Opioid crisis. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rated this race solidly democratic. To Colorado University. I am a publisher of the daily sentinel and im pleased to serve as moderator tonight. This event is made possible in part by macy university, Colorado Public Radio and k rcc. Tonights event is produced by cmu faculty and students. I would like to welcome Democrat Michael bennet and republican joe odea to grand junction. Thank you both for joining us in person. Both campaigns have agreed to the rules of tonights forum and will respond to a series of questions from our panel. We are joined by a reporter from the daily sentinel, and the editor, and a student. Each question will be posted posed to both candidates and each will have 90 seconds to respond. Whoever gets the question first will have a 32nd rebuttal. As moderator i reserve the right to interrupt candidates who go over time. We have one hour together, so lets get started. I will recognize our first candidate for openin
Good evening and welcome to Colorado University. I am a publisher of the daily sentinel and im pleased to serve as moderator tonight. This event is made possible in part by macy university, Colorado Public Radio and k rcc. Tonights event is produced by cmu faculty and students. I would like to welcome Democrat Michael bennet and republican joe odea to grand junction. Thank you both for joining us in person. Both campaigns have agreed to the rules of tonights forum and will respond to a series of questions from our panel. We are joined by a reporter from the daily sentinel, and the editor, and a student. Each question will be posted posed to both candidates and each will have 90 seconds to respond. Whoever gets the question first will have a 32nd rebuttal. As moderator i reserve the right to interrupt candidates who go over time. We have one hour together, so lets get started. I will recognize our first candidate for opening remarks, senator bennet. Sen. Bennet thank you, jay. Thank you
Good evening and welcome to Colorado University. I am a publisher of the daily sentinel and im pleased to serve as moderator tonight. This event is made possible in part by macy university, Colorado Public Radio and k rcc. Tonights event is produced by cmu faculty and students. I would like to welcome Democrat Michael bennet and republican joe odea to grand junction. Thank you both for joining us in person. Both campaigns have agreed to the rules of tonights forum and will respond to a series of questions from our panel. We are joined by a reporter from the daily sentinel, and the editor, and a student. Each question will be posted posed to both candidates and each will have 90 seconds to respond. Whoever gets the question first will have a 32nd rebuttal. As moderator i reserve the right to interrupt candidates who go over time. We have one hour together, so lets get started. I will recognize our first candidate for opening remarks, senator bennet. Sen. Bennet thank you, jay. Thank you
Colorado university. I am a publisher of the daily sentinel and im pleased to serve as moderator tonight. This event is made possible in part by macy university, Colorado Public Radio and k rcc. Tonights event is produced by cmu faculty and students. I would like to welcome Democrat Michael bennet and republican joe odea to grand junction. Thank you both for joining us in person. Both campaigns have agreed to the rules of tonights forum and will respond to a series of questions from our panel. We are joined by a reporter from the daily sentinel, and the editor, and a student. Each question will be posted posed to both candidates and each will have 90 seconds to respond. Whoever gets the question first will have a 32nd rebuttal. As moderator i reserve the right to interrupt candidates who go over time. We have one hour together, so lets get started. I will recognize our first candidate for opening remarks, senator bennet. Sen. Bennet thank you, jay. Thank you to cmu for hosting this tre
Same policies that Blake Masters is now promoting. These were quality generals and they had reasons to walk away from the exact same policies. Host ok. We are running short on time, but we have got to talk about water. I wish we had more time to talk about this, but senator kelly, starting with you. 45 seconds, lets start there and see how far we can go. We are facing shortterm and longterm cuts to the Colorado River water. How do we address this issue and it is a major issue . Mr. Kelly this is the worst drought that is part of the planet has seen in 1000 years. Its been going on 22 years. Lake powell and mead are at crisis levels. And we have got to take some immediate steps. I got money from washington to help farmers keep water up in lake mead. That is just a stopgap measure. We cannot do this all on our own. We are one of three lower basin states with nevada and california. I was on the phone recently with the california governor because they are not stepping up to help. My oppone