If you watched CNN Tuesday night for guidance on how California’s new governor would solve Hollywood’s production crisis, you may as well have changed the channel: The Lakers had more answers than the candidates on the stage. And they got beat by 18.
The third and final gubernatorial debate ahead of the June 2 primary saw the issue — which affects the biggest industry in the state’s most populous city — draw precious little airtime. Moderators asked only two of the seven candidates what they would do about the bleeding of production jobs, and neither gave an especially substantive answer.