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Richmond mayoral candidates traded jabs over the economic development deal that brought Stone Brewing Co. to the city during a town hall at Fourth Baptist Church on Tuesday.

Former Del. Joseph D. Morrissey kicked things off, criticizing former Secretary of the Commonwealth Levar Stoney for the governor’s support of the deal.

“Levar, I really love you, my friend, but you supported along with the governor putting $33 million into a brewery and not schools,” Morrissey said, drawing a rowdy and supportive response from the crowd.

Stoney responded by defending the deal, saying it brought jobs and economic revitalization to a long-struggling neighborhood.

“You ask the folks in Fulton what that has done for their community,” he said, adding that the funding incentivizes big businesses to come to the state and “give people jobs that raise them out of poverty.”

Stoney won his own appreciative reaction from the crowd, which grew louder when he went on to criticize Morrissey for not doing more as a delegate to increase school funding from the state.