San Bernardino mayor hopefuls Carey Davis, Wendy McCammack debate

Source: San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.迷你倉旺角Jan. 11--SAN BERNARDINO -- Compared to the first debate earlier in the week, questions at the second mayoral forum between Wendy McCammack and Carey Davis focused more on helping young people succeed and creating a safer community, but both candidates used the opportunity to strengthen the same narratives about themselves and their opponents that had been presented before.More than 200 people packed Ecclesia Christian Fellowship Church on Friday night for a forum hosted by the NAACP of San Bernardino and the Westside Action Group, an increase over the turnout at the previous forum that both candidates called encouraging.McCammack, who sat on the City Council for 13 years until the November election -- "does anyone not know I was recalled?" she joked in her opening statement -- presented herself as a businesswoman who understood regular people and wasn't afraid to tell the truth."I'm not a politician," she said. "I shoot straight. I don't apologize for telling you the way it is."Davis, a corporate controller, said many of the city's problems, including low police morale and less-effective police work, stemmed from a "revolving door" of police chiefs and other department heads that had been caused by a micromanaging City Council and divisive politics."As Scripture says, a house divided against itself cannot stand," he said. "...If citizens are engaged again, the collaborativemini storageeffort will carry on. And I believe that's already started."The beginning, he said, was the campaign that succeeded in recalling McCammack and "her coach," City Attorney James F. Penman.McCammack said Friday that the often-repeated charge that she was one of those most responsible for the city's reputation for "toxic politics" is sexist."I'm going to say it: Men are held to a different standard than women," she said. "If a man did what I do, he'd be a 'leader.' When I do it, I'm a -- well, I won't say it, I'm in church."One pronounced point of policy disagreement raised Friday night was affordable housing.Davis said the city needed to inspect more rental units, saying that only 50 percent now participate, encouraging slumlords.And the "moratorium" on affordable housing limited necessary construction and drove people out, he said.McCammack said she agreed that every rental unit should be inspected -- blaming the current administration for not doing so. But while she wished there were a moratorium on affordable housing, "unless things really changed since I left, there's not.""My cornerstone," she said, echoing the phrasing of the housing question, "there will be no more affordable housing until we fix what we have."Copyright: ___ (c)2014 the San Bernardino County Sun (San Bernardino, Calif.) Visit the San Bernardino County Sun (San Bernardino, Calif.) at .sbsun.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉