Subject: FW: TrackerBASE Report: PRES John Kasich Town Hall in San Jose 4/30/2016
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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 12:17:16 -0700

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Subject: TrackerBASE Report: PRES John Kasich Town Hall in San Jose 4/30/2016

TO: PRES Tracking
FROM: Megan Wisdom, Bill Chan
Location: The Tech Museum of Innovation, New Venture Hall
Date: 4/30/2016

RE: John Kasich Town Hall in San Jose
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Event Details:

John Kasich Town Hall in San Jose - The Tech Museum of Innovation, New Venture Hall - 201 S. Market Street, San Jose, CA. Captured from http://www.msnbc.com/live-online/watch/live-kasich-town-hall-in-san-jose-676987459710.

Audience/attendees:

About 200 Kasich supporters

Press Details:

NA

Summary of Event:

Governor Kasich stumped and answered questions - he touched on immigration, jobs, debt, drugs, global warming, health care, taxes, nukes, and convention/delegates.

Key points:

0:00 I’ve had great teams of people, some who have been with me for 30 years - I’m convinced that people want to be part of something bigger than themselves, they want to go to Google or Tesla - they want to be part of something they think is really cool, I’m reading the The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe - they were all cheering in the command room because they were a part of something bigger than themselves - we don’t play politics, i don’t have time for polls - if you don’t like what I’m doing i won’t change

2:00 sometimes you try something and it fails, that’s cool, it doesn’t mean you ignore the public but you’re working to raise the people, it means justice and opportunity - i spoke yesterday at republican convention - i told them the republican party is my vehicle not my master - if you start playing games you lose your people - don’t be waiting for someone to come solve your problems - the economy is one thing - that’s a 19 trillion dollar debt and that thing goes up and job opportunities go down

4:12 walks over to kid - god bless you - anyway, i gotta do the best i can to get economy moving and bring people together - i was ignored for a long time because i won’t take low road to high office

5:33 here’s what’s happened people are worried about their jobs, wages, kids - i get it, i can come in here and tell you you’re all ripped off and we’re all losers or i can come in and tell you there are problems but they can be fixed and we’re still a great country and we lead the world in virtually every category - no on cares if i tell you that - they have an old saying in the media - if it bleeds it leads - you can always dump down and get people angry and feed the negative - i don’t want it that badly - in the short term there’s a consequence but long term i will win the general election - i feel terrific

7:17 question on global warming - i’m not going to do this tax - i’m for renewables, i’m for developing - i oppose plan in OH to freeze subsidies - i called home to talk to a friend - asked him why he’s not playing golf he said it’s raining and cold - solar doesn't work that well when it’s raining and cold - we can store the energy now - people are being more energy efficient - i was just reading that China is closing coal plants because their economy is so bad - i’m for clean coal - we need balance between taking care of the environment but not worship it by mandating things that aren’t going to happen - i’m the only one who believes it - i look at these kids, these beautiful people, i’ve been to glacier park in MT - it’s the most spectacular place in the world - we don’t want to ruin it for these kids but we don’t want to worship it

10:36 question on priorities - i would have a plan that would freeze all federal regulations for one year except health and safety - i would force congress to vote on any regulations over 100 million - bring people together from congress to go through regulation that is killing business - lower taxes on corporations - i’d rather them invest their money in america than europe and i wouldn’t double tax them - i would use bully pulpit - i don’t mind if a company moves to save itself but when it’s to get a marginal gain in its stock price i don’t like that - lower individual taxes - low capital gains tax - balance budget, ship welfare, education, infrastructure back to the states - you get to a balanced budget by calling in your cabinet and asking them for 3 budget plans - we do that in OH - impose discipline - rebuild military - change pentagon - bureaucracy that wastes money - travel around the world so allies know we got their back - fix Social Security - means testing - fix VA - privatize - fix the border, guest worker program, legalization but no citizenship - call parents on their birthday - that’s in the first 100 days

16:01 question on health care - i think allowing them to buy across state lines is fine but it’s not the solution to the problem - states regulate their insurance - you would turn that over to federal govt - i’m for competition and opening the system up - obamacare costs too much - keep preexisting condition provision - take federal resources and combine with medicaid in the states and create state exchanges - let working poor buy health insurance - we’re about to unveil a program that would bring complete transparency in health care - we have more heart hospitals than we have hearts in Columbus - we have no idea how they do - easier to interpret dead sea scrolls than hospital bill - reward hospitals for providing quality care below the median cost - would stabilize health care prices

20:02 question on drugs - we should keep them from going on drugs - best drug treatment program - do they talk about the dangers of drugs at school sports? Nancy Reagan was right - young people less likely to do drugs if they’re warned - when they go to church do they talk about drugs? What are we doing? We know this is destroying our families - what are we waiting for? Do you think you can handle it? We have a massive program in our state - we’re doing fine, not great - we say if you’re dealing drugs you go to jail for a long time - we take licenses from doctors who violate their hippocratic oath - we have prescription protocols [stream froze]

25:10 we’re all made special - no one has ever been like you - your life has meaning - you’re important to all of us here - if you see someone being bullied stop the bullying but invite the person to have a snack with you - when people think they have no hope they search for something and that’s another element of drugs - we will rehab people but often it doesn’t work - we will put every resource into fighting this - there’s nothing wrong with walking up to kids in a restaurant and saying don’t do drugs

27:27 question on why he’s losing - i don’t know if you saw SF Chronicle - i watch golf channel and sports, i don’t read newspaper - front page is like 3 stories on Trump and then you open it and there’s like 5 more and then buried in the story on Trump is a column with a tiny headline that said “Kasich in SF” what do you think is going to happen? Why can no on search as well as google? Because they have locked down the market - look how long it took for people to develop phones that compete with apple - if you’ve been watching me over the years you’ve got a problem - i beat hillary in the polls - i’m not appealing to people’s anger - i’ve been endorsed by over 70 newspapers - whether it’s 16 straight polls or simulations of electoral college i win all of them and everyone else loses - i won manhattan - frank sinatra said if you can do it there you can do it anywhere - who will hear this message if i quit? I’m doing some good things and affecting people in a positive way - wife said people need a choice - i’m going to keep going - if we go to convention i will be the nominee

33:16 question on immigration - i don’t have - i’m not an immigration expert - my concern with h1b is that it’s being distorted - if you offer high tech job but not enough pay that gives them excuse to go overseas - i’m in favor of the program but i’m for eliminating the nonsense - we need to look at the whole process - i would be running for president of croatia if we didn’t have immigration - i want the skill to come in but not under false premises

35:39 question on manufacturing - we’re up 60,000 manufacturing jobs in OH - we need to make sure we bring tech in and have advanced manufacturing - i was at Honda and watched what they do - they’re moving a lot of resources back into US - we just got 300,000 million plant investment in Dayton - they look for access to market, low energy cost and skilled workforce - schools should be run by you guys - there’s nothing stopping you from fixing your schools - i put vocational education in the 7th grade - lower taxes for businesses is important - those things will help us have more manufacturing - i was in NY and they told me they’re moving oreo cookie plant - what would you rather do - make cookies or computer chips - we’re undergoing a change - what are we doing best and what can’t we do anymore? With technology, training, workforce, energy, market access, lower taxes we’ll see it, we just have to keep going

41:00 question on ISIS - these kids are doing great - i see it all over the country - if putin wants to work us of course we would work with him - he’s trying to deal with chechnya in a brutal way - but no one knows where they are - we need to have civilized world understand we’re all in this together - in europe they can’t get out of their own way because they’re so bureaucratic - need intel and policing in tip top shape - we have counterterrorism task force made up of FBI and local law enforcement and they’re very good - SBCA - father knew son was radicalized and didn’t tell anyone - neighbor knew something was happening - hardest thing to protect from is homegrown and lone wolf - you have to say something if you see something - need joint intelligence and policing

44:15 question on [talking about water polo - asks audience to applaud for questioner] getting more liberal areas to vote for him - everyone has same concerns - job security, wages, kids - when i was chairman of budget committee - when that number goes up the chance of getting a job go down and vice versa - you want free college - bernie and hillary’s plan will make debt be 30 trillion - you have to choose between free stuff or having a job - you can have great economic growth with lower taxes etc. and it solves a lot of problems - once we balanced the budget and cut taxes no one was talking about job insecurity or wage differential - we need a system to upgrade people’s skills - we have to figure out how to do that - we all love steph curry right - he’s going to make a billion dollars because he has skills - you have to have value - you’re not going to get anywhere just because people like you - if you have skills you’ll do well

48:57 kid asks which greek god would fit his personality - zeus

49:41 question on nukes - trump hasn’t said anything on foreign policy that has made any sense and media is fixated on him - you think at some point people would be tired, it’s the same old blather - WMDs getting in hands on non-state actors - you think the iranians don’t understand that if they launch something at Israel that they won’t strike back? No it’s called mutually assured destruction but if you look at al shabab etc. if they get their hands on this that’s what you have to be concerned about - do you realize we’re not imposing sanctions on north korea - they have ships - we do not have sanctions on them or have protocols to stop things getting into the country - we’re not serious about this and China is not serious about it

53:13 question on republican party - the party ought to have government as last resort not as no resort or first resort, dedicated to preservation of free enterprise but has value system that doesn’t reward greed etc., everybody gets an opportunity - help people once but not if they always need help - compassionate - we’re not into some bloodless philosophy here, we’re talking about people - we were in SF yesterday and saw woman in the street and she had a backpack and everything she owned was in it - she was standing on cardboard - she was talking to someone who wasn’t there - she’s made in the image of the lord - we have to help someone like that - when you don’t have any competition - the party here has to be rebuilt and you’re not going to rebuild it by being extreme or relying on hot-button wedge issues - i’m not going to win all the primaries, we need to go to an open convention - if trump is nominee republicans will get wiped out all over the country - tell your friends, we’ll see where it ends up, god bless you

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Clip Labels:

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