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
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