dr. wetherbee. >> i begin with senator jim risch.n 2006, the legislation you pushed through the legislature that shifted the funding of education from the property tax to the sales tax, there has been a lot of commentary and about the negative effects that shift has had on public education affecting the flow of the revenue source to public schools as well as throughout the state of idaho and equalized tax, what is your response to wears that legislation is today and its impacts on i hope? risch: that is a really good question. there has been some discussion on that. in 2006 when i became governor i've lived through two four decades of fighting against property taxes. i called a special session of legislation, you used the word push. you know better than when you try to push something in the legislature. two thirds of legislators voted for that. we took the millage off of the property tax for maintenance and operations lose when they did is it reduced property taxes 20%. we also put a penny on the sales tax and millions in the rainy d

dr. wetherbee. ?> i begin with senator risch >> correct. >> back to 2006, senator risch. you pushncentives that through the legislature that shifted the funding of education from the property tax to the there has been a lot of commentary recently about the negative shift that has had on public education. the flow of the revenue source to public schools throughout the state of idaho an equalized tax. impact today on idaho? >> that is a really good question. i know there has been some discussion. in 2006 when i became governor, i had lived through three or four decades of fighting against property tax. tax.ans hate property i called a special session of the legislature. -- you used "push the word "push." you know what happens when you try to push anything to the legislature. you have to finesse. we took the milledge off of property tax for maintenance and operations. that reduced property taxes by 20%. and we also put a penny on the sales tax. and we put money into the rainy day fund, which helped in very difficult times. we put it on the ballot. voted for that. if i am ele

dr. wetherbee. you will director question beginning with mr. mitchell. you?at kind of democrat answer, tell us someone in the senate you identify with philosophically and ideologically? >> i am an idaho democrat. i do not necessarily subscribe to any california or massachusetts agenda. i will represent the values of people in idaho. i think the people of idaho do tend to be conservative, but we are also most importantly, independent-minded. and we don't want people from massachusetts or california, those types of liberals, telling us how we should live our lives. in terms of the people i admire in the u.s. senate, two of my heroes growing up were william mara as well as frank church. i think they both served our state well and represented the interest and i use of the people of idaho. >> your follow-up? >> ideologically, where do you stand on the political spectrum? senator risch has provided a prompt saying you are a liberal democrat. what are you? >> that is silly. i'm not a liberal democrat. and oftentimes the labels are a substitute for actual discussion

dr. jim wetherbee is here, alongside justin core. debate we drew for one minute statements. the floor is yours, senator. >> thank you very much, mark. thank you for watching today, ladies and gentlemen. i am sure that you are watching because you want to make a choice about who to vote for in this race. it will be very easy, the choice will be put -- will be crystal clear. if you want a liberal democrat, you have my opponent, mr. mitchell. if you want a conservative person, a republican person, find that person. 68% of us, you and i, fought to keep barack obama from imposing is fundamental, cultural, changing agenda on the united dates. while we were doing that, this gentleman was funding the other side. he contributed thousands in his own money and a -- in an effort, trying to elect first hillary obama. and then barack with howe happy president obama is trying to take this country, he your guy. i have every confidence that over the next 837 days the choice will be clear. we are two very different people . with that, i yield the floor to the judge in california. >> mr. mitch