Carmen Trutanich is not the Front-Runner … he is the people’s choice!

The city of Los Angeles will not elect the Front-Runner for Los Angeles City Attorney, they will elect the people’s choice. The Office of the City Attorney is an important player in the economic and business life of the city. Working with all city departments and agencies, the Office of City Attorney is significantly involved in nearly all the issues and problems the city confronts.

Choosing the best candidate for Office of City Attorney depends on his or her grasp of the law; ability to work as a team; professionalism and experience to guide young lawyers; skills to run a law office; and integrity to practice law without politics.

Carmen Trutanich’s superior level of expertise, coupled with a commitment to legal and ethical business conduct, make him arguably the most qualified candidate for city attorney ever to seek the office. Carmen Trutanich spent his early career at the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, where he was instrumental in gang prosecution and the successful formation of the Environmental Crimes Division.

Over the past 29 years, Carmen Trutanich has earned unparalleled respect amongst his peers with an AV Rating by Martindale-Hubbell. California Lawyer magazine chose him as one of the top ten in the field of environmental law, while California Super Lawyers named Mr. Trutanich one of the top attorneys in Southern California, four consecutive years in a row. Only five percent of the lawyers in the state are named by Super Lawyers.

Carmen Trutanich has garnered the broad range of experience needed to re-establish faith in the city, trust in the community, and integrity to the office of Los Angeles City Attorney.

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Nobody is talking abut throwing money around. Measure R is only a small amount of money in the grand scheme of things.

As for the Green Line, it is a feeder line. It’s ridership numbers are 50% higher than original projections. When it was built, it was meant to serve the aerospace industry, with a projected daily ridership of 22,000. When it opened, the aerospace industry shrank due to the end of the cold war, but the ridership went to 30,000 almost immediately and is now near 40,000. How is that a failure?

I have lived in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. In NONE of those cities is transit always faster and more convenient than a car (except for NYC at rush hour). But that is not the point. It’s about options and a multi-modal approach to city life. The problem in LA is a lack of options, making people slaves to the one dominant mode, the car.

What’s wrong with the MTA’s list of projects? They are all proposed for corridors that have their bus traffic at capacity. That’s the true basis for ridership, not an imaginary need in a corridor where people currently do not use transit.

You obviously have a disdain for Los Angeles, which is unfortunate, because it is causing you to assume an obstructionist point of view, which to me is not supported by any hard facts.

Are you serious? Maybe he just doesn’t care about that…you know, with the collapse of the economy and the big election coming up and all.

Throwing money at a problem does not always solve the problem. Some of the lines you mentioned are pretty decent (Gold) and some are just dumb (Green). Take a look at the proposed slate of projects from the MTA. More of the same.

Los Angeles is a frontier town with a frontier mentality. There is no such thing as a wide-ranging community spirit. That’s why a comprehensive public transit system will not happen unless the city itself gets more involved and pushes tunneling through neighborhoods that oppose it (Hancock Park, Holmby Hills, etc).

It’s rather simple, in order for people to take public transportation is has to be:

faster than a car
cheaper than a car
clean and safe

As it stands, this is not the case for 90% of commuters. If it were, the streets would be vacant.

Until the MTA targets areas of the city with the most traffic — which they are not doing — we will end up with more Crenshaw Corridor lines.

And … I am a HUGE proponent of public transportation, and purchase a monthly pass every single month. I drive my car maybe four or five times a month, and only when absolutely necessary. If the MTA plan was better, I’d gladly vote for a full cent increase. But their current plan (and track record) are seriously flawed.

We get what we pay for…same as any other city.

Sure, we don’t always like where our money goes (I for one, don’t think METRO needs to devote quite so much $ to station art…though I really like the H’wood/Vine station) but that’s how the system works. Be it bonds, sales tax increases, property taxes - we pay for what we get.

Rich: Congratulations!

Prop 8: I am amazed at the intolerance and sexism by those looking to strike down same sex marriage. I don’t know what baffles me more, the fact that people in 2008 are still so close minded or the advertisements on television portraying love between two human beings as being wrong.

Regardless of your views, please make sure you and those around you vote on election day.