By Adrian Florido
 San Diego’s four major mayoral candidates debated in front of a couple hundred Latino voters at the University of San Diego Thursday evening. | Photo Credit: KPBS |
Close to 30 percent of this city’s population is now Latino, and yet this was the first time many here could remember candidates for mayor discussing issues important specifically to Latinos.
“We’re not going to ask any questions about football stadiums, or Convention Centers, or pension reform or potholes,” Rafael Castellanos, a lawyer and the debate’s organizer, told the crowd. What he did want to hear was the candidates’ thoughts about the Latino education gap, immigration and border issues.
City Councilman Carl DeMaio, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and state Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher sat on stage, while Democratic Congressman Bob Filner’s voice hovered over the auditorium like a specter’s. (He called in from Washington, D.C.)
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