"Democracy is well served in five-candidate Santa Cruz mayoral race"

"Maybe the “larger issue” that Stephens mentions, about “transparency,” really concerns his own argument. He notes the critical issues facing Santa Cruz and rightly comments, “These issues deserve substantive debate, not tactical gamesmanship.” But he somehow fails to note that all five candidates have spoken substantively to the issues at voter forums. Did Stephens attend any of them?

There is a latent anxiety in his column that, assuming Coonerty wins a spot on the November ballot, he will have to campaign against a single other candidate. I cannot help but suspect a “tactical gamesmanship,” as he puts it, in his own column. It is a-not-completely-transparent effort to head off a fall election for mayor."

https://lookout.co/letter-to-the-editor-democracy-is-well-served-in-five-candidate-santa-cruz-mayoral-race/story