The top three mayoral candidates in the October primary election sparred in a Monday night forum at Lakefront Airport, each promising to restore basic services, infrastructure and public trust in city government.

State Sen. Royce Duplessis, City Council Vice President Helena Moreno and District E Councilmember Oliver Thomas mostly kept things civil with crisp one-minute answers to questions from former WDSU-TV anchor Norman Robinson.

But things became a bit more confrontational when, in a deviation from the formats typically used at similar candidate forums, Robinson gave the candidates a chance to ask a question of one of their opponents. Duplessis and Thomas, who trail Moreno in recent polling, took the opportunity to grill Moreno about the fraught relationship between the council and

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