Happy New Year, everyone. We are going back into the archives today to share with you our great redhead debate that we did.

We first ran this in the election season when debates were happening between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

We sort of wanted to model out what we thought maybe a higher better version of debate could look like.

It was very stressful for me, but we think that it's helpful because so often these days we find ourselves agreed and we wanted to assure some of our new listeners that we are really from separate ends of the political spectrum.

So this episode sort of highlights where our fault lines are, especially around the role of government and we hope that you enjoy it.

This is a special episode of Pantsuit Politics.

Welcome to the great redhead debate.

This is Sarah from the left and Beth from the right.

You're listening to Pantsuit Politics. No shouting, no insults, plenty of nuance.

Welcome to the great redhead debate.

This is Dante and I am going to be moderating our debate tonight between the candidacies of Sarah Holland and Beth Silver.

So just to give you guys a little bit of background, we took questions from listeners on Twitter, on Facebook, and in my email.

We decided on some pre-discuss topics and some pre-discuss questions, so we're going to mix them up as we go along.

And this should be fun. So we're going to treat it just like a real debate between the two candidates and see where we stand, where we on certain issues, where we agree, where we differ.

And where we can move forward on a lot of issues that we've been discussing throughout season two and even before that.

So we're going to begin by doing our opening statements.

So we're going to allow the incumbent party to open first.

So Sarah, would you like to give your opening remarks?

Of course. So this is Sarah from the left and as some of you know, I'm an eighth generation Kentucky in and about seven years ago,

I left my home in the big city to because my beloved red state called me home and I'm running for Paducas City Commission because my small hometown is my passion and I believe that city government can help it thrive for decades to come.

And I say all that because I want to acknowledge the nuance of the small town girl dedicated to her red state arguing for the party of big government.

So I'm a lifelong Democrat proud Democrat and I know that it sounds really good to say that we should always keep government small.

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