brian dubie? >> i come from a family of six. i am the middle child. i learned being the middle child to bring people together. i honed the skills when i was chairman of my home town school board. i've learned, worked collectively with a fellow school board members. i served as for my's litani governor. i led a petition drive to strengthen our lives. i have chaired the governor's homeland security advisory council and i have worked as a presiding officer of the vermont senate. the next governor is not going to need -- the next governor is going to need to bring vermont residents together. it will take people working collaborative laid to reform our regulatory process, to close the gap in this historic budget gap, to set aside partisanship and to acknowledge that our state, although it is great, there are a lot of things we can do to work to lower taxes, and that is the kind of leader i would be. >> chris erickson? >> i am showing leadership raising new issues that no other candidate is willing to raise, everyone from marijuana de- criminalization, whic

brian dubie? >> i come from a family of six. i am the middle child. i learned being the middle child to bring people together. i honed the skills when i was chrman of my home town school board. i've learned, worked collectively with a fellow school board members. i served as for my's litani governor. i led a petition drive to strengthen our lives. i have chaired the govnor's homeland security advisory council and i have worked as a presiding officer of th vermont senate. the next governor is not going to nee -- e next governor is going to need to bring vermont residents together. it will take people working collaborative laid to reform our regulatory process, to close the gap in this historic budget gap, to set aside partisanship and to acknowledge that our state, although it is great, there are a lot of things we can do to work to lower taxes, and that is the kind of leader i would be. >> chris erickson? >> i am showing leadership raising new issues that no other candidate is willing to raise, everyone from marijuana de- criminalization, which peter

i will spend the next four weeks talking about the contrast anti- choice between myself and brian dubie. there are real differences. i am a small business person who wants to use my skills in the legislature to put vermonters' back to work. i have a vision for where we need to go and how we will get there. we can do a lot better. i am very optimistic about our future. i would not run a campaign of fear. it is a campaig of opportunity. i hope he will vote for me. >> bria dubie. >> it that is the case, why is the rhetoric different from the reality? you are still run in an ad that attacks my integrity. here's my commitment. my commitment is i am going to talk about serious issues. i will not make jokes and dismissed them. these are serious issues. these are serious times. public safety is a serious issue. vermonter's expect a goo candidate for governor to conduct a campaign about serious issues. my campaign is focused on job creation. i have a 10-point plan. i have listened to thousands of vermonters will as i put together my plan i am encouraged that the 1800 small businesses of of vermo

dubie has held a minor league in the polls. -- lead in the polls. this is one that democrats definitely think they can take back. host: the redrawing of the congressional districts, that is very important to the group of drug candidates. when does that begin? guest: in most states, they have a heavy hand in working through this with the legislature. it is almost a two step process. the legislative maps will be completely redone and we will have a different electoral congress going into 2012. democrats will admit they will lose several seeds -- seats. what they are really targeting are these big states that have such electoral emphasis in 2012. that is why they are targeting some of the big states like florida, california, texas. host: governor races. jessica taylor is our guest. texas, rob. you are first. caller: i believe in a fair shake for all the candidates. i apologize if you cannot hear me well. i wanted to talk about that situation of the girl that got shoved to the ground. i felt horrible. i managed to catch on the internet that she had thro