In the third debate in the congressional race, seven hopefuls mostly played nice, but they sparred over the Iran nuclear deal, campaign contributions, and the Affordable Care Act.
Helene Schneider, the Democratic Santa Barbara mayor, asserted she would not have supported the Iran deal, the agreement Iran signed with the United States and five other nations in exchange for lifting economic sanctions. Schneider described the deal as “losing our leverage within the Middle East.”
The topic might be the first national issue to separate Schneider from Dem rival Supervisor Salud Carbajal, who said he knows “firsthand what’s in war.” “The Iran deal achieved … us not going to war and reducing nuclear access,” he said. (The two conservative frontrunners, Katcho Achadjian and Justin Fareed, dismissed the agreement. “There was no deal,” Achadjian charged.)