{"id":238262,"date":"2016-02-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/district-3-candidates-fire-up-little-italy\/"},"modified":"2016-02-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T08:00:00","slug":"district-3-candidates-fire-up-little-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/district-3-candidates-fire-up-little-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Los candidatos del Distrito 3 encienden Little Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Anne Eichman<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday evening, Jan. 28, the Little Italy Residents Association (LIRA) hosted a forum with Anthony Bernal and Chris Ward at the Fire House Museum, located at 1572 Columbia St.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>These dynamic young men are campaigning to fill Todd Gloria\u2019s seat on the San Diego City Council as our District 3 representative.<\/p>\n<p>This is no small feat in light of the demands that come with the job and the tireless commitment they must have to the communities they serve.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9662\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9662\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegodowntownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-04-at-3.13.08-PM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9662\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9662 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sandiegodowntownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-04-at-3.13.08-PM.png\" alt=\"(l \u2013 r) Andrew Bernal and Chris Ward are running for Todd Gloria\u2019s seat. The duo spoke at a forum recently for the Little Italy Resident\u2019s Group. (Facebook)\" width=\"600\" height=\"299\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/299;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(l \u2013 r) Anthony Bernal and Chris Ward are running for Todd Gloria\u2019s seat. The duo spoke at a forum recently for the Little Italy Resident\u2019s Group. (Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For 90 minutes, Ward and Bernal fielded a long list of questions from an approximately 48-person strong audience, with LIRA President Anne Eichman, acting as moderator.<\/p>\n<p>The two candidates covered everything from mending potholes to police retention, ending homelessness to increasing sales taxes and many more in between.<\/p>\n<p>It was a lively and amicable exchange, with each man offering his perspective and analysis of the issues at hand.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the evening, the audience left the Fire House Museum better informed and with a clearer picture of the choice at hand: Which man is the most qualified to represent us?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Anne MacMillan Eichman is president of the Little Italy Resident\u2019s Association (LIRA). You can reach her at <\/em><a href=\"mailto:aeichman@cox.net\"><em>aeichman@cox.net<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anne Eichman On Thursday evening, Jan. 28, the Little Italy Residents Association (LIRA) hosted a forum with Anthony Bernal and Chris Ward at the Fire House Museum, located at 1572 Columbia St.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":238263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"District 3 candidates fire up Little Italy","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11551,11600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-news","category-sdnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}