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A former state treasurer. He had sought the nomination for governor before winning his partys nomination in the Second District is here. The democratic candidate is emily cain, a state senator and also served in the house of representatives. She is married and lives in the state. And then we have the independent candidate, Blaine Richardson. He is a retired navy officer and is married and lives in belfast. Welcome to you all. We are coming to you from lewiston. The first segment of this debate, we will talk with broad topical questions and we want to devote about five or six minutes total to each of those. And we wanted to be able to articulate your opinion and your positions and also your differences from one another. We determined the order earlier and emily, please go first. The first question is the overall Unemployment Rate has gone but it is higher than that in several counties in the Second District area for example, in washington county, the Unemployment Rate is 1. 9 and a neighboring county to 7. 3 . Voters say the economy as their numberone issue. How can you as a representative in Congress Helped grow the economy and add jobs in this district . Thank you, and im so glad to be here tonight to talk with you and voters across the Second District. We need an economy that works for everyone, and that means that we have to work with business and education and government to find solutions. When you talk about the Unemployment Rate being low, thats not how it feels in the Second District, particularly with the announcements of layoffs across our state. What families are going through right now is heartbreaking and scary. And its causing an economic anxiety across the whole district. As i have traveled through all of the counties in the Second District 70 times over the past year and a half, there are bright spots as we provide solutions and talk to Business Owners across the state. For me it was a few weeks ago when i earned the endorsement of the United States senator angus king. We met with kathy leonard, an owner of a business. Shes growing a traditional Main Business and turning it into a business for the 21st century. I combining research and development would work from the federal government, something that i have worked in support of her years, she is coupling that with support for her workers and an international market. Shes the right kind of Business Leader the one item in congress i will be listening to and thinking about as i work to build the economy. But more than that for the past few years, in my role as the democratic leader, im the only one who has worked across the aisle to lower taxes for smaller businesses. Im the only one in this race that has worked across the aisle to cut more than 4 billion in state spending, which is an important way that we keep our state on track. In order to do that, we have to work with republicans and democrats and independents to balance budgets. Thats the kind of leadership that we need, leadership that focuses on businesses and knows how to work across the aisle. Moderator take you, emily. Blaine richardson come how can you as a representative in Congress Helped grow the economy and add jobs in the Second District . Richardson is a truly sad problem through the Second District, you go through the downtown and there is a park bench and a site used to be there. In 1979 when i got back to main, there were one males and three tannerys and shoe stores and factories, its all gone now. We have recently had no closures, this one in bucksport is absolutely devastating. Our problem in maine is energy. And the frustrating part of it is we are in between where the energy is going down to massachusetts and canada, where the gas is and we have not been able to get the states to move off the renewable megawatt limitations that would allow the kilowatts to get into maine. We have spent millions of dollars on type lines that we can get the gas and forth. And we also have this that we have been wrestling with for over 20 years. And he recently gave half of that away due to environmental groups, no deep water port will happen there and we are fighting to keep your point open, but in order to do that we need judging and environmental laws which are getting in the way with a material that would be removed. We also have the potential of bringing an eastwest highway into a port, which is very huge. All i can say is im glad when im trying to get route one into the state of maine, to have an eastwest corridor with the middle part of america were 90 of heavy industry happen in north america, it would be a godsend to the northern economy of the state of maine. The number of jobs would be you wouldnt even be able to estimate it. From ship handling, container repair, fuel and shocking, it just goes on and on. But we never seem to be able to get over the environmental hurdle at a federal level and we cant seem to get anything moving through the legislature and the federal government right now is a huge problem for jobs in the state of maine. It has a heavy thumbprint on everything that we do in the state of maine from agriculture to fishing to manufacturing and we need to get that lifted off and i will commit myself to doing that down in washington. These agencies are out of control. Moderator Bruce Poliquin, same question to you. How do you grow the economy and add jobs . Poliquin thank you for asking. Im Third Generation i grew up in central maine from a workingclass family, my mom was a nurse. And i remember when i was in if they showed up one time, they worked hard to get a job. My grandmother made some of the finest in the world and that is now closed. My best buddy was a machinist at the Scott Paper Company and i worked the night shift and that is now closed. And so what is going on . I have one son and he just graduated from college and got his first job. But unfortunately it took him two years to to get that job. We work during christmas vacation on spring break and something is going on very wrong. We are so connected and what happens in washington, i think it has a huge impact on us. Washington, career politicians who have never created a job before, the last five years in a row have spent on average 1. 1 trillion more and they need to borrow or make up the difference or print money. And so now we have a Huge National debt. This includes our ability to crowd out this and so forth and so on. When that happens it means that the taxes have to be raised. Raising taxes is the way that we pay for that outofcontrol spending in those high debt levels. We also drive up the price of energy instead of driving it down. Until 1000 jobs and benefits, we are coming up on the holidays are and in each case one of the key things is the cost of energy. So we need to get the spending under control. We need to start paying down our debt, a we need to lower taxes and Energy Prices and the Regulatory Environment is predictable. If we do that, we will have a flood of investment in our country and we will have more jobs for kids to be able to make it and more jobs throughout america. Im the only candidate who has 35 years of real experience growing the economy and creating jobs. My opponents do not. Moderator the question is we are headed into another winter. Experts predict that we will see a spike in costs due to the natural supply line. And many homes rely on Home Heating Oil and will face this in the hundreds of dollars. What is your Energy Strategy to help businesses compete and help people keep more money in the pockets . The Energy Strategy is clearly to get the federal government out of the energy policy. Right now about 50 of the oil reserve is under control of federally controlled land. And there is really no provision for the federal government owning any property, let alone most of the western United States and having said that, the wheel has come down, i believe about 80 a girl today which is good news and gas has come down approximately 20 cents and i dont know whether that trend will continue. Last week and a half, the stock market has lost over a trillion dollars in value and are certainly things that we can do that peta can get out of the way the pipeline from canada to the gulf of mexico and we have a pipeline in the air force base and we need to start using these wiser and new england, unfortunately is dependent upon oil and a lot of people have been converting to to procreate and the technology is incredible. And the problem that we have with this is we have the oldest housing spot in the country. So we waste a lot of heat just living in these older homes. And so clearly getting the government out of the Energy Business is important. And right now this and whatnot has increased because of private Land Ownership in pennsylvania and all of the early oil fields that are privately owned, getting regional, north dakota, the federal government is just in the way. Moderator okay, Bruce Poliquin, what is your Energy Strategy to help businesses and residents . We need to make sure that whatever we do is protect our environment. When i was a kid growing up, if you fell in the river you needed a tetanus shot. We have come a long way to make sure that we clean up our environment, we are making sure that we come down that path, and to do whatever we can that we offer that protection. I am also of the belief that quality of life includes a paycheck and we need allens between these two competing interests. I believe that we need to make sure that we increase the production of energy here in america. Natural gas here in america, there is a reason for that. To increase the supply of that and drive down the price. When you drive down the price to help to create more jobs. And also it will be less expensive for families to heat homes and to favor their electric elf and less expensive to buy gasoline. My opponent and i differ on this. We just have very different views. She believes that we should have a carbon tax. When that happens you drive up the price of gasoline to pray heating bills and the price of electricity and we have a party scene is in the past year. Many have closed due to high cost of energy. So we just have a very different opinion on that. I dont disagree with emily cain that we should complete the keystone pipeline. We have all the safeguards that we need, we should approve the pipeline to make sure that we are getting some of our energy from canada down to the gulf coast, tribe of this and drive down the price to help jobs being created. My opponent has voted almost 7 of the time in Small Businesses. Small businesses is the backbone of our economy. So how can you vote against Small Businesses and want to represent them in congress. And part of this it is lowering the price of energy, not making it a lot but we just disagree. Its nothing personal, and i think its very important for the voters to understand the different opinions on this, my Life Experience professionally has been creating jobs for 35 years. My opponent has no experience creating jobs and its not a personal attack but a fact. So we need to make sure that we focus on jobs for the Second District and not increase government spending. Increases energy costs and welfare and what she has done repeatedly in the legislator. And that will only hurt us here in the state of maine more. Moderator emily cain, what is your strategy . Cain first, let me say that its okay to call me emily. Were going to be spending a lot of time together. Its great to be here with all of you. The energy issue for me comes down to just a few examples. The other day i was walking my dog across the street, talking with my neighbor and her mother and her mother said that i have decided that i have to keep my house at 57 degrees this winter. All winter. Because otherwise i wont be able to afford to fill the oil tank. Think about that, 57 degrees for the whole winter when its negative 10 degrees outside and the snow is blowing, or a Senior Citizen to be home keeping the thermostat at 57 degrees and thats not okay. That is a tragedy and im proud that over the last 10 years that stories like that and the people like that are going through this kind of economic challenges that are the top of my mind as we work on energy. Im proud to support the Greenhouse Gas initiative that has helped many businesses and families and save them more than 250 million in energy costs. When we think about where we are going as a state when it comes to energy, i think about those i met in Northern Maine Community college, they want to be the guys who climb the towers and fix the windows. I asked them why they were in this business and why they would want to do that and one of them said i like to climb things are really high and i like the idea of having a job right here in the state of maine that is a good job and is also about clean renewable energy. As a that is the kind of future that we need for our state. And we need to make sure that we are taking steps and expand natural gas right now and we also need to make sure that for the long run we invest in renewable sources that will create jobs like onshore winds and solar, things will make a difference in the long run and is a member of congress my focus will be the same as it has for the last 10 years treated that is to lower the cost of energy for families and businesses. I have a record that shows i can do that in the skills to work were crossing out make sure that it actually gets done. Moderator the third question goes to you, Bruce Poliquin. Most of the provisions of the Health Care Act have been in place for a year, so we are getting a chance to see how they work in the marketplace. Would you make changes to the Affordable Care act, and if so, what would they be . Poliquin yes, i would, jennifer, thank you for asking the question. First of all, im sure some of you have thought about it. About 3300 of us will now be losing their Health Insurance policies because of obamacare. This is incredibly hurtful. We have a national Affordable Care act, obamacare, as they call it, which is putting undue pressure and strain on the business communities and families. And one of the issues that we are seeing under obamacare is that moms and dads are responsible for taking care of their kids and making sure that they make good decisions for their kids and aging parents, they are losing their Health Care Plans lead the 3300 announced today. These folks are losing them through the Small Businesses that employ them. Last year roughly 10,000 individuals who buy policies on their own lost their Health Insurance. So its just not fair, jennifer, when you have a Large Corporation that has been given waivers from the obamacare mandate. But you have Small Businesses and individuals who are losing their Health Insurance as a result of that. And when they lose their Health Insurance they also lose their doctor. My son is asthmatic, he was diagnosed at age three. It is critically important for everyone to make sure that he was insured by the Health Insurance policy and that he had continuity with his pediatrician. And so its just not fair that families are losing their doctors and their Health Insurance plans were other folks are receiving waivers. In another example of this would be making the point that i would try to make. If one of our terrific employers called, they make highend votes, a Traffic Company with a backlog for their products. I was talking to one of the owners not long ago and i may not get this exactly right, but 45 or 46 employees and because of the backlog that they had come and they wanted to reach 85 employees and meet the demand of their customers and not lose their customers. In order to go from 45 to 85 employees, they would then come under the expensive mandate of obamacare. And it would be to expensive for them in and they could not get there. So the portal characters killing jobs. For example, once you reach that threshold, you now have to apply for comply with those expensive mandates. If you work 30 hours or more per week, then you also come under the obamacare mandate. So they are not hiring employees and they are cutting back a lot of workers below 40 hours a week. My opponent was responsible for implementing obamacare in the state of maine. Beyond that she believes in a complete government takeover over a health care system. Much more extreme obamacare. This is not fit what is going on in the state of maine. Its not right, its hurtful to our families and killing jobs. So we need to change the parts of obamacare that are killing jobs and keep the things that work like making sure that folks can be insured for preexisting conditions. What i disagree with my opponent who just has a very extreme view of a government takeover of health care, which is making healthier choices that they want to make, moms and dads for their kids. Moderator emily cain, would you change anything in the Affordable Care act, and if so, what would you change if you are elected to congress . Cain lets start with the rollout of the Affordable Care act, about now a year ago was a disaster and it caused a lot of frustration and a lot of people who were infuriated around the state. And that is what it comes down to is a complicated system. And it requires people that understand how to fix those kinds of problems. What has congress been doing for the past two years to try to fix that . They have been voting over and over again. It is not really a solution. It requires leaders willing to dig into those challenges and i will give you an example where i have done that. Two years ago i learned that under the Health Insurance laws in our state you could not be covered for your Cancer Treatment if you required chemotherapy in the form of a pill rather than intravenously. This is costing families thousands of dollars a month and every time the bill had come forward it was too hard to get through. I spent two years working on that bill and working with the families and the patience and the Insurance Companies to move it through the legislature. It took time and we couldve given him, but thats not leadership to ignore those kinds of problems. After two years of work we passed the bill unanimously in the committee and this year on august 1, families that have been paying thousands of dollars, theres a woman i met and her sister, she was paying 900 per month for the past 10 years to get her lifesaving Cancer Treatment. On august 1 the cost is 45,000 for it the same month. And so that is lifechanging, that is lifesaving. When it comes to the Affordable Care act we absolutely have to go back to it and say, it is truly not working for Small Businesses the way that it should were Large Businesses the way it should and we are afraid that the rates are going to book for individuals. To fix those problems we have to have experience getting those policies and working class we aisle to find a solution that has been my experience. Moderator Blaine Richardson, what changes would you make if you would make any . Richardson i would. I would repeal it. As you heard from Bruce Poliquin, the devil is in the details and 2000 pages that they told us you need to pass it to know what is in it. The policies that are being written now have five to 6000 deductibles to do math. People are not going to use these insurance policies. Its an absolute problem. And it needs to be simple. If it was a good program, it wouldve gone off well, we wouldnt have had the computer problems, and they still have the computer problems. Unfortunately its not on the radar screen anymore because of ebola and all of these other world issues that are occurring, but this is a serious problem that is owing to take down our economy and make no mistake, there is a real solution here and it is private, medical health care to Insurance Companies, the receiver, the provider, government out of the insurance business, get the federal government out of the insurance business, and tort reform and emily cain form as well. Everyone has their fingers in health care and you look at the insurance company. You have billions of dollars in real estate which doesnt fix an asthmatic child. The whole thing blew up and is out of control. There is no way that we want to go to a federal system. We can already be that they cant handle ebola, they cant run the irs, they can keep the nsa under control. The federal government is not the answer and i dont want them in charge of my health care. Moderator that concludes the first section of our debate and we will take a quick rate can be right back. Moderator welcome back to the 2142nd Congressional District debate. This next segment features your questions submitted from members of the public and we want to thank everyone who submitted questions. And we are going to start with emily cain. The first question indicate that im a medical professional and im concerned about ebola. I dont think we are ready to handle this disease. What should the government be doing to prevent the spread and why havent the resources been used to develop a vaccine . Cain thank you, jennifer. This crisis is scary. Its frightening. Im worried about my friends and family who may be traveling around the country. And its very clear that the Obama Administration has not done enough. I saw some of the hearings of the cdc director this morning and its very clear that they are not ready and that we are behind the ball when it comes to making sure that we are ready to not only do the things that we need but also the people who are affected get the treatment that they need. I suggest closing on flights from countries that are dealing with this disease in crisis, we need to make sure we stop the spread of ebola and we also need to make sure that we stop it now before it spreads and gets worse. Its very scary and we are keeping a very close eye on it. Moderator Blaine Richardson, what should the government be doing to prevent the spread of this and why havent resources been used to help a vaccine . Richardson clearly there is no leadership in the country which should concern every citizen. Its a deadly virus, it doesnt care what race you are, it is 70 to 90 fatal and the federal government in the hospital and medical system has resisted having a strategy for this virus. Interestingly enough osha wanted to push protocol for Infectious Diseases like this, and there was a lot of pushback from the Hospital Association and i saw that on fox news today. I find that a little bit alarming. And if nothing else a little bit elitist area it concerns me greatly. My mother had polio and choose one of two kids in nashua that had it and survived. And so the solution is not going to clearly come from the federal government. They have no protocol, the story keeps changing. Moderator thank you. Bruce poliquin, what should the government be doing to prevent the spread of thats . This is a serious matter and i agree with my opponent. You know, this is a deadly disease and its highly infectious. The administration has completely dropped the ball. My judgment is a lot more mature at age 60 then my 30s. We have some very serious issues that we are facing in this country and when it comes to this disease i believe that we must absolutely stop travel from west africa where these individuals are coming from, we have to do everything to help them care this. And also we need to secure the borders. This becomes not only a National Security issue, but also a security issue. This is an example where she believes in amnesty for students that are here illegally, i do not. We need to control the borders to make sure we understand this and we just disagree on that. I dont think that we should give in to the folks. Moderator emily cain, a response to that. Cain what you got was a typical political response from a personal attack, just like we see in washington dc right now. I do not support amnesty and ive never supported amnesty. I do support the opportunity for kids that are not rockier were brought here, excuse me, by their parents and not their own choice, that they have the opportunity to take steps for service and get an education and have the american dream. Moderator okay. Cain it should not evolve in the personal attacks. Moderator a personal question, from jane in farmington. She says im 91 years old and i dont know what i would do without the dirty. And i dont hear the candidates talking about the way they would work to protect this program that helps minds of americans just like me. How we protect Social Security for future generations. Richardson in washington, rest assured, we will find a way to fund Social Security for all those who have paid into it. I want to be very clear that if its it does not an entitlement for those individuals that paid into it, something that they invested in and they have every expectation to have that promise met by the federal government. Having said that, younger generations we need to find a strategy for them. I dont trust the federal government. Clearly they took the money of the Social Security lockbox and i have no reason to believe that in the future they will put the money back in her. We need to develop a strategy and an Investment Strategy that allows the individual to make a savings account or a portfolio that will allow them to have control over instead of the federal government. Clearly congress has demonstrated that they are not responsible with the citizens money and i can promise her moderator thank you. What would you tell jane about her Social Security . Poliquin when i am in congress, we will have someone who understands this issue very well and will protect the security and medicare benefits. My mother is 86 years old, two years ago she fell and broke her shoulder and she relied on medicare to help her out a couple of years ago and she also relied on Social Security. We made a promise to our seniors who paid into the system and we need to make sure that there are no changes in medicare or Social Security benefits. When i am in congress, i will protect us. However, we need to have a very serious adult discussion. My son is 24. We need to make sure that we save those two programs and where are those benefits down the road . We have to make sure we do this. My opponent supports obamacare. Obamacare has cut 716 billion from medicare to help to fund their programs. So how are we going to trust them . Moderator emily cain, what are you going to say to jane about her Social Security . Everyone deserves to retire in our state, and that is to strengthen and protect Social Security and medicare. When it comes to Social Security, one of the best ways we can strengthen is by growing the economy. If we were raised in a wage, im the only candidate that supports that, we will support billions of dollars in to the Social Security system. If we achieve equal pay for equal work, when women are earning only 78 cents on the dollar, we can cut down a shortfall of Social Security by one third. When it comes to medicare we need to do, since things like i have done in the state legislator. We save medicaid more than 4 million a year by allowing generic drugs to be used. We would be allowed to negotiate Prescription Drug prices and be able to save billions and those are the kind of commonsense approaches and i have the experience to get it done. Moderator the third question comes from ron. He writes that the United States trade representative is currently negotiating trade agreements with a large group of pacific rim nations as well as the european union. These agreements are being negotiated in secret but some has been released, would you support the investment provision in these agreements that would allow Foreign Corporations to sue national, state, or local governments for this creating socalled barriers for trade and certainly the laws are by american individuals. Richardson i dont know the details what the gentleman is asking, but i will tell you that in my opinion, having spent 35 years growing the economy and creating jobs, it is incredibly important that we have free trade. Because when you have no workers in the state of maine trying to sell their products overseas, we need to make sure that the markets are open to them. However, we also need to make sure that we are competing on a level Playing Field. That means making sure that our companies can compete and our workers can compete. Let me give you an example. One of our traffic companies process frozen berries. And they open a new plan a short time ago but its not a washington county. And the reason for that is because the tax rate is 31 in canada but it would be 51 in maine. About 20 difference that does not create a level Playing Field, we need a level Playing Field and regulations and taxes and trade to make sure that we can compete with the rest of the world. Moderator which would you like me to repeat the question . Cain no, thats fine. We need fair trade to protect american jobs. And allows us to compete on a level Playing Field. The reality of the free trade that tremont supports means that we have exported jobs and imported unemployment checks. Im tired of it, its not okay. Negotiating these trade deals and secret making sure they are not in the best interest of the american economy. We need to make sure theres more transparency in the process when it comes to the freedom of states to pass laws and i personally have stood up in particular as someone who wants to get the toxic chemicals out of kids toys and those that we cant even see or taste out of our water and environment, harming the health of children and families. We need to put a stop at the state level and the only way to do it is to bring transparency and stop the exporting of american jobs and labor and environmental standards. Moderator Blaine Richardson, which are likely to repeat the question . Richardson no, im insensitive thing done in secret, and that foreign entities would be given any preference under our constitution. Clearly both parties republican and democrat parties, they own nafta and the other trade agreements that we have and when you look around the countryside, that is where the jobs went. The Free Trade Agreement didnt work in our favor and to kill the main companies. The Shoe Companies left, the woolen mills laughed, and free trade has never worked in our favor. So at the end of the day, those making these agreements are the only ones that will benefit. The main work for the American Worker cannot tolerate amnesty and 14 Million People coming in while we have foreign entities that are taking our jobs away. I just cant stand it. The Second District is dying as a result of this and free trade. Moderator this is another section of the debate when you can ask each other a question from each of you will be able to ask a question of either of your opponents and you will have 22nd two asked the question so please keep it brief. And there will be chance for a short rebuttal. Cain bruce, it is well known and documented that you own 10 acres of oceanfront property worth almost 2 million off the coast of maine and its been called one of the most valuable pieces of property in our state. In 2010 just for you became in your possession, position, use the tax loophole to pay only 21,000 on that oceanfront property. How do you explain that to the working men and women who right now are getting their property tax bills and are not sure how they are going to afford to pay them. Thank you for the question, i appreciate it. My opponent is airing false allegations about my record when it comes to taxes. Im in the real estate business, ive been in the real estate business longer than she has been in the state of maine. I have Real Estate Property throughout the state and i have always paid off my taxes in full, always. Paid thousands of dollars in taxes and she knows it. But what happens in these political campaigns is unfortunate is that i am trying to make contact between her record and what she does in washington. She levels personal attacks and that is what happens when you get career politicians, they dont let you defend a record and so i think that it is disingenuous and i think that she should take the tax down because they are false. Moderator your rebuttal . Cain if you want to compare attack ads, just look online and you can go on a tv may be airing on another channel right now and be a part of this. I am someone that has lowered energy costs to make sure that we have health care that is more affordable for our businesses. Those are the facts, and im proud to have served the people of the state for the last 10 years. I want to make it clear to emily and her agents that i have always paid my taxes all the time. And what you just heard, i hope everyone in the Second District understands that shes taking credit for reducing taxes. One of the things that she says is that during the governors firstrun in 2011 and she negotiated the largest tax cut in state history and that is completely false. She negotiated against those tax cuts that were included in the budget. And then she didnt have the vote and she came out publicly and said that i hate those tax cuts. So it included, by the way, those removed completely and she negotiated against them and shes now trying to take credit for them because shes running for congress. The people of the state of maine are tired of this band. They want honest people and i think that you should tell them about this. The difference is that i was there, i was at the state house late at night working on that budget. And there was a difficult budget and im proud to have protected health care from people for my budget. At the same time i lowered taxes for the middle class families and the truth is that i was there. Moderator is your chance to ask your opponent questions. Im just curious. I last 15 years in the state, i have built 11 custom homes and for sure sign a lot of paychecks on the front and actually created a lot of carpenter jobs, roofing jobs, foundation jobs, im just curious when you always talk about how many jobs you created. How many jobs have you created . In the private sector of the growing economy, one Software Company that iran had 43 employees and one pension Investment Companies had business that had about a dozen employees and so on. And we recognize that the most important issue in this district and it has the record in the state and elsewhere and we need to make sure that we are so tied and we need folks that are not career politicians and they need to learn how to negotiate and get the best deal that they can and then solve the problem and move on. But other people bicker and point fingers when they dont like to talk about the record. We had enough of that in washington and that is why i want to go to washington to help to fix the mass and not become part of it. Would you like to offer a rebuttal . Poliquin i find it curious, you call emily a politician and im not sure what you want to refer to me as, but you are certainly wall street insider and it said a National Bailout and tarp and it came back from. Moderator thank you. We need to move along here. I would like to answer that question and i thank you. First of all, you can see that my opponent is attacking hard work. I scrubbed toilets and doug suhr lines and painted metal roofs to get through college. After college i started my 35 years in business and im very proud of my hard work. And i was not in new york when the meltdown was there. In fact, i used my experience in new york to help address some of the most difficult problems that the state has ever had. So i reject that is completely false. And emily you have a record of cutting taxes and on the 100 and two items, it was so bad that the next year in 2010, the people of the state of maine repeal those taxes and how can you say that the tax cuts that you push through in 2009 had to be repealed by the people. How can you say that you cut that when thats not true . Its interesting, the attacks that he is throwing my way about taxes concerning my record, they simply ignore the facts. In 2011 on not only work with the governor on issues like this that i worked with republicans in the legislature to lower the tax burden and lower the income tax for Small Businesses. And as someone who has spent 10 years doing this work, i will take this moment to address this as a career politician. Other states dont have them. But here in the state of maine from our entire state are built on people that show up to do Public Service and for me my record is clear, i have negotiated and voted and balanced 24 bipartisan individuals. They have never been creating a job, trying to reinvent this and they had no republican support, she didnt answer the question, she held to push this on separate items and the people of maine had to repeal it. This last year and 2013. Moderator were on to yes or no questions. Do you agree with a womans right to choose as outlined . . Roe versus wade is the law of the land. The life begins at conception is the policy. This is the law of the land, i raise my son from the time that he was born. And im proud to make sure that i believe in life and i do. Moderator family . Cain im a prochoice catholic and i believe that all women should be able to make their own decisions. Moderator what about roads and bridges and making improvements . We need yester know answers. Support raising taxes to support Infrastructure Improvements . Cain its not the right approach. Moderator should Surveillance Drones be allowed to be used . Cain not without a warrant. Poliquin no. Richardson no. Moderator what about temperature changes . Poliquin manmade activity is a part of this, and we need a balanced approach. Cain it is real. We further reduced the number of military bases. We have to look at all spending at the federal level. It needs to be studied. Moderator would you support oil from canada for experts . No, we need to focus on renewable energy. This is a state and local issue, not a federal issue and we need to make sure that we increase production. Moderator wayne richardson, do you support the u. S. Position to do air strikes against isis . Richardson yes. Poliquin we need to do more than that. Cain yes, i do. Moderator and do you support it this . Poliquin yes. Cain yes. Cain yes. Moderator moving on to closing statements, each candidate will have one minute to speak directly to the audience. We have determined that he order to the debate and Bruce Poliquin will go first. Poliquin thank you very much. This country is on the wrong path and Everybody Knows it. We have to many politicians in washington who have never created a job. Like my opponent, they wastefully spend tax dollars and they drive up debt like the 500 milliondollar hospital bed and they spend welfare instead of saving it for those that truly needed and taxes have to pay for it. And to make matters worse they bicker and drive up the cost of energy. So cost more for your electric bill and would put gas in the tank and heater holmes. Emily cain promotes the same liberal policies as nancy pelosi, shes much too extreme for maine. I look forward to serving in congress. I will take my business experience creating jobs in growing the economy to try to fix the mess in washington and i will work with republicans, democrats, independents, anyone to make sure that we get it right. On november the fourth i ask you to go to the poll. Moderator its your turn for closing statement. Richardson i will uphold every aspect of the constitution and work with any party to create opportunities and bring jobs to the Second District. I will not compromise on our National Security and i will answer all threats to this country. I will not compromise your gun rights, i will not squander your tax dollars and in washington dc i will old the value that defines independent people that believe in hard work and honest they know what it means to live within a budget. As you can see, there are differences between me and the other candidates tonight. Emily cain is a young leader and brings envisioned to the table. That you can bet that youth and ambition does not trump a lifetime of wisdom and prudence and for brutes always see our tax and his willingness to put civility aside for the sake of getting elected. Those are certainly not for those of the second best record i believe that those communities need to be represented in congress that will not put wall street first or special Interest Groups for someone not put a Political Party first. Cain for the past 10 years i have been a strong voice for middle class and values in our state legislature. Many people get up everyday and do the hard work and make the tough choices to support their families and their Small Businesses and their communities. And as you have heard tonight, there are clear differences in this race. I bring optimism and mean values and a proven track record over the last 10 years of working across the aisle with republicans and democrats and independents to face our states toughest challenges area to get the job done. Ive done that to Lower Energy Costs and to lower taxes and to make sure that we are protecting our seniors so they can retire with dignity in our state. The other choice in this race is someone who time and again is known for bending the rules and weve had enough of that in washington. The problems facing us today require leaders who know how to work across the aisle to bring maine valleys to the table and to stay there and get the job done. I am proud to ask for your vote on november 4. Think you. Moderator thank you to all of the candidates are taking part for the broadcast times are more information, go to our website. Thank you for joining us. Of. We will bring you more politics moron i of campaign 2014 coverage of the u. S. Senate rate. Watch the debate at 9 00 p. M. On cspan. One of more than 100 debates with a controlled congress. Be part of the campaign coverage. Like us on facebook to get debate schedules and debate previews from our politics teams. 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