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Polly Frost's avatar

Thank you, Bonnie for your invaluable community service. Whenever I talk to people who live here I guide them to your column. They always say they had no real idea of where their money's going before reading you.

About the Carbajal/Cole debate: it should be mandatory for Carbajal, or any of our other elected officials, to engage in regular debates. That he's allowed to stay in his “safe space” where he refuses to debate Cole and can pretend to be protecting his constituency from possible “hate” speech is absurd and proves he's a minor-league dictator. And should be illegal.

If Carbajal really was trying to protect people he would welcome the debate as a chance to do so. The truth is Carbajal cares nothing about anyone or anything except himself. I don't think he's completely stupid - he definitely is canny in his ambition. But for him to play the immigrant card is disgusting. He's a disgrace to all other immigrants in this country.

And here's where I want to say something about Trump. I'm tired of hearing the anti-Trumpers blather on about how he wants to be a dictator and he's going to take away our freedoms. Dictators do what Carbajal is doing. They refuse to address their public and answer questions. Trump is ready any time to talk to anyone.

This is a really key thing that I hope Santa Barbarans will wake up to. All the Democratic Party does is censor and cancel. They won't even tell us who's actually running the country right now. And anyone who asks is called an “agent of Putin” (like even I was here yesterday). We have to take back our country and it's as important to get someone accountable running Santa Barbara as it is in the White House.

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J. Livingston's avatar

According to Carbajal, his opponent Thomas Cole:

1….hates LGBTQ+

2. ….wants transsexuals dead

3…..hates unvetted open borders

4…..hates age inappropriate books in tax payer supported public schools

Carbajal

1…….hates Trump ……..and 50% + of the US population

2. ……hates ….hateful rhetoric

Shame on you, Salud. You have brought disrepute to the political process and those who have continued to pay your Congressional salary and will be forced to pay your life time pension.

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