Subject: REVISED DRAFT: New riff for Iowa - Fighting for You
From: Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
To: Speech Drafts <[email-masked]>, Matt Paul <[email-masked]>, Lily Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:21:13 -0500
List-Id: <speechdrafts.hillaryclinton.com>

Thanks for all the feedback.  Updated below and attached. Need to get this
to her if we want any prayer of her doing a version of this tonight.  So
please send any final thoughts.
Thanks
Dan

You know why I’m so determined?  Because of all of *you*.

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 governor
doesn’t think their lives matter.

Injustices like that happen every day, big and small, all over our
country.  Too often, no one in power knows or cares. Well, I do. And I’m
here to do something about it.

I’m fighting for Brandi, who was laid off in Des Moines six years ago.  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 not enough,
especially with kids.  Someone like Brandi who does everything right should
be able to get ahead – but this economy still isn’t working for families
the way it should.

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.

You shouldn’t have to scream to be heard.  You don’t need promises, you
need 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.

A lot of people have lost faith in our ability to solve problems in this
country.  But this is America, and I know we can do this.  Here’s how:

We have to fight for more *fairness* in this country.  Stop big
corporations and the super-wealthy from gaming the tax system. Start
raising the minimum wage and guaranteeing equal pay for women.

But we can’t stop there.  We also need more *growth* and *opportunity.*  We
have to invest in advanced manufacturing so we’re making and building
things *here*, not somewhere else.  Create the clean energy jobs of the
future—because it’s going to be China or Germany or us, and I want it to be
us.  Make it easier to start and grow small businesses.  And for heaven’s
sake, give the middle class a raise.  Because America grows when *your*
paycheck grows.

We can get this done.  I know what it takes to stand up to powerful forces
and win.  I know how to make real progress in people’s lives -- 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.

Now let me tell you more about why this election matters and what I’d do as
President…

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