first is elise stefanik. go ahead. a stefanik: thank you so much and i want to thank time warner news for the opportunity to participate today. i also want to take a moment to think the congressman. while we may disagree on certain issues, i commend him for his book service and his constituent services representing the 21st district. for the viewers this evening, my name is elise stefanik and i'm proud to say i was born and raised in upstate new york. i grew up in a family where i learned of the challenges of creating jobs in today's economy. i was the first member to have the opportunity to graduate from college and after graduating college i worked in washington for six years focused on public policy. i chose to move home to the north country to help my family's small business grow and over a year ago i announced my candidacy for congress. i'm running because washington is broken and we desperately need new ideas and a new generation of leadership to focus on creating jobs in deceiving the economy right here in the n

. >> hi, i'm elise stefanik, and i'm running for congress in new york's 21st district. i'm proud to say i was born and raised in upstate new york. and i grew up in a small business family. when i was a kid, my parents risked everything they had to start our family's small business. and more than 20 years later, we've been proud to work with hundreds of small businesses in new york's north country. but washington has made it harder for small businesses like ours to succeed and grow. president obama has piled on more taxes, more regulations, more debt for future generations, and higher health care costs -- hurting our main street economy. as a matter of fact, because of obamacare, my family's small business had our coverage cancelled. our new plan carried a 30 percent premium increase, higher deductibles, and higher out-of-pocket co-pays. this is a story that's become all too common, here and all around the country, whether you were promised lower costs or told you'd be able to keep the plan you like. i decided to run for office because my generation can't just complain a

up first it is elise stefanik. >> thank you so much, liz. want to thank time warner news for the opportunity to participate in today's debate. i want to thank bill owens. while congressman all ones and i may disagree on issues, we -- i appreciate his service. my name is elise stefanik. i was born and raised in upstate new york. i grew up in a small business family where i learned the challenges of creating jobs in today's economy. i was the first member of my immediate family to have the opportunity to graduate from college. i worked in washington for six years, focused on public policy. i chose to move home to the north country to help my family's small business grow. over a year ago i announced my candidacy for congress. washington is broken, and we desperately need new ideas and a new generation of leadership to focus on creating jobs and building the economy in the north country. standing up for our constitutional liberties, especially the second amendment, and replacing obamacare with commonsense health-care reforms that leave you in ch

elise stefanik, attacked by her democratic male opponent saying she had never done manual labor.k it does come down to judgment and character, the candidates are to blame, not the staff. >> what do you think, we got to be quake here. >> here's the thing. what if she's right. it doesn't matter, because she comes off looking like an insane person, which actually she might be. it doesn't matter if you're right, if you're not persuasively correct. she might be able to point out the hypocrisy of her point, but she did nit the same way that she was gasping at straws, she's desperate and she looks terrible. this is what happens when you look crazy, the right should learn from this. >> i dumped all of this on friday. i will say this about the press conference today. she did get to clarify a little bit. the fact is that her opponent did get trial lawyers to get a very big settlement. and he got a lot of trial lawyers money. it made it impossible to do things he did, is the height of the hypocrisy. >> but she screwed up the argument. >> to leave it all weekend and then do a press conferenc

i'm running as elise stefanik today and you are playing the partisan political attack.e those are paying attention to what my ideas are for the district while you are lobbing attacks in reading from the obama pelosi agenda which you will be another vote in favor of. >> moderator: to reiterate mr. funicello a question for one or both of your opponents. funicello: i have a question for both of my i'm going to call them running mates. it's less uncomfortable. i'm going to ask something somewhat uncomfortable at both of you. i'm a working-class person. i make less than $40,000 a year. i don't have health insurance and i choose that because my workers can afford health insurance i'm not going to live off their backs. both of you are from unbelievable means. that's just reality and i'm not saying that makes you a bad person. what i am saying is if you look at congress right now it's made up of nothing but people of means. don't you think congress would be were better represented if we actually had the voice of the working people in congress as well since 96% of us work for a

that was a different case against elise stefanik. foust is saying things against barbara comstock.ring up the debate earlier in the show, what would he say about the ebola czar. he had similar resume'. never had a real job. sorry. >> is there a dow czar because he is kicking butt. or she. >> is this a party thing? i wonder, only reason i ask that, if we look back in history, remember when john kerry's wife said, or said laura bush, first lady laura bush never had a real job and turned out she had been a librarian? >> i think what he was saying, referring to her being a mom, that would be offensive and sexist. what it seems he was criticizing her for being a lobbiest or something like that. and he doesn't just seem very attuned to, what this sound like, think to a lot of women. >> i'm going to throw up a red flag because i just don't think we hear male, you know, male candidates attacking male candidates on never held a real job before. you never hear it. >> since i'm feeling more comfortable now, let me just go ahead -- >> uh-oh, here is comes. >> let me go ahead and enter the conf

woolf: a day after the primary, elise stefanik call me on my cell phone as she said i'm really looking to a campaign that is just focus on issues. unfortunately, she is not telling the truth when she says that's only been outside groups that have gone negative. she was the first to go negative. she brought my wife into this situation by talking butter in it which i think provide a reference for. she has said i'm trying to run for congress to make a documentary film. i am learning to represent the people of the 21st district. both of these people have said it, but ms. stefanik has said on television and just mention my wife on radio. into this kind of with making it about personal issues that i think is being used to distract from real issues, the is where talk about tonight and should be focusing on. it's i think one of the hallmarks of campaigning today but we have not done that. even on our website there are lies at the adirondack daily enterprise has challenged about me and my candidacy. funiciello: i think the initial question was about local issues. >> moderator: a was indeed. fun

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