ms. tenney? ms. tenney: there is a couple of things. first of all, as i have advocated, i am a small business owner. we have our family manufacturing facility. i am the only one here that is running for this position who has not taken the corporate welfare or been involved in the pay to play schemes you are talking about with start of new york, which is under investigation by a u.s. attorney, and the excelsior program, which is now being questioned by our state comptroller. the secret is not giving out millions in taxpayer money, especially to poor areas like here in the broome county area, where you are seeing the worst small metro areas in the nation, as far as economy -- the broom area and the utica/rome area. need to not keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result, as they say. we need to start reducing taxes, reduce regulations, and stop the trade deals. these trade deals undermine the sovereignty of our country. they make it difficult for us to compete. we need to bring manufacturing jobs back here. my business is l

ms. tenney.here the questions coming from twitter. >> parted before interrupting you. >> i firmly believe that all problems can be solved for education. the key to a happy life is the threshold of quality public-school education. the dirty word of common core air needs to be understood. it was implemented and abroad about from the state governors and their education advisers who were noticing a students were not graduating with the skill set to be ready for jobs and careers. they got together to decide there should be a higher standard those are always a good thing. i believe that and i believe throughout the united states we need a common set of skills sets. third grade should be the same as the skills that. then you graduate from fourth grade you should have the same skill set around the country we are a mobile society the problem with common core comes from the region's reform agenda the implementation and the lack of funding that comes along with it. and the unfunded mandates whether at the s

ms. tenney, you go first. >> tenney: i just want to say thank you to wskg and the league of women voters for giving an opportunity to hear from all the candidates that a special event honored to be here and i would like to recognize by opponents for taking the time to run for this position it takes a lot of time from your family and friends and it's been a tough campaign may be not just on the candidates but the viewing audience on tv as the millions of colors and commercial so i do want to say that i'm happy to be here as a native of new hartford new york. i lived across the street from the house i grew up in. i raised my son as a single mom and i'm proud to say he's serving active duty marine. i practice wall and ran the family business in hamilton new york. the business is still here today and we've paid our service taxes, everything is in new york. everything, i ran for office and was elected to the assembly and served from 2011 until now. now. the reason i ran was to help the business community, regulations, stop some of the bad trade deals that have hurt our region all the way up t