Determining fob and a me know or if a newcomer can push through. Tonight, the candidates. [applause] Josh Mcelveen good evening. And welcome to our live wmur Granite State debate series from the New Hampshire institute of politics at saint anselm college. Im political director Josh Mcelveen. Tonight, well be addressing the most important topics in New Hampshire and the nation, with the candidates for our states first Congressional District, independent candidate, businessman Shawn Oconnor, democratic challenger former u. S. Congresswoman carol representative frank guinta. We will take a look at the format. Questions will come from the moderator and our panelists, each candidate will have one minute to respond. Rebuttals will be at the moderators discretion. Each candidate will also get time for a closing statement. Before we start with the questions tonight, lets meet our panelists. Dan tuohy is a reporter for the New Hampshire union leader. John distaso is a wmur political reporter. A
Independent Shawn Oconnor. Oconnor ive voted as recently as 2014 for members of both parties. Which republican did you vote for . You are a republican. Im going to back you up on that. Oconnor i mean you see this is great. I am a true moderate. Because theyre both trying to put me into a slot. No, no, no. Tom wmur political director Josh Mcelveen moderated tonights debate and joins us live from the institute of politics at saint anselm college. Reporter over the course of the last elections, carol sheaporter has developed a political rivalry and it is often played out on the you debate stage and while they were certainly not shy about going after each other with criticisms they also managed to find some Common Ground in this one at least when it came to the independent candidate in this written the end of etiquette it was on stage with him tonight Shawn Oconnor lets get a recap that debate with adam sexton who is standing by live. Reporter josh the past 3 debates between carol sheaport
We have so much to get to, but before we do, how about that baseball game last night. Did you watch it . Wow. You know, we had a big show last night. Last night we had a new mean tweets. We did a live simulcast using a hologram from nashville. We have a major expensive show, and nobody watched it because they were watching the game. It was the most watched baseball game in 25 years. The cubs won if there were any cubs fans still alive from the last time they won, they definitely died in the eighth inning. It was funny hearing all the reporters after the game saying things like the last time the cubs won the world series you couldnt listen to it on the radio because radio hadnt been invented yet, and the last time the cubs won the world series, people werent able to clap because we still had flippers. A lot of the credit for this win goes to the president of the cubs. This is the guy who put together the red sox team that broke their curse. For a man who is so good at busting curses, yo
Independent Shawn Oconnor. Oconnor ive voted as recently as 2014 for members of both parties. Which republican did you vote for . You are a republican. Im going to back you up on that. Oconnor i mean you see this is great. I am a true moderate. Because theyre both trying to put me into a slot. No, no, no. Tom wmur political director Josh Mcelveen moderated tonights debate and joins us live from the institute of politics at saint anselm college. Reporter over the course of the last elections, carol sheaporter has developed a political rivalry and it is often played out on the you debate stage and while they were certainly not shy about going after each other with criticisms they also managed to find some Common Ground in this one at least when it came to the independent candidate in this written the end of etiquette it was on stage with him tonight Shawn Oconnor lets get a recap that debate with adam sexton who is standing by live. Reporter josh the past 3 debates between carol sheaport
Moisture systems could give us a sprinkle or a flurry here or there. We have one such system gliding through the North Country currently. Winds pick up out of the northwest and go at times 20 mph into the afternoon. We will jump into the low and mid 50s, where he will have sunshine in central and southern areas. Continuing to cool off here for the weekend. Much more coming up in just a bit, but lets look at your friday morning ride here in the Granite State. Were joined live by 95. 7 wzids deb daon deb right now, it remains a nice, quiet ride. Interstate 89 and 93 are both moving nicely, and up to speed. Were also not seeing any delays on 101, 111, or the spalding. Massachusetts is ok on 93 southbound until woburn. A little tight getting through the 95 connector, and then smooth sailing into boston. This report is being brought to several local towns are being warned this morning that their School Bus Drivers could go on strike later this month. Erin this involves drivers for the Compa