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.

L.A. TIMES OVERLOOKS COOLEY AND LACEY SLEAZE



L.A. Times reporter

L.A. Times hack columnist Steve Lopez states the obvious in his Sunday column today, Los Angeles politics are almost as sleazy as Chicago politics. Well STOP THE PRESSES! Who woke old man Lopez from his 20 year nap?
What Lopez conveniently left out of his column is how L.A.'s chief Prosecutor Steve Cooley and his equally confused Chief Deputy Jacquelyn Lacey are responsible for more sleaze and corrupt practices than most of the lightweights mentioned by Lopez.

None of the pols mentioned by Lopez have committed perjury in a Federal Court case as Lacey did. None of the elected officials mentioned in the column have cost L.A. Taxpayers in excess of $5 million dollars (and counting), for their inappropriate conduct, as both Cooley and Lacey have.

Lopez also failed to mention that the L.A. Times has been complicit in a lot of the questionable and corrupt practices that have taken place in L.A. For instance, when L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich screamed from the top of a mountain that the L.A. City Council complicitly approved the expenditure of millions of tax payer dollars in support of major political benefactor AEG, the L.A. Times jumped all over Trutanich and called him a bully.  The Times said nothing about Councilwoman Jan Perry and Mayor Villariagosa handing out taxpayer dollars to one of their major political benefactors, in support of a private for-profit event.

The L.A. Times has said nadda about the relationship between Steve Cooley and former D.A. Robert Philobosian, whose major clients in the city of Cudahy have committed questionable acts similar to those by the former elected officials in the City of Bell.

We know the L.A.Times can dish out heaps of criticism. The question is, can they take it?  I'm told, forget it Jake, it's Chinatown.

TRUTANICH OPENS CAMPAIGN FOR D.A.

One of the worst kept secrets in L.A. is that Los Angeles City Attorney CARMEN TRUTANICH is running for District Attorney.  Today, he made it official.

Immediately, the sputtering campaign of Deputy District Attorney Alan Jackson put out their own press release claiming Trutanich made a pledge to serve two terms.  What made the Jackson press release seem all the more bizarre was it was put out by Jackson's mouthpiece, John Thomas, who was slamming an original press release put out by none other than, JOHN THOMAS, when he worked on Trutanich's campaign.  In other words, John Thomas was criticizing his own press release.

And we thought we'd seen everything. 

It makes perfect sense that Jackson would try to attack Trutanich because an analysis of fund raising reports filed with the County reveal that Trutanich has over 5X more cash on hand than Alan Jackson.  In fact Trutanich has more cash on hand than the other six candidates in the race put together. If money talks, then these other candidates have received an early indication that the voting public is probably not too interested in their candidacy's.

Hopefully, Trutanich will demonstrate that he's worthy of the tremendous support he's received thus far.

BREAKING!!!! L.A. TIMES JACK LEONARD DECLARES L.A. DRAGNET (DAVID BERGER) IS "NOT A RELIABLE SOURCE."

Would you buy a used car from this man?

L.A. TIMES reporter and Steve Cooley crony, JACK LEONARD is on record stating emphatically that "L.A. Dragnet",  the downtown blog written by Deputy District Attorney David Berger, (a Steve Cooley  butt boy), "is not a reliable source."

Leonard made the remarks in response to an inquiry by the campaign of Deputy District Attorney Mario Trujillo ,who had advised Leonard that Alan Jackson had touted the endorsement of former California Governor, Pete Wilson.  When Leonard asked for the source of such endorsement, the Trujillo campaign pointed to the David Berger blog, which is published under the facade of "Los Angeles Dragnet." Leonard stated emphatically and on the record, "Everyone in the newsroom knows that blog is not a reliable source. Too many journalists have been burned by that huckster"  In fact, it is well-known that the Berger blog is really nothing more than an arm of the Steve Cooley/Jaquelyn Lacey political smear machine, written with the standards of your average British tabloid.

As one longtime Los Angeles political insider observed, "Instead of Page Six girls, this blog has false and sensational stories about Nuch Trutanich and Alan Jackson. It's a running joke how transparent and one note the whole thing is."

It hasn't seemed to slow Trutanich down. Last week it was reported that Trutanich received over one million dollars in donations to his exploratory District Attorney campaign, without formally declaring his candidacy. Alan Jackson and Jaquelyn Lacey have received a disappointing small fraction of that, after campaigning for over a year, with Steve Cooley's support. 

The community seems to be speaking loud and clear.  They're tired of Cooley, Lacey, Jackson, and their brand of management, and seem to want Trutanich. Our friends at City Watch have conducted a poll asking whether Carmen Trutanich should run for District Attorney. The results thus far have over Seventy three hundred respondents with as of this posting 75% answering "Yes, Trutanich would make an excellent DA."

A veteran reporter at another media outlet, who is known for having a keen eye when it comes to the Los Angeles political scene, commented, "Cooley and Lacey seem to be serving out their final months bathed in a fountain of sleaze. Using one of their Deputy District Attorney's to blog political smear attacks, jumps the shark. "

After Rick Orlov and several other journalists were burned by Berger and his phony blog, Jack Leonard, and several other local journalists have confirmed that Berger is as credible as a Used Car salesman. It's not surprising since over the past couple years, the downtown L.A Justice community regards Berger as if he has leprosy. Now it's apparant the L.A. Jounalism community wants nothing to do with him either.

WILL MARIO TRUJILLO BECOME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY DISTRICT ATTORNEY???



We don't need no stinkin' Cooley.

 Community leaders all around Los Angeles are celebrating the fact that Deputy District Attorney Mario Trujillo could become the first openly gay District Attorney of Los Angeles County. Trujillo, who has two children from a former marriage decided to switch teams ten years after exchanging vows with his beautiful bride in order to pursue his openly homosexual lifestyle.

What makes Mr. Trujillo so unique is that a conerstone of his platform includes a pledge to promote more gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders into high ranking positions in the District Attorney's office. He has agressively sought and received the endorsement of many LGBT organizations, despite the advice of some of his former high paid consultants not to highlight this controversial issue.

As one member of his campaign told Dragnet L.A., "Look, he's here, he's queer, get used to it." Trujillo has told several audiences in recent months, "If I'm elected, I will open the doors to transgenders of all nationalities. They will serve in my administration, open and proud." Quite a bold statement for someone seeking the job of top prosecutor in a County the size of L.A.

The question buzzing through L.A. political circles is whether he can actually mount a serious campaign with a war chest close to $300,000. Time will tell.

DEPUTY D.A. ALAN JACKSON CAUGHT LYING ABOUT PETE WILSON ENDORSEMENT

One of these will work.

BREAKING NEWS!!!!

District Attorney candidate Alan "Jacko" Jackson has been caught lying about receiving the endorsement of former California Governor Pete Wilson.  The Dragnet can report to you that this was all a bald face hoax!!!

The alleged endorsement was first broken on Deputy D.A. David Berger's blog, Los Angeles Dragnet on December 12, 2011.  Since then, there has been no formal announcement from Wilson, and no formal press release has been posted on the Jackson campaign website. Obviously, an endorsement from someone as prominent as Pete Wilson would've been posted as soon as it happened, and certainly through a more respectable outlet than David Berger's blog, which has been shown time and again to post false information. But in one month, nothing. No quote from Pete and no official announcement from the campaign.

Word inside the District Attorney's office is that as soon as Steve Cooley heard about the potential endorsement, he put a stop to it. He told Pete Wilson, under no uncertain terms, "Alan Jackson is a loser and you will just be endorsing another loser. Keep your powder dry."

Knowing this story was going to break, the Jackson campaign has been in damage mode all day long, hoping to lessen the impact. When Jackson campaign manager John Thomas was reached on the phone, and confronted with this information, he slammed down the phone. Sources have said the Jackson campaign has been calling their key supporters begging them not to jump ship once this information surfaces.

A source inside the campaign of Mario Trujillo laughed when they heard the news, and replied "Figures." Our phone calls to the prospective campaign of Los Angeles City Attorney, Carmen Trutanich were not returned.  Neither was our call to the Jackie Lacey campaign.

Dragnet L.A. will get to the bottom of this poop. Stay tuned!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Just back from a nice two week vacation on the Hawaiian Islands.

Thanks for all the hot tips everyone sent over the holidays. We’re investigating all of them and hope to be reporting on many of them in the coming days.

Just finished watching that freak show otherwise known as the Republican Debates.

The more these knuckleheads talk, the more President Obama’s numbers go up.

It seems the America public is getting an up close view of what these extremist wackos are all about, and running back to support the President in droves.

Has-been Mitt Romney can’t seem to crack the 25% mark.  In the Iowa Caucus he received a few less votes than that other has-been, Rick Santorum. *For fun, Google the word “Santorum”

All the newspapers in New Hampshire have endorsed everyone but Romney.  However, Romney was endorsed by Christine “I am not a witch” O’Donnell. She said, “Mitt Romney has been consistent since he changed his position on every issue.” So there! Can’t beat that endorsement.

Thankfully there weren’t any major headlines while we were away, except maybe “The Hollywood Arsonist. *We’ve already trademarked the name. 

Fire department furlough day

Several Deputy D.A.’s had to suspend their campaigns long enough to get back to work, and file papers against the man-child accused of these crimes.

Steve Cooley had to put down the booze, and sober up long enough to grandstand for the cameras and make sure the public could notice the similarities between him and the main-child. They’re both chubby, confused, glassy-eyed, etc etc.  I mean, if the shoe fits, which I’m sure it doesn’t……..

I won! Goodnight.

P.S. Expect Steve Cooley to declare victory in the District Attorney’s race any day now.  That’s right, you read it correctly. Once again, against the advice of his political consultants, he will probably down a couple of belts and publicly declare victory in the District Attorney’s race, similar to how he did it in the Attorney General’s race. This will not be good news for Jackie Lacey, Mario Trujillo or Deputy D.A. Alan “Jacko” Jackson, who’s still clearing the dung off his face after getting the Pete Wilson endorsement.  Cooley seems hell-bent on crushing Mario Trujillo and Alan Jackson’s campaigns any way he knows how. One would think sending Jacko Pete Wilson and John Thomas would do the trick, but Cooley wants to “finish him off” as Tony Soprano used to say.



That's the guy who ruined my campaign!

And speaking of John Thomas, it looks like his other big client, Kevin James has qualified for matching funds while we were away.

Well, whoop dee dew dah.!  Que the band! Stop the presses! Is this really BIG NEWS?



Thank you, but I'm not suppose to take checks on City property.

Kevin’s a good guy and could probably do a better job than the current occupant of the Mayor’s office, but right now his chances of qualifying for the run-off are slim to none.

Sure, he just passed the $150,000 mark in campaign contributions, however that only amounts to approximately $50,000 in cash on hand.  Considering the other candidates Eric Garcetti, Wendy Greuel, and Jan Perry have raised over $1,000,000, and Austin Beutner can write himself a $5,000,000 dollar check, Kevin has a lot of catching up to do.

Those who enjoy political debates for entertainment purposes will enjoy Kevin debating all the City Hall insiders.  We wish him luck, and hope for his sake, he gets more votes than Zuma Dogg.

I'm a legend. Just ask me.

Also, it seems while we were away, the Occupy L.A. folks have gone from complaining that L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich has put too much energy into prosecuting them, to now complaining that he’s not putting enough energy into prosecuting them. They need to make up their mind. They’ve gone from protesting financial inequity caused by Wall Street and the major banks, to whimpering about being arrested and having to go through the judicial process.  I hope Trutanich sentences these fools to watching a full episode of the TV show “Barretta”, and then making them write a hundred times on a chalkboard, “DON’T DO THE CRIME, IF YOU CAN’T DO THE TIME”, and keep your eyyyyyyyyyyeeee on the sparrow……...

and dats da name of dat tune!