Carmen Trutanich Was the Front-Runner in the DA's Race — Until He Failed to Even Make the Runoff. What Went Wrong?

Trutanich is "devastated" and "a broken man" after finding out that 78% of Los Angeles County does not think he is fit for public office. Sure he's asking himself 'how could I have gone from hero to zero so fast?' Well maybe instead of blaming your campaign manager for many 'missteps' you should blame yourself for having a campaign at all. You made a pledge to voters and a promise to Steve Cooley and others. When you break your promise you pay the price, and in your case Trutanich, the price is your future in politics. You are over, finished, done and dusted, history. Do please run for a second term as City Attorney, you can talk yourself into another political grave trying to explain why you now should be trusted to do the the job you were willing to bail out on last week.

Can anyone say "disgruntled employee?" If you ever worked with Shallman you were probably fired. Get a life.

Sounds to me like sour grapes from someone who's either lost to, or been connected to, one of the numerous political hacks Shallman and Co. have defeated over the years. Don't forget, Trutanich and his cronies wouldn't even have jobs if it wasn't for Shallman's brilliant campaign defeating Jack Weiss in 2008.

When Trutanich screwed up the Occupy LA cases, he blamed LAPD for 'paperwork errors,' when Trutanich lied about non-existent police association endorsements, it was a mistake by a campaign volunteer. Now that Trutanich has screwed himself so badly that he won't be in the runoff for DA and likely cannot raise money for re-election, it's all Shallman's fault? No. Shallman is a professional who had a clown for a client. Nuch is an arrogant a*hole who does not listen to the advice he's given if he doesn't like it. Nuch planned every mis-step of his own campaign and now wants to play the blame game? Please, gimme a break. Nuch owns this defeat, and he can only blame himself and some of the shady people he hung out with. I am not surprised that Nuch was devastated, he never saw this coming. He was so convinced he could bully and brag his way into the DA's office that he never stopped to realize that all the decent people who helped him become city attorney had changed their mind about him. First his chief deputy quit the office around the same time that Steve Cooley 'cooled it' with Nuch. Then Cooley publicly humiliated Nuch by saying Nuch was 'unfit' for public office. All the while Nuch was listening to his loyal supporters who basically told him what they thought he wanted to hear. 'Oh Nuch, you are a hero to the people of Los Angeles, they love you!' the fat bald guy who looks like Uncle Fester was probably still telling Nuch that at his Victory Party while the results rolled in. There a a lot of people who are delighted that Nuch got his ass handed to him on a plate on Tuesday night. He's had it coming to him for a long time, it goes back a lot longer than just his short time as City Attorney. It is very, very satisfying to see the tables turned on Nuch and his little band of thugs who used to go around boasting and bragging that they could do whatever they wanted because they had the City Attorney on speed-dial. Like Uncle Fester having free parking at City Hall whenever he wanted it. Or being able to wander into and out of the 8th floor executive suite like he owned the place and telling Dan Raskov who to call about fundraising. Nuch didn't think there was anything wrong with having a city employee working on his campaign on the tax payer's dime, any more than he thought it was wrong to let Uncle Fester wander around the office. He lost sight of what it takes to be a public servant, and his greed, arrogance and ego got the better of him. Now it's over for Nuch, a slow and painful departure from public life, probably under the excuse of some health issue, or just wanting to spend more time with the family. The usual crap. Good bye Nuch. See you on the waterfront.

Political hack David Jacobson also worked on Trutanich's campaign. He and Shalman are tweedle dee and tweedle dumber. I know he caused Trutanich a lot of heartburn with all his mis-steps. A steady flow of dumb mistakes. Richard has nailed it. These guys will destroy Gil Cedillo, Greuel and Mike Feuer.

I've worked with Shallman. He sucks! Anyone who's dumb enough to work with this guy, deserves what they get.