we are coming to you live from the beautiful franco center in lewiston.lic is presenting tonight's debate in partnership with the "lewiston sun journal" and "portland press-herald" and many questions come from you readers, liste

. >> we are coming to you live from the beautiful franklin center in lewiston.presenting today in partnership with sparklers. many of our questions come from you. of the newspapers and made public. those questions will be asked by maine public chief

lewiston, maine is number ten. lewiston has a population of 36,000 people, of course it's safe.ll you have to do to stay safe in lewiston is avoid dennis. [ laughter ] we have more than twice as many people than all ten of those top ten cities combined. of course when you have 5 million more people, some of them are going to murder you, that's how it goes. [ laughter ] and things are about to get even less safe around here. jaywalking will no longer be a ticketable offense in the state of california. [ cheers ] this is a new bill called "the freedom to walk act." they were going to call it "the freedom to get hit by an uber act," but it didn't have the same ring. [ laughter ] the law says anyone can now walk across the street in any spot at any time. like frogger. for real. which is exciting. just this morning, i was driving to work, i thought, hollywood is so perfect, so clean, so tranquil. [ laughter ] there's only one thing i could improve about it, i wish there were more people wandering out in front of my car while i've driving. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] guillerm

we are coming to you live from the beautiful franco center in lewiston. maine public is presenting tonight's debate in partnership with the "lewiston sun journal" and "portland press-herald" and many questions come from you readers, listeners and viewers of the newspapers and maine public. questions will be asked by the maine public key political correspondent and a portland rest reporter, another po overton. the four candidates for governor are governor janet mills, a democrat elected in 2018. she served as maine attorney general and district attorney for androscoggin, franklin and anderson counties. paul lepage was elected in 2010 and served two terms as governor. before elected governor, he served as the mayor of waterville. sam hunkler, an independent, has never served in political office. he is a family physician and served in the peace corps. this debate will last approximately an hour and a half. in the interest of fairness, we will rotate which candidate answers first. we will be addressing topics that you the voters have told us are most importan

. >> we are coming to you live from the beautiful franco center in lewiston.his debate is in partnership with the sun journal. many of the questions for tonight's debate come from you, listeners and readers of the main public. questions will be asked by chief political correspondent and penelope overton. janet mills, a democrat was elected in 2018, before being elected governor she served as maine attorney general and district attorney for -- and anderson counties. paul lepage was elected in 2010 and served two terms as governor. before elected governor, he served as the mayor of waterville. sam hunkler, an independent, has never served in political office. he is a family physician and served in the peace corps. this debate will last approximately an hour and a half. in the interest of fairness, we will rotate which candidate answers first. we will be addressing topics that you the voters have told us are most important to you. each candidate has one minute to answer question posed by reporters. when reporters ask a follow-up question, candidates have 30 secon

. >> we are coming to you live from the beautiful franklin center in lewiston. we are presenting today in partnership with sparklers. many of our questions come from you. of the newspapers and made public. those questions will be asked by maine public chief political correspondent steve mesler and penelope overton. there are three candidates, governor janice -- janet mills was elected in 2018. paul lepage was elected in 2010 and served two terms as governor. before being elected, he served as the mayor of waterville and general manager. sam hunkler has never served in political office. this debate will last approximately in -- four 90 minutes. we will be addressing the topics that you the voters have told us are most important to you. each candidate will have one minute to answer the question posed by the reporters. when the reporters ask a follow-up question, candidates will have 30 seconds to answer those. when the candidate needs to get a rebuttal, we will allow 30 seconds for that. this debate was challenging to schedule. we acknowledge that it it -- it fall