Subject: FW: TrackerBASE Report: PRES John Kasich Town Hall in Rockville 4/25/2016
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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:24:31 -0700

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Subject: TrackerBASE Report: PRES John Kasich Town Hall in Rockville 4/25/2016

TO: PRES Tracking
FROM: Megan Wisdom, Matt Dzieciolowski
Location: Thomas Farms Community Center
Date: 4/25/2016

RE: John Kasich Rockville Town Hall
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Event Details:

John Kasich holds a town hall in Rockville MD the day before the primary - 700 Fallsgrove Dr. Captured from http://abcnews.go.com/Live?stream=1.

Audience/attendees:

350

Press Details:

 everyone

Summary of Event:

Governor Kasich stumped and answered questions. He touched on education, debt, immigration, climate change, law enforcement, and health care.

Key points:

0:00 Kasich being introduced

1:17 Kasich entering - thank you - so, well how about connie morella, is that all you have to say, she’s great - Rockville, isn't this close to Bethesda, I used to take the Rockville bus

2:07 I used to go to the national library of medicine where i worked as a summer intern, it’s a small world, Connie mentioned this meeting I had with Nixon, i tried to get a job working in the white house, i kept bugging them, and they said do you want a job in the national library of medicine - I was at OSU - once you start beating us you can boo - anyway, so i packed up all my stuff and took a greyhound bus to American University and working there in the summer and it was a great experience, I was picked as an outstanding employee, i had a friend at NIH working on cleft palate - I learned so much

4:01 I’m for balancing budgets - my debt clock is not here today - friend has neurological disease - i want to talk about Connie - we had this republican agenda but she felt like she was a part of the tem -do we have any small business people here? How many people work for you?

6:01 what do you think when you see the debt go up? When we frighten job creators they don’t create jobs - people talk about bernie and hillary - they have nice plans for free stuff - i’m all for free but the problem is for young people - they go to college but then the debt will be 30 trillion - I represent a party Connie can be comfortable with - when you feel you have something like that you have an obligation to help others

8:11 all my life, my father carried mail, grandfather died of black lung, grandmother could barely speak english, i’m going to my hometown, all blue collar democrats, my purpose is to lift people up, never take orders from anyone except my wife - i have a dear friend here, will, i was on readiness subcommittee - i get call that i need to go to house to go to intelligence committee - the chairman says i hope we’re all in agreement, i’m like with what? We’re going to pay the pill of ferdinand and imelda marcos because they supported us in world war 2 - i said i can’t support it, the room blew up

10:30 i’m just a kid and the whole thing is blowing up, he says you have to apologize to the chairman, so i go to his office and the won’t let me in, i got phone call to have a meeting with the chairman and he throws the report at me and asks me if i’m happy, won’t let me look at the report, a couple weeks later i was on the golf course, someone comes up to me and says chairman’s office is on the phone - chairman wants to thank you for not supporting ferdinand marcos because he’s on the cover of USA today

12:26 we’re here to help people - working poor should have a system that rewards them not take their childcare away - i’m not going to be a negative - some people say why don’t you do better in the primaries - i started at 0 - people have big anxiety today - we can look at that and drive people into the ditch and into greater negativity - we can solve these problems - hope not good in the short term, long term they want to be hopeful - who wants to go first, let’s take some questions - you can give me a little round of applause, that’s fine

14:27 question on law enforcement - when someone gives their life on behalf of someone else - people don’t agree and that’s ok with me - people who give their lives wear the biggest crowns - we have to recognize the fact that when you look at baltimore or ferguson, this strife comes from people not understanding or not talking to each other - in OH we have collaborative between people and police - we just have police over the weekend chased a guy, guy had a gun, officer took him down, what a guy, what a hero, thought he was connected to drugs, president needs to bring together law enforcement community and people in the community who feel like they’re not being treated fairly, we’re doing this in OH

17:47 question on debt - the reason god created astrologers is to make economists look accurate - the US came close to defaulting and we started to see our credit rating downgraded - stick with simple thing that i know is true - when debt goes up people lose their confidence, what we did in OH can be done nationally - if you talk to job creators - we went from 88 billion dollar hole to 2 billion dollar surplus, our pensions are secure - when you look at CT, GE just said they’re leaving, when you overtax, etc. bad things happen - when you have lousy growth like we’ve had for 10 years, things aren’t growing, i’m concerned about income inequality, that comes down to skills, we need to make sure young boys and girls are given skills for jobs of today and tomorrow, which means education system that works - i believe people are made special for a purpose - oh look at these young people back here - where do you go to school - have they ever told you you’re special? I was telling a young lady this and she started to cry and i told my wife that - no one had ever told her - when we find our purpose that’s how we change the world - when i was a kid - i remember that great series between the pirates and the orioles - our hero was roberto clemente - for kids today it’s cal ripken - some people are nurses and spend extra time with people, etc. everyone does something special - when i talk about educating our children, they need to have skills, to make money and have good strong families, are you waiting for president to fix your schools - they’re not going to do that - at the end of the day MD is neighborhoods, communities - a lot of ethnicity - you want to fix your schools what are you waiting on? You don’t need to wait, you have a problem with drugs? Go fix it - when you go to church do they talk to the young people about not doing drugs? I’m going to do my best to create economic growth, to be a good leader but strength of country is in our communities, not president, that’s how we restore spirit of america - so grow up and change the world

26:17 question on common core and immigration - schools are run by community - we have higher standards, local school boards develop curriculum to meet those standards - we need an education system that is flexible - that can feed interests of young people - one of my daughters wants to be a neonatologist - other daughter is interested in fashion - they’re 16 and we’re trying to feed them with real life experiences - we have to have high standards - we have to protect border, i will also tell you to finish the border, protect ourselves, have guest worker program, 11 million if they haven’t committed a crime can be legalized but not citizenship - if it means i don’t win tough

29:34 question on student debt - where are they going to school? For these people who are young, i was just at bryant university - first of all, you know you can go to community college and cut the cost of higher education in half - all the credits will transfer to 4 year school - we have a number of students who graduate who have to take remedial math and english - we need to remediate them online so they don’t have to take them in college - take college credit courses in high school - you can complete a year for free - these rising costs is not sustainable, no one will spend 65,000 a year to go to university, this has to end, i’ve told the universities this, are you kidding me? They better get their act together - people will get online education at a fraction of the cost and go to bahamas on spring break - president needs to get best group of businesspeople to talk about how we get rising costs out of universities - president of OSU wanted to lease parking garages - why does OSU even have parking garages - they got half a billion and put it into scholarships - government sometimes - see this - holds up phone he got from audience - kids asked what a telephone booth was - look at this - this is where we live today - this is how we communicate, shop, think about the way in which we have transportation, the time will come when most young people won't own cars, they’ll use uber and lyft - think about medicine - my uncle george is 90 and walks 2 miles every day - nutrition - things are moving at the speed of light - government and universities are not - they don’t want to change - we need to uberize government on all levels - 2 of the most rapidly changing cities in america - houston and detroit - they have no zoning laws - they just build - if we do not innovate we will die

37:09 question on going on SNL - i’m going to go to Kennedy space center and get in rocket and land in the water and get picked up by navy have a press conference - if you are a voice of positive, people don’t want to hear that, they are attracted to negative - people don’t want to live in tension, negativity, conflict, people get together for a wedding, first hour is good, 2nd is terrible but by the end we’re all hugging, that’s where people want to be - in NH where trump beat me they just did a poll of the people who voted and i now beat trump 26-22 - i have 2 kids and a wife, friends, i don’t want to disappoint them - we’re just going to keep plugging - this will go to open convention - of the 10 we’ve had 7 times the person who is not leading got picked - some guy when i was walking into a diner he said it’s so nice to see you governor Lincoln - google it - i’m not going to take low road to highest office

41:08 question on immigration - you can have path to citizenship, they can never have that - there is always an element of unfairness in our lives, it just is, we have 2 ways to think about it, we can get angry or we can count our blessings - my grandfather is coal miner - he was treated unfairly - you have to count your blessings

44:58 bringing kid on stage - this kid is 11 - this is foreshadow of where this kid is 11 - where are your parents - are you his mother or sister? Take a picture, where’s your camera, this question is what are you going to do about environment - we have to be careful - i’m the one republican who believes in climate change - when you read about the bleaching of the corals and storms - i have little doubt that humans have impact - reasonable solutions like developing wind, solar, and battery technologies - when the wind doesn’t blow you can store the energy - teslas are unbelievable - US has to engage in basic science - it’s easier to break into the Louvre than for businesses to have access to our research sites

49:22 question on health care - that’s a good question - nobody in america should lose their health care because they have preexisting condition or be bankrupt because of their health - you have no idea, is there anyone here who can make assessment of the quality and costs of hospitals in your region - we don’t know what the costs are, readmission rate, etc. easier to interpret dead sea scrolls than read a hospital bill - we’re doing this in OH - do you have any idea how your PCP compares? If you get a knee operation difference can be 10,000 dollars - no one knows why - we need transparency - for those in medical field - if you are providing good quality health care with cost below the average we will give you a financial reward - your deductibles are so high you might as well have a catastrophic policy - this will work nationally - i have to go to Pittsburgh, thank you, get out and vote

Digitized File Label:

160425_MKW_119

Clip Labels:

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