Ige, Tupola Spar In Final Debate Before Election Day
Trailing by a wide margin in the polls, Republican state Rep. Andria Tupola had nothing to lose going into her final televised debate Monday night against Democratic Gov. David Ige.
Her answers were polished for the most part, and she was clearly more in her element than Ige fielding questions on more than a dozen issues from KITV anchor Paula Akana. But as the governor was quick to point out, Tupola didn’t answer all of them.
She hammered Ige for wanting to raise taxes to fund certain programs when she said state departments should instead look for efficiencies and ways to cut fat.
She didn’t specify what tax increase she was talking about, but in the past has criticized Ige for supporting a proposed constitutional amendment allowing the state to levy property taxes to help fund schools. The ballot measure has been invalidated by the Supreme Court.
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