City Hall smackdown

Tensions are high at City Hall as a City Council panel is scheduled to take its first look this afternoon at a report from Controller Laura Chick with her "blueprint" to deal with gangs and her complaint that Councilman Tony Cardenas has delayed hearing the matter.
Chick confronted Cardenas just before the regular meeting of the Council, ending with him telling her to "get out of my face.
Chick said she wanted to clear up some differences over whether her report on gangs was late in being delivered.
Cardenas said they talked amiably briefly and then Chick made a remark to him _ which he would not detail _ that he considered an insult.
“She basically wanted to infer she's been cool about this and didn't want to be nasty with me and then she said something insulting to me and I told her, 'Hey, just get out of my face.' I've never done that with an elected official before.”
Chick told him, “I'll get out of your face now, but I'll be back at 1:30,” when the hearings were to begin.