Tossup. Welcome. Lawmakers program, you are watching the Atlanta Press club debate series. , this is the general Election Debate for candidates running for u. S. Senate to fill the seat currently held by david perdue. In order to ensure everyones safety, the candidates and panelists are participating from their homes. The Atlanta Press club get a special thank you to georgia public broadcasting for helping to organize the online debate. T meet the candidates. They are in alphabetical order, libertarian chain hazel, marine corps veteran and cohost and producer of the rebellion podcast which analyzes politics from a local to global level. Democrat john served as ceo of inside the eye. Media Production Company that investigates corruption, organized crime and war crimes for International News organizations. Republican david perdue has served in the u. S. Senate, since 2015 before been elected to the senate, he sat on the board of five major corporations and cofounder perdue partners, a Gl
We talked to him about eugene debslegacy. Lets listen to what he had to say. A lot of big ideas that he advocated. He talked about what people get old, there should be social insurance for them. That is what we call Social Security today. Amazingly, in 2011 there are those same people that want to destroy Social Security. He believed health care was the right of all people. That battle continues today. I think it is fair to say that many of the huge advances made during the 1930s under president roosevelt, the Great Society under lyndon johnson, those were ideas that people liked eugene debs probably brought to the shaw, hd wells, helen keller, many people were involved in this movement to get the prisoners out. For harding, he had no interest in inheriting this mass. Mess. Debs foundation. Org is there website. Thank you to all of you for helping us put this program together. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 201
Order to ensure everyone safety the candidates and panelist are participating from their homes the press club gives a special thank you to georgia public broadcasting to help organize the online debate. Its me the candidates. Now medical order, libertarianel hazel, a marine corps veteran and cohost of the rebellion podcast analyzing politics from a local School Global level. Serving as ceo Media Production company to investigate corruption and organized crime for international newsn. Organizations republican david purdue serving in the senate since 2015 before being elected to the senate he sat on the board of five major corporations dallas meet the panel. And tom baxter and a reporter with the news now lets get started. Candidates will have 60 seconds to answer their questions and 32nd to respond to h rebuttals i will hold up a piece of paper so they know when there are ten secondsem remaining please go to the Atlanta Press club website. Each candidate will be asked to questions you g
Todays event we will include questions locate the q a button then i will post a link and if you already have a copy of the book would like to contribute in a different way we greatly appreciate any and all support. And lastly, if you participated in large gatherings recently technical issues may come up. We apologize in advance we will do our best to resolve them quickly. And now i am so pleased to introduce todays speaker as an associate professor of history have latino and latina studies the first book standing on Common Ground is a powerful portrait of frederick jackson. He is written about the cultural experience including the atlantic. Jonathan is a staff writer but his had from the American Immigration system and work for education reporting. Today discussing the book hispanic republican and the portrait of the evergrowing population to teach experts of american politics at a time when it is very much interpreted in the hispanic republican is the necessary corrections and talk ab
His return to his hometown of terre haute, indiana following his release from prison by president harding after a federal conviction stemming from the war protests. And tonight were in terre haute in the debs home and museum. Let me introduce you to our guests. Earnest freebuerg. Why do we care about him . Debs was one of the most important labor leaders at a crucial time of conflict between labor and capital. But more importantly, he was the central figure in the socialist movement at a time when it was a viable growing and important part of the american political call chu v culture. Does he have a Lasting Legacy . Like many third party candidates, they managed to move the conversation in very important directions that have affected the development of american democracy. So in that car, he is of his time but also at a long impact on us as well. And well have time to delve into some of the elections more deeply later on, but of the fire bids he made for the white house, any particularl