As Mr. Murphy noted in "The Not so Great Debates" post a couple of days ago, City Attorney Mike Aguirre left the other night before things got rolling.  Here's Pomerado Newspaper Group's take on the evening, by Editor Steve Dreyer...

City Attorney Michael Aguirre, seeking re-election in the June primary, said he left the campaign's first candidate forum before it started Thursday night because he was too busy to stay.

"I thought it started at 7:30 p.m.," Aguirre said Friday, referring to a 45-minute forum that was advertised to begin at 7:45 and commenced about 10 minutes late.

His arrival and subsequent departure before the forum caused a bit of a buzz among the 75 or so people attending the event, held at the Doubletree Golf Resort ballroom in Rancho Penasquitos.

Aguirre said he has been working "24/7" on an appeal of a court ruling regarding the city's pension fund and would likely continue to do so for another week.

An empty chair remained on stage while Aguirre's four challengers offered their opinions on what he's done wrong and how they would run the city attorney's office differently.

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