Weiss, Trutanich race what neither wanted

It is the type of race both candidates say they wish they could have avoided - hard-hitting, negative, personal. Daily News.

Yet that is exactly what the campaign between city attorney candidates City Councilman Jack Weiss and attorney Carmen Trutanich has become.

As the runoff campaign hits its closing weeks before the May 19 vote, the two have ratcheted up the rhetoric. Weiss has attacked Trutanich for allegedly representing gun owners and polluters in his law practice and Trutanich has argued the Los Angeles councilman is unpopular in his own district and has acted unethically at times.