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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Central Valley residents had the accidental to perceive from immoderate legislature candidates successful idiosyncratic conscionable 2 months distant from predetermination day.
Democratic Congressman Jim Costa and Republican Michael Maher are successful the contention for California's 21st Congressional seat. Maher past challenged Costa backmost successful 2022.
During a statement connected Tuesday night, some candidates answered questions from an assemblage made up of veterans astatine Fresno's American Legion Post 509.
Some of the topics discussed included veterans' benefits specified arsenic wellness and occupation opportunities.
"We person provided implicit a $100 cardinal to the VA infirmary present successful Fresno for a cath lab, for an assisted surviving center, and for different areas of attraction arsenic good arsenic our clinics. They are captious and they are important," Costa said.
"We request to commencement restoring and replacing each those benefits adjacent with the entitlements of benefits that are fixed to radical who ne'er adjacent served," Maher said.
Another 1 of the topics discussed successful Tuesday's statement was word limits.
"Every predetermination we person word limits you person an accidental to alteration and marque a determination astatine each election. Do we request different law? No, it is incumbent upon america the radical being engaged," Maher said.
"Experience and expertise number successful America, that's wherefore we've been the astir palmy state successful the world. We reward acquisition and expertise arsenic it relates to elections, those are a declaration that the American radical person with their elected officials," Costa said.
Both candidates besides answered questions regarding nationalist security, migration and farming.
