Santa Cruz mayoral hopefuls Ami Chen Mills and Ryan Coonerty spent much of Lookout’s candidate forum Wednesday night outlining their competing visions for the city. But in a rare moment in the campaign, they had the opportunity to question each other directly — and the exchanges quickly turned personal.
With about 230 residents watching, both in person at The 418 Project and via livestream, the two candidates used their questions to challenge each other over artificial intelligence and surveillance, political alliances, campaign conduct and allegations of misinformation.
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