L.A. TIMES WAKES UP!!!

The third estate has figured out Steve Cooley and his perjuring side-kick, Jacquelyn Lacey might be as sleazy as every other downtown politician. Today, the LA. Times reported that the D.A.'s office may have over-looked presenting some exculpatory evidence to the Grand Jury in the Richard Alarcon case. It appears when Cooley and his stooges are hell-bent on carrying out a political hit-job, they probably figure, why let the facts get in the way? Unfortunately, Judge Kathleen Kennedy saw it differently.

Our good friend, Betty Pleasant, who writes for The Wave newspapers, has picked up that Jacquelyn Lacey, the Chief Deputy D.A. under Cooley may be under investigation for conducting campaign like activities at the office.

Betty is eating the The Times lunch, covering an important story that the Old Hag on Spring Street refuses to touch.

Basically, Betty reported, "Sources inside the D.A.’s office have said that Sharon Matsumoto, the assistant D.A. in charge of administration, was conducting an investigation into the complaint that Chief Deputy D.A. Jacquelyn Lacey, who is running for election to succeed Cooley, had violated some rules, memoranda and directives regarding campaigning for office on “company time and space."

Betty is the first one to draw a connection by the distractions in the D.A's office, and the appearance of many long festering issues with teachers in the LA Unified School District.

We know readership and circulation are dwindling, and so major media doesn't have the resources it once had, but there are many important stories that require the attention of the third estate. Rather than write fluff pieces on Mayor V and the demographics of the Motion Picture Academy, maybe the big boys at the Times can look into some of the antics at Los Angeles District Attorney's office, which will have an open seat this year.