It's very refreshing to see Civil Beat publicly and emphatically demand straight answers from city leaders, especially the mayoral candidates.

Too bad you didn't bother to do that when you had those three fish in a barrel at the cheesy game show-style debate you co-sponsored.

Indeed, you failed to even ask them the most basic and obvious question: If elected, would you seek an extension of the GET surcharge to help complete the rail project?

It's virtually certain that an extension would be necessary even if other financing options were also included.  So voters should know where the candidates stand.

And I certainly agree that "No candidate’s case for mayor — or City Council — should be considered complete without making public a specific, legitimate way forward for rail."

So it's simply incredible that you fail to mention that Djou doesn't necessarily support rail at all but is now floating an implausible scheme to ditch rail for buses, quite likely his real agenda all along.