FOR THE RECORD: Matt Dowd showed Zuma Dogg "The Martin Declaration" memo a few months ago. Last week, Zuma Dogg BLEW A GASKET, when he heard the City of L.A. was MOVING FORWARD with a NEW Venice Beach Boardwalk draft ordinance (42.15) -- BEFORE settling damages on PREVIOUS 42.15 with ONLY PLAINTIFF IN THE U.S. WITH CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES ON THE PREVIOUS VERSION...Aka: ZUMA DOGG, Aka: THE GUY YOU LOST THIS ENTIRE PAST FIVE YEAR FIGHT TO IN FEDERAL COURT, WITH MORE FEDERAL ASS-WHOOPING TO COME!
So, after the BLOWN GASKET, I had ENOUGH waiting around for Trutanich to settle the DOWD/DOGG lawsuit, so I pulled the plug on that pompous, hostile, too vindictive and defensive for HIS D.A. CAMPAIGN, OR THE CITY'S OWN GOOD! So when I heard council was talking of clippin' his nutz, ZD WAS THERE TO ASSIST WITH THE PROPER WEAPON TO HAND OVER TO COUNCIL. Thanks to Joe Friday at http://LosAngelesDragnet.Blogspot.com for the teamwork, along with Mayor Sam's Michael Higby. THAT RADIO SHOW ON SATURDAY THAT I KEPT BLASTING OVER AND OVER...DID NUCH IN, Y'ALL...and he KNOWS it...which is why a lot of folks think he was Anon-Blogging on Mayor Sam, yesterday. AND NOW, THIS, TODAY!
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Rumors Grow That Trutanich Will Quit District Attorney Bid
The basis for the rumors appears to be recent action by the Los Angeles City Council to "neuter" Trutanich's office by stripping him of control over the handling of legislation and liability defense. Councilmember Jan Perry led the Council in a unanimous vote to study ways that other municipalities obtain quality legal representation when their own City Attorney fails to deliver. The 13-0 unanimous vote was seen by many as a vote of no confidence in Trutanich's ability to run the second largest governmental law office in the County of Los Angeles, and an even bigger condemnation of his suitability for District Attorney.
If the Council's vote of no confidence wasn't bad enough, hot on the heels of their slap in the face to the once popular San Pedro criminal defense attorney turned politician, came the shocking revelations of the Martin Declaration, a legal document filed by a deputy city attorney in which it was admitted that the City Attorney's Office was "unprepared" to handle representation of the City's affairs. Staffing cuts and a lack of resources attributable to Trutanich's management were apparently to blame.
The embarrassing admissions in the Martin Declaration were said to be caused by the diversion of legal resources from the core mission of the City Attorney's Office, to pet projects which apparently lack for nothing. The implication was clear; if the matter is not important to the boss, it gets no attention. It's an implication that will resonate well with the City Council in their bid to curtail the City Attorney from injecting himself into policy making instead of legal representation.
Now at the mid-point of his his failing first term as City Attorney, and clearly weakened by the double whammies of last week, many believe that the withdrawal from the District Attorney race comes too late to salvage a political career that started with so much promise, but evaporated into falsehoods, grandstanding and perhaps an ego that is too big even for Los Angeles.
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