001[Music] good evening my name is Sally Allen and I'm a member of the League of Women Voters of the Ann Arbor area I welcome you to tonight's forum featuring candidates for State Senator district 18 the Kent's will be on the ballot in the general election on Tuesday November 6th we are broadcasting from the studio's of CTN in Ann Arbor the League of Women Voters is pleased to sponsor these forums the league is a non partisan civic organization that encourages informed and active participation of all citizens in government the league works to increase understanding of major public policy issues and seeks to strengthen and broaden knowledge about our form of government and democracy while the league does not support candidates or parties we do take stance on issues we have studied one of the league's most
002important goals is to assist voters and making informed choices at the polls and thus we bring you tonight's program our moderator this evening is Peter Allen who will explain the format and get us started Peter thank you Sam now it's my honor to introduce the three candidates Jeff Erwin Thomas for passkey and Martin Church thank you for showing up we're looking forward to hearing your thoughts the forum today will have this format each candidate will have an opening statement of up to one minute each can--it will have a closing statement of up to 90 seconds in between I will ask questions which came from the Ann Arbor community each candidate will have 90 seconds to respond of the question at appropriate times the timers will hold up their paddles with amount of time remaining and
003then finally a stop sign candidates please stop when indicated so we all have an equal opportunity to participate our timers are League members page silence and Randy Friedman now we're ready for the opening statement from Jeff early Jeff thank you Peter and I'll start by thanking the League of Women Voters again these forums are always great and I appreciate the opportunity hi my name is Jeff air when I'm running for state Senate here in the 18th district in Washington County and I'm running because I believe public service is the best way for me to contribute to making our community in our state the best place it can be and when I think hard about what are the things that make our community great and better and one of the things that make Michigan a special
004place I think about having great schools in every community I think about having clean air and clean water not just protecting the Great Lakes but also clean drinking water in places like Ann Arbor in places like Flint I think about standing up for people's equal rights particularly on a day like this with the Cavanaugh hearing was going on I think about standing up for equality for women I think about protecting their civil rights I think about a criminal justice system that is truly just and and I think about finally fixing our roads those are the kinds of things that I want to work on those are the kinds of issues that I think provide the basic infrastructure for a successful state and a successful community with great jobs and a prosperous future for my children
005and others Thank You mr. basky please know my name is Thomas Kapowski I'm moving for state Senate here in the 18th district in our ripsi area with the working class party because I believe that working class people need to be able to represent themselves to have their own party so I think working class people need to be able to influence what happens in their communities across the country but here especially here as well to fight for better schools public services health care and wages Thank You mr. Church my name is Martin Church and like Jeff I'd like to thank the League of Women Voters for the opportunity to present my case also I'd like to thank the viewers who are watching and learning about us I come from epsilon e been there for 30 years
006grew up in the city of Taylor spent a lot of time doing different things learning about the state of Michigan and our community a lot of the problems we have are because the state has decided that they need to take over what we as a local community can do as Tip O'Neill used to say all politics is local and we need to bring it back to local thank you thank you now let's start with the questions we'll start with mr. Erwin here's the question the public infrastructure in Michigan has been underfunded for decades the state needs to come up with at least four Millett four billion dollars more each year for decades for upkeep of roads bridges water systems and communications infrastructure according to the 21st century infrastructure Commission how do you plan to address
007this issue this is a huge issue and the longer we neglect this issue the more it's going to cost our residents so even though the price tag now for fixing our sewer infrastructure our drinking water infrastructure and our roads and bridges is a is a large price tag it's daunting that number is only growing and it actually costs our citizens as well when we neglect these responsibilities right now MDOT estimates that the average citizen spends about $500 a year on car repairs and we could actually fix our roads and get them to a position where 80% of our roads were in good condition or better within five years if we had each of those citizens pay an additional $50 a year in gas tax so that's the kind of value I think it would bring
008to our citizens in an economic way if we were to fix our roads and I think we ought to do it with with user fees I think that when it comes to trying to capitalize investments in our drinking water and sewer infrastructure the state needs to be in a position to make financing available to local communities so that those things can be those things being sewer systems and drinking water systems can be funded with fees from the users from those systems but the state can be very instrumental and bringing down the borrowing costs making those funds available and getting those projects going these are projects they're going to put people to work and good paying jobs making a lasting tangible improvement to the infrastructure in our state and I think that we need to get
009on it and do it mr. basky I'll probably say something similar to this a couple times tonight but I the money the money is out here in the in the u.s. you know one of the richest countries in the world you know the money exists to fund things like schools things like infrastructure but it's it's not going where it needs to go I think that you know working-class people pay a lot in taxes lots of people pay pay a lot of tax money and yet there are still problems with basic public services like this so I think that corporation you need to have some of their profit taking away to fund things like this for for working-class people Thank You mr. Church the big issue that we've been looking at is taxes so every dollar
010you take out of the hands of the working people of the corporations that support and pay for those jobs is money that's not put back into the economy the city of Ypsilanti an empty Township showed that the local community can support it if they put together a plan we funded a replacement road program which Cotts far less than if the state stepped into it we fixed our waters we're still working on it you're being done we do it within our budget and it's time for the other communities to start living in their budget and start planning on these maintenance our cause has been lack of plans everybody said let's kick it down the road let's not deal with it well it's come back to haunt us now it's time for the local community to step
011up and say this is what we need what they have up in Calcutta is not the same as Ann Arbor it's not the same as Monroe it's time for the local community to put together their plan and return it to the local community next question starting with mister a pesky environmental issues especially the one point 4 dioxane plume in the local aquifer and the high levels of B FAS and the Huron River and throughout the state are important to many Ann Arbor Ypsilanti residents do you plan to introduce or support legislation that would strengthen environmental protections what is the best role for them DEQ to play in our environmental concerns I I think that the environment is very important for for working-class people people you know drinking water is an important thing I I think
012that the money needs to go to cleaning up things that people use you know public services like this need to be funded so you know dirty water is is a huge problem people can't take on health care costs and they can't afford to buy water themselves or deal with the consequences of environment environmental problems caused by either lacks lacks regulations or corporate corporate mistakes or corporate negligence so I think I think that that needs to be dealt with by the state okay thank you mr. Church environmental cleanup is a tough subject to deal with every time every year we come up with a new item that we've contaminated our area with few years ago you never even heard about P FAS today it's all over the place the Bloom has been around for years most
013of this was people overlooked it we need to figure out how to clean it up safely but we also have to figure out where can we shift it where we can build individuals that were responsible we have to where we can't we're going to figure out some way to clean it up I don't have all the solutions and I will have to consult with people who are known to work with this stuff I'm not knowledgeable of everything I wish I could be but I have to look at what the the Department of cual the Environmental Quality has to say but that's about it it's there's there is no easy answer and mr. Erwin so the protection of our water is incredibly important and here in Michigan we live in a state that is so washing
014of water it's so abundant I think sometimes we've lost track of just how important it is and so one we need to strengthen protections for water in general and ground water in particular Michigan has very lack standards for the production of groundwater we need to get back to a regime like we had 20 30 years ago where polluters pay polluters are held accountable and they're required to clean up their mess we got away from that in the 90s and we need to get back to it specifically to some of the problems that are happening here locally we absolutely need a statewide standard for pas and pifo and that whole family of chemicals right now the state is really cotton alert without a pollution cleanup standard and that isn't giving the DEQ the legal tools they
015need to crack down on these polluters make sure that they stop putting it in the water and make sure they clean up the mess that they've created well we also need more enforcement resources for the DEQ the DEQ is starved for resources for many many years if we expect the DEQ to be out there protecting our rivers and making sure that parts plants and Wixom are not putting our ground water we need to give them the resources to do that finally on Gelman has been an issue I've been involved in for a long a long time and there's more that we can do to make sure that that plume is dealt with more appropriately my goal so the cleanup are to get the cleanup plan amended so that we have more pumping and treating happening
016at the Corps so more that waters cleaned up by the responsible party and to change the goal of the cleanup to be that we arrest the development arrest the spread of the plume so it doesn't continue to get larger we need to change the goals of the whole cleanup plan thank you next question starts with mr. Church statutory state revenue sharing a source of revenue for local communities has declined significantly since 2002 further state law limits the kind of revenue generating tools the municipalities can use such as local sales tax what systemic changes would you support to ensure local communities are adequately funded you have to go back to that like to do with a household budget you got to figure out all your bills that means that the revenue sharing has to be returned
017back to what we said it would be back when we started it and that needs to be treated as a bill not as a thing that you can manipulate it's too long it's been used as a bargaining chip to get other projects done we need to get it back here and it needs to be the first thing gets paid and not the last thing sure absolutely need to restore revenue sharing to the promis'd levels and as was alluded to by mr. Church there was a deal that was caught between the state and local governments many many years ago where the state government took away all the revenue gathering options that local governments have except for property tax and in exchange for taking away all those tools and making them statewide the state agreed to share
018that revenue and and now that promise has been forgotten and so the legislature simply needs to step up to plate and make sure that local governments are are made whole with respect to that promise unfortunately I don't think that really answers your call for a systemic change I think that would require putting it in the Constitution but at the very minimum we should have a state legislature that takes the promises of the state seriously and makes our local units whole we also need to do the same with fire protection grants communities like Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti right now are covering the costs of some portion of the fire protection at the EMU and at the University of Michigan the state needs to meet its commitments there as well that's a big cost to our local
019governments and they need to be made whole that was something that I worked on a lot in the State House we made some progress on but we need to get those levels up to to be full also there's another problem that a lot of our communities are facing right around the corner which is the replacement of the personal property tax I don't know if folks remember but we voted to repeal the personal property tax the citizens vote for that I believe in August of 2015 if I remember correctly and now the loss of that revenue is really starting to be felt by some of our local governments particularly couch that might have industrial facilities and those kinds of facilities are paying a lot less tax and there's a question is the state going to make
020those revenues up or are we will leave the locals and alerts again I think we need to be we need to do right by our local governments for pesky like I started with I think that the money exists again to fund these kinds of things I just the question is where it's coming from and who right now is controlling the money so I believe that um there needs to be funding for local governments you know governments that don't have as much power or funding for for the people in these areas places like obscene or small smaller towns anti-rape see area small towns around there but I think that working-class people need to make the fight in order to get that funding okay.i we're now ready for question number four starting with mr. Irwin in 1992
021voters approved two constitutional amendments setting term limits the goal was to provide a sensible check on career politicians wielding undue power and influence for decades what is your view on the impact of term limits in the state legislature and would you support the constitutional amendment to make term limits less strict I'll start at the end of the question yes I would support something to make term limits less strict because I believe that the impact of term limits has been a lack of experience and institutional knowledge within the chamber at the legislature and what that does is that really punctuated the power of the special interest and the lobbyists who are seeking to get a result for you know their clients whoever that may be so I believe that information is power and we want our
022public officials the ones who are pressing the yes or the no button on budgets and bills to be the ones with that superior information and unfortunately when you get folks who are looking at a 56 57 billion dollar budget for the first time you know that's a daunting task state governments a big operation we need people there who have knowledge of and respect for the institution know the history of the issues so they can be most effective for their constituents and I remember a time when we had members on both sides of the aisle who were really well respected for their depth of knowledge in certain areas like mental health or health care and these are these are complicated issues so that's what I would do I would I would certainly lengthen them or alter
023them in some way to put more power in the hands of the people frankly I think that's one of the reasons why you saw the legislature do things like vote for an emergency manager law I think if you'd have more of those legislators who had been seasoned in local government they would have had greater respect for the importance of having democratically elected local officials that are responsive to their citizens in their city or town mr. basky I think working-class people the vast majority of people need to have more influence on what happens and their communities in their in their areas so I I think that um ah that there needs to be more voting voting is certainly important but even on non-voting days non voting issues there needs to be input from working-class people and
024and and the community as a whole I think that uh shorter shorter term limits shorter terms would have an effect only if people were actually able to vote what they for what they wanted to vote for and if important issues were theirs to deal with you a mr. Church frankly I'm in favor of term limits I would love to see at the Congressional level sure you main lose individuals with quote knowledge but you also lock out individuals who have no knowledge who would like to see a change if I had to run against some of the people that we've had it would be extremely difficult because they would have a well-oiled machine that just keeps generating revenue and that revenue for the communities but revenue for themselves we see that in Congress right now with
025an unlimited term they just keep going and going until they either die or they do something so stupid that the voters finally raise up and kick them out most voters just go and say they go for the common name that they love and so that's how we keep some of these dynasties in place term limits cuts out the dynasties gets it back into the hands of the people it forces people to come out and listen thank you next question we start with mr. basky only 29% of our fourth and eighth grade students are at or above reading math proficiency one of the most significant changes in K through 12 education that you believe would help improve the rank of Michigan schools relative to other states um I think I think better wages for teachers more
026funding for schools in general I think if if teachers are not paid well they're gonna be fewer teachers and schools are not well-funded you know it's it's gonna be a harder place to learn I don't think these changes are going to happen without input from a lot of people working-class people thank you mr. Church is a homeschooling parent or at least says I used to be my kids have now grown graduated from college and around to successful careers one of which is a computer engineer designing microchips which is all math bringing education back in the family is the solution we too long we've used our schools as places of holding kids it's time for it to be returned to the parents too for them to say my child is going to learn and if I
027have to stand over them it'll happen we have new technology we have computers we have the Internet we could bring it back into the home for a fraction of the cost and start putting education in the home you teach the parents how to teach the kids learn quickly and that's the real solution we got to stop looking at it as a as a farm that you're trying to grow a bunch of crops and nobody cares about the kids the kids are looking for their parents to guide them to lead them we broken up the families we got to get it back bring the families back we bring our education up and mr. Irwin so I think the universal free public education is maybe the smartest best most successful thing that we've ever done as a
028nation it's been an incredibly successful enterprise that's been right at the heart of the prosperity and successes that we've had as a community and as a nation so I'm a big supporter of it I think it's the most important thing in state government and I think it it's time that we start funding it as if it were the most important thing and I think back to you know when Michigan was one of the leading states in the nation in terms of public education that was a time when we were a top-ten funder of public education we're now in the bottom half of states some rankings put us in the bottom quartile States in terms of funding into the classroom and I think that's right part of our problem mister a passkey said it we need
029to have better funding for our teachers they need to be better pay they need to be worried about what can they do tomorrow to inspire their kids not how fast can I get to my second job tonight so that I can make my mortgage we need to have smaller class sizes particularly in the lower elementary schools we need to make sure that our educators are respected and you know finally I would say that we also need to take a little step back from using these test scores as a means of ascertaining the quality of the school's test scores do a great job of measuring the income of the parents they don't always do a very good job of measuring the quality of the instruction so we need to get better qualitative measures and we need
030to provide more resources so we can get the inspiration and the joy back into our public schools so they can be places of real learning and assets to our community next question starts with mr. Church the role of money in politics at all levels of government is a concern to voters what are the challenges to a representative democracy where there are few where there are so few checks or balances regarding money in politics and what specific changes in Michigan laws would you advocate for first of all the accountability begins with the candidate we publish all of our income and outgo for our campaigns take a chance go up to the site for the Secretary of State that Wayne Washington County Treasurer's Office pull up our records it's public information look and see who's getting what
031from where that tells you who they're going back if they're taking in a whole lot of money they're going to have to pay it back to somebody look and see where the control begins at the local level with the voter they have the responsibility I'll tell you right now I have not spent much time raising funds because frankly I can win as many votes with money as without people who chase money are chasing something else I'm relying on the Lord to provide mr. Erwin yeah we desperately need campaign finance reform in our nation and particularly here in Michigan we've got some pretty weak campaign finance reform and ethics laws in Michigan when I was a state rep I introduced a number of pieces of legislation sponsored or co-sponsored to try to close some of these
032loopholes and I'm eager to get back to the Senate so we can keep working on some of these ethics issues certainly trying to close the revolving door between the legislature in the lobby core with some sort of cooling-off period would be an idea that many states have employed that we haven't done here in Michigan financial disclosure for candidates so not only do we know where they're giving their campaign funds but what financial interests to that personally that's something that a lot of states do that we don't do here in Michigan and we should do we should also a better disclosure of who's wining and dining our lawmakers there's a lot of money spent up in Lansing you know wining and dining legislators and in the effort to lobby them on this issue or that and
033all of that spending needs to be disclosed and out in the open so that the public knows who's trying to influence their lawmakers and how much finally just straightforwardly on the campaign finance side I think we need to lower the campaign giving limits when I was in Lansing we doubled the campaign giving limits almost nobody I know gives at the max but there is a very small group of people particularly some billionaires on the west side of the state that write a lot of MEK subjects there's no reason why we need to have the limits be as high as they are we also need to make sure that all the campaign finance money that's given to influence of voters and candidates is disclosed we've got big loopholes with super PACs and 527s and some of
034these 501 C 4 nonprofits that do not disclose their donors but yet are doing clear political advocacy and electioneering work that should all be disclosed mr. basky yeah the amount of money that's being spent on campaigns is really amazing it's it's really it's clear you can even tell by money which which candidates who who is supporting which candidates corporations are really able to choose who they want to have the most advertising have the most ability to get their name out there just by funding them um I wrote in one of my responses to online questions I was really surprised when I started running my email is online and I started receiving emails trying to sell me voter information like phone numbers emails this kind of thing services to get my name out there get my
035candidacy out there so that was that was really surprising to me I didn't didn't imagine that that would happen so yeah I think that uh the money being supplied to candidates is is really not a good thing thank you mr. Church mm-hmm I think I just answered that one I'm sorry excuse me question seven well we've got two questions to go and then we've got your final comment sorry and we're gonna start with mr. Erwin Michigan is one of five states that automatically charges seventeen year olds as adults in the criminal justice system in nearly every other aspect of the law including voting buying a lottery ticket or signing a contract eighteen years of age is the legal requirement yet seventeen year old youth must be prosecuted and sentenced as adults in Criminal Courts in
036Michigan research on development personal development shows that seventeen year olds are not adults and are better served in juvenile justice systems would you support raising the age of juvenile jurisdiction to age eighteen yes I would and and yes I have back when I was a state representative and had the opportunity and honor to serve 53rd district for six years I authored a number of bills that would have raised the age and made it so that juveniles were kept in the juvenile system and while I was there we ended up passing some bills not the bills I wrote but we ended up passing some bills that were a little bit more of a compromise proposal and basically took most offenses and put them into a bucket where 17 year olds would be charged as juveniles but
037for a limited set of expect of offenses they would be charged as adults and we passed that out of the house with actually an overwhelming bipartisan majority so that gives me some hope that if I'm fortunate again and an opportunity to serve in the state Senate that a lot of my former House colleagues on both sides of the aisle will be in the Senate and that'll be one of the things we can get done also as a member of the Appropriations Committee over Corrections we spent a lot of time trying to make sure that juveniles that were at one time being kept at the thumb correctional facility were relocated and put into more appropriate facilities there is a lot we need to do to reform our criminal justice system and starting with juvenile justice is
038a great way to get that bite of partisan ball rolling Thank You mr. passkey a lot of money is spent enforcing laws and sending people to prison running prisons um and I think that this this some of this spending could be avoided if in the past or starting you know starting soon this money was spent instead on programs for young people or even like jobs for for people as as they get older instead of imprisoning people you know poor people working-class people there should be opportunities you know people in bad situations end up in prison and they they should have public services and have jobs available to them instead of this okay mr. Church in my younger days I did a lot of ministry in the prison system with my church yes there are some
039kids that probably could have been better off in a different facility however I've also been victimized by crime we have to take into account the victim what was the crime I would rather leave it to the prosecutor and the defense team to figure out the best way for these people to be served it it for politicians to decide what the criminal penalty should be is wrong we got to bring it back to the judge and to the prosecutors to figure out is this something that that child should undergo and I hate to call him a child at 17 they would not see themselves as a child we have people right now trying to get 16 year olds eligible to vote 16 17 year olds are almost as capable even though they're not fully matured enough
040I have seen some that are very matured who know the difference of right and wrong let's get it to where it should be into the hands of the judge of the prosecutors to determine what is the best course of action for the crying and the person thank you our last question before your final concluding comments starting with mr. ribowsky the 65 year old line five transports 22 million gallons of Canadian oil per day through the Straits of Mackinac and the state of Michigan to Sarnia Canada many citizen groups have expressed concern about its age and its physical deterioration do you support decommissioning the pipeline and if not why not so currently the guiding force behind energy policy in Michigan it's not anything the whole United States it's not the environment it's not meaning energy needs
041even uh it's it's the energy corporations they're in control and they want to make a profit for themselves so instead of this these profits could be used to create sustainable energy infrastructure making lots of jobs employing many people however corporations won't do this themselves so it's up to working people to organize and push for these changes okay mr. Church lying five has been a heartache for a lot of people there's a couple of things we have to consider one the age should it be decommission because of the age probably but it needs to be replaced we recently had a ship run aground carrying a lot of the cargo that line five carries we nearly lost the load aboard that ship which would we rather have a controlled environment that you can shut down and roll
042to leave the period of time or a lot of ships carrying that load or worse yet putting them on two semis rolling across the Mack that material has to get down here somehow and the materials generated moved back over that's what that pipeline does move the energy source is there an easy fix short of rebuilding the whole thing no it's not gonna be easy decommissioning it because of the age once we get a replacement line that meets the qualifications yeah shut it down but we got to have a way to move it safely and not just say we're gonna shut it down and then move it across buy some ice we don't have enough some ice to move that stuff okay thank you and mr. Irwin yes I would continue to call for decommissioning line
043five when I was in the legislature in 2015 it was February I introduced a resolution calling upon the governor and the Attorney General to do just that and that was three years ago now so I would continue the call to decommission line five the line is really just a shortcut through Michigan for Canadian oil and gas to get down to Canadian refineries and Sarnia almost all of which product ends up in Canada anyway there's no reason why they couldn't go around they have probably enough capacity to send it around on current lines but they could also build new lines that go around the Straits of Mackinac because that is the worst place and the entire Great Lakes system to put a pipeline the currents there are very complicated change all the time are often going
044in different directions at different heights in the water column and the Coast Guard and every environmental expert that's looked at this including the Graham Institute of sustainability here at the Michigan has said that if there were a leak in this pipeline at this particular location it could not be dealt with and so this is the worst place to have a pipeline probably shoulda never been put there it's over 50 Hertz 65 years old now and it needs to be decommissioned and I think that we can replace the value that these hydrocarbons are bringing if they're bringing any at all by just getting a lot more aggressive about promoting clean energy promoting energy efficiency Michigan should be a leader in clean energy and efficiency not a pass-through for Canadian oil and gas in the worst most
045dangerous place we could have it thank you and we're now ready for closing statements we're going to start with mr. Irwin well thank you again thank you for this forum and this opportunity to speak to the voters I hope I get an opportunity to serve in Lansing again and you know for many of the voters out there I hope you're feeling the same way I am which is that we've been watching our state go in the wrong direction for many many years we've been watching the state lower taxes on wealthy people and raise taxes on poor people cut our education fundings less than our environmental protection lessen our rights and civil liberties for our citizens and now we I feel and I hope we all feel that this is a moment where we can seize
046real change and if things go well this fall and I'm have an opportunity to serve I hope I can be a leader in making that change great for the state of Michigan we need to take a new direction a new approach to how we serve our citizens here in the state of Michigan we need to get back to investing in our people and I'm excited to do that Washington County has a real opportunity I think a real obligation to be a leading voice in the state and a leading voice in progressive politics here and in Michigan and I want to be right at the point of the spear working hopefully with a new Democratic governor and a new Democratic Attorney General and as many Democratic colleagues as possible to try to make that change that
047we need here in Michigan thank you mr. basky say what I said at the beginning I think the working class people need their own party um I think that even if elected I could not make the kinds of changes that working-class people need you know things things like funding for schools for public services clean water Environmental Protection's more job opportunities in federal wages this is not the kinds of things that are a couple of elections here and there change so I think that working-class people still need to continue organizing working together to make the changes they need now working class party is on the ballot in Michigan there are are 11 candidates across the state but I think that still working-class people need to continue organizing and working together and finally mr. Church I'd like
048to thank the opportunity to present my case I believe that it's time to stop sending power all over the place it's time to bring it back to the local family every dollar sent to Lansing every dollar sent to the feds is money that's not invested locally we've got to stop wild spending we got to start balancing our budgets holding our local governments accountable for their balanced budgets we've looked too often for Lansing to bail out everybody else that money is not being used locally where it should be we need to have a government that stops trying to become our worship centers trying to meet the needs of everybody is our worship centers that should be meeting the needs of the local community we know who needs what we need to step up and start doing
049it people have said no we need to look to the government no they'd never solve anything all they do is take an take it's time for it to stop bring it back to local community have the funds from sharing come back to the local community let the local politicians handle it and not kick it down the road it's time to stop what we've been doing and change direction hopefully with a Republican governor and a Republican Attorney General and a Republican Secretary of State me in the Senate and my counterpart in the house we can bring it back to the local community thank you thank you the leak thanks the candidates for participating in tonight's forum to those who contributed questions and actn4 making this program possible these forms will be rebroadcast on channel 19 a
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