Carmen Trutanich

Eric Garcetti Up 7 Points In New Mayoral Poll; Mike Feuer Has Commanding Advantage In City Attorney Race

Eric Garcetti has a 7-point lead over Wendy Greuel in the race for L.A. mayor with just four days to go before the runoff election, according to a new USC/L.A. Times poll out this evening. The results:Garcetti 48Greuel 41The margin of error is 4.4%, and 11% remain undecided.The poll also gives Mike ... More >>

Bad Blood Lingers Despite Settlement Between Carmen Trutanich and Former Campaign Consultant

L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich has settled his bitter legal battle with John Shallman, the campaign consultant who ran his failed bid for district attorney.The dispute got so bad that at one point, Shallman called Trutanich "the Kim Jong-Il of L.A. politics." He claimed the city attor ... More >>

Street Artist Bubblehead Says L.A. Mayoral Election Matters, Makes Art to Inspire Voting

About one in five of you typically votes in a city election like the one coming May 21. It's kind of not a big deal, at least to y'all. One street artist, Bubblehead, is hoping to change your minds about that with a series of pieces put up around town this month:

Mike Feuer And Carmen Trutanich Back New Local Gun Restrictions In City Attorney Race

California already has some of the nation's most stringent gun laws. But in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting, L.A. officials are pushing for new restrictions at the local level. The issue has become particularly potent in the campaign for L.A. city attorney. Today, incumbent Carm ... More >>

Memo Fallout: John Shallman Calls Carmen Trutanich "The Kim Jong-Il of L.A. Politics"

Grab some popcorn, because Carmen Trutanich and John Shallman are fighting again. Shallman, you'll recall, is the political consultant who steered Trutanich's D.A. campaign onto the rocks. Trutanich is the city attorney now suing Shallman to avoid paying $165,000 in bills leftover from that campaign ... More >>

Carmen Trutanich Blames Opponent Mike Feuer For Failure of L.A.'s Medical Marijuana Ban

City Attorney Carmen Trutanich has been pushing for a "gentle ban" on marijuana dispensaries all year. So when the L.A. City Council backed down under threat of a referendum and repealed the ban earlier this week, it came as a pretty staggering defeat.Trutanich has had a few days to think about it, ... More >>

Laura Chick And Carmen Trutanich Reignite Three-Year-Old Controversy Over Controller's Audit Powers

For some reason, Laura Chick and Carmen Trutanich decided to get into a big fight today over an issue that was settled three years ago.Chick, the former city controller, has hated Trutanich ever since he reneged on a pledge to drop a lawsuit against her office in 2009. Today, she penned an "Open Let ... More >>

Campaign Manager Behind Marijuana Referendum Goes To Work For Pot Shops' Top Foe: City Attorney Carmen Trutanich

When L.A.'s marijuana dispensaries launched a campaign recently to repeal the city's "gentle ban" on pot shops, they hired the best political consultant they could find: Rick Taylor.Taylor, who has also been a lobbyist for dispensaries, took the lead in managing the referendum effort, which has alre ... More >>

Los Angeles' War on Street Artists

The art world sees a vibrant movement. Metro's cops see jail fodder.

Marijuana Dispensary Bans Overturned by California Court, Pot-Access Activists Say

Can local governments in California ban marijuana dispensaries, as the city of Los Angeles seems poised to do soon? California's 2nd District Court of Appeal appeared to have said no in what medical access proponents are interpreting as a "landmark decision" this week. In County of Los Angeles v. ... More >>

L.A. Fire Response Times: Mayor Rips Into City Attorney, Demands Release of Public Info

Never have we seen two L.A. city departments stage a fight so brazenly hostile in the public square. In a new seven-page letter from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's office to City Attorney Carmen Trutanich's office (embedded below), mayoral counsel Brian Currey claims the latter is holding the public ... More >>

Black Radio Went From Hero to Zero Under New Arbitron Ratings

A new Arbitron ratings system that put Spanish-language and African American radio stations in the dumps will be changed according to settlement with the state of California and the cities of L.A. and San Francisco. The likes of California Attorney General Kamala Harris and L.A. City Attorney Carme ... More >>

Pot Wars

Teflon Sheriff Lee Baca Broke Law When He Appeared in Uniform to Endorse Carmen Trutanich for D.A.

We call Lee Baca the Teflon Sheriff because, after years of allegations of inmate abuse at the hands of his deputies, you keep electing him. Nothing seems to stick. To be fair Baca is a high-level leader, and you can't always blame every deputy's action on the boss. (And Baca's never been much of a ... More >>

Porn Condom Battle Erupts in City Hall as Councilman Rosendahl Attempts to Block City Attorney From Stopping Voters From Deciding

FotoPhrogCity Hall is fighting for you.​When you mix porn, City Hall, and a City Council and City Attorney's office that don't seem to like each other, let alone work together, you have the makings of a juicy story. This week L.A. City Council members Bill Rosendahl and Paul Koretz filed a mo ... More >>

Carmen Trutanich's War on Art Murals

Can a bumbling L.A. City Council revive the local street art form?

Marijuana Dispensaries Can be Snuffed Out by Cities Like L.A. Under New California Law

​Updated at the bottom with L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich's pleased reaction. First posted at 8:01 a.m. The city of L.A. has had a hard time regulating pot shops which, some have said, outnumber Starbucks in this fair town. The City Council passed a slate of rules that basically outlaw ... More >>

How Lobbyist John Ek Gets His Way at City Hall

Trutanich Eyes DA's Post

District attorney slams L.A. city attorney for political job-shopping

Trutanich Eyes District Attorney's Post

The L.A. city attorney surprises DA Cooley with possible candidacy

Los Angeles Could Tax Medical Marijuana If Voters Approve In March

L.A. wants to tax you, bud.​Do you want your pot taxed? That's a question you'll be asked on the March ballot, thanks to an L.A. City Council vote Wednesday. The body is trying to raise money in an era of red ink, and taxing weed could bring an extra $3 to $5 million a year to City Hall. The ... More >>

City Attorney Drops Investigation Of Staples Center After It Kicks In Cash For Michael Jackson's Memorial

​Following Anschutz Entertainment Group's announcement that it would give $1 million to the city (and $300 to the L.A. Police Foundation) to defray the city's costs related to last year's Michael Jackson memorial show at its Staples Center venue, the Los Angeles City Attorney's office stated t ... More >>

Can The City Of L.A. Really Sue Arizona?

Walter Moore.​Lawyer and onetime Los Angeles mayoral candidate Walter Moore sent a letter to City Attorney Carmen Trutanich arguing that the city can't legally seek to block Arizona's immigration law, even as the City Council directed Trutanich's office to draw up an amicus brief that would ha ... More >>

'They Sell Marijuana Out Of A Van'

Lakeview Collective​It certainly sounded like a good idea: While many doctor-pot-shop relationships are of a longer distance than customers would like (get a doctor's note here, get your weed there), a couple in Riverside County came up with a solution. Partnering up with a doctor's referral b ... More >>

Judge Orders L.A. Pot Shop To Shut Down

A flier for an event at Organica.​A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered the embattled Organica medical marijuana dispensary in the city's Del Rey neighborhood to stop selling pot.

The Mad Men of Los Angeles

Living the good life, thanks to the big profits from illegal outdoor advertising

UPDATE: Sending Trutanich to His Corner

In layoff roulette, mayor aims at city attorney but City Council won't pull trigger

Court: City Controller Can't Audit Elected Officials

Rocky, victorious.​A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Tuesday ruled that the City Controller cannot audit elected officials, including the City Attorney, whose office had sued the controller over the matter. The ruling was a victory of sorts for City Attorney Carmen Trutanich, even though ... More >>

Trutanich Probes Pot Backer Duncan

Having done little homework, the City Council prepares to approve a medical pot law

City Council Might Have Pot Law Ready For Vote

​The Los Angeles City Council today came up with an ordinance that might just please its desire to continue to allow cash sales of medical marijuana while creating a legal loophole to appease legal eagles who believe cash-for-pot is not allowed under state law. The proposed rule, which could ... More >>

Pro-Pot Group Says L.A. City Council In Its Pocket

Pro-medical-marijuana group Americans For Safe Access this week claimed victory in its campaign to get the Los Angeles City Council to see things its way when it comes to regulating L.A.'s 800 or so registered pot shops.​After campaigning on-air at KPCC (89.3 FM), ASA claims it has beaten back the ... More >>

Cat Declawing: Los Angeles City Council Tackles Monumental Issue, Sets Tone For Rest Of Century

You gotta give it to the Los Angeles City Council. It's a real go-getter of a group, ever progressive in its drive to make the city a better place.It has deliberated and debated for more than a year on regulating the 800 or so pot dispensaries in town for our own good -- to make sure that these reta ... More >>

Surprise, Surprise: City Council, All Stoner-Like, Postpones Pot Vote

If you're concerned about cats, the Los Angeles City Council is a fast-acting, legislation machine. But if you're worried about those unregulated pot shops that outnumber Starbucks in some neighborhoods, you're going to have to wait. Again.​ The council today postponed its hearing on an ordin ... More >>

Council Weighs Law That Would Ban Most Pot Dispensaries

City Council committees this week will look at a proposal written by City Attorney Carmen Trutanich that would essentially ban most of the 800 or so medical marijuana dispensaries currently registered with the city.​ The proposal would limit the number of dispensaries by district, prohibit th ... More >>

Council Committees Shake Down Potency Of Proposed Pot Ban

The political will just isn't there on the part of the City Council to deal with the out-of-control pot dispensary business in Los Angeles. That much was clear today when a joint committee meeting passed along the city attorney's proposed near-ban of medical marijuana businesses like an unwanted joi ... More >>

Supergraphics Be Banned: City Attorney Scores Another One Against Billboard Blight

If you're frustrated by the city's inability to control those Times Square/Vegas Strip-like digital billboards and towering, slab-sided "supergraphic" ads, there's a crusader on your side, and he actually works for us -- unlike those other city politicians who seem to work for developers, media comp ... More >>

L.A. Medical-Pot Shops Peddle to LAUSD Pupils

As kids flood weed outlets, Ramon Cortines admits there's no plan

Writing the Trains: Graffiti on Freight Cars

Poor, Ultrarich Tim Leiweke

L.A. City Hall genuflects to AEG. Somebody forgot to tell Carmen Trutanich

Trutanich Pushes New Pot Shop Ordinance for L.A.

On Monday, local medical marijuana advocates were buzzing about President Barack Obama's new, federal rules for not busting legitimate medical pot dispensaries and an L.A. Superior Court judge's decision to invalidate the Los Angeles City Council's moratorium on pot shops in this city, which never s ... More >>

District Attorney Plans Crackdown on Pot Dispensaries

Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley told a small crowd of print and television reporters on Thursday that he would prosecute medical marijuana dispensaries for over-the-counter sales. "The over-the-counter sales of marijuana for money is illegal," said Cooley who, along with City Atto ... More >>

Is L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich Screwing Over a Little Guy?

Ever since his arrival as the new Los Angeles City Attorney this summer, Carmen Trutanich has loved to come across as a man of the people.L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich​Trutanich has sparred with the L.A. City Council to the delight of many community activists; he has also personally held a t ... More >>

Trutanich's Emergency Billboard Ban Approved by Los Angeles City Council

In his first big move to address a campaign promise, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich today sent one of his top attorneys to persuade the Los Angeles City Council to enact a flat-out, no exceptions ban on new billboards in Los Angeles, the capital of the illegal billboard industry.In an emergency acti ... More >>

$4 Million Jackson Memorial Cost to Taxpayers?

By Tibby Rothman City Hall is begging Jackson fans for alms, but upset L.A. residents face paying a king's ransom for the memorial to the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. During the hours leading up to today's globally viewed memorial, the Los Angeles Police Department and other city offices were str ... More >>

City Attorney Carmen Trutanich in the House

Rocky Delgadillo departs on an acid note, and a black SUV visits "Nuch"

L.A. City Attorney Race: One Cooley Customer

The white-hot battle between Trutanich and Weiss

Weiss & Trutanich Spar Again . . . and Again

Is it just me or is it getting hotter in here with the City Attorney's race on fire? Wednesday evening, candidates Jack Weiss and Carmen "Nuch" Trutanich squared off once more in candidate-forum mode, at the Westside Jewish Community Center. According to the L.A. Times, the Earth Day event, sponsore ... More >>

Early election results: Los Angeles March 3, 2009 primary

Nobody is ever sure how closely absentee voters match the views of the voters who actually trek into the polls, but here is the first wave of election returns released by the City of Los Angeles elections division about 45 minutes after the polls closed tonight.In the four hottest races, top percent ... More >>

A Shark Tank of Lawyers Takes on Jack Weiss for L.A. City Attorney

Five sharp lawyers try to upset the Westside politician’s bid for the office

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