Im scott slayton. You are watching the Atlanta Press club Loudermilk Young the debate series. This is the general Election Debate for candidates running for the special election for the seat currently held by kelly leffler. We panelist for joining us from their homes or other remote locations. Candidates. Eet the they are doug collins, a republican from georgias ninth congressional district, a seat he has held since 2013. , a republicanfler appointed to the u. S. Senate in january, 2020, to replace a retiring senator. Slowinski, a real estate developer. Ander, a realist airmen. And Greg Bluestein is a political reporter with the atlanta journalconstitution. And the producer of morning edition. Secondses will have 60 to answer questions and 30 seconds to respond to rebuttals. If candidates feel they should get a rebuttal, they should raise their hand. When candidates are answering questions, i will hold up a piece of paper letting them know they have 10 seconds remaining. Now, lets get
Todays program is the third researcher talk this year. Next month, we pick up the pace a bit. On may 19, a professor of law and taxation at the university of virginia law school, and a former chief of staff on the joint committee of taxation, will speak about his research and that committees records, and the history of the joint committee. And on may 26, we host the professor of Political Science at wingate university, who will discuss her research for her book manuscript about the politics of National Identification documents in the United States in the 20th century. An Important Mission of the center is promoting Scholars Research in the records of the senate and house of representatives, and advancing the study of the history of congress. This researcher talk series helps us gauge how fully that mission is being met. And we do so by regularly hosting scholars who have conducted research in house and senate records, or have written significant books on the history of congress. In tod
In the texas 32nd congressional district, the incumbent democrat faces this challenger. They rate this race likely democratic. Democratic. Just want to review the rules of it. They are fairly simple. Two minutes for Opening Statements from the candidates. Nd for questions there will be a 92nd response for each candidate and a 45 second rebuttal for each candidate. Any further response or followup will be up to me. There the timekeeping, will be about four boxes on the one of those will have questions for use in this debate. When the candidate gets down to about 15 seconds left in their answer, that box will turn yellow. It will time is up, turn red. We will also have one minute closing statements in reverse order of opening. So, in keeping with the agreement reached between the two candidates, the opening genevievewill go to collins. Ms. Collins good evening. Thank you for hosting us. Thank you to the congressman for joining me and being flexible. Thank you to all of you for tuning in.
Thank you for your leadership in all your work. Congressman lawson, thank you for sending him to d. C. Because i have seen him in rooms when the cameras on and rooms when the cameras are off and he is always fighting. Always fighting for florida so can we please here for congressman lawson . [applause] who voted today . There we go. I came to florida today to help kick off early voting. I came to thank you, everybody here, for all you are doing. Let me tell you something, the voters of florida, you guys are going to determine the outcome of this election, im sure of it. You will determine the outcome of this election. The votes that you will cast, the votes that you have cast, the boats just the folks you get to go vote and remind everybody to vote early between today and sunday, november 1, are going to have an impact on people you may never meet. People who may never know your name but because you here in ,lorida voted in your number voted with your voice and the power of your voice,
Different. Studio,lists are in the Jennifer Vann and john to stay so. The candidates are in a different studio, separated by several feet as part of covid19 precautions good we look forward to a robust debate. Lets look at the candidate backgrounds. Governor whos planning and management faced a life or death tested this year. Governor sununu there were tough decisions we had to make. For known for pushing progressive reforms. Ive been pushing for families every step of the way. Adam they have two different approaches be it republican governor chris sununu has spearheaded much of the state response to covid19 and move forward on another of this years issues, police reform, using an executive order to implement a first round of changes. Governor sununu we are not a crisis point but i dont want to wait for a crisis. New hampshire does democracy better than any other state. Feltes worked on expand Health Care Coverage. He says he will not lose focus on solutions that help workingclass fami