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LOPEZ: Over cigars, getting a handle on Trutanich  

Jump to full article: Los Angeles Times, 2009-10-25
Author: Steve Lopez

Intro:

Nobody wants a public servant behaving like a thug or a palooka.

So I set up last week's little chat to take Trutanich's temperature. Unfortunately, Homegirls was closing for the day, so Nuch suggested we go to 2nd Street Cigar.

Sure, I told him. Last time I had a cigar with a public official, it was Gov. Schwarzenegger.

Trutanich travels in a police-issue Chevy Tahoe with an armed security guard, sometimes two. At the cigar shop, he picked the stogies, which were big enough to carry astronauts

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