Rules for todays debate and also serve as moderator. Thank you very much. Thank you especially to the candidates for joining us today. Please allow me to briefly review the format and rules. You have up to three minutes for your Opening Statement. The order was determined by a drawing prior to the event. After the Opening Statement well have questions. Youll be allowed 90 seconds for your answers to answertors questions to all of you. There will be a 90 second answer from that candidate and 30second rebuttal from the others. Youll be signaled when you have 15 seconds left and when your time is up. The first half of the program is for questions from the moderator, myself, and the second half for questions from our audience in the room. There are many partsans in the room i know and we ask that you reframe from excessive cheering as that kind of gets in the way of what were trying to accomplish here, not to dampen your enthusiasm. Thank you all for being here. The order was determined by
Our states was 900 million in debt. Today we have a budget surplus. 140,000 new jobs. Unemployment has been reduced 30 . The governor is just getting started. I will is back. Iowa is back. Is compassionate. He is a visionary. He is always looking forward. Where do we go next. Bring great jobs. We are seeing that. The jobs are there. Unemployment is low. Were seeing young people moving back. Iowans working today than in any time in our states history. I am really optimistic about the future. He has a passion for this date. Years, people are tired of governor branstad. There is the 110 million deal. Taxpayer money given to an egyptian billionaire. Its called the dumbest economic decision made in iowa. They even tried to abolish preschool funding. Thats while giving tax rates to wealthy interests. It is tight for a fresh start. Time for a fresh start. Are two men running for i will governor. Branstad, jack hatch. Governor branstad has given way to hundred Million Dollars to well a well fi
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Here is your moderator, ryan wolf. Republican candidate, attorney general greg abbott in democratic candidate senator Wendy Davis Square off in a one hour debate. Good evening and welcome to this historic first Gubernatorial Debate in texas live from the Edinburg Conference Center in the Rio Grande Valley. I am ryan wolf. This is the first texas Gubernatorial Debate ever held in the Rio Grande Valley and we could not be more excited about it. Certainly we would not be here without the candidate so whats meet them right now. Senator wendy davis, thank you for being here, attorney general greg abbott, thank you for being here. We want to welcome our audience members watching tonight, from the auditorium, people watching this across the state of texas on tv, online, and across the nation on cspan. Myould like to introduce coanchors tonight, carlos sanchez, the editor at the gars monitor. You could be a part of this historic debate. Hop online, social media and twitter and use the rgbdebat
Taxes are too high for the middle class and the working poor. I never thought i would see the day when a republican candidate in congressman hutchinson here would criticize me for wanting to cut peoples taxes too much. I subscribe to the governor beebee model. This is a similar debate to what they had eight years ago, when the governor said we will save on the sales tax on groceries because we can afford that. Anderson hutchinson said it was an empty promise. Fastforward, 80 of the tax has been taken off and the law has passed to take the remaining 20 off. I subscribe to the same model. My plan is this, we will balance the budget first, Fund Education and public safety. With Revenue Growth we will in the let my plan for lower and fair taxes. You have manufacturers, prek, and a third one that escapes me. A threepronged approach. Which one takes precedence . Here is what i think is important, and his campaign, i have said here are my priorities. Here is my vision. Here is what i want to