Thanks for the feedback.

Yes, I saw the video and read the article of FALSEtanich yelling at the medical cannabis patient and I regretted ever voting for him and asking others to vote for him too.

Herbalicious

Check out the article and video in today’s LACityWatch.com, the blog of the conservative- skewing Neighborhood Council people, something like “Did the City Attorney Act Like A Bully?” to a female medical cannabis advocate and patient (cancer survivor) who questioned his methodology and reasoning to claim pesticide-spiked pot as the pretext to ban all dispensaries. This was at last Sat’s monthly meeting of NC’s at City Hall. She was trying to argue that it would have taken much bigger samples than Trutanich used (along the lines of yesterday’s post in this blog) but he totally lost it and walked right upto her face as if he were interrogating a hostile witness in court, yelled at her to be quiet and go sit down and go home and feed her kid lead and spray pesticide on their salads if she so didn’t care about health. She tried to hold her own but according to the article really fell apart outside. The next woman in line to speak said, “so you’re being a hard-ass about it,” and he screamed into her face, “I’m not hard-ass! I’m compassionate!” OK if he says so, but sounds to me to use his phrase on Fox TV, “if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck,” sure sounds like a bully to me.

By coincidence (?) tonight’s L A Times features a story (by Phil Willon, City Hall reporter) that “City Attorney Threatens Officials with Jail Time in Sign Fight.” Told the head of Building & Safety he’d jail him if he dared allow AEG Live to put up signs per a grandfathered deal he must have missed, and told Councilwoman Jan Perry he’d toss her in jail if she continued to challenge him.

FALSEtanich sounds a little…? Out of control? Abusing his power big-time? Ethically and legally challenged seems just a start.

Mark,

You’re comments sparked me to write a blog about the topic. I know I voted for and even rallied others to vote for FALSEtanich. I sent emails, changed my facebook status, posted at least 7 facebook notes (tagging everyone in LA). And I even posted it to the CA Drug Policy Forum that many of us use. I truly believe the medical cannabis community got FALSEtanich elected and I believe we can get him unelected too.

Lots of people not only voted but made calls, walked precincts, joined him in the smiling photo thing on the night of May 19th.

You wrote about what a victory it was for the community. Don’t let him get away with hiding behind Cooley’s coattails and pretending that this is some sort of new reaction to Holder’s comments in February as they are – that was months before the election.

They’re pandering to their rightwing Republican base instead of honoring the intent and spirit of 215, flipping off the State Attorney General himself as well as the voters – don’t let them get away with pretending they’re somehow only doing this to “keep their promises to uphold state law.” They’re twisting it for partisan purposes to shore up their personal political futures. As we tell our kids, “character counts.”