our candidates include andre bauer, gresham barrett, henry mcmaster, nikki haley. please give the candidates a warm south carolina welcome. [applause] >> the debate features a panel of the steam to journalists. they include harry logan who works in the office of public -pand community affairs at frans marion. he is also the immediate president of the press association of south carolina. joining him is his former colleague, jackie torch. she is the metro editor of the morning news. the third member is mike connolly from news 13. [applause] this debate will focus on job creation and long-term economic growth across all of south carolina. each candidate will have a chance to answer three questions posed by each panelist. and the candidates have one minute 30 seconds to enter the question when it is their time. the other three candidates have 30 seconds for rebuttal. we have a series of corn ponces to determine the order -- quintana says -- coin tosees to determine the order. >> the recent poll among registered voters found that jobs and the economy or their top priori

participating in this debate is congressman gresham barrett and nikki haley. there is complete editorial control. unless otherwise stated, there will be one minute. rebuttal will be 30 seconds and at our discretion. we welcome you to take part in our live interactive blog. >> we're going to get right into the question and begin with congressman barrett. the first question is for you. we received a question from a registered republican and a retired infantry officer. he is upset by one of your commercials the identified you as u.s. army retired and referred to you as a military man when you served on active duty 4.5 years and resign your commission more than 20 years ago. what do you say to him and other career military veterans to believe that is dishonest? >> what i would say is that it was a mistake. it was an honest mistake. we were running, unfortunately, 100 miles per hour. as soon as we caught it, we took it down. i am very proud of my military service. i was in fort hood, texas, and i graduated with honors. unfortunately, it was a mistake. we will not d

her opponent will be congressman gresham barrett. haley overcame allegations of infidelity by two men in recent weeks which she vehemently denied. she says south carolina voters had had enough. >> we said no to inside deal making and backroom politics. and this last two or three weeks we said no to the dark side of politics. >> woodruff: haley, an indian american, would be the first woman and racial minority to be elected governor of south carolina. and to make sense of last night's results, we are joined once game by amy walter, editor and chief of the hotline, national journal's political daley. ask dan balz, senior political reporter for the "washington post." thank you both for being back with us. a lot to cover. dan, i'm going to start with you. any overriding message out of what happened yesterday? >> well, i think in some ways the overriding message is that the overriding message that we've been following all year isn't necessarily going to prevail in every election. and i think that was certainly the case in arkansas, where b

nikki haley faces gresham barrett. this is about one hour. >> this is a special presentation -- "the race for governor." >> good evening. welcome to the 2010 gubernatorial runoff debate. >> glad to have you with us this evening. participating tonight, rep nikki haley and gresham barrett. tonight's debate is co-sponsored by the league of women voters and aarp. the candidates have one minute to answer each question. rebuttals will have a time limit of 30 seconds. we are streaming live on-line as well. we welcome you to go to the website and a live chat during the debate to take part in our live, interactive blog. >> we received an email to a from a man named ron, a registered republican of over 45 years and a retired army infantry officer. he is upset about one of your commercials that identified you as the u.s. army retired and referred to as a military man when you served on active 3duty 4.5 years and resigned york commission. -- your permission. >> it was an honest mistake. we put the advertisement up. we were running

now a debate between gresham barrett and nikki haley, who are running in the republican runoff election for south carolina governor. the winner of the runoff will face the democratic nominee in the general election. this is about 50 minutes. >> live from columbia, this is a special presentation -- the race for governor. >> good evening, and welcome to the gubernatorial runoff debate. >> we are glad to have you with us this evening. participating in this debate, gresham barrettand nikki haley. although this is co-sponsored by the league of women voters and the aarp, they have complete control over the questions asked. they will have one minute to answer each question, rebuttals, and follow-up questions. >> we are going to get right to the questions. we received an e-mail today from a registered republican of over 45 years and a retired army infantry officer. he is upset about one of your commercials that identified you as u.s. army retired and referred to you as a military man when you serve on active duty for and a half years and resigned more than 20 years ago. what do you say to him a

she and congressman gresham barrett will face ach other in a runoff. >> i liked that song.wanted to finish hearing it. i am very overwhelmed. i think we are all very overwhelmed. when we took on this race, we did not see anybody in the field that we thought was really going to move south carolina forward. we did not see a reformer that was really going to give government back to the people. so we knew from the very beginning it was us versus the establishment. i knew there was something wrong. the thing that i knew was wrong was that south carolina was we were selling for republican house, a republican senate, and a republican governor. i will not stop until we get a conservative house. [cheers and applause] we went up and get some hard name people. we had an attorney general, a congressman, and the lieutenant governor. we had no name id, and no money. but we had something they did not have. we had you. [cheers ann applause] we said no to a lot of things. we said we are not going to have an arrogant, and accounttble government. we said no to spending. we said no to bailouts

. >> the next question is for congressman gresham barrett. >> you mentioned and eight step plan and touched on this topic. what can you do to continue to maximize south carolina's netwk of interstate highways and the port of charleston and the port of georgetown and other manufacturing infrastructure components to continue to grow the economic oprtunities for workers in south carolina. >> part of the pn we worked, of course it has comprehensive tax reform. infrastructure is extremely impoant. one of the major infrastructure projects is i 73. what is good for the lower part of the state is goodor the upper part of the state. we are too small to fight about it. i live within 15 miles of the corridor. what about the i-95 corridor? or the 20? we can duplicate that process across the state but it takes forward thinking. volkswagen came to my district and they wanted to put a plant there. we told the we wou give them the bridges, roads, waters, sewer. there went to tennessee because they did it thnext day. we have to be prepared when industry comes looking. we are 18 months away from making major

. >> gresham barrett >> ielieve in god. possible.th him all things are%- i believe if we are going to take this nation ba, it is on state at a time. if i did not pick the that, i would not be here tonight. you want to see a sta with your sons and daughters to get toead and take jobs or the next job is across the street. not across the nation. entrepreneur is are the heart and soul of this company. we have our best days ahead of us. we need a did that can pull south carolina to get tre. i have been blessed to be a congressman for the past seven and half years and i would be honored to be your governor. tonight, i ask for your support inour vote. god bless. >> henry mcmaster. >> from upstate to the didn't come out from the mountain to the sea, ou carolina is a wonderful sight to behold. we see it everyday. we are blessed with talented and innovative people and plentiful resources. i believe we can achieve any drm that we set our minds to. i have a plan to put south carolina back on the path to prosperity. of the candidates, a

gresham barrett. then rumors started circulating that there be a scandal and a conservative blogger said he had an inappropriate relationship with nikki haley. then a political consultant who is associated with andre bauer one of her opponents said he, too, had an inappropriate relationship. she firmly denies any of this. that she has been totally faithful to her husband during the entirety of their marriage. but it just throws the whole issue of personal morality and behavior in the spotlight again. the polls taken indicate that most of nikki hailey's republican supporters are sticking with her. she may have a problem because you have to have 50% and whoever finishes first doesn't get 50% will have three more weeks of this. then when you get in the he said, she said things involving personal behavior, somebody really telling a whopper of an untruth. and if it is the other people, then shame on them. if it is her, she has a political problem. host: we have a couple of calls from maine, another state v

mark sanford predict candidates are congressman gresham barrett, andrea bauer, nikki haley, and henryter. this one-hour debate is curtis wp curtis whobtw -- this one hour debate is courtesy of wptw. >> i won i thank our viewers tonight. in this first of two gubernatorial debates for south carolina sponsored by frances marion it universities. we're joined by the four gubernatorial hopefuls that hope to be south carolina's governor for the primary is one week from tonight three are candidates include andrea bauer -- andre powebauer and others. please give the candidates all warm south carolina welcome. it tonight's debate also features of panel from throughout the state. harry is also the immediate past president of the south carolina press association for joining him is his former colleague, the current editor of the morning news, and my colleague, rusty rate. please welcome the panel as well this debate is coming up one week before the primary and will focus on job growth across all of south carolina purred par one involves questions from our media panel. each will have a one minute a

. >> gresham barrett. i believe in god. possible.thim all things are%- i believe if we are going to take this nation back, it is one state at a time. if i did not pk the that, i would not be here tonight. u want to see a state with your sons and dauters to get to read and take jobs or the next job is across the street. not across the nation. entrepreneur is are th heart and soul of this company. we have our best days ahead of us. we need a did tt can pull south carolina to get there. i have been blessed to be a congressman for the past seven and half years and i wld be honored to be your governor. tonight, i ask for your support in your vote. god bless. >> henry mcmaster. >> from upstate to the didn't me o from the mountain to the sea, outh carolina is a wonderful sight to behold. we see it everyday. we are blessed with talented and innovative people and plentiful resources. i lieve we can achieve any dream that we set our minds to. i have a plan to p sth caroli back on the path to prosperity. of the candidates, and they ar

gresham barrett. then rumors started circulating that there be a scandal and a conservative blogger said he had an inappropriate relationship with nikki haley. then a political consultant who is associated with andre bauer one of her opponents said he, too, had an inappropriate relationship. she firmly denies any of this. at she has been totally faithful to her husband during the entirety of their marriage. but it just throws the whole issue of personal morality and behavior in t spotlight again. the polls taken indicate that most of nikki hailey's republican supporters are sticking with her. she may have a problem because you have to have 50% and whoever finishes first doesn't get 50% will have three more weeks of this. then when you get in the he said, she said things involving personal behavior, somebody really telling a whopper of an untruth. and if it is the other people, then shame on them. if it is her, she has a political problem. host: we have a couple of calls from mae, another state voting