it's great to be in a westhampton i want to hi and good evening everyone. it's great to be in westhampton i want to thank the league of women voters and everyone else who is here today for doing this. i think it's an election hopefully an election of our lifetime. because i hope we never go to the drum we are going through now. i want to especially thank the students that took the time to come out tonight because this is your generation we are talking about. we are talking about the future of this country and that many, many things that are at stake. many of you know me my name is anna throne-holst i served as your account supervisor and counselor for two years before that. i made the decision to run for congress because this is by all accounts the most dysfunctional, ineffective and mired in partisan politics congress in the history of congress. according to a very recent gallup poll nor more than 11% of americans feel congress is getting the job done for them. i devoted my work in this community, i raise my four kids in this community devoted my work to a

we want especially to thank the west hand in beach school district -- westhampton beach school district, the superintendent, administrative assistant judy mccarthy, media teachers sean johnson, social studies teacher patricia bronson and her students, and then from the southhampton youth bureau we have tracy because lynn, lisa crater, and their students. we need to think the custodial and security staff. we thank them all for their cooperation and assistance. let me also introduce the others with roles tonight. ursula lynch greeted you as you entered. she, judy roth, and our student guests ob in the aisle to pick up questions you have for the candidates. so, please raise your hand, even as the debate goes on, so you can have a cause. and then fill in out and they will pick it up again to give it to our vetters. the panelists are joe shaw, executive editor of the press newsgroup a which publishes the southhampton press, the east hampton press, and 27.com. and going and burke, sitting next to joe, copresident of the leak. they will be asked -- the league . they will be asked questions fro