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Citizens 2018 Candidate Forum for 49th Congressional Race

Staff by Staff
May 3, 2018 5:30AM
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Citizens 2018 Candidate Forum for 49th Congressional Race

Rocky Chavez, Republican candidate for congressional district CA 49. Photo: Daniel Ritz

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By Daniel Ritz

On April 30, close to 300 people gathered inside the Capo Beach Church for the Citizens 2018 49th Congressional District Tri-City Candidate Forum hosted by nonprofit groups Coalition to Save San Clemente, Capo Cares and Advocates for Responsible Treatment.

Featured in the forum were Democrats Mike Levin (San Juan Capistrano) and Douglas Applegate (San Clemente). The Republican representatives were Brian Maryott (San Juan Capistrano) and Rocky Chavez (Oceanside).

The candidates were selected based on recent polling data taken from the April 11 SurveyUSA Election Poll #23919. The forum was intended to be balanced, and if a candidate was unable to attend, the next candidate was approached.

Toni Nelson, representing Capo Cares, introduced the event to the crowd as a forum where candidates would be able to focus on local issues compared to previous forums and debates that discussed federal issues.

Brian Maryott, Republican Candidate for congressional district 49. Photo: Daniel Ritz
Mike Levin, Democratic candidate for Congressional district 49. Photo: Daniel Ritz
Rocky Chavez, Republican candidate for congressional district CA 49. Photo: Daniel Ritz
Doug Applegate, Democratic candidate for congressional district CA 49. Photo: Daniel Ritz

Candidates each had one minute to answer questions submitted from the community. Questions included local issues such as sober living homes, gun violence in schools, homelessness and the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.

From his opening statement, and often afterward, Mike Levin seemed to invoke passion from the crowd as he took clear stances against any form of Toll Road extension, the immediate removal of nuclear waste from SONGS and an assault weapons ban.

Both Armed forces veterans, current front-runners Applegate and Chavez took considerably more middle-line approaches in their responses, including Applegate’s approach to declaring “patient brokering” in the behavioral health treatment industry a felony.

“Sure, you can criminalize it more and more, but let’s look at what that has done for the drug culture in America,” Applegate said. “We need to take a look at the underlying fundamental issues like opioid addiction and biotech solutions to addiction.”

Maryott, repeatedly speaking on Republican momentum on the federal level including numerous accolades for President Trump’s tax reform bill, spoke on the need for reform in Sacramento.

“We brought this on ourselves,” Maryott reasoned, using the specific example of Proposition 47, passed by California voters in 2014, which classified some nonviolent crimes to misdemeanors.

All of the candidates will compete in a top-two primary on Tuesday, June 5 and the top two vote-getters, regardless of party affiliation, will advance to the general election on Nov. 6.

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