Kalki Yalamanchili, who is challenging incumbent Democrat District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez as an Independent on the Nov. 5 ballot, raised more than six times the amount of money Gonzalez raised in the three months leading up to the fall campaign.
Since the beginning of the year, Yalamanchili has raised $471,028, or nearly five times the $95,332 raised by Gonzalez.
Democratic incumbent Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez, and Kalki Yalamanchili, who is challenging her on the Nov. 5 ballot as an Independent, were respectful of each other in the nearly 90 minutes they spent on Tuesday night responding to questions in a candidate forum.
But from the very beginning, it was clear they have very different views of what has transpired in the four years Gonzalez has held the District Attorney Office.
