Commentary
I’m sure you remember the Democratic primary debates from the last presidential election. They started out featuring 20 candidates over June 26-27, 2019 in Miami. The same on July 30-21 in Detroit. Then it was cut to 10 or 12 candidates in three more debates; followed by five debates with six or seven candidates. Finally, there was just Joe Biden vs. Bernie Sanders on March 15, 2020 in Washington, D.C.
In those debates, just about every national issue was aired out. The only real problem was Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii rightly objected she should have been included in the final debates.
That’s how they should conduct the debates for mayor from Los Angeles: many debates featuring all 12 qualified candidates, with the participants being reduced, based on polling, as the June 7 primary date approaches. Instead, the May 1 debate at Cal State Los Angeles will feature only five candidates. The left-out hopefuls are calling it “voter suppression.”
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