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Tonight, general Election Debate in New Hampshires crucial race for governor. In our studio, republican chris sununu and democratic Colin Van Ostern battling to the Medicaid Expansion. He said he thinks many to a peer to score political points and apply them against medicaid is an absolute lie. To their highprofile bows. A lot of big issues in front of us at our next governor will have to tackle. Chris and i have had different points of views. These two candidates dont see eye to eye. To compare my business background with collins is comical in s. Are debate begins right now. It is debate night in New Hampshire. We want to welcome the candidates and thank them for taking part in this important discussion of the issues that matter most to you, the voters. The candidates will each be given a question and they will have one minute to respond. At the end of the minute the candidates will hear an audio cue. Your moderators tonight 302nd rebuttals will be allowed. At the end of the debate the candidates will give one minute closing statements and counselor at sununu will go first. Partnering with the open debate coalition, a group dedicated to making debates better represent the people. In an historic first tonight, the debate will feature the top questions posed and rated by more than 120,000 voters in New Hampshire and around the nation. With got a lot of crucial issues tonight. We want to service some of the charges in this increasingly Contentious Campaign in recent days. Counselor at sununu, your efforts to pass six years as ceo of the resort and in a new ad this morning, and you create hundreds of jobs there. Today the state Democratic Party in your opponent signed a recent published report that said they have lost jobs since you and your family took over operation six years ago. They called your ad misleading inertia to take it down. I would like to give you the chance to respond to them. Thank you for hosting. The fact weve created jobs is undeniable. We bought the company from a california driven company and moved the administrative jobs in the state. Weve developed restaurants, sold a lot of those aspects off. We are developing a Workforce Housing project that tomorrow we will close on to provide quality Workforce Housing for employees right in the heart of the valley. Relocated our adapter program that helps those with disabilities partaken recreation activities. Used to be run by a vermont group. Now again with free local ice. When it comes to the valley has created hundreds of jobs. Success is undeniable. The only resort on the east coast expanding. Ive invested 2 million in new trails hired people who create new trails. On New Hampshire contractors and workers. The democrats play games and talk about anything to avoid the real issues. Our success im incredibly proud of it and my team. If youd like to respond. What i think this race is about is how we can move our state forward. There are certainly elements of management at waterville that i think Libby Dutcher bunnell mantle to us in New Hampshire. When his family purchased the scene not in five years ago, since then they lost marketshare and cut jobs. There are 62 jobs now whether its New HampshireBusiness ReviewNew Hampshire public radio, you can google and learn more yourself. My concern is less about the jobs. Its one thing to have someone who owns a ski resort opposed the minimum wage. When you have a governor that the minimum wage at all, that is bad for the people of New Hampshire. When you have a ski resort owner to not get them health care thats another thing. When you have a candidate for governor who cuts off funding for Birth Control and Cancer Screenings in annual exams for thousands of women, that does real harm and i think we need to focus on what we can do to move our state forward. Our success is undeniable. The only resort in New Hampshire but on the investing and growing, creating jobs, creating a whole new experience for employees. Colin likes to reference the internet and data points and that is something to look at. But he does not understand business, entrepreneurship or how to truly grow jobs. Politicians like to talk about creating jobs into the tours of the factories and that is all well and good. I create job tonight is the stakeholder experience we need in the Corner Office. Moving forward, in recent weeks counselors sununu has brought up your years as a political operative. Its something you dont talk about on the campaign trail. Why is that . The i like to focus on what matters and other sites and what we will do to move our state economy forward. Im proud of my background. Early in my career i worked in politics. Governor lynch did as well. Senator kelley added that the governor before she ran. Most of my background and professional experience image of New Hampshire 15 years ago in the private sector. When we talk about creating jobs in a help Start College for america there were a dozen employees at the time. Now almost 400. I dont define the test based on how many jobs they create. Thousands of students getting a college to create an accredited College Degree without debt because of the program we built. That is something to be proud of. I think it stands in stark contrast to cutting jobs and holding back people from health care and the mismanagement weve unfortunately seen. Once again, call it has avoided the question. In a short 15 year career, tenure system and is a paid political operative, a professional trained in being partisan and divisive and crafting messages we see on television all the time. Thats the politics we dont need here. When congress was working for change shaking i was cleaning up landfills. When he was working for the Democratic Party was developing a resort for families with disabilities. The question i want to ask colin is when he was 14 for john edward, had explained to the people of New Hampshire and the women of New Hampshire being the spokesperson of someone like john edwards. These are things that are background to be discussed in open transparent way. Counselor van ostern. What we are going to do for them. When i say to the women of New Hampshire is on the other candidates here who has 100 of the time supported planned parenthood. I didnt vote to shut off controlling Cancer Screening in annual exams on the im the one over the past year but past year but the making but past year was in making weapons at the manchester house on her for three weeks to five weeks after the funding was successfully shut out. This isnt about politics. Its about peoples lives. I was raised by a single mom. I notice lately without Health Insurance. This isnt about politics to me. Thank you, gentlemen. As you sit together and i was there last month with the unanimous vote in favor of a 36 million state contract. Days later we learned there could be a large layoffs at the end of this year. Counselors sununu, youve called for the contract to be repaired and called for investigation. Counselor van ostern, you disagree. Its been a big topic. Just today counselor sununu, you brought up the fact that counselor van ostern received 50,000 in Campaign Donations from employees that work there and he seemed to question whether those contributions may have influenced his original vote but also his stances then. Mr. Van ostern coming response. What matters to me is doing right by the patients. The contract we both supported the same reason i did if it means more doctors, more nurses, more beds available to some of our most vulnerable populations. Folks at New Hampshire hospital 7000 gold in the last three years are there because of Mental Illness that makes them a danger to themselves or others. That is not a statistic to me. One of the Silver Lining for the drug crisis as we started to break down the stigma and bring addiction out of the shadows. Ive seen this in my own family. My stepfather struggled with Mental Health for years and in his final months of my many patients was found to be a danger to himself and others. When i was a sophomore in high school he took his own life. The reality is patients and health care professionals, loved ones, doctors, nurses, thats the reality they face everyday and they need to governor to put whats right for patients ahead of the political act. Collin has completely avoided the question. Ive been calling for this contract rebate for months. Red flag after red flag has come out. Employee concerns, major resignation. When moore finally left with little choice but to move forward on it. Only the next day to find out there are potentially 450 layoffs coming followed by resignations and red flag. I learned this morning we have 40 plus thousand dollars of contributions directly from the organization directly to Colin Van Ostern. Why is that the governor and collin are so hesitant to do anything. They sat on their hands while the rest of estimated accountability. This is mismanagement at its worst in the Mental Health system. These are sensitive constituents that need our utmost accountability, they need to make sure we provide a system that is working for them. Again, the governor and collin commissioner have completely failed on this issue. You can sidestep it but eventually the true test to catch out. We need accountability, the contract should be repaired. We need to look into these issues because its not about us. Its the sensitivity and the quality of services for Mental Health patients. For the First Six Months of this year we had a new Psychiatric Care wing embeds the saturn used. Despite the fact we had dozens of people with serious psychiatric conditions waiting in the arson within the cell across the state every single day. Usually 30 to 50 today. We couldnt find us have to fill it. As we move forward towards the contractors hired more more doctors, more nurses. The beds are full on most days and the fact is that counselors sununu is proposing now, remember a month ago he voted like i did in all the coasters take because it does mean better care. What is it just now would be less doctors, less nurses. There was struggled to have the window pane. How would we have less doctors by better choice . One better on the contract is the commissioner, governor would do nothing to provide more choices for us. Choice is a good thing for the people of New Hampshire. Not just in the Mental Health system but every contract we have. The fact you take 40,000 brings in the question of ethics, morality and checks and balances. But we have a governor that puts politics first, dollars in his campaign first. Absolutely not. This is New Hampshire. We need to do at the New Hampshire rate, not the way at washington. We need Campaign Finance reforms and accountability. Im just impressed to deprive other political attacks in the middle of the answer. Im not going to have any mock outrage from chris sununu on this. Hes taken money from the biggest Utility Company in the state always sat together on every solar project. He said he didnt want to penalize the electric utility. His brothers on the lobbying and Public Affairs firm and he votes in favor of their clients. Im happy to cite chapter and verse of them that have been. Once again by brothers are not lobbyists. If you compare a power line to the Mental Health stability interstate in taking 40,000, it is deplorable. Candidates from a thank you. A lot of issues we want to get to. Id be remiss if we didnt ask when the question. This is an election like weve never seen before. The republican nominee donald trump making big news a few weeks ago when the recording from 11 years ago directed towards women. Weve talked about this before it interviews. You call the comments repugnant and disgusting. You continue to support donald trump. My question is how you separate the comments from the man. The comments are disgusting, repulsive. Theres no place place for an attitude like that in the public discourse. I said that from day one. Ive always said to support the nominee. When youre looking at the options come in this election on the president ial side isnt about one person. Its about the fabric of our country, where we go over the next four, eight years. Hillary clinton is none of it. Public trust is one of the most important aspects. Hillary clinton has gone to bed. We have to look at what well do over the next four, eight years when you look at the potential and the Supreme Court to and horrible program psycho baba cared across this country. Big washington spending has pushed its way into New Hampshire, invaded our stay. Those are the things that matter and will affect peoples lives as individuals. Policy affects people and thats why we need to stand up strong in New Hampshire. This is simple. Chris sununu has filled the leadership test every single day that he continues to support donald trump will donald trump insults goldstar and others come entire religions because they got captured and democracy itself. Whats more important to him than all of that is his political party. Whats more important than doing what is right for the people of our country and state is sticking with his own political career. Sometimes leadership takes a back bone of the 31 republican governors from the country, one out of three have said they wont support donald trump. The fact that chris malta what is right for the people ahead of you on politics is the governor held the first day. If anything, donald trump is a fine republican. Hillary clinton is the epitome of the democrat party. Weve seen what shes done. What shes done with her emails were shes violated the public trust. She truly defines the Democratic Party. To say donald trump somehow defines our party we know thats a foolish statement. We need to make sure we create the best government possible not just in washington but here in New Hampshire. I believe we need to push back on washington. We need a governor thats going to stand true to our values. The reason he defines the Republican Party is politicians like chris sununu stick with him like everything he said. Lets get to some other issues. Time to talk about the drug crisis. The executive council which you both serve on record 600 in contracts to provide Business Recovery services. More people are expected to die this year than last in New Hampshire. Can we spend our way out of the problem should do you predict next year if elected to the Corner Office fewer people will die. We have to overcome this crisis. We can not only spend our way out or arrest our way out of this amount. We need to be honest about the fact five years ago we didnt have a harrowing crisis yet but the second level of the Prescription Drug abuse and the Second Lowest treatment per capita. I suggested we need to put forward a plan that comes with both resources but more investments and protection, treatment and recovery services. I support the bipartisan expansion of medicaid which i voted for increased voted against. The nonprofit Nonpartisan Group dedicated to tackling the crisis has a fivepoint plan. One of the key points is baking Medicaid Expansion permanent. We need better prevention and an evidence base. We need to make sure barriers between them and make sure lawenforcement have the tools because theyve been stretched thin. It is a crisis of epic or fortune. My program looks a very aggressive progressio