Election. The winner of this election will represent idaho in the United States senate for six years as one of two u. S. Senators for the state. I want to welcome the candidates, incumbent senator mike crapo, and challengers david roth and Scott Cleveland. Scott cleveland owns an investment and Brokerage Firm in eagle. Prior to that, he was the managing partner of the boise office of new york rise. Mike crapo is seeking his fifth term in the u. S. Senate. He previously served as representative for idahos can Congressional District for three terms and in the Idaho State Senate for four terms. David roth was the executive director of the bonneville Youth Executive Council and is on the board for habitat for humanity in idaho falls and idaho falls soup kitchen. I want to introduce our panel of reporters who will ask the candidates questions today. Betsy russell of the idaho press, Margaret Carmel i am melissa devlin. I am moderating todays debate, helping us keep time is bridget gibson, v
Mike crapo is seeking his fifth term in the u. S. Senate. He previously served as representative for idahos can Congressional District for three terms and in the Idaho State Senate for four terms. David roth was the executive director of the bonneville Youth Executive Council and is on the board for habitat for humanity in idaho falls and idaho falls soup kitchen. I want to introduce our panel of reporters who will ask the candidates questions today. Betsy russell of the idaho press, Margaret Carmel i am melissa devlin. I am moderating todays debate, helping us keep time is bridget gibson, volunteer time keeper from the league of women voters education fund. Each candidate will be given 90 seconds for opening comments and 60 seconds for close. Candidates have 90 seconds to answer questions and 60 seconds for rebuttal. I will allow backandforth if i think the conversation is productive and educational for voters, while trying to make sure each candidate gets equal time. We drew numbers
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
One of two u. S. Senators for the state. I want to welcome the candidates, incumbent senator mike crapo, and challengers david roth and Scott Cleveland. Scott cleveland owns an investment and Brokerage Firm in eagle. Prior to that, he was the managing partner of the boise office of new york rise. Mike crapo is seeking his fifth term in the u. S. Senate. He previously served as representative for idahos can Congressional District for three terms and in the Idaho State Senate for four terms. David roth was the executive director of the bonneville Youth Executive Council and is on the board for habitat for humanity in idaho falls and idaho falls soup kitchen. I want to introduce our panel of reporters who will ask the candidates questions today. Betsy russell of the idaho press, Margaret Carmel i am melissa devlin. I am moderating todays debate, helping us keep time is bridget gibson, volunteer time keeper from the league of women voters education fund. Each candidate will be given 90 sec
Arizona and the surrounding states . Guest this is the second year ever in the seven states sharing Colorado River water that weve had a declared shortage, and this year, going into 2020, this is going to be deeper than they were in 2022. We are preparing for deeper cuts. More important, across the basin, everyone acknowledges that the steps we have in place, including substantial deliveries, it will enter next year and not be sufficient. We have to figure out a way to leave a lot more water in the system, so lake powell, one of the big reservoirs, or california and arizona, nevada and new mexico, they will not crash, and the levers wont it so low that hydropower cannot be produced by those stands or that water could actually get a level cold dead pool, where water cannot be the liver did it was announced that the Colorado River states, the one you are talk about, we can show them, they failed to meet a federal deadline. What happened . Guest states were given two months to come up wit