City Attorney Carmen Trutanich and Assemblyman Mike Feuer participated in a lively debate at the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association meeting at Notre Dame High School Wednesday evening.
The two are both running for City Attorney; the L.A. Times reported in October that the race will be "intense" and "rancorous." Greg Smith, a lawyer, is also running, but was not part of the debate.
The debate was divided by the moderator into three sections: opening statements from the candidates were followed by the two asking each other questions, and this was followed by moderator-read questions from the audience.
They talked about their positions on a variety of issues, from recent changes in parolee supervision law (AB 109), the salary for the position of City Attorney and the problem of school truancy to how they voted on election propositions like the abolition of the death penalty, labeling genetically modified food and Measure J.
Click on the videos to see each candidate asking the other a question (one about parolee supervision laws and another about the salary of the City Attorney).
And bookmark this page to check back for more Patch videos of the debate this week, including coverage of the two candidates' positions on marijuana and the law and how they voted on the Measures on the Nov. 6 ballot.
What do you think about the opinions of the two candidates, as expressed in the SOHA debate? Tell us in the comments!
Correction: an earlier version of this story said that Greg Smith was not at the meeting. A reader wrote in to let us know that he was, in fact, in the audience.
