Before about 100 people in Bridgeport’s Holiday Inn this morning, Republican challenger Steve Obsitnik of Westport and U.S. Rep. Jim Himes of Greenwich held the last of their 4th District debates. Only three were held, because of the cancellation of last Sunday’s League of Women Voters debate in Wilton. But this one, sponsored by the AARP, highlighted their differences. Himes defended the Affordable Care Act and the federal stimulus program, while Obsitnik criticized them.
“I want to solve the greatest problems of our time,” Obsitnik said. “Anemic job growth, sagging debt. I want to serve you and only you, if I’m lucky, for four terms, eight years and I come back and I live by the same rules I helped to put in place. We can rebound, we can be prosperous again. We can return this country to where we’ve been.”
Himes: “…When I arrived in Washington in January of 2009 we were spiraling into a depression…I am proud of that after 50 years of time we actually got a system of universal health in place so that no American will ever die because they don’t have access to a doctor. I’m proud that a gay person will no longer be told that they can’t serve this country because of their sexual proclivity. I’m proud that we took $60 billion out of the student-loan industry that was going to the banks and gave it now to the students in the form of a lower interest rate…”