The following is the New Hampshire 2020 special presentation welcome to the candidate debate along with a senior political reporter josh rogers. And to buy Health Guidelines as we bring them to you today also josh and me and the candidates are in some studios and all Wearing Masks in the public areas of the office. Each have 60 seconds to respond and in many cases and that what they would be given and 30 seconds to respond i would strongly discourage the candidates from interrupting each other they are incumbent republican chris sununu running for a third term also former executive will come back and great to have you. Thank you for your time will come back. Starting with the sixties second and Opening Statements you first you have a sixties second opening statement. Im not running for governor to be a governor to get things done for working people and working families. Hundreds of loved ones tens of thousands lost their jobs and homes and healthcare we all relied upon they dont know the next day the working class thats right come from a workingclass family and its an honor to be here with all of you for those my dad worked in the furniture factory 45 years day in and day out for 45 years with the New HampshireLegal Assistance and each and every day if i have the privilege i wills fight for workingclass families. Governor sununu go ahead with your statement. Gov sununu first a big thank you to everyone in New Hampshire we have gone through amazing times over the past year and to the National Guard and to those who have come to together in a very difficult time and have gone results. And when it comes to the campaign i understand the frustration on the other side and even more today than the Democratic Party pulled his ads on tv but is not appropriate to talk about the future in the Management Experience those of the challenges ahead of us and we can talk with them with the right experience and with positivity to be transparent and honest and we will keep doing i it. Host good morning the latest culminating case number show a spike in cases were double what they were two weeks ago hospitalizations are raising and you and your teams of higher numbers are t on tied tomorrow testing we have emphasized the circumstances dictate to flex in or out and what is the benchmark . Its a good point cases are going up we talked about this since may knowing as universities and schools open they are rising much more drastically we should not think that cant happen here and to plan for the worst and hope for the best looking at all of these measures in place getting ppe your testing we still have 500 test today now we do 5000 positivity is still at 1 percent today its a 16 or 17 and used to be well over 100 so theres a lot of capacity in the Health Care System and we have opened up other schools are restaurants and retail in a strategic way so we have to flex a very tough decision to make we can be strategic but we will use the data. And you do mention those communities spread in case number out of schools those are quite small but some districts have closed temporarily the decision they are making on the road. And with restaurant dining and in those segments. Not at this time. My day by day but hour by hour. We all have other cards to play but when we see a cluster we work with the organization and can get folks on a better path. We saw how the lowest numbers in the country one of the strongest economies patch with the department of Public Health very specific how we go about it. As what becomes more apparent with covid19 has had on women with a higher rate of wage so what policy should the state adopt that they dont become permanent quick. Specifically to women . There is a couple of issues talking about women or minorities or disparities and in the workplace we are ranked as one of the states in the country number five in terms of equity pay with that coefficient and one of the best in the country with middleclass pay parts the Management Experience to open them back up and we have been very successful so far. If you are governor right now what would you do given the case numbers we are seeing. Listen to the medical experts that is something that donald trump and chris sununu dont do on the math. Massive the medical experts have recommended. And that is like what trump and sununu did. And then to forward their own plans including the former commissioner of hhs. We also have to look out for the Health Care System to make sure we protect and chris sununu just like donald trump supports the appeal of obama care and has back in restricted access to safe and legal abortion. Donald trump gives him the a chris sununu gives himself the Gold Standard we have to protect and strengthen the Health Care System. Host most greatest leaders approval the performance of managing of the pandemic the poll numbers at 83 percent including 70 percent democrats so why the people think the governor who is done a good job on this front wrong . I have talked to need help. They are struggling. I dont know what the next week will bring let alone the next day. And its critical in the midst of a pandemic with the Health Insurance company to get access to healthcare during the last economic crisis with the wall street banks across New Hampshire and with that Medicaid Expansion to its existing conditions chris sununu literally took over 100,000 and Campaign Contributions to support the repeal of obama care. To the Supreme Court argument to put forth by President Trump to support the process Going Forward and with the working families and healthcare stability is critical moving forward. Getting a chance to discuss this segment that those that would have been devastated this spring or that could be coming to New Hampshire but with more restrictions that they needed this fall and this winter and more money doesnt come from washington what do you support businesses that could be analyzed ravaged of the pandemic . We need to support Small Businesses in particular. One. 5 billion taken control of and that people listening and watching at home, how much of his one. 2 5 billion did you get . How much did your family get . A bit you didnt get much and those Corporate Campaign donors at saigon honest truth. And those to strengthen and bolster the Health Care System. The mainstream relief and i set up is most successful in the country. And other state put the money we did for businesses. Tens of thousand. That the small diners are the flower shops some with only a couple of employees all got money to help them pay bills and taxes. So the nonprofits to selfemployed not texas or new york. And with the this tough economic times. Was talk about in the ways that bolster the particular arm argument we can agree this is tragic so what specifically would you have done differently than the governor . Sixtysecond. Is the way that society treats its most vulnerable. Represented folks in longterm care facilities for legal aid work to help people like diane who is a Breast Cancer survivor losing her job and then we reach out to the governors response didnt get a response and then we are her unemployment and then longterm care facilities and Nursing Homes we put forward measures to help in the comprehensive outside audit of what went wrong and the second wave was vetoed by chris sununu and we see spikes of outbreaks and Nursing Homes along care facilities. Host you have said repeatedly the governor wants to get rid of the Affordable Care act the at the governor signed onto a multistate lawsuit to defend the aca from a federal court challenge. If they oppose the aca and then seeking to appeal it. But chris sununu is opposing obama care. And he voted down Obama Care HealthCare Exchange and in 2016 ran on the pledge to repeal obama care. Because they were and Affordable Program that is obama care and senator shaheen and the late senator mike mccain voted no announced before the judge. Nomination to the Supreme Court she has a long history of opposition to obama care. Host and sign on to the letter to support judge. But to the other statements i will give you 30 seconds governor what about those previous statements and positions that mr. Teefive reasons that sounds like the aca. Gov sununu first of all i agree with most americans we all frustrated the lower cost with obama care didnt come to fruition and thats the frustration early on. But you dont just throw it out thats why i book the trend fighting to keep the aca in place and then there are other provisions in the republicans in 2017 who voted to do Medicaid Expansion the next five years. That was us supporting those initiatives. Spirit just for the record it is a bipartisan effort but getting back to longterm care and with those facilities it was tough. How would you is governor decide whether to clampdown or ease up what sort of metrics would you use . That could happen in early on in the independent that concrete recommendations. With the repeal of obama care and thats exactly what the federal legislation 2017 was the repeal without replacement. Christening you said it was a huge win in the u. S. Senate and had a huge loss thankfully and now in order to move forward with the entire Health Care System we need to protect and strengthen obama care and make it work. Host but my question was how word you decide to make that tough decision whether to clampdown to put more restrictions on the Nursing Homes or ease up . This has been very tough thats my question weve already talked about obama care. Listen to the medical experts and the cdc guidance to indicate routine frequent testing and then to do testing of the facilities inadequate with the inadequate approach for governor sununu. And then we need to do an independent audit and review. Host am looking at the clock i do want to give the governor a chance to have a 62nd opportunity. He said he was doing a great job at old doctor fauci said it is the model. And this extends to universal testing. With the elderly have been better protected . You are right. Vermont is done a great job report very closely. And senator teefive was at home and used to write Long Term Care facilities to say we didnt listen to those experts they are right here helping us to make these tough decisions and i was talking to the doctor one on one on these issues so we tackle these issues with the most Aggressive Program in the country we test more folks with longterm care than any other state because we are so good and aggressive about getting that testing it has nothing to do with senator feltes he was on the first three months they passed a bill on june 30th lincoln back for two days and passed one what we had already done. So with this political talking point we will have challenges of longterm care focusing on the stakeholders at risk. Host coming up on our next statement we will tackle the politics and take a very quick break and we will be right back. Along with a senior local reporter josh rogers and the democratic challenger and joshua began the next segment with you. Due to the state of emergency with a free hand the legislatures out of session and the judge ruled the authority and for react in the state of emergency you will be back to work more closely with the statehouse as is largely under democratic control. Based on the track record and then the veto and the key nominations so should the public expect anything different . This is a pandemic we had to take strict action legislature went away when it comes in doing the deal for testing it was literally minute by minute the guys in china, fema, everybody in the whole team to get it together thats exactly what the state of emergency and he had numberless there are a lot of pieces of the state of emergency in the orders they can keep that telemedicine stuff to put in place for the pandemic keep up and there are certain restrictions i think will have to stay in place and a lot of that absolutely should come before the legislature. But when the democrats sued me to slow things down that would have been a disaster for the state and frankly they have the gall to think the bureaucracy is put into our pandemic is the wrong approach. Being employed is why we have gotten such Great Results for the state. Now was not the time for victory lap. Donald trump gives himself in a press christening he gives himself the Gold Standard is not the time to parcels on the back we have to plan for the future with paid family medical leave insurance and stabilize the healthcare system. Been helping people the pandemic people like diane and beth of both the cracks with the Unemployment Insurance system and help Small Business owners and we made commonsense progress on telemedicine and codify that into law but this is fundamentally an issue of working together. Host so with the Wishful Thinking to envision the return of the the pandemic world when you are governor to say that divided government requires leaders to embrace the spirit of cooperation. You decided with the chief justice for more than a year because of the executive council disagreed with your first choice so given that word evidence is there in your spirit of cooperation quick. In the past year i. C. E. Signed more legislation with the Democratic Legislature passed out and knocked on maggie but we got more done than the four years that maggie didnt did i say no to that extreme legislation with taxes and fees and surcharges that they vetoed . Yes. Of the executive council thats why havent for the chief justice because they put in politics and they said you are republican so we can do it is a part republicans and democrats but the ugliest of washington politics and played in a process that was wrong. You sat on the council the governor proposes you have to get the votes and to be chief justice you know he didnt have the votes to do so. The most qualified candidate and dozens of judges and lawyers and those for 200 years there was no politics involved. Working with republicans and democrats amazing success and tell they let that type of attitude there was no place when the state of New Hampshire. And the politics on the council i have never heard of that. 79 pieces of legislation he does 65 a bipartisan support in job training and Addiction Treatment services independent bipartisan Redistrict Commission and with testing and treatment bipartisan work paid family medical leave insurance, the problem here isnt a democratic or republican problem occur sununu problem if we move forward in this way we have to win the race. Talk about the experience to inform the approach to politics but with your administrative experience what suggest you are qualified as a manager to this bureaucracy like the man on New Hampshire government quick. Chairman of the ways and Means Committee serving as a legal aid lawyer as a decade and part of the Service Helping people as best i could including the managing Justice Project and the grant work and discrimination all across New Hampshire managing the casework to say peoples homes in the Great Recession battling wall street banks. I was not gifted like a ski resort. I managed to help people stay in their homes the time he was working at the ski resort its a difference of perspective i will always look out for workers on the frontlines. Talk about teams the team of state employees in the state associations endorsed me and this race the state troopers and state police endorsed me so quite frankly governor they want a new coach. Asked what type of Management Experience he has he has no answer he is never managed a budget process or build the team to stay up nights worrying how they will make payroll the next day. Dan is taking shots of my business for so long do you know how many thousands of Family Businesses . I was proud to run my family business. It wasnt easy to worry about every day and those constant shots of my family mom on the scoreboard data on the Planning Board my point was a senator. My sister runs a museum other sister was a teacher. That is service not career politicians. That is New Hampshire is all about and i cannot be part of the service they have given the state. And constantly take shots we have done a great job that is the negativity and attack ad is unbelievable every single ad on tv is an attack why is that . Feltes just be clear governor you talk about your management of the ski resort as an issue. I will talk about