The Coeur d'Alene Press asked the three Coeur d'Alene mayoral candidates to provide their opinions on the city's nondiscrimination ordinance, which was passed earlier this summer (story here):

• Joe Kunka: "You're alienating everyone else. For the council to vote against the overwhelming majority of its people, that wasn't very smart. You can't protect everybody," he said, adding: "I think the only people now who don't have some sort of protection are white guys between the ages of 18 and 90."
• Mary Souza: "They went ahead and pushed it through and they left a lot of people in that room feeling left out - that their opinions or their views or their concerns were not worthy of consideration," she said. Souza said as mayor, she would vote whichever way the public favored on highly charged topics when the opinion is stacked on one side, regardless of how she feels personally.
• Steve Widmyer: "I understand those people's emotions that were against it. I understand they feel passionately against that." But "it's not just the people that come to the council meetings (who had an opinion on the ordinance) ... You have to take a pulse of a whole community."

Question: Which candidate best expresses your feelings on the city's new antidiscrimination ordinance?