd all be in jail anyway, for "contempt of Nuch" if nothing else) that shiny new jail would be well broken in soon.

Oh, and let's not forget all the medical marijuana patients like Ms. Schorr, who shamefully wouldn't just shut and sit down and go home and feed her kid lead and Raid when Nuch ordered her to at that Neighborhood Council congress a couple weeks ago, featured on that LACityWatch.com video going around faster than wildfire.(When the next woman said "so you're going to be hard-ass about it?" Nuch screamed at her: "I'm not hard-ass! I'm compassionate!" Right-O!

And of course all of the other patients and shop owners who ever made a dime, those Shylocks - good thing he started with former Mayoral Candidate Craig Rubin, a dangerous man! With his and Cooley's war on medical cannabis flying so harshly in the face of state and federal trends, and with those pesky people daring to call him a fraud for promising to support their cause, the ONLY way to shut them all up is to jail them. The army of private secret police he wants to hire won't be enough to keep them in line!

Of course, this still leaves the problem of who will act as jailers, since we can't afford to hire them - but wait, I've got an "out of the box" solution to that, too. How about using the angry as hornets rent-a-mob of old suburban folk who got behind his candidacy to show "that city hall scum" as they fondly refer to them, a thing or two? The way they're cheering "Go Nuch! Throw 'em all in jail! We need a bully!" they're meaner than any official jailers who'd have to watch their words and how they act. Just look what they did to Jack Weiss, and when they couldn't recall him they got behind Nuch and fed him all their lies and spin. With the help of some at the Times including those not so dearly departed, we now have a petty tyrant who could teach Hugo Chavez a thing or two!

[Factual Error Check]

Jan gave an incorrect blog name, must have meant aboutmedicalmarijuana.com . While I'm not a patient or customer and hope I never will be (none of us knows if we may get so sick we'll need it or have a seriously sick parent or someone else we care for), I find their arguments well-written and researched.

They emphasize that the law-abiding shops are as eager as anyone to weed out (pun intended) the "bad" shops and prune them down to a much smaller number that is consistent with the state court's and Attorney General's interpretation of the law. To shut them all down after promising compassion and a more sympathetic course of action than Rocky had or Weiss allegedly would has just made them even angrier, and unnecessary and inexpensive lawsuits are guaranteed. And like the Chick-Greuel case, smacks of a lack of ethics, of where the man's word means nothing, that is just unsuited for a top legal job like this.

His "real-word compassion" for at-risk, on-the-verge gangbangers that was part of his fancy talk quote in the Times' endorsement, also went straight out the window with that "hanging" injunction. On all the BIG issues, his words meant nothing and they were in fact like Chick said, "fancy speeches and soundbites he never meant to keep."

In the case of promising to go after "corruption," the vendetta part, what's turned out to be the Bullying and back-alley street fighter part (ladowntownnews.com has a funny Halloween-themed riff of him as a zombie roaming City Hall screaming "Arrest! Arrest! Did someone mention billboards!"), Doug may be right about him going right for the jugular loud and clear and straight to their faces. He did promise his most fervent city hall-hating fans to do just that.

It's kind of funny how Perry and the others apparently had inexplicably figured that they weren't going to be included in his sights, that he'd just go after "the others," or they just never listened to that core faction of his demographic during the campaign, just to his sanitized campaign slogans and ads - rightwing radio had the REAL Trutanich/ Cooley/ Berger/ Zine/ John Thomas in all their venomous and self-righteous demagogic glory. It was clear they meant EVERYONE, though I AM shocked at how literally. Anyone who doesn't bow to his will, as he intends to shore up his rightwing support base toward a future election as DA or, lord help us, Mayor. Now we've got a debilitating spectacle of someone in way over his head with a Kim Jong Il complex.

[just say no to corruption]

You people don't really want him to stomp out corruption because so many have made such an extremely lucrative life of it, and can't succeed honestly and hvave never contemplated having to play fair.

[Phil]

The day a city attorney can arrest an elected legislator for the subject matter of a legislative hearing is the day we surrender our democracy, flawed as it is. City attorney's do not have that power, and Jan Perry should have publicly waved the BS-flag.
Both McIntyre and Trutanich are like container ships without any cargo. Light and lots of empty space.