Much ground too cover and so many candidates, our format is this tonight. The questions we will allow one minute responses. At the moderators discretion, there will be some giveandtake, but we will try to move it along. The order of the candidate answers and the order of the closing statements at the end were each decided by separate locks of the draw. ,m joined by Greg Meriwether cynthia arsenault, and the first question by luck of the draw goes to mr. Fleming. Just days ago the white house announced skyrocketing premiums foremost families on Affordable Health care. Andou support obama care, of course all will address this eventually, how would you propose saving it . If you oppose it, would you be in favor of keeping popular provisions like preexisting conditions and insuring children until the age of 26, and how would you pay for that . Mr. Fleming as a physician, a conservative, and someone who provides health care through my business, i contend you always there for the entire obamacare debate. It is an abysmal failure. It has driven up the cost of care. Away fromen people their doctors and away from their insurance companies. I believe in the American Dream, where americans can choose their own insurance. Wary have a free marketplace, not only of ideas but things they can achieve. I want to take conservative, louisiana ideas to washington. Dad i was growing up, my died while i was still in high school. I had to become the breadwinner all of a sudden. I joined military. I opened up my own medical rectus and created 500 louisiana jobs. I came through adversity and i enjoyed the American Dream. I want to go to washington and fight for the families of louisiana and let them enjoy their American Dream as well. Let me just answer that question briefly because theres Something Else i need to mention tonight before we get started in tonights debate. Needs to bee tweaked. To cap skyrocketing premiums and we can do that by increasing Small Business subsidies and allowing more people to get into the pool by having an individual mandate. I spent this morning with a bunch of schoolchildren and they want to know was there a bad guy that i was running against . I said yes, there is one. His name is david duke, and unfortunately he is on the stage tonight. This snake has slithered out of the swamp because the career politicians on the stage have not done their job well enough. On november 8, the voters of louisiana will join with me and cut the head off of his hatred once and for all. The next responses from mr. Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy let me be very clear. Obamacare is an unmitigated disaster. When congress and the president passed it, they told us it would make our lives better. They told Us Health Insurance would be cheaper and more accessible. It has made our lives worse. We need to rip it out by the roots and start over. We need a patient centered Health Care Delivery system that looks like somebody designed the thing on purpose. We need more choice. We need more competition. We need more transparency. People need to know how much health care costs. We need less fraud. Repeal the mccann ferguson act of the 1940s that prohibits people from buying Health Insurance across state lines. We need more Health Savings accounts. We need more high risk fools that are affordable. We need to block grant medicaid to the state so they can experiment and try what works. We need more federally qualified health centers. We need a Health Care Delivery system that looks like somebody designed it on purpose. Moderator mr. Campbell, you are next. Mr. Campbell thank you, this is a good question. There was a surgeon in shreveport named peter amble. He told me, there is more good than bad in obamacare or the Affordable Care act. There are lots of good things about it. Need to do more to fix it now. We need to add more young people in the mix so rates can go down. Im a Small Business person. I will do everything i can to cut the rates. 1965 when me of everybody wanted to get rid of medicare. Now everybody is covered by medicare. I would not throw the baby out with the bathwater. I will do some fixing on it. I am surprised that mrs. Fayard said she was talking with kids today. You should have told those kids that you lied about my relationship with david duke. When you talk to those kids again, tell them you dont mind lying sometimes. Mr. Duke i would like a short rebuttal to what she said. You saidd we get we could have a rebuttal. I have a minute and then i can come back with my obamacare question. Moderator you have one minute total, sir. Mr. Duke i thought i would have a chance to rebut what she said. Let me explain to the panel, were going to try to cover a lot of territory. It would be enormous disservice it turns into a referendum. First offi object because you said we have a chance to rebut if someone made a direct attack against you and taking away for my obamacare time, this is improper. I will make the point. First, yes, i am the bad guy because i defend the people of this country that made this country great, gave us a constitution and our freedom. We are losing our rights in america. I say respect for all people, but also you must respect the people who built this great nation and we should not faced mass discrimination. That is not a bad guy. As far as obamacare is concerned, obamacare, as every program of the government, its always the hardworking middleclass who gets the shaft. Republicans talk about socialized medicine. We already have it, but we have socialized medicine only for the welfare recipients and the illegal alien. The first way to protect the come the first way to stop this is to stop the illegal aliens. Moderator i gave you a little extra time there. I want to thank the university for hosting this under very regrettable circumstances. As a heart surgeon with years of experience, we enhance quality and lower cost and brought both hospitals to top 100 status. I know how to do this. We ife in congress, you want to fix health care, put the focus on the doctorpatient relationship, because thats how you get the highest quality. Short of that, we will get Something Like obamacare where everybody is upset, cost is skyrocketing, and quality is suffering. Secondly you have to have information, you have to have a wide range of choices and you need to put the family back in control. Bureaucratss not and not Insurance Agents and others, but family should be in control of health care. Moderator a quick follow up, would you keep in preexisting condition coverage and how would you pay for it . Mr. Boustany we offered a better way to do this. We believe we can take the cost out of this if you focus on quality. In way the democrats did it obamacare is one of the most expensive ways to do this, and now the cost is skyrocketing. We need to take care of all individuals with preexisting conditions, but do it in a highquality way. Moderator is it possible to do that, mr. Fleming . All, heing first of believes it can be fixed, obamacare. I didnt get to my final part of this. By aould be replaced market based, patient centered system. We can do it, but we have to use a market based system. We have to give options and choices to patients. We can do it by grouping Small Businesses together. We can achieve that. Moderator mr. Kennedy, you were the other one who left off part of the question. You howedy let me tell you can pay for it. I read the federal budget like i read the state budget. Let me take you some of the things the u. S. Congress has appropriated money for. 6. 5 million moderator the question is, how are you going to pay to ensure preexisting conditions . Im answering that. 6. 5 million to study the effect massage on bunny rabbits. 700,000 to build a soccer field for one time of a terrorist. Congress spent 750 3 million to remodel a single building for congress. For ass spent 300,000 cheese heritage fund. Is 125ly, there billion worth of overpayments in the federal budget. Can i give you one more example . Peoplere 6. 5 million with active Social Security numbers who supposedly are 112 years old or older. Americaion people in that are 112 and older getting Social Security . Im getting that from the Inspector General of the United States. Moderator let me move on to the next area. Lets go to a tax question. Fayard and the other candidates, one of the deepest divides in the president ial race is the question of taxes, with Hillary Clinton bowing to raise taxes on the wealthiest americans and donald trump rowling to cut corporate and individual taxes and the estate tax. What is your view on this, and how do you make taxes fair and create jobs but at the same time not wreak havoc on the budget . Ms. Fayard thats a great question. Trickledown economics do not work. It has been proven over and over again. We have to make sure the tax code is fair and reasonable for all hardworking americans. That means that those at the very top have to pay their fair share. We will do that with a couple of simple tax reforms. Tax. N reform the state something we can do to make sure our working families are taken care of. For someone who is out manufacturing or making things. Recognize that Small Businesses have challenges. 97 of businesses in louisiana are Small Businesses. We will allow them to quadruple and allowof deduction them to pay a living wage, which will help our economy keep going. Mr. Kennedy heres the problem with the tax code and the economy. Have too many undeserving people at the top getting bailouts and we have too many undeserving people at the bottom getting handouts. The rest of us in the middle get stuck with the bill. And we cant pay it anymore. Because thanks to obamacare, Health Insurance has gone up. Our kids tuition has gone up. Our taxes have gone up. What has not gone up is our income. Meeting Household Income is less than it was in 2002. Heres what we need to do for the tax code and the economy. We need to help the middle class. I support reducing taxes across the board, but the problem with most tax cut plans is it only helps the very rich and it adds to the deficit. I want a tax plan that helps everybody, but especially the middle class. People making 100,000 or less. It can be done, and i can tell you how we will pay for. Moderator mr. Campbell. Mr. Campbell im the only one up to let you see how much i make and how much taxes i pay. No one else appear will do that. I pay about 30 taxes. No one else wants to talk about it. Offshore, big corporations have about 2. 1 trillion overseas or wherever they keep it that has no taxes paid on it. We are out of balance about 500 billion a year. If we would make these large corporations pay taxes instead of moving them offshore, we could go a long way to balancing the budget and squaring up our tax situation in the louisiana and the United States of america. I can show you how to give tax relief to the middle if you will make some of the giant corporations that pay no taxes i dont know anyone out there who has an offshore account. Does, butbody up here i pay my taxes, and i will prove it. I will show them to you. Mr. Kennedy, im not sure if your name is john or teddy. With buddy roemer, you supported the destruction of our homestead exemption by constitutional amendment. State and id the helped stop that amendment which saves everyone of you watching this program right now thousands and thousands of dollars that you would have lost if the homestead exemption that you fought for with buddy roemer would have passed. We have to protect the middle class person, the productive person in this country. Its the same message i gave years ago, and i was right. The lady guys here and are all beholden to the special interests and big money. Thats who controls american politics, and thats what has to end. Im going to give mr. Kennedy a chance to respond but i will continue to go in order at the moment and we will circle back. Mr. Boustany i chair the tax subcommittee in congress and we worked hard over the years talking to families across this country you understand that the tax code is unfair. It is grossly complicated. It is filled with special interest carveouts and average families are getting hurt really bad. Tax reform, something that has not been done since Ronald Reagan was president , 30 years ago. Lower the rates, simplify the code, build a much latter rate structure, eliminate a lot of the special interest carveouts and eliminate the alternative minimum tax, which hits a lot of families unfairly. We need to lower the Corporate Tax rate which is forcing jobs overseas and trapping capital overseas. We have a better way to do it. Its been a product of my subcommittee working with speaker ryan and it is a really good plan. We are going to pass tax reform once and for all, because it is long overdue. Mr. Fleming as a smallbusiness owner, i know the devastating effect of taxes. Ive seen how it kills jobs. I was talking with my chief Financial Officer about the damaging effects of taxes and so forth. This to kennedy, if you are my chief Financial Officer, you would be fired a long time ago. Ont does swedish massages bunny rabbits have to do with financing a Health Care Plan . What about the 400,000 of rent per year paid for the plush Office Downtown in baton rouge when you could be paying zero rent in the capital . 300,000 worth of fine art that you criticize bobby jindal for buying in the first place. Again, i dont think you are quite right for prime time when it comes to serving in the u. S. Senate. You need to go back and learn a little bit more about finance. John,nnedy i really like but john is the ultimate washington insider. And washington insiders quite often dont tell the American People the truth. Everything john just said is a lie. Let me remark of what mr. Duke said. Mr. Duke is a convicted liar. Mr. Duke is a convicted felon. My ballot number is 13. His federal prison number is28213034. He spent time in prison for lying to his supporters. He swindled them out of their money and took that money and used it for his gambling addiction. Everything mr. Duke said is an unmitigated lie. More to the point, it must be terrible to wake up in the morning but that much hate in your heart. , im going tod on go down this path, against my better judgment and let mr. Duke respond. This as something other than a referendum on any one candidate, but i will let him respond as well. Right,e mr. Fleming was too. I was targeted by the government, yes. Even the republican standing up or have admitted in congress that the government of this yet. Ry im not finished would you not interrupt me and give me my time . You are not one of the director not one of the debaters. You are the moderator. Let me rebut. Moderator. A you are a typical media hack. Are you going to silence me . Youre going to prevent me from answering this question . I have a right to a response. Because you did like my response, you interrupt me . With this problem country. The media is deciding who are candidates are. Let me answer the question. You are not even letting me answer. Moderator heres the question i want you to answer. Nevermind. Esther fleming mr. Duke im going to answer the question if you give me a chance. Moderator no sir, mr. Fleming has the floor. Mr. Duke you didnt even give me a chance to make my statement. Here is the answer. Yes, the federal government targeted me and they target anybody in this country who stands up and says these things. These conservatives have been targeted. How much do you think the federal government hates me . I have the tax form that was sent to me. They audited me and determined that i overpaid my taxes by 6,000. The people dont know that in this state. Listen, here is the issue. The truth is that anybody who stands up for this country and tells the truth of what is happening to our country, anybody who does that will be a target of the media, just like donald trump. Moderator lets go to mr. Fleming, quickly. Mr. Kennedy calls me a liar rather than answering the claim. What about the superdome bond fiasco . Provided overhat 700,000 a contributions to your state campaign which probably somehow made its way into this senate campaign, you said it could have been more. I think that is disgraceful. If you are my chief financer officer, you would have been fired long ago. Moderator we have to move on. Beginning with mr. Kennedy. You refer to yourself as a conservative. In 2004, obviously you supported a classic liberal democrat, john kerry, for president terry im curious, which of his philosophies did you admire . Im a member of the nra. Im prolife. I believe in stronger government. It was impossible for me to remain a democrat. Whent the Democratic Party it was no longer possible to be a conservative democrat. We will go ahead and let everybody have one minute on the floor. Im trying to answer, just give me a second. Im not the only democrat who became a republican. Ronald reagan got fed up. Did. Nor mike foster bill cassidy, our current center, used to be a democrat. Trump, the donald list goes on and on. I just could no longer in good conscience remain a democrat. Moderator since we had some confusion a moment ago, let me clear this up. This may be my fault. Just so everybody is on the same page or, the format is that we direct question to you, the candidate has one minute. Then there is an open discussion and a give and take. You no longer control the floor if i believe you are not directing the question, i may interrupt you. We will try to let everybody have a fair shot at answering the question. Want to know what is it about the Democratic Party that attracted you in the first place. I have always been fiscally conservative. I have always been a supporter of the second amendment. Ive always believed in more freedom, not more free stuff. It was possible years ago, hard for