Tony Rackauckas N Todd Spitzer Declare Themselves 2014 Opponents for Orange County's Top Prosecutor Job

Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and Todd Spitzer, the high-ranking prosecutor he fired in August, conducted dueling, in-depth press conferences today.

After trying to groom Spitzer as his eventual replacement for 18 months, Rackauckas has labeled him immature, egotistical and unready professionally to assume the top slot in the DA's office.

Borrowing a conference room from a local labor union, Spitzer–a former, maverick county supervisor and state Assemblyman–responded by calling Rackauckas incompetent and corrupt.

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Why should anybody care about this nasty pissing match?

Both men say they will run for DA in 2014.

Is Spitzer ready for the weighty job? Rackauckas certainly doesn't think so. He said he would run again specifically to block his ex-employee from taking control of the office.

In response to my question, Spitzer declared himself a future DA candidate too.

“That's my plan: run in 2014,” he said.

I'm saving my analysis for my Moxley Confidential column next Thursday, but in the meantime here are pictures from today's events:

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R. Scott Moxley

CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.

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