I have spent time with the parents of children, who suffer from seizure disorders. Last year when we voted in the senate to allow those lawabiding citizens and folks who care so much about their children to have access to that cannabis oil treatment, i was proud. I was disappointed that the gridlock prevent it from taking place and would like to see better leadership at the time. I do support that and will 30 to do so and would gladly signed legislation. With respect to marriage, i believe in religious liberty and personal freedom and i do not believe that anyone should tell a church or religious organization who can be married, but i do believe the government when it calls to doling out right should do it equally. I take an oath to the constitution and would certainly continue to apollo to the constitution as long as it remains valid under the law. Your turn to answer a question ask a question. During the report and primary, you agree to make your recent income tax available but you have yet to do so. Do you still intend to do so and when . I believe mr. Carter has made the same commitment and is not made his income tax available. I intend to make my tax returns available like ive done previously. Let me just say, ive seen senator carters ad about my business was done this a typical illustration of how some liberals look at private enterprise. They have this thing for people to make a business start. We work with the business for over 2 decades, meeting weekly payroll. I do not agree with the proposition that the government may our business successful. I turned it over to a blind trust when i became a governor, a National Company wanted to buy our business and we agreed to sell. Unlike the liberal context where georges have built businesses from scratch, i want to tell you, is not the government that made us successful but those of us who worked to make our companies successful. Mr. Carter, i will give you a chance for rebuttal. This the business governor deal was using to make better. It is a practice. The taxpayers have been on the hook. There are 3 million coming out of our pockets to deal with this governors cover up of prior issues. Id will tell you. When i think about these facts we see, i think we deserved more of a response than liberal namecalling. I am going to let you respond. Yes. With regards to any taxes that may be owed by the copy that about our company, i have led a neutral judge make the call and we will collect every cent. The allegations about ethics charges is something senator carter has related. That affix commission heard the charges against me and dismissed them as being of no merit whatsoever just as the charging against him has been dismissed as well. Sandra parrish, your question. Two years ago, georgia ranked 50th in an ethics report. We have not only performed the ethics rules especially tightening them down, it is greatly improved our status in terms of ratings. We have in my administration that almost 250,000 into the Ethics Commission to update their Computer System and give them the authority. It should not take anybody 2. 5 years to determine a case against a candidate as no valid merit whatsoever as was the case with me. I want to make sure that we have reforms and that is why i have recommended we make reformed fear to include all three branches of government making equal appointments. The debate about the miss functioning of that commission has been primarily the inability of staff to coordinate their activities. If we have independent members who do not vote on charges that come against individuals from the government that has appointed them, we will remove any doubt. Another question from the public. This is from ashley mcdonald. This for all of you. In regards to the Affordable Health care act, how do you plan to help middleclass families who make too much money to qualify for assistance yet who struggles trying to pay for health care . Mr. Carter . Right now the federal government has 36 billion dollars of our money and the governor has fought to keep that money. It does not make sense for our people and for the 600,000 georgians who would have health care it not for the governors decision. There are 35,000 jobs that would come and our Health Care Sector if we took the federal doctors that are ours. That is what looking for solutions looks like. The governor has played washington politics repeatedly on this issue and decided to bring his experience in congress here and say the most important the is partisanship. I believe we have to solve problems. Our rural hospitals are in crisis. There are five that have close. We must charge forward on this issue and as governor, i will do it. Ensuring georgia gets its fair share. First of all, i think you should know the fact that george and taxpayers georgia taxpayers support the current Medicaid Program at both the state and federal level and if we expanded, it would cost 2. 5 billion dollars over the next 10 years. I simply do not think we can afford to do that. It is not money where paid in post. Much of it is money the federal government does not have. Where paid some 351 million and is much it to come into compliance with the Affordable Care act. I think we have to be responsible with taxpayers money and make sure we do what idea with an executive order in regards to rural hospitals. Allowing them to cut back to the services they can provide. Mr. Hunt . Where a Major Health Care crisis where most people cannot afford to get services. The problem is the rules and regulations there. We need tort reform. We must get down the legal costs costing our provider so much and neither of the attorneys running against me will bring that. I will make sure we get toward reform and reduced 20 of our medical costs through this one avenue. We must have a Free Enterprise system where people are not forced to buy insurance but can go indirect relationship with doctors through medical coops that have been proven other states to reduce the cost. That is what we need. Free enterprisebased solutions, less regulation, and tighten down on the lawyers, who are in your insurance policy. Every time you pay your health insurance, you are paying a lawyer. I skipped Christopher King so we will pick up. Each of the candidates have mentioned and talked about a little bit before and this question is for all of the candidates. As you mentioned, georgia ranks sixth in the nation for job creation. It still has the highest Unemployment Rate and the country. The same state Labor Department puts the jobless rate at several point i percent 7. 9 . It is much higher than the national average. What would you do to reduce unemployment and create not just lowpaying jobs but wellpaying jobs . I would definitely and both my job Powerhouse Program and we can drive within my term, drive unemployment less than 5 and that is what we need. A better job environment and the better the pay. Eight would be done in such a way that only fulltime jobs paying 11 an hour or more our reward. It is for every town, every city. We have 2 of the highest poverty cities and the country. Or do you want to give in to this . You get to choose who you buy your services from. Jim galloway . This question is for all three gentlemen. In 2003, the Legislature Passed legislation should the state of georgia take the next step and criminalizing this activity . That is an excellent question and what you have to look at is maybe we are doing too many regulations. Maybe you should allow a little bit of money to come to these impoverished players. Lets rethink the whole thing and make that would have done liberty and opportunity for people. Lets have a has a they can make a reasonable amount of money. It make it so that can make a reasonable amount of money. We need to clean up our sports indeed to every system that is fair to the player as well as to the college. That is where we need to put our money and have a so the players can get some money and wealth a much better system. First of all, maybe we should see more enforcement all the law that we have. I think more importantly than anything is we need to see some fairness in the ncaa and players being true to it fully for the same kinds of accusations. The state of georgia is trying to play by the rules, but we are seeing other stadiums across the country playing individuals who may be have done at the very same thing that one of our players is alleged to do. It is a serious problem and requires everybody be treated fairly and equitably including the players and families and schools. This is certainly something i thing left to be cautious about legislating on. This is always been within the promise of the private sector, those who regulate athletic activities in our colleges and universities am a but i do believe with a enough public pressure we can change their attitudes to make sure that our people including tom is treated with fairness. Mr. Carter . I think you have a lot of georgia fans up here. The short answer is, yes. I think the folks out here praying on these athletes and making money on them should be punished. I will to you what i think about would we look and consider what is happening at the university of georgia. We have undermined our Public Institutions of Higher Education that it is on believable. If the cost of college in this day is rising higher. Is another way that georgia has reached the bottom. We have to sure we are making education our first priority. I believe if we do that, we can control the cost of college and expand the hope scholarship to ensure middleclass families are able to maximize their access and right now, when the look at the university of georgia and how excited we are about our football team, we want to be excited about Higher Education and their ability to afford. Sandra parrish . The mayor of houston ask pastors to turn over sermons and term of a case. Do you support antidiscrimination laws over freedom of speech . I believe freedom of speech is important and the government cannot legislate within that spectrum. I believe there are certain types of hate crimes their rights to the level of being more than speech. As a general matter, no, i will not support legislation that would restrict peoples rights to freedom of speech. I believe we can strike appropriate balance. I think we have to allow people to move forward and be free to speak if they wish. Would you want to hear response from the other candidates . Sure. I think that is one thing that senator carter and i can agree on. You have to be careful when you and trued and to special freedom of speech. You never know what the unintended consequences might be. But, it is not the province of government to regulate and contain that except when you scream fire in a movie together. Movie theater. Those extreme situations that jeopardize the health and safety of individuals and has generally been the guidelines in which we have allowed statutory intervention to occur. I believe it is a pretty good example of where we need to draw the line. We do not need to react to every popular opinion that comes along. Mr. Hunt . We have had two excellent answers so far. What i will address is that i am a strong constitutionalist, the way it was written and not the living document they reinterpret over the year. I am very strong on the First Amendment, but all of the amendments. We are having our liberties and rights taken from of us. Every law passed is taking a more freedoms away from us. Thats what we need to have in our state. If i am governor, what i will like to see, if you pass a law, i want to see where you have to scratch three or 4 off. Yes, we do not want to hurt other peoples desire that is the edge of liberty when you inflate harm on others. Thank you. Christopher king, your question. It is on k12 education. The state budget is about a billion dollars on k12 education. According to the budget institute, the state would need another 700 billion to fund schools. Would you increase funding for the schools and by how much . First of all, let me point out that the Quality Basic Education formula that has been an place since 1985 has never been fully funded. What i have done is to appropriate a greater percentage of general state revenue for k12 education than any governor since sanders in the 1960s. This year, the largest single appropriation as our economy was rebounding was in this years budget. My colleague here, senator carter, saw fit to vote against it. I have indicated i would put in place individuals who will come together and study our funding as will desire delivery mechanism. It is time we revisit and make it more appropriately allocated to the needs of todays Education System. We have are ready brought on board one of the best local superintendents and he is working in the office of planning and budgeting. We will continue that. Mr. Carter . Governor deal has to look back to the 1960s to justify his educational policy. We have to fund for this century. What you have seen and our state is though worse underfunding and worse contraction and the history. Teachers are suffering as students are suffering and our states economy, the very foundation, is crumbling. That is how we end up with the skills gaps we have now. 2 3 of our School Districts have had to cut instructional days. We are not doing the job at the state level we need to. Not only that but when the governors budget half past because of its cuts, 91 School District have raised their property taxes just we are getting less education and more taxes and no one wants that. I have a plan to change the way we do the educational budget. Mr. Deal, your 30 seconds to rebut. You have 30. If you support Public Education, you shouldve voted for the large and increase in k12 funding in seven years. The statistics you cite are in accurate. I am not reaching back to the 1960s. I am saying a portion of revenue, with have felt 4 highest years since any governor some 50 years ago. You say you support education but your votes a do not support that. You are in a distinct minority in voting against. Every democrat in the house voted for it. 2 3 of your colleagues voted for this budget. Mr. Carter, your rebut . Governor deal, you know and i know that my record is clear on Education Funding. You have underfunded this year by 750 million and i could not vote that. The process is broken and i am the only candidate who has a plan to fix it. You can throw statistics out over and over again, but walk into your local schools, walked to the schools that have 26 kids in a kindergarten class and ask a teacher. No one and this date believes were properly funding education. Mr. Hunt . Our Education System is completely broken. The u. S. Spends more per student on education than any other nation and the world yet we rank 25th. We need to look at how these better countries are doing it less expensively than us. We do not have to increase the budget. We have to do better. We need school choice. We need savings accounts where the money follows of the child. Take the money and let the parents choose what is best for the education of the child. Lets have a so whatever variety of school types and blended schools, stem schools, vocational schools. A range of different education. Bring it into Early Childhood and support hope through the end. If there is one way to end the cycle of poverty, it is education. Some people say they want a more charts schools in this years budget family put a small increase versus hundreds of millions for other. A question from the public of again and it is picking up on a question previously asked by our panelists on employment. Directed specifically to mr. Deal from mrs. Haywood. Governor nathan deal, in the previous debate i was taken aback by your comments, people who work are better than people who do not work. There are so many in our state still looking for jobs. As a student, i worry about getting a job after graduation. While youre at parade georgia as being the number one state to do business, it is hard to ignore george does georgia leads unemployment. It is safe to say you inherited a failing economy, but so did the president and 49 other governors. Why is georgia under your leadership lacking behind the rest of the nation in its rate of unemployment . First of all, Unemployment Rates are only good for political advertising as a general rule. Economists and businesses do not Pay Attention to them. This a look at job growth. Right there in athens, georgia, we have a great example of our economic development. Caterpillar brought a plant and they came to the state of georgia and they are creating hundreds of jobs in some that has been our focus. With a eliminated the marriage tax on couples. We have to eliminated the marriage tax on couples. We have focus on job creation. We eliminated the sales tax on energy so manufacturers could grow and we have seen that the growth from the caterpillar plant to baxter making a 1 billion Investment Capital to do it would be the largest single investment in this States History since kia came. We are making substantial strides. Job creation is what is important for those in college. That question was directly specifically to you so will pick up with our panel. I do not want to seem like i am beaming up mr. Deal. I would like to hit the other candidates on this. For the first time and state history, voters cast ballots on a sunday. Many will do so next sunday. Mr. Deal, you said you will be open to legislation that would close down sunday voting. I think the voting policies of our state should be uniform. I think that is what the Generals Assembly will look at first of if all counties were allowed to have sunday voting, that is fine with me. As my wife says, republicans can vote on sunday to as long as they go to church first. I think all of us want to see as many people as possible who are registered and qualified to turn out and vote. I think we should do whatever is important to turn out for the voters. I would encourage everyone who is w