Subject: FW: TrackerBASE Report: PRES John Kasich town hall McKees Rocks, PA 4/25/2016
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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 17:35:51 -0700

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Subject: TrackerBASE Report: PRES John Kasich town hall McKees Rocks, PA 4/25/2016

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TO:  Pres. Tracking

FROM: Megan Arndt & Christopher van Leeuwen

Location: McKees Rocks, PA

Date:  4/25/16

RE: John Kasich Town Hall McKees Rocks, PA

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Event Details: John Kasich holds a Town Hall in McKees Rocks, PA. Lasted about an hour.

Attendees/Audience: 1000

Press: WPXI, nbc 12, NBC national, Kasich stream, KDKA, news 4, 7 print, and 6 photographers

Summary of Event: Missed the the start of Kasich speaking, but he was doing his stump speech when I got onto Chris’s stream. The stream went out a couple of times. Kasich answered questions on education, economy, the pact with Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina possibly being a VP choice.

Key Points:

CLIP A

0:00

I can remember when he would leave because that garage door would open and shut. I would always worry that they would not come home at night. I was in Washington one night and I got a terrible phone call that your father is dead and your mother is going to die sood. The second cup of coffee was free. Amidst that horrible situation it was uncle George who took control. He’s been a rock in our family ever since. Thank you for being here today. Just a little bit about how I got on the stage tonight. Uncle George for VP. Quick story. I grew up in McKees Rocks. I don’t remember being a Republican when I grew up. My grandfather would get up earlier than everybody and come home later than everybody. I left McKees Rocks because I wanted to do something different than everybody.

5:00

I was very frustrated with things going on in OH State. I went to see the  President of the University. I told him I’ve been here about a month.

5:40

Lost stream.

CLIP B

0:00

JK: I didn’t come all this way for 5 lousy minutes. The good news I spent 20 minutes in the Oval office with the President at 18. I peaked out at 18. First of all my life has been about the grace from the lord. The lord has given me the opportunity to put me in places to make a difference. I don’t have time to play politics. My whole purpose has been to speak up for people who can’t get the break. I have never forgotten my home here in McKees Rocks. I was with a friend earlier and asked who is my hero. It was Roberto Clemente. The President is somebody who might drive. We never waited for someone else here to show up to solve our problems. Everywhere in this country the spirit in the country is in us. You want your kids to get a good education. Well, fix the schools. Let’s get it fixed let’s work together. We are going to destroy drugs because we aren’t going let it take us down. I am going to shift a lot of power back here. We are all made special. We are made unique for a purpose. It is to help heal the world. If we are a doctor we heal. If we are a nurse we say it will be okay. Uncle George is 90 and he is pretty good. There are people who are widowed. Call them up and take them to dinner.

5:30

We have to take this country back. We have to become a great role model for our kids. Are you with me? Who wants to go first.

Q

JK: What’s your name. Brian do you have a last name? If I get to be President I’ll give you at least 15.

Q: On federal inheritance tax.

JK: Let me say a couple of things. After you pay taxes your entire life I think it makes sense to visit the tax man and the undertaker on the same day. Small businesses are the ones we worry about. They spend the whole lifetime to build the business in hopes to pass it down to their families. I read about 2 cities Houston and Detroit. You know what they are doing? In my hometown our local government is picking on everybody. I don’t care if somebody is successful and wants to pass their wealth down. Many of you can’t see this, but there is a clock ticking. In Washington I spent time trying to balance the budget. When those numbers goes up job offers go down. Small business people sit on their loan. When the numbers go down the job offers go up. You can’t beat up small business. You got to lower taxes. I am not a big fan of big business.

10:54

Stream Stopped.

CLIP C

0:00

JK: We were 8 billion in the whole. Today we run a 2 billion dollar surplus. We are up 420 thousand jobs that we didn’t have when I came in. In our schools. Our schools have to do a much better job of giving our kids the skills of today and tomorrow. When we are in school we ought to be raising the value of the guidance counselor. Then we have to have an education path that feeds to passion. Every single student ought to have a mentor to go in with them to show them what their future could be. Vince or Joe would come out of the shop and say you’re going to be something someday. It made a difference. That is the way it should be in higher education as well. Education has to be a lifelong effort. In NY they told me that the Oreo plant was going to shut down and move to Mexico. In the 21st century where would we rather work, oreo cookie plant or micro chip plan. If we give our kids skills they will be just fine in life.

4:18

Q: On Ted Cruz

JK: We are trying to spend our resources. This is nothing more than an effort to target the resources because we are going to head to an open convention. I was in Philly this morning and a guy said you are President Lincoln. I am the only one who in poll after poll after poll beats Hillary Clinton. Why can’t you win these primaries. Well, I did win OH. You are worried about your job. I am worried about your job. I get it.  Two ways to deal with this. Drive people into depression. I have two twin daughters. We watched chariots of fire. They asked Daddy what does that mean to you? Can you imagine being born somewhere other than the USA. I know we have problems, but I am not going to push people in the dark. I want to give people hope. The problem is hope is boring. People don’t want to live in depression, but they want to be hopeful.

9:09

Q: On economics.

JK: I was up in NY. Where was it. You couldn’t move. How many of you had heard of Jackie York. The more you stand here the more I recognize you. Take Bernie and Hillary. Primarily Bernie everything is free. If you figured in all the free stuff it will be 30 trillion. My whole purpose is to create a job environment where people can work. My mother said it is a sin to not help somebody who needs help, but it is also a sin to help somebody to needs to help themselves. I want to turn welfare to the check. We want businesses who are in the welfare check. If you don’t want to get trained you can’t get the check. There are some people who just aren’t going to make it work. What we don’t like are the people who are abled bodied and can work. Is life fair? Sometimes and sometimes not. We all have a lot to be thankful for. It’s never all going to work out. Sometimes we have to take a deep breath. We will all get justice, but it might not be here.

16:42

Q: On student debt.

JK: College education there is nothing wrong with going to a community for a couple of years. President of OH State wanted to lease the Parking the garage. He leased them and put ½ billion dollars into scholarships. If they do not control the cost of higher education. It is not sustainable over time. We have to get it under control

20:28

Q: On education

JK: Let’s talk about common core standards. I think we have too many tests. However, I think we need tests. We need to see where we are. The reason why we don’t have high standards because we want our kids to live in a happy land. The whole common core concept is students in Mississippi should have the same curriculum as students in NY. I will agree with you on the testing. In our state we reduced the testing. That is what we’ve done in our state and we will continue it.

23:48

Lost Stream

24:01

Q: Carly Fiorina on being a great VP.

JK: We are starting the process of looking at people. We will consider a lot of people are you available?

24:45

Q: Bringing STEM jobs back.

JK: Earlier today we had an 11 year old to get up and ask a question. These young people are incredible. What do you plan on majoring in? Physics? First of all we were down 350 thousand jobs in our state. Now we are up 420 thousand. We became business friendly. We get everybody together rowing in the same direction. We tell businesses we will give you a reasonable incentive, but we will be in a partnership. We are on the verge of getting a cracker facility. A company that is looking to come to OH they are coming in because they think it’s a great opportunity for technology. We’ve got to make sure if somebody is coming to PA they have the skills to do the job. The fact is we have to have equal training. If you make money in Europe and make money they are taxed and if they want to bring money here they are taxed again. They end up investing in Europe.

30:47

Q: Testing

JK: First of all I don’t want to run education from Washington. Education has to be state and local. I know we have to take foreign language. I would want to take the language of the computer. Why aren’t we offering that as a substitution. My daughters are 16. When we were in FL and they asked what that box was? That’s where superman changes his clothe. We are going to have a self driving car. They always said we would have a flying car. Look at Uncle george he’s 90 years old. Change is happening at the speed of light. If businesses don’t change they die. If government or education doesn't innovate 19 trillion in debt and people who are not ready. We’ve got to move faster in this country.

35:30

Q:

JK: One of the things we don’t want to do is turn this stuff to the government.

36:30

Steam lost

JK: On Thursday I am flying to OR and then to CA. The way I have energy is because God has given it to me. We have to recognize what we are up against in this world. ISIS believes their trip to paradise is killing us. We have to take them out. Once we destroy them we should come home. We need good intelligence and policing so we can find them. Here at home we have the joint terrorism task force. The Russians have to understand we are going to arm the Ukrainians so they can defend themselves. We need to make our positions clear without grabbing the swords of war. We need to be strong and tough. It’s a great thrill to be here with all of you. I will try to promise. Keep your tickets and you are all invited to the inauguration. I want you to know one thing. When I think about my purpose you are the ones that are here. I am not applying to sainthood. I just want to honor the legacy of the people who live in this area. Let’s think about living a life bigger than ourselves. God bless you.

42:08

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