Posted on 06/24/2007 5:17:42 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Delgadillo trips up on the fast track
The L.A. city attorney's career had seemed charmed until a string of revelations and reversals. The ultimate fallout is unknown.
By Scott Glover, Times Staff Writer
June 24, 2007
Almost from the start, Rocky Delgadillo's trajectory through life has resembled that of something fired from a cannon.
He went from being a star athlete and student body president at Franklin High School in Highland Park to Harvard.
Then came law school at Columbia, followed by a stint at a prestigious L.A. law firm where the firm's chairman, Warren Christopher, became his mentor. With Christopher's help, Delgadillo made the transition into politics and, in 2001, won the race for Los Angeles city attorney, becoming the first Latino elected to citywide office in more than three decades.
Even his failed campaign for California attorney general last year had some pundits saying it had increased his statewide name recognition and better positioned him for pursuit of higher office in the future.
Nothing, it seemed, could slow Delgadillo down.
Until now.
Over the last several days, the city's top prosecutor has been forced to make a series of embarrassing admissions about his own conduct and that of his wife, Michelle.
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What’s interesting to me is why he is being ratted on. Is suspect that most Cali Dems get away with this sort of thing all the time. Why is the LATimes reporting it?
He’s the vocal prosecutor who insisted that Paris Hilton get jail time.
He is at odds with Baca and Villalagrosa, epecially about this Paris Hilton thing..
Hmm. Maybe the Hiltons made a donation, or threatened to ask their friends not to donate to Villaraigosa unless he took action. We can only speculate.
Both. Not as corrupt, but also less competent.
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