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MN Governor Debate Heats Up Over Fraud and Health Care
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In Short: Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth and Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar clashed in their final debate Wednesday over the $9 billion fraud scandal and health care costs in Minnesota.
Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth and Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar clashed in their final debate Wednesday over the $9 billion fraud scandal and health care costs in Minnesota.
"A vote for Amy Klobuchar is a vote for a Tim Walz third term," Demuth said, highlighting the fraud scandal and criticizing Klobuchar's close relationship with Walz.
Klobuchar defended her record, saying, "Rewind the tape on this debate please; you will see exactly how I said I differed from Tim Walz."
The debate also touched on rising gas prices and the Keystone pipeline, with Demuth blaming Klobuchar for opposing the pipeline and increasing healthcare costs.
"We can talk about that Keystone pipeline that my opponent has voted against. That would have brought in 830,000 barrels of oil. It would have helped with the supply that we have here, yet she voted against it," Demuth said.
Klobuchar responded by pointing to her support for the Affordable Care Act, which she said would bring down healthcare costs.
"Senator Klobuchar supported the Affordable Care Act. She promised that it would bring down our healthcare. Unfortunately, we have seen anything but all of our healthcare since the Affordable Care Act has increased the healthcare cost to all Minnesotans," Demuth argued.
"The thing that I will do on day one is I am going to be firing all commissioners, choosing new commissioners that are expert in their field that will carry out the accountability and transparency that is needed in our state. We have to change the culture of fraud," Demuth said.
What this adds
The debate also touched on the impact of the fraud scandal on Minnesota's budget and the need for accountability.
What's confirmed
- Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth and Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar clashed in their final debate Wednesday over the $9 billion fraud scandal and health care costs in Minnesota.
- "A vote for Amy Klobuchar is a vote for a Tim Walz third term," Demuth said, highlighting the fraud scandal and criticizing Klobuchar's close relationship with Walz.
- The debate also touched on rising gas prices and the Keystone pipeline, with Demuth blaming Klobuchar for opposing the pipeline and increasing healthcare costs.
- "We can talk about that Keystone pipeline that my opponent has voted against. That would have brought in 830,000 barrels of oil. It would have helped with the supply that we have here, yet she voted against it," Demuth said.
- Klobuchar responded by pointing to her support for the Affordable Care Act, which she said would bring down healthcare costs.
- "Senator Klobuchar supported the Affordable Care Act. She promised that it would bring down our healthcare. Unfortunately, we have seen anything but all of our healthcare since the Affordable Care Act has increased the healthcare cost to all Minnesotans," Demuth argued.
- "The thing that I will do on day one is I am going to be firing all commissioners, choosing new commissioners that are expert in their field that will carry out the accountability and transparency that is needed in our state. We have to change the culture of fraud," Demuth said.
What's still developing
- "I would love to hear one bill, one area, child care, fraudulent funding. I would love to hear that. If she is separating herself specifically from Tim Walz, Tim Walz allowed the child care fraud and other fraud here in the state of Minnesota to explode to $9 billion, never firing any of his commissioners or agency employees. But yet you have someone standing here tonight that is supporting everything from the incredible governor, as she has said he is."
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- "That is it, beginning, middle and end. And when you look at what my opponent brings up, when we had a debate earlier this week, she actually brought up and blamed it on the Keystone pipeline. Then she blamed the health care costs on Barack Obama. I don't know what will be next. Maybe Thomas Jefferson, but what I know is that Minnesotans understand what's happened at the pump."
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