Subject: FW: TrackerBASE Report: PRES John Kasich Town Hall in Smithfield, RI 4/23/2016
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Subject: TrackerBASE Report: PRES John Kasich Town Hall in Smithfield, RI 4/23/2016

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FROM: Megan Wisdom
Location: Bryant University - George E. Bello Center for Information and Technology
Date: 4/23/2016

RE: John Kasich Town Hall in Smithfield, RI
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Event Details:

John Kasich Town Hall in Smithfield, RI - Bryant University - George E. Bello Center for Information and Technology - 1150 Douglas Pike, Smithfield, RI. Captured from

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Summary of Event:

Governor Kasich stumped and answered questions in this Smithfield, RI town hall - he touched on education, military/VA, debt/taxes, and healthcare.

Key points:

0:00 Kasich being introduced

5:13 Kasich entering - thank you for coming - i’m with my old pal, Ron Makely, 10 years at this place and I’m told he’s turned it into a wonderful school - he’s nothing compared to his wife, stand up - i made a lot of calls into RI and everyone was raving about him, we played basketball together - i received the MVP award, he tried to to say we all did, no we didn’t ron! I got the trophy - i liked the way he passed the ball to me - he was a great contributor to congress - ran for governor but that didn’t work out, but this worked out, we were in Providence last night, beautiful

7:28 there’s great RI pride, friend from NH asks me don’t you like it every 5 minutes - i grew up in a little town outside of Pittsburgh, blue collar, father carried mail, his father coal miner, died of black lung - got ripped off, he couldn’t protest or complain because no one cared, he was an immigrant, mother’s mother could barely speak english, mother only one to get high school diploma

9:15 next week I’m doing a town hall in my home town - we played a lot of ball, sports was our thing, dads and moms were hard working, 2nd jobs just to get by, i get income insecurity - i left that little town and went to OSU and i had 15 college roommates - i was in NY and ate my way across NY and people thought i made a mistake when i ate pizza with a fork - people say why didn’t you wait for it to cool and when you have 15 roommates when you wait for the pizza to cool it’s gone

11:14 i met with the president of university, asked him what he does, he told me about fundraising, academic responsibilities, meeting with Nixon the next day, can I come with you, he said no, wrote a letter for him to give to Nixon, got a letter back, called my mother and told her i need a plane ticket to DC to meet with the president, i went to the whitehouse and sitting on a bench outside of the oval office and someone comes up to me and says i get 5 minutes with the president - i didn’t come for 5 minutes

13:11 i spent 20 minutes with president in the oval office and 18 years in congress, peaked at 18 - we have to keep this to an hour - my whole lifetime has been a lightning strike - i’m not smarter than other people - i’m a pretty good dancer and basketball player but here i am today running for president, it’s only because of the grace of god that i’ve been able to achieve this - if you don’t like that i’m sorry but that’s how i see it - you don’t think the lord cares anymore about me - we’re all made equal we just have different responsibilities - in high school the most important person is the custodian and lunch lady

15:10 it’s about us using our skills to heal the world, when you pursue your god-given purpose - no one has ever been like you and no one will ever be like you again - you are special and made for a purpose - i told a lady in UT this and she started to cry and i told my wife - i think she never heard this before - wife said are you sure you didn’t scare her - when we realize we’re special - there are people who have obscured their purpose because they didn’t have hope and they resorted to things like drugs - they don’t understand they are special - it’s never too late to find that purpose - there are doctors here

17:11 there are nurses here who spend extra time in the hospital after their shift is done - guys who fly sick people to the hospital on their own dime - we’re all worried about who’s going to be president - my hero was roberto clemente - we didn’t sit around thinking about the president - we did not wait around just like you didn’t wait around when you were younger for someone to fix your problems - the spirit of country is in us not politicians - when we change world together we’re part of giant mosaic that can lift us

19:18 we feel so disconnected from each other - we can fix that if we remember we have a purpose - we have an environment to create jobs - Atlantic article talking about middle class people can’t afford emergencies - when you have lousy economic policy for 8 years it exacts a toll on us, when politicians don’t make the right policy businesses get over-regulated - i was asked about dodd-frank - small banks are dying - big banks get bigger -  it’s the opposite of what we want to do - leaving CT because they beat up business

21:18 that doesn’t mean it’s giveaway time - this debt - when those numbers go up [tells man to get out of the way and asks what the hell he’s doing] - any small business people here - how do you feel when you see the debt going through the roof - she’s afraid - when those numbers go up, or when we overregulate her or raise taxes, she doesn’t look like GE or AT&T - you do the wrong thing and drive her out of business there are 19 people out of work - leadership has been very poor

23:14 we’ve seen times when we’ve had incredible leadership - leaders get people to rise to another level - we all want to talk about reagan - he did get people to rise to another level - churchill said we’re never going to give in - that’s what we need - remember we’re americans before we’re republicans and democrats and work together to fix these problems

24:50 guy says Kasich is only person keeping republican party from collapsing, question on going after socialism - you don’t sound like a democrat - i do well on college campuses - if you do what bernie or hillary wants, free everything, that’s ridiculous, you’d have 30 trillion instead of 19 trillion, you could go to university free but when you graduate you wouldn’t have a job - when companies leave US to bring marginal increase to stock price it’s outrageous - when CEOs make decisions they have to take into account they’re affecting people’s lives and that’s what people need to understand - i used to work for wall street and greed took them down - regulators did nothing - free enterprise produces more ideas than anyone, that’s why everyone is trying to hack us - we’re nation driven by profit hopefully with values - look at cancer research - if we move away from that and clog the wheel we’re not going to make it - let’s win with ideas - when politicians smear one another it makes us all cynical - it’s not our job to demean and disgrace the business of public life with personal attacks - win with ideas or go home, it’s that simple

29:41 why is vote for you not a wasted vote - i just won manhattan - where’s those poll numbers - they just survey in NH - hillary at 50, Trump at 31, Cruz at 34 - me at 50 and hillary at 36 - this is what is amazing about the volatility of the electorate today - i’m going for an airplane ride and i don’t care who’s flying until we’re crashing and then we say we hope we have a good pilot - convention will decide who can win and who can be president - we’re in delegate business now - convention will be interesting

32:48 run as independent? No i won’t do that - this is my mission - as long as i’m doing good things along the way, if it doesn’t work i’ll still be governor, my wife puts up with so much - we’re optimistic about the convention, if that doesn’t work  i’ll find another purpose, there’s a million purposes, and porpoises - i want to say to these social security people before they have to ask - we’ll fix it - means test - some people believe we raided the social security trust fund - we’re now paying off IOUs - there’s not as many young people as boomers - you have to change the numbers - i’m giving it to you straight - we’re going to have to means test that program - i don’t want to turn social security into welfare - most people don’t know what they’re supposed to get - sometimes i tease - you can’t do that with just republicans, must be with democrats

36:50 question on healthcare - most of it if we get it to the competitive market it will work - no one with pre-existing conditions should be denied health care - that needs to be fixed - i know people from canada too, it’s not like you’re the only one who knows canadians, they come here because they have to wait - let’s make sure no one loses health care due to preexisting condition - i have more heart hospitals in columbus than hearts, transparency on quality and cost - did you ever get a hospital bill? Easier to interpret dead sea scrolls - open up the whole system and reward people for high quality at lower prices - not put together by government people, i would never want government people doing this - put together by insurance companies and doctors

41:21 question on student debt - you should be able to restructure your loan - did you know you could have gone to community college for half the cost - not in your worldview - higher education will not last because people will not spend 50,000 a year when you could go to community college for 2 years for 8000 - i went to OSU and it cost less then - education is going to fundamentally change - people will go online - i was just talking to a guy with largest number of car dealers in CT - young people not going to own cars, use them on part time basis, moving to urban areas - he’s saying no, wife saying yes, always listen to your wife - car industry will have to change - we’ll end up with battery driven cars, Teslas are incredible - will make renewables more desirable - change the way in which we as consumers operate - your student loan rates should be restructured - community service to work off debt - i thought my college experience was great

46:53 question on keeping companies in US - lower corporate taxes - i’m not an apologist for big business but i just don’t want them to leave - you get that debt down and if you do that you will have significant economic growth - in OH we have surplus, cut taxes, etc. - our k-12 education needs to prepare students for jobs of today and tomorrow - statistical analysis - we have 170,000 unfilled jobs but no one is trained for them - we need to have a training, skills mentality in education - would oreo cookies employees rather be working in computer chip factory? We have to make sure that for any worker who get displaced we have to train them - we have fast food workers - they don’t make a lot of money - want health care people to come together to train fast food workers - different way of thinking about education - doesn’t mean you have to go to school

51:56 question on military/VA - no combat vet should come back to US without getting health care whenever and wherever they want it - that is not just physical but psychological problems - people talk about this - as americans we cannot let these politicians fail - VA is too big - too bureaucratic - we have to restructure - if you take all the military contractors and all the people in the pentagon who perform bureaucratic functions there are more than active military - where is money going - if not going to frontline soldiers we have to rethink the whole thing - cut the rules and regulations and get the resources to the people who fight the wars, that’s what has to happen, i have to go - we have a lot of challenges but they can be dealt with - there are people out there in these radical organizations that would blow us up because we have women here and go to school - these radical islamists - this idea of not letting muslims in the country is stupid and the idea that we’re going to surveil the neighborhood - if someone is being radicalized in the mosque how close would you get to the mosque before they saw you coming - their faith is being hijacked - they have to be destroyed - the longer we wait the more complicated it gets - civilized world needs to come together to do joint policing and intelligence - in brussels they knew and no one did anything - we have joint task forces here - they are great, their job is to disrupt - homegrown terrorists - i was just talking to someone form OK - we saw it there - and also lone wolf - in SBCA neighbor saw something and didn't tell anyone and father saw radicalization of his son - you have to report it - encryption is important but we don’t want to hand over keys to the government - have to rebuild military because russians and chinese - we have to fight for our survival - we don’t need to close our doors and windows - to the young people here you don’t have to be a saint, there aren’t many saints - follow your heart and live your life to the fullest, thank you

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