Michael Bennet vs. Phil Weiser for Colorado Governor and Standing up for All of [27:09-32:12]

you're pushing back tell us about your game plan three points and we just had a meeting of democratic AG's we're talking about this first important point is we need we the people mobilizing and no kings rallies at other moments making clear just like we saw in Minnesota peaceful protesting we are going to stand for our democratic republic we are not going to let elections be quote-unquote nationalized you're in referred way that's going to be a very important part of our strategy number two our constitution is clear and I I went to the Supreme Court and argued a case personally on this issue and you may remember this issue around faithless electors could states require those electors to represent the people are not my argument was states have the full authority to oversee elections I won that 90 we're going to once again stand up for that principle and third if they're shenanigans that are being pulled to intimidate voters we're going to do everything we can to have resilient safe and secure elections in Colorado we design our elections in a gold standard way that makes it harder to interfere with them other states could take a page from our book on that so your attorney general your opponent's a US senator tell us why you think that your service as attorney general better prepares you to be governor three points Andy I want to touch on the first is my experience standing up for our constitution for the rule of law and pushing back against this lawless bullying administration is something on people's minds Senator Michael Bennett is voted for more trumps cabinet than almost any Democrat in the senate Brooke Rollins who we were talking about before someone he voted for and says he continues to stand by that vote and support her service even as I've had to sewer those three times I disagree with that approach a second issue and and you know this well I don't think there's a better job that prepares you to be governor then attorney general I represent every agency and state government I worked with you on the opioid crisis in Colorado has a claim to have done the best job dispersing those funds in a way that from John Oliver to Johns Hopkins school of public health has been praised as a national standard I've had to work with our government to get things done I am also this is my third point running a grassroots campaign we've got 90% of our donors from Colorado we've gotten more state and local current and former elected officials who've endorsed me by far then have endorsed senator Bennett even though he's been in elected officer decade more our grassroots campaign is both why I should win and why I believe we will win Bill John McConnell here gonna jump in with a question when we look at affordability across the country and also in your state what are your plans for helping the people of your state cope with this but I quickly go through three areas on people's minds housing health care and childcare on housing the great recession broke our housing market in Colorado starter homes that used to be available that teachers could afford that nurses could afford they're no longer in the Denver metro area to take a notable example meaning people are commuting an hour more now in a way that I believe is just wrong it's wrong for our climate it's wrong for our transportation system it's wrong for our communities I want people who are police officers to give the coach the local little league teams to be close by in case there's an emergency and right now in so many of our communities in Colorado not just in the Denver metro area but now communities and others that's not possible we need to lean into this challenge with several different strategies first when permitting cost are too high and permit takes too long we need to make sure we address it so the incentives are right so people can build housing that is market rate housing but it's also affordable that that was happening before the great recession I purchased one of those homes they don't exist anymore we need to make sure that government isn't part of the problem disincentivizing this building but instead we created a system that incentivized it also on housing we need more innovation modular housing 4% of housing and sweet now is modular housing Colorado we're barely using it even though it's 20% quicker 30% cheaper I'm going to lean into it and third we need to make sure that our state government is an effective convener making it easier for people getting access to programs that support affordable housing and right now we're making it too hard I'm going to make sure we've got a unified sent a coordinated strategy that's going to get this job done on health care we need to make sure that we're creating more competition in the health care using innovation and technology have a can and making it a health system not a sick system if we don't treat diabetes upfront helping people live healthier lives get access to medication then we're dealing with them in the backend with dialysis or even amputation it's more expensive we also need to make sure that we're taking on big farm effectively lower the cost of prescription drugs and finally a third point is