Rudy Martinez

Mike Gatto's Blogger Problem

The Assembly District 43 incumbent faces opponent Greg Krikorian, but a worse opponent is Mayor Sam

Highland Park Kitchen Opens on York Blvd. What's Happening in Highland Park

Highland Park Kitchen on York Blvd. had been open for only about ten days in early March before a front page L.A. Times article declared Highland Park a soon-to-be "outpost of hipster cool" with York Blvd. its "ground zero." In recent years, the northeast L.A. neighborhood has seen an influx of hip, ... More >>

L.A. City Redistricting Land Grab: Appointed Commissioners Try to Gerrymander Westside, Downtown

Updated at the bottom with a map of the land grab. This just got ugly. Every 10 years, Los Angeles is required to readjust its 15 City Council districts to accomodate for population shifts. But as with most decisions made at City Hall, the 2012 redistricting effort has turned from what should be a ... More >>

L.A. City Councilmember Jose Huizar Has Missed Half His Meetings This Summer

No one plays hooky like Jose Huizar.​Leave it to Ron Kaye, former editor of the LA Daily News (til' he got too crazy -- read: too Valley -- for that shit), to comb through the L.A. City Council's abysmal attendance records for the last couple months, callin' out councilmembers on their devil-m ... More >>

Campaign Consultants Stank up L.A. on March 8

City Council candidate Rudy Martinez should have listened to his mom

Jose Huizar Destroys Rudy Martinez in L.A. City Council District 14 Election: Here's What Went Wrong for the Challenger

Jose Huizar had nothing to worry about​Update: The final count, Huizar over Martinez, is 64.22 percent to 35.78 percent. 14,429 people voted in the race. Originally posted at 12:20 a.m. Eighty-three percent of votes have been counted in the City Council District 14 election, and the people's ... More >>

Jose Huizar vs. Rudy Martinez: LA Weekly Exit Poll in Eagle Rock Shows Problems for Martinez

District 14 challenger Rudy Martinez​Update: Early election results reveal Martinez' problems may be even bigger than we thought. As of 9:08 p.m., Huizar holds over 60 percent of the vote, though only 15 percent has been reported (and that's mostly older absentees). Reporting by David Futch a ... More >>

L.A. Clean Sweep Nets Big Endorsements, Drops Big Dime in Last Seconds of Election Season

Full disclosure: We have a huge crush on Ron Kaye.​L.A. Clean Sweep may have started small and controversial, but after a rowdy few months of almost mainstream redevelopment scandal and municipal mud-slinging, the out-with-the-old "political action committee" has seen a few of its candidates b ... More >>

Blogger Field Day in Huizar vs. Martinez

The fur-flying Council District 14 race is influenced by citizen journos

LA Daily News, Los Angeles Times Endorse Non-Incumbents in District 4 City Council Race

Neon TommyCity Council challengers Stephen Box (left) and Tomas O'Grady (right) at a debate​We can't remember the last time both big L.A. dailies endorsed a non-incumbent with relatively light campaign funding in one of the City Council races -- and, even more unusually, the District 4 endorse ... More >>

West Hollywood Revolt

Incumbents Huizar And Parks Hold Fundraising Advantage In L.A. Council Races

​The incumbents have the edge in fundraising in the two most hotly contested L.A. City Council races, according to finance reports filed this evening with the Ethics Commission.On the Eastside, Councilman Jose Huizar has $123,000 in the bank as his re-election campaign gets down to the final 12 da ... More >>

Martinez-Huizar Numbers Game

Council District 14's real war is unfoldingon secret maps

The Bikeroots

City Council candidate Stephen Box and L.A. bicyclists roll into the halls of power

Michael Trujillo, Consultant to L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar, Axed Over Email Calling Challenger Rudy Martinez a 'Dead Rat'

Jose Huizar.​Update: Martinez's campaign says he has filed a police report and that the LAPD is investigating the threatening language in Trujillo's email. In the contentious battle for the city's Eastside council seat, things took a turn for the strange over the weekend as a campaign consult ... More >>

Michael Trujillo's "bullet in forehead" email: Squirm-inducing antics by Jose Huizar aide take Los Angeles politics to new low

Michael Trujillo, right, at 2008 DNC, before his foot got wedged in his mouth.​Michael Trujillo's creepy, self-obsessed email to 28 insiders in the Jose Huizar campaign, in which he strutted and proclaimed like Captain Queeg: "We are about to put a political bullet in between Rudy Martinez's f ... More >>

L.A. City Council Bums

Entrenched and ridiculed, they line up for a March 8 "coronation"

MTA Hid Report on Councilman Bernard Parks' Illegal Contributions

Huizar vs. Martinez: L.A. D.A. Investigating Rudy Martinez's Eastside Campaign Contributions

City MavenRudy Martinez (left) and Jose Huizar together in friendlier times.​Updated after the jump with reaction from Martinez's campaign regarding his statements that the FBI questioned him about Huizar's business dealings. The fight over Jose Huizar's Eastside L.A. City Council seat is get ... More >>

Rudy Martinez Vs Jose Huizar: Did Huizar, the L.A. City Council District 14 Incumbent, Sic a Building Inspector on Rival Rudy?

By David Futch Rudy Martinez's worst nightmare​The feud that could see an outsider (Rudy Martinez) unseat a Los Angeles City Council incumbent for the first time in 24 years all got started over ... an over-sized patio? That's what it looks like in the Martinez Vs. Jose Huizar race for Counc ... More >>

Nick Pacheco Employee Carlos Lira Says Fellow Workers Pressed to Contribute (Illegally) to Rudy Martinez's L.A. City Council Campaign

Rudy Martinez.​Updated after the jump: Nick Pacheco responds, says his firm did not reimburse employees and that the accuser has a history of retaliating against employers. A man who worked for Rudy Martinez supporter Nick Pacheco says the former city councilman's company had employees write ... More >>

Jose Huizar Unfriends Rudy Martinez

Every voter counts as ex-pals fight for 10,000 elusive Eastsiders

One 'Gate' Too Many: L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar Devoured Alive by Opponent Rudy Martinez, LA Times, Gleeful Citywatchers

Jose y Rudy, muy amigos​Updated after the jump: Huizar's gossip-girly "power analysis" lists in full! We'd call this a lynching -- if it weren't so based in fact. Over the last few weeks, the L.A. media hounds have gotten their paws on a series of embarrassing documents tied to L.A. City Coun ... More >>

Community Voice Newspaper on Eastside Slams Jose Huizar On Missing $1.5 Million Pollution Fund

Even Homer can't find the $1.5 million CLARTS fund snatched by Huizar​LA Weekly posted an item headlined "Jose Huizar, Los Angeles City Councilman, Pressed To Explain $1.5 Million Missing from Eastside Pollution Control Fund," detailing how Huizar convinced his ill-informed City Council pals ... More >>

Jose Huizar, Los Angeles City Councilman, pressed to explain $1.5 million missing from Eastside pollution control fund

L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar pats a back other than his own.​Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar might be the first incumbent ousted by an outsider (Rudy Martinez, profiled here) since the 1980s if he isn't careful. The MayorSam watchdog blog is following La Opinion in exposing that H ... More >>

Reform At Corrupt L.A. Department Of Water And Power Takes Another Step Backward, With Help Of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

PHOTO BY TED SOQUIThe mayor is in Chicago today -- a fitting host for his Chicago politics​Updated after the jump: Will there be enough council strength to override the mayor's veto next Wednesday? Originally posted on Dec. 8 at 12:30 p.m. Given the amount of time and talk devoted to the Los ... More >>

L.A.'s Light-Rail Fiasco

Reader Letters

Eastside L.A. City Council Candidate Rudy Martinez Had An LAPD Badge, But He Was Never A Police Officer

Rudy Martinez had a badge, but he was never a cop.​Rudy Martinez has come into the race for a powerful L.A. City Council seat like a breath of fresh air. Not only is he an outsider in a decidedly insider game, but he's a reality TV star (Flip This House) who's got his own money to put into the ... More >>

L.A. City Council Candidate Stephen Box Goes Where No Councilmember (Especially Opponent Tom LaBonge) Has Gone Before: The Internet

L.A. City Council candidate and "avid cyclist" Stephen Box​Reality-TV star Rudy Martinez isn't the only non-incumbent with a pointed plan of attack for crashing the insular tea party at L.A. City Hall next year. It seems watchdog Paul Hatfield [via the Village to Village blog] has picked a n ... More >>

Rudy Martinez Versus Los Angeles City Hall

Flip This House reality TV star hopes to push out Councilman Jose Huizar

L.A. City Council Candidate Rudy Martinez Fought Smoking Bans In California

Mayor SamRudy Martinez, servin' up charitable turkey and wishin' on a smoke break​Updated after the jump: A reformed Martinez says he supports last month's stringent smoking ban. Originally posted Nov. 30 at 5:42 p.m. Yet another item on which reality-TV star and District 14 hopeful Rudy Mart ... More >>

Rudy Martinez, Reality-TV Star Up For City Council, Bashes Incumbent Jose Huizar For His Watered-Down DWP Vote

A&ERudy Martinez at his day job​Exclusive: Fiery response from Camp Huizar after the jump! Originally posted at 11:30 a.m. To be an L.A. City Councilmember last Tuesday, voting on the creation of an Office of Public Accountability for the Department of Water and Power, was a lose-lose situati ... More >>

L.A. City Council Election 2011: Remaining Stragglers Turn In Candidacy Paperwork

LA Talk RadioFrank Sheftel, the guy who once carved chocolate statues in the likeness of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley for their '90s wedding, now thinks he can run City District 4​The last of the L.A. City Council candidates have filed for the March 2011 municipal election. There are ... More >>

Rudy Martinez, Star Of "Flip This House," Drops $150,000 On Surprise Los Angeles City Council Campaign

A&ERudy Martinez on reality show "Flip This House"​Updated after the jump: Competitor Jose Huizar one-ups Martinez. Originally posted at 1:52 p.m. Finally -- an L.A. City Council candidate who can rack up airline miles on his own credit card, instead of mooching off the public fund. With a $ ... More >>