Good afternoon. Thank you for being here today. I hope everybody had a happy and safe thanksgiving over the weekend. I know this looked a little different from any of us including myself and my family but i really want to take the time we made a call to the public and i want want to make sure missouri has set up that they are doing everything on their own taking responsibility. I also encourage we are not out of the situation by a long way through have to continue the same aggressive nature. We need to continue that over the next 23 weeks are critical as we move forward. I also want to say thank you to the house and the senate for the tip on the supplemental bill getting that passed to the Governors Office for the work they have done on that issue to make sure that staffing is one of the Biggest Challenges facing the hospitals right now. But the issue is there are not enough since the start of covid19 they have been in constant communication with the missouri hospital associatio associ
This is the opportunity to get some clarity about the candidates and where they stand clear whoring one holding this form in person however with the senate so in session Susan Collins cannot attend in person we were told sarah would not appear in person is senator collins did not so we are having a virtual gathering. The candidates tonight in alphabetical order Susan Collins, sarah gideon and max went and lisa savage. Will be posing questions to the candidates each have one minute to answer each candidate will have an opportunity to ask a question of another candidate with the same time limit and each will have a time limit for a closing statement and senator collins i will begin with you so to block consideration of expensive pandemic when he falls and rest confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee and things you have disagreed with the Washington Post to white house not to strike a deal with pelosi before the election with the planned confirmation of judge. Next me to the Supreme Court
Anything to in conjunction with the chamber of commerce we are the four candidates for u. S. Senate and maine the 300,000 and residents have cast ballots but many will do so with absentee voting are at the polls on november 3rd this is the opportunity to get some clarity about the candidates and where they stand clear whoring one holding this form in person however with the senate so in session Susan Collins cannot attend in person we were told sarah would not appear in person is senator collins did not so we are having a virtual gathering. The candidates tonight in alphabetical order Susan Collins, sarah gideon and max went and lisa savage. Will be posing questions to the candidates each have one minute to answer each candidate will have an opportunity to ask a question of another candidate with the same time limit and each will have a time limit for a closing statement and senator collins i will begin with you so to block consideration of expensive pandemic when he falls and rest con
We present the four candidates. Nearly 300 people have already cast ballots, but many more will do so in a early absentee voting or at the polls. This is an opportunity to try to get clarity about the candidates and where they stand. We had planned to hold this in person and were set up to do so , however with the senate still in session, senator collins cannot be there in person. When we should that news with the other candidates sara , gideons Campaign Said she would not appear in person if collins did not, so we have moved to a virtual gathering. Our candidates are Susan Collins, the democratic speaker of the house sara gideon, max linn and lisa savage. I will be posing questions to the candidates and each will have one minute to answer and followup discussion will be at my discretion. Each candidate will have an opportunity to ask a question of another candidate and each candidate will have one minute for a closing statement. Senator collins, i will begin with you, Mitch Mcconnell
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