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Jan 29, 2015

GOVERNOR SCOTT WALKER IOWA SPEECH 2015 Freedom Summit 

 

how many governors can say that we're gonna keep lowering taxes cuz we understand is the people's body
not the government's money
that's the difference that's the difference between the Wisconsin and the Washington Way
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thank you
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the thank you
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watchin it's an honor to be here david thank you for that a reduction in
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Kong sinking in all the organizers thanks for having us back here in Iowa
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it's an honor to be here and I gotta tell you it's exciting to see all you
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hear was excited to talk to some folks on the way and a
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I got a chance actually talk your new senator a doctor a few times before but
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I today I
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appreciate effective you've sent somebody is not only a midwesterner like
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I am
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but was a fellow harley-davidson rider like I am that mean she knows how to
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castrate a hog and she knows how to ride a hog as well
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hope for you you can see here see fit to cut a little more pork out watching
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which i think is exactly what she's gonna do
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they were honored to be with her and a whole slew a great folks here today
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but I first of what to say thank you as I look around this crowd see the folks
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up there as well I wanna thank you all cuz I know some interviewer
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we're great heroes to turn it now I as a couple years ago we faced a recall
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so many view helped us out many be helped us out again last fall when we
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were
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facing another tough election as well I had people who made phone calls in this
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state
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that guide people came across the mississippi over into
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Wisconsin had not died or something to make these guys have a hard time going
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to move around a little bit here
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a but you you up you came over the mississippi helped us knock on doors you
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help this campaign along the way I gotta tell you how much we appreciated that it
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wasn't just the grassroots activist the game I i think a lot to hear like a lot
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of other people around the state around the Midwest around the country
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helped us out financially as well that made a world of difference cuz we had to
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take on
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all the money that the tens of millions of dollars the big government union
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bosses from washington poured in our state I want to thank you because in
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return we had people now and I love it all 50 states who helped us out
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we had someone I mean there is a a woman Waterloo helped us out three times as a
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donation we had people here in des moines all across the state all across
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this country
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who help to say we're going to put up a little bit of our hard earned money
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to take on the big government special-interest out that and and if
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they have it on at nine the people in our state what if they say thank you
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but most of all I would say thank you because so many have you here and across
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this state across the country
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you prayed for us
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I gotta tell you have happened tonight at 9 are such bad now it's we could feel
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the power those prayers
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we could feel them in in the darkest to the days I can tell you what a
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difference it made to us
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so don't tell don't stop rape because we appreciate the prayers over the way it
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makes a powerful noticeable difference in
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in those dark is a times we needed it because you know you all know about the
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protests
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me to one point there were a hundred thousand or more
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protesters in and around our state capital they were banging on the drums
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they were blowing horns they had signs and banners though
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I i guess in a way I almost have to apologize because
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the Occupy movement started in Madison Wisconsin four years ago and then
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went to Wall Street so my apologies for that
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but more than just the protester
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I think the bigger challenge for us at least for me personally well we're all
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the death threats in the visit store whole
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you see it you heard about this protest but you may not know at one point in all
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this
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there were literally thousands a protesters
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out in front of our family home in Wauwatosa were my two sons were still
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going to high school
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your appearance for living at the time affect my kids were
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were targeted on Facebook in at one point I remember my
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my mother in her seventies in my younger son Alex were literally at the grocery
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store where protesters
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file them down the aisle just to yell at them even though as me that was doing
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the policies out there
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even more so than than just a visit in front of her home was the fact that a
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at one point the the threats were just overwhelming most to those death threats
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were appointed
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are directed at me but so are the worst were directed my family
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however when the ones that bothered me the most was someone literally sent me a
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threat that said they were gonna get my wife like a deer
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another time a protester a
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said a threat directly to my wife
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that said if she didn't do something to stop me
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I would be the first wisconsin Governor ever assassinated the writer went on in
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greater detail to point out where exactly my children were going to school
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where my wife worked there where my father in law was still living at that
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time
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you can see what they were doing and so I tell you today that
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thanks doll you not just for the grassroots support the donations but
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most importantly again thank you for those prayers
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because you can see how important they were dark days like that
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time and time again time and time again the protesters were trying to intimidate
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us
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which you know what all they did was remind me how important
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how important it was to stand up for the people of my state
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they reminded me to focus on why I ran for governor
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in the first place
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yes a years before years before all that turn at nine had set down in
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and talked about thought about most important prayed about getting in the
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race for governor
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and even though we would be difficult we did so we made that choice because we
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were worried back dead
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we were worried that our sons Matt now X we're gonna grow up in a state
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that wasn't as great as a state we grew up in
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I got as a pair that was just unacceptable
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which is fundamentally are acceptable for me it so we got there a said it was
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important because back at that time
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my state faced a 3.6 billion dollar budget deficit
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we saw we saw a record job loss we saw state then
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many places local governments were controlled by special interest in so
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many of our hard-working families
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we're having the under double-digit tax increases
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so we knew we had to do something today I'm proud to tell you that more than
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four years after because of our reforms
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my signs are growing up in a state that's even better
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the state that we drop in
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because we were afraid to go big and ago bold not only for my son's
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but for their generation for countless generations yet to be born
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they're going to buy the state we're on a better path and I think people like
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the direction they're headed
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maybe that's why I one get the race for governor
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three times in the last four years the
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three times my new interstate that hasn't gone Republican for President
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since I was in high school more than thirty years ago how about that
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you see I think that sends a powerful message to
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to Republicans in Washington and around the country
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if you're not afraid to go big go bald
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you can actually get results and if you get you go after that that's alright
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the and if you get the job done
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the voters will actually stand up with you the voters will actually stand up
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with your
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what are things I love best about when I used to commute back and forth from the
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state capital to wear my sons were wallet oh said
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to be home at night when they're still going to school there was in the
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the midst of all the protest the venture the recall campaign we used to see signs
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pop-up
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there were signs that we were made there were signs that we would see in the farm
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fields between
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walkin and and the state capital from Madison to
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to Alberto sir my home was at and they were handmade sides big four by eight
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signs that would say we stand with Walker
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and increasing the late show up in other places not just on for bills but in
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cities in places where we never seen signs before and why
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because people know that we stood up against the powerful special interest to
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put the power back in their hands and they thought if they had
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an elected official who is actually willing to stand up with them
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maybe it was about time they stood up and said they were gonna stay with their
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candidate as well
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that's what we need in america
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we know if you're willing to go big go bold the voters would stand up with your
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cuz we learned it before
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so we may not know this but before I was governor years ago I was elected as the
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Morkie county executive
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the only Republican has ever hold their position
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and in 2008's in 2008 when I stood for reelection
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we got nearly sixty percent of the votes in a county that went two thirds for
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Brock Obama
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you know why because we did what we said we're going to do
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we reform the scandal-ridden government at that time we held the line on
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property taxes
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we got the job done
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and now we talk about a record results I gotta tell you those cats always work it
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as well
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says I was elected governor we've cut taxes in Wisconsin
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we reduce spending we balance the budget we talked up
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got we took the power away from the big government special-interest
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and we put it firmly in their hands %uh the hardworking taxpayers
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that's what we need more than this great country
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and you know what the liberals don't much like that
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they don't much like that effectiveness ABC camped out in my capital
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all throughout the protest all throughout the recalls just hoping
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just hoping one other you know I say the a
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for me is a Packers fan it's been tough the last week but but we beat the Bears
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a few weeks after we kept election-night
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I said I wanted to listen to radio the next morning in Chicago cuz I
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I love listening two pairs radio the day after the Packers had beaten her
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that the Bears I sit for a lot of us on election night we want to turn in the
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MSNBC cuz it's kinda like listen to
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the Bears radio after the Packers have been the Bears but isn't this a BC did
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much like our election victory back
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in June of 2012 they didn't like it again this last fall because you know
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what
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it wasn't just about a victory it was about showing that common sense
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conservative reforms
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can actually work and they work in a blue state like wisconsin if they can
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work in wisconsin they can work anywhere in the country
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right
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there are states the only state in the country that is a fully funded
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retirement system
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our state has a positive on reddit I think that they want two things I'm most
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proud of is our state can now hire
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the best teachers to teach our students the classroom
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but you know that wasn't always the case believe it or not
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that wasn't the case you see years ago in 2010
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there was a young woman named Megan Sampson
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who was honored as the outstanding teacher of the year
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in my stay and not long after she got that distinction she was laid off by her
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school district how could that be
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how could that be one of the best and the brightest she got laid off
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well years before our reforms in her school district her union contract said
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the last hired
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was the first fired the last and was the first out
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are proud to tell you today that wisconsin because of our reforms we did
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just balance the budget we now say in our schools
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there's no more seniority or ten-year you can hire and fire
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whoever you want you can't pay based on performance
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the
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that's right
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in my state we can hire based on merit we can't pay based on performance
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that means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms
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and we get paid on the stay there you know what as conservatives
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we should take a back seat when it comes to education reform
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because we actually care about the quality but the education our classroom
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not the size that the education bureaucracy we should back away from
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there
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but sometimes sometimes the media just doesn't get that
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effect in some ways it's kinda why a lot of people know about the protest the
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recall but they don't know
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about the comprehensive conservative common sense conservative
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agenda that we've enacted in our state let me just a couple examples
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since i've been governor we pass pro lives pro-life legislation
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and we've defunded Planned Parenthood the
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to drive since I then-governor we pulled back i'd
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excessive government regulation did on small businesses a family farmers affect
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I like to say
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we now enforce commonsense instead a bureaucratic red tape
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we take it to be on regulations we pass over the most aggressive lawsuit reform
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so that farmers and small businesses are others don't have to do
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deal with frivolous lawsuits the we've been acted
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legislation allows for concealed carry in Castle Doctrine so that law-abiding
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citizens in our state
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can stand up and defend themselves and their family their property
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the
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and we believe it's important to protect the integrity
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the integrity a beach in every vote cast
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so we require in our state by law of photo ID turbo
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the
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now on top of all that on top of all that we said no to Obamacare
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and we thought it'd court just like we're fighting in court
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President Obama's excessive overreach when it comes to is executive
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authorities
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we're going to continue to fight up for those freedoms and liberties go in Fort
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seige today we've taken on an aggressive agenda we've
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we not only done that but we cut taxes I mention that before but we want big bold
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there as well
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we reduce taxes by two billion dollars in the hardworking taxpayers are state
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vector we lower taxes on employers and individuals are property
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our property taxes are lower today it was God's and that they were four years
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ago
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how many governors can say that
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working we're gonna keep lowering taxes cuz we understand is the people's body
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not the government's money
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that's the difference that's the difference between the Wisconsin where
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the Washington Way
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in washington they keep trying to find ways to take more beer money
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and Wisconsin we were to find ways to get more the money back to the people
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were dead
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and sometimes people say why do you obsess so much with taxes y got it a
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simple story why
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my wife and I next month February 6 will celebrate our 23rd wedding anniversary
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but years ago as newlyweds I made a critical mistake
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I went to a Kohl's department store and I bought something for the price it was
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marked at right my wife said to me
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you can never go back there again until you learn how to shop at Kohls
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so now they're going to go pick up a new shirt I go to that racked this says it
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was £29.99
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and I say it's mark down the 1999 and then because I well-trained I get that
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answered up from the Sunday newspaper
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and I take it up to the clerk with my calls credit card I get another 10 or 15
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percent off
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and then i watch that may lurkers may internet shops there a lot so I know
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I'm gonna get another 10 to 50 percent off and let if I really lucky
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I get the flyer with thirty percent of Rights the I
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and then what about the cash out
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I reach into my pocket and I put the Kohl's cash we got is my family
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jobs there all the time right am i right and next thing you know
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their payment by the chart right
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what exactly the kind i right so how does a company
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right down the way from where I live in Menomonee Falls Wisconsin house a couple
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light poles make money
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the making of a volume right make another the I am
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that so I think about your money the taxpayers money
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issue we could we could have taxes higher like that shirt
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a few view might be on a four-year but we could lower the cost of taxes
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and empower more people to work hard and make a living for themselves
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and that's how we view things going for it I gotta tell your thats
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for me not just about work buzzword is hard work for me it's a way of living
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it's something I learned a long time ago for my parents and those around me
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like many view here I grew up in a small town my dad was a
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preacher to local church my mom was a part-time secretary raise my brother and
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I
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my first job was working at the countryside rusher
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the countryside rusher later I flip burgers at McDonald's to pay for my way
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in college
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I look back now and I my brother I of the lab we did know it that we're cap or
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with work hard to make a living but we wouldn't have it any other way
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I think looking ahead as republicans we need to make the case
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that we're going to promote policies that promote
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and support and defend the hard work in this company
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in this country once again
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we need to promote policies that open the door
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opportunity for people to live their PC the American dream
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now some you don't know this but I
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I actually went to school in Plainfield I'll
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in till the middle third grade and then my father
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that call to a church indelible Wisconsin that's where our family moved
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to a two
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that's right graduate from high school but I could die in all the years I was
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in school
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doesn't matter whether isn't plant builder dull been here in Iowa or
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Wisconsin
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there was never a time when I heard one of my classmates said me hey Scott
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hey Scott Sunday when I grow up I want to become dependent on the government
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writer that's not the American Dream is on
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that's not the American dream I just wanted to tell you this
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in america it's one of the few places left
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in the world where does it matter what class you were born to do
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it doesn't matter what your parents did for a living in america
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the opportunity is equal for each and every one of us
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but in america the the ultimate outcome
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is up to each in every one of us individually
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it's a it's a there's a reason there's a reason why in america
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we take a day off to celebrate the fourth of July
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and not the 15th of April because in america
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we value our independence from the government not our dependence on it
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to keep that going forward the
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to keep that going forward we need a president leaders are what you did
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who understand it's important not to build the economy are watching dead
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that we as Americans we want to build the economy
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its cities and towns all across this great country
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the way to president who does it said in Washington DC when world leaders
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are standing together against terrorism in Paris
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we need a president and leaders in Washington the
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we gave leaders you all understand that when freedom-loving people
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anywhere in the world are under attack anywhere else
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there under attack against all those who believe in freedom
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we need leaders who all stand with our allies again radical
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Islamic terrorists the
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every day where'd the
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hey we need leaders it on in america we did leaders in america
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who understand who all to really understand the measure success in
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government
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is not how many people are depended on the government the measure of success
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in government is how many people are no longer
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depended are the government the
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we need that kind of leadership going forward I'm pleased to be here and I
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were today I'm gonna come back many more times in the future
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i'm hopeful to work together with you to help us provide that got a leadership
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that is new and fresh and bold
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and aggressive thats bed pro bed that common sense conservative reform from
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outside washington DC can work
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with your help I have no doubt we can move this country forward
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we can have our old American revival god bless you thanks for let me share with
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you today