Subject: Re: DRAFT: New riff for Iowa - Fighting for You
From: Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
To: Lily Adams <[email-masked]>
Cc: Speech Drafts <[email-masked]>, Matt Paul <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 12:32:22 -0500
List-Id: <speechdrafts.hillaryclinton.com>

Here's DMR story from last week on teachers getting let go:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/waukee/2016/01/11/waukee-schools-approve-teacher-staff-cuts/78646378/

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Lily Adams <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> I love this and I think will generate some good energy.
>
> Research should check about the Branstad claim. My recollection is that
> there may not have been a one to one correlation with funds to teacher jobs
> but you could say school districts had less funding.
>
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Dan Schwerin <
> [email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> We've been discussing a new riff about how HRC is fighting for real
>> change in the real lives of real people, something that helps her channel
>> the passion we saw last night about Flint into our core economic concerns.
>> What do people think of the below?
>>
>>
>> You know why I’m so determined?  Because of you.  Because of the people
>> I’ve met all across Iowa and our country.
>>
>>
>>
>> I’m fighting for the teachers who lost their jobs because Governor
>> Branstad vetoed funding for schools.  For the child care workers and home
>> health aides I’ve met who work around the clock taking care of other
>> people’s families – they shouldn’t need food stamps to take care of their
>> own.  For the children in Flint drinking poisoned water because their
>> government doesn’t think their lives matter.
>>
>>
>>
>> I’m fighting for Larry, the worried husband I met in Waterloo last
>> month.  His wife Brenda spends hundreds of dollars each month on medicine
>> for arthritis and osteoporosis.  When they see hedge fund tycoons buying
>> drug companies and raising prices by 4000 percent overnight, they just want
>> to scream.
>>
>>
>>
>> I’m fighting for Brandi, a young woman in Des Moines who was laid off six
>> years ago in the middle of the recession.  She went back to school, worked
>> hard, got her degree.  Now she’s a supervisor in a restaurant, but still
>> only makes $9.50 an hour.  That’s just not enough, not with kids in the
>> house and bills to pay.  She desperately needs a raise.
>>
>>
>>
>> You shouldn’t have to scream to be heard.  You don’t need more promises,
>> you need more results.  And we don’t have time for ideas that sound good on
>> paper but will never make a difference in your life.  We need to roll up
>> our sleeves and actually get Brandi that raise.  Stand up to the drug
>> companies so Larry and Brenda aren’t all alone.  Make the economy work for
>> the struggling, the striving, and the successful.
>>
>>
>>
>> Here’s how we do it:
>>
>>
>>
>> We need more *fairness* in this country, so all the wealth and
>> opportunities don’t just go to those at the top.  But we can’t stop there.
>> We also need more *growth* in our economy, so you can find that new job,
>> get that raise, start a small business – so you can get ahead and stay
>> ahead.  America grows when *your* paycheck grows.  Not when
>> multimillionaires get another tax cut.
>>
>>
>>
>> I know what it takes to make real change in the real lives of real people
>> -- because I’ve been doing it my whole life.  And I’m just getting warmed
>> up.  Iowa, I’m listening you.  I’m fighting for you.  And I’m going to
>> deliver.
>>
>>
>> 395 words
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> Lily Adams
> Iowa Communications Director
> Hillary for America
> c: 202-368-4013
>