Rick Tuttle

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Tuttle seems to us the kind of public servant you would like to see in every government office. He gets his basic work done, checking expense accounts, auditing the city's books and meeting its payroll. Then, in his spare time, he quietly finds other ways to make himself useful. He has modernized the city's payroll operation. His office will soon be able to do cost-accounting, an efficiency that could save the city millions of dollars in the future. [5]

And when he retired from public service, a Times columnist wrote:

Like a government paycheck, Tuttle's headlines have always been modest but steady. He embraced the Watergate admonition to 'follow the money,' practicing activism with a pencil and calculator and audit power. He has cracked the City Council's knuckles over its favorite pork. He got mandatory audits written into the new City Charter, crafted civil rights rules forcing downtown private men's clubs to integrate, and refused to pay for lavish dinner tabs, yoga classes and a $2,800 chartered jet flight to Sacramento by a former DWP chief, the last 'the worst [official] extravagance I've ever seen.' [3]

Tuttle is a member of the Democratic Party. His first public position was co-chairman of California Young Citizens for Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.[ citation needed ] A year later, he founded, along with U.S. Congressmen Howard Berman and Henry Waxman and Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, the Los Angeles County Young Democrats [6] and succeeded Berman and Waxman as statewide president of the California Federation of Young Democrats. [7]

He had briefly considered returning to elected office in 2009 by running for the open Los Angeles City Council District 5 seat to replace the retiring Jack Weiss, but threw his support to Ron Galperin instead. [8]

Tuttle also served as a director of the Los Angeles West Chamber of Commerce [7] and an interviewee of the Fellows Program at Coro of Southern California.[ citation needed ]

Academic career

A former associate dean of student activities at UCLA, Tuttle served for eight years as an elected member of the Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees.

After completing the statutory maximum of four terms as city controller, he returned to UCLA as executive director of the Dashew International Center for Student and Scholars, serving in that capacity until 2006. Since then he has taught courses in public policy as a lecturer in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, and was voted public policy professor of the year three times. In these positions, he has stressed the importance of creating a strong democratic tradition at UCLA, which, in his words, is "the best large public university in a major city."[ citation needed ]

Tuttle has also been a member of the board of directors of UCLA's University Religious Conference and a board member of the UCLA Alumni Association. [9]

Awards

Tuttle is a recipient of the Equal Justice in Government Award of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Distinguished Public Service Award of the Pacific Southwest Region of the Anti-Defamation League, the Lifetime Membership Award of the Los Angeles Business Council, the UCLA Alumni Public Service Award, and the Distinguished Leadership Award for 1996 presented by the Association of Government Accountants. He received the Los Angeles Employee of the Year Award in 1997 from the All City Employees Benefits Service Association (ACEBSA). [7]

Personal life

Tuttle met his first wife, Muff Singer (February 14, 1942 – January 16, 2005), while both were working on Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign in California. They married in 1976. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and former Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, she would later become campaign coordinator and the first administrative assistant of Howard Berman while he was a member of the California State Assembly, prior to his election to the U.S. Congress. She left government service to pursue a career as a successful writer of children's books. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she died of ovarian cancer at their Los Angeles home. Rick Tuttle and Muff Singer are the parents of one daughter, Sarah Emily. [9] [10] [11]

In 2008 Tuttle married Rebecca Rona, a professional writer and social, environmental and political activist. She founded the grassroots organization Together, which for a decade promoted human relations and understanding; worked to end fracking and oil extraction in the Inglewood Oil Field, and has been the driving force behind an effort to convince Culver City to form the Culver City Equity and Human Relations Committee. In 2018, she was honored by the Los Angeles County Democratic Party with the Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt Award as Democrat of the Year for her Assembly District. Currently she serves as communications director of South Los Angeles Health Projects.

In his spare time Tuttle is an avid basketball fan and, by 2002, was the second-oldest full-court basketball player in Los Angeles. [12]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 "Civil Rights History Project Interview" (PDF). April 11, 2013. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Rick Tuttle" . Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  3. 1 2 Morrison, Patt (June 13, 2001). "Wachs, Tuttle Have Earned Their Gold Watches". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  4. ↑ "ElectionsInfo.net - An Internet archive of election results and analysis" . Retrieved January 10, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Reelect Rick Tuttle and James K. Hahn". The Los Angeles Times . April 7, 1989. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Rick Tuttle oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Culver City, California". Library of Congress . April 11, 2013. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 "Honoring Rick Tuttle". February 3, 1998. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
  8. ↑ Roderick, Kevin (February 19, 2009). "Rick Tuttle endorses in 5th council race". LA Observed. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
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Rick Tuttle
16th City Controller of Los Angeles
In office
July 1, 1985 –July 1, 2001
Political offices
Preceded by City Controller of Los Angeles, California
July 1, 1985 – July 1, 2001		Succeeded by
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