City Attorney race heats up

The election is more than six weeks away, but the war of words between L.A. city attorney candidates Jack Weiss and Carmen Trutanich heated up Thursday.Daily News wire services.

An advocate who has lobbied the Los Angeles City Council to process thousands of untested rape kits wrote to the Trutanich campaign today demanding an apology for a recorded phone message to voters during the primary season, which she says challenged her integrity.

Jeri Elster, who was raped in her home in 1992, appeared in a Weiss campaign commercial before the March 3 primary and in the spot, said Weiss was the only member of the Los Angeles City Council who listened to her concerns on the backlog of rape kits.