Michael Trujillo, Consultant to L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar, Axed Over Email Calling Challenger Rudy Martinez a 'Dead Rat'

By Dennis Romero Mon., Feb. 7 2011 at 11:24 AM

Jose Huizar.

Update: Martinez's campaign says he has filed a police report and that the LAPD is investigating the threatening language in Trujillo's email.

In the contentious battle for the city's Eastside council seat, things took a turn for the strange over the weekend as a campaign consultant for incumbent L.A. city Councilman Jose Huizar was fired from the politician's team for sending out an email that used some violent imagery.

The blast to more than a dozen supporters boasted that challenger Rudy Martinez was about to get a "political bullet" in his forehead and "pee in his pants too" after the Los Angeles Times "breaks" a story he indicates it was preparing. Added: The piece came out Saturday.

The email states:

"I was treating him [Martinez] like I was a cat playing with a trapped mouse, well now he's going to be the dead rat he really is."

Trujillo's Friday night email was indicating that the Times was about to follow up on ~~could possibly be following up again on~~ our first report about Martinez's improper possession of an LAPD badge several years ago.

Trujillo writes, "This is a game changer ... Rudy will be exposed for lying to the LAPD, the L.A. press and from here on out -- everything he says will not be believed."

"He is a disgusting human being that needs to be sent back from the vile bag of tripe he emanated from."

On Sunday night Trujillo confirmed to the Weekly that the email has ended his employment with Huizar's campaign, which is being run by veteran political hand Parke Skelton.

Trujillo runs a consultancy that has other clients.

First posted at 7:08 a.m.

Tags:

badge, CD 14, Jose Huizar, LAPD, Michael Trujillo, Parke Skelton, Rudy Martinez

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Ivan Elias

his blog has links to the whole text of the e-mail that was sent by Michael Trujillo, the guy who was fired from the Huizar campaign: http://bit.ly/i9ZDUM

Robert

I'm surprised at how the Weekly who typically luv's this type of story is downplaying the actual threat or am I missing something. This guy is mental. The story of how he is bad towards community members hasn't even come out. Leave it to the Latino politicians to embarrass us again. People are furious how ugly this race has gotten. Here's the rest of Trujillo's email ...boasting that the campaign would “unleash the dogs of Satan” on Huizar’s opponent, businessman Rudy Martinez….“Well, now he is going to be the dead rat he really is....We are about to put a political bullet in between Rudy Martinez's forehead and make him pee in his pants too.”The e-mail comes one month after the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, an incident that prompted advocacy groups to call for an end to violent rhetoric in political campaigns. Last week, Trujillo resurrected “Chief Parker,” signing the e-mail with that moniker. The e-mail also contained the statement that Martinez was “a disgusting human being that needs to be sent back from the vile bag of tripe he emanated from.”He vowed in the e-mail that Martinez would “wish he never heard the words Team Huizar.”