Cayetano: You Should Have ‘Sent Me To Prison’
The most interesting exchange, from where I’m sitting, came at the end of the debate. Mayor Peter Carlisle picked up a thread that the Pacific Resource Partnership started and Kirk Caldwell had pushed in prior forums, questioning Ben Cayetano about the “pay-to-play” culture in his administration when he was governor.
Cayetano said in his closing statement that Carlisle, then the city prosecutor, should have charged him with a crime if he did anything wrong.
“Peter, I’m disappointed in you. If you thought I had anything to do with this so-called pay-to-play culture, then you would have prosecuted at that time. You should have indicted me and arrested me and sent me to prison.”
He said Carlisle is desperate because he’s fallen behind Caldwell in the polls.
Other than that, the debate covered a lot of the same old ground: rail, buses, landfills, sewage and roads.
— Michael Levine
