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Hi BigCampaign,
Just off the phone with our tracker Greg who was on the ground today in
Philadelphia, PA. Below are the notes from our call.
Big Highlights:*
- Fiorina was there in the town hall audience, clapping away
- McCain says there are corporate executives that give corporations a bad
name by taking too big of a package; if there's speculation, those people
should be scrutinized and possibly penalized.
- McCain repeats mention Ireland's appeal to businesses given their
lower corporate tax rate. (Fiorina said this week that HP off-shored to
Ireland while she was at the company).
- Oldey McOlderson asked audience members to hold microphone closer
twice, including one boy who was literally standing right next to him
- Mostly stuck to his recent stump on Reform, Prosperity, Peace. Also,
continued attacks on Obama as wrong on raising taxes, wrong for willingness
to sit down without preconditions (and he changes his positions), and wrong
as a 2nd term of Carter--tying everything to working-class issues / economy.
*
Philadelphia, PA: McCain Town Hall 06/11/08
Background Details:
- In audience: Carly Fiorina, Cindy McCain, John Chambers (CEO, Cisco)
- African-American woman gave first set of introductory remarks, throwing
out urban slang like "John McCain's in the house!" while hitting
- Cindy McCain introduced her husband.
- 500 people. Diverse crowd. Small but packed venue.
- No protesters outside pre-event, but a small group of young people
chanting "Obama" outside the event after it was over. They had a few health
care signs.
- Secret Service gave our tracker some trouble. McCain staffers, on the
other hand, were more accommodating.
Opening Remarks:
- Brings up Obama's bitter comments: says he doesn't believe that
sentiment. And that's why we're going to win PA.
- Repeats mention of his invitation to Obama for joint town hall
meetings. Instead of taking comments out of context and flashing them around
on the cable shows. let's hear complete answers and complete thoughts. I've
not heard from Obama, but I urge him again to accept my invitation.
- Three major challenges facing America: Reform, Prosperity, Peace.
- Reform the way we do business in DC. Congressional ratings are so low
you get down to paid staffers and relatives. It's because we aren't working
for Americans, we are working for us. They want us to sit down and work
together- I have a record of it. *By the way, I welcome those quarters of
Obama's supporters here today.* We need to raise taxes, eliminate
wasteful pork-barrel spending (this is a GOP and Dem disease), bipartisan
efforts to fix Medicare and Social Security.
- Prosperity: Americans are hurting. At the top of the list is price of
gas. I will lead effort to be independent of foreign oil.
- Straight talk: *I told people things they didn't want to hear **as well
as what they want to hear.* We need to have nuclear power - environmental
and national security benefits.
- Improve education in USA. Displaced worker has been a casualty of these
changes. We need to talk about the lost manufacturing jobs in PA, OH, etc.
Update training programs. MI and SC - I told them that the old jobs aren't
coming back, but now there are new endeavors there.
- 1930s passed the Smoot-Hauley Tariff Act - Tax increases and
protectionist measures sent us from a recession into a depression.
- I'm a free-trader. Attacks Obama for saying he would unilaterally
re-negotiate free trade agreements.
- Peace: We're in 2 wars, we face evil radical Islamic extremism.
Afghanistan is tough and we're going to have that struggle for a while, and
what happens in Pakistan is going to affect it. Strongest disagreement
between myself and Obama is that I believe Petraeus's assertion that the
central battleground is in Iraq, I believed we needed to change strategies
to the surge. Unfortunately there was enormous sacrifice, and there is
nothing more precious than American blood. I go out to see our wounded at
Walter Reed as often as I can. Vets hate war. I won't recall to you my
experiences with loss of comrades except to the time USS Forrestal saved us.
"Nothing is more precious than Americans." *"If we succeed,"* we will see
reduction in influence by Iran and by AQ. The benefits of success are that
we'd have a stable government in Iraq. America is divided on this war, but
Americans aren't divided on supporting the troops. There have been other
wars in US history and sometimes we've had to see it through. I can inspire
young Americans to serve their country--Noblest way to serve America is in
uniform.
Question & Answer:
- Q1) There's a bill in Senate right now which would continue GWB's
efforts to fight malaria, TB, etc. It needs to pass before the G8 to have
meaning.
- MCCAIN: I support legislation to fight AIDS in Africa. We should
thank GWB and Laura Bush for that. I haven't examined that
specific piece of
legislation, but as Pres, I will seek to continue that effort.
It's not just
about money, because sometimes there are corrupt governments -
especially in
Africa - so sometimes American dollars don't go to their
intended recipient.
ONE.org does a lot of work to help.
- FOLLOW-up: Will you help us get the bill un-stuck? It's a bipartisan
effort.
- MCCAIN: I will assist in every way I can. I'm not familiar with this
specific legislation, but I know how things work in Washington, and
sometimes things
- Q2) As a Jewish American, I'm very worried about Israeli security and
Iran. What can be done?
- MCCAIN: Sanctions that would squeeze Iran, which has a weak
economy. *I am convinced that the majority of Iranian people are
friendly to USA.*
- Mccain: "A little closer with the microphone, please"
- Q3) How would you answer Pete Peterson (whose book "Running on Empty"
quotes you on the front) in terms of your support for tax cuts in 2001 and
2003?
- MCCAIN: Pete Peterson is exactly right. But the revenues aren't a
problem. The problem is/was excessive spending. I voted against
the Medicare
Part D drug prescription program. You know why? Because you're
paying for my
prescription drugs! Let's pay for lower-income people. I voted
against Farm
Bill, which gives wealthy people money when there are Americans trying to
keep their homes.
- "I agree with every word that was written in that book," *Running on
Empty*.
- Q4) Keith Todd- volunteered for McCain in SC. When Obama finally joins
you in a town hall, can you remind him what Reagan said, which is that
corporations collect taxes; they don't pay taxes? And it's going to be my
grandma, etc. paying for it.
- MCCAIN: *There are corporate execs that are giving corporations a
bad name, ones who took too big of a package. If there's
speculation, those
people should be scrutinized and penalized for any laws they've broken
*. Corporate taxes in USA is 2nd highest in the world. Businesses and
other corporations set up in other countries because of their lower tax
rates. I don't view my plan as a "break" for corporations; it's
an incentive
to keep jobs here. If they're loopholes, I want them closed; but if it's
lower corporate taxes, I want them.
- Q5) What do you have to offer first-time voters versus Obama?
- McCain raises the microphone to the boy's mouth even though the boy
was standing right next to him and speaking loudly and clearly into the
microphone.
- MCCAIN: Mentions "very very... old" bit from SNL. We have to fix
education so they can go to the schools that Cindy and I were
lucky enough
to send our kids to. We need to fix our broken programs. Finally, I will
give you a peaceful world - because it is the youth who serve in the
military.
- Q6) How are you going to make equal education opportunity possible?
- MCCAIN: Special education is very important (Cindy taught it). Rise
of autism is affecting Americans. In NOLA, they have 30 charter schools,
which provide competition to the public school system. I want
every parent
in USA to have the same choice that my family has. Congress is
about to do
away with voucher program, but parents want it. Choice;
competition; special
education; reward teachers' merit, eliminate those without it.
NCLB needs to
be fixed. More opportunities to teach, e.g. Troops to Teach.
- Q7) What are you going to do about teen gangs / crime?
- MCCAIN: I'm going to have to work very hard to let them know that
there's a better life than the one they see aroudn them. From a
macro sense,
there was good news the other day that overall crime is going
down - though
that's of small consolation to cities facing the crime. I think they need
mentors. I was somewhere, a group of boys go every day and
mentor "a young
African American." Some of these gangs have become international, coming
from Nicaragua and Guatemala. And incarceration a lot of times
makes these
people worse off. A lot of these problems are drug-related. For the first
time, the Mexican government is doing a good job clamping down
on these drug
cartels. Straight talk: as long as there's demand, there's going to be
supply, so we need to stop the demand. Methamphetamines are a problem.
People who have been through the life can serve the best role models for
the youth.
- Q8) Seniors are concerned about health care and Social Security and
institutionalized longterm care. What will you do to help?
- MCCAIN: I want Americans to make the choices for their healthcare.
Obama's proposal will mean an eventual government takeover of
health care;
we've seen that in other countries and we don't want that.
Social Security
we know what we have to do. Health care is harder to fix. (1)
Encourage home
health care. In AZ, we have a program where people stay at home
for care and
it's great. Cash-in care. Reagan said "no one ever washed a rental car;"
that's the problem with health care. I hate to keep referring to
Carly and
John, but they'll tell you technology is key. It will reduce
medical errors.
We need competition.
- Q9) You compared Obama to President Carter. And a lot of HRC supporters
aren't happy with Obama. How will you reach out to them and explain that
spend-and-tax liberals are not the right answer for America's future?
- MCCAIN: A lot of attacks on me are that I'd be Pres Bush's third
term. But Obama would be a 2nd term of Carter, from national security,
taxation, etc--the policies of the 60s and 70s that failed. I
respect Obama
and his hard-fought primary battle. We differ on policies:
taxes, national
security needs. The point is the American people didn't get to know me
yesterday and they know that I've always put my country first
and my party
second.
- Q10) What's your plan to help students with high student loan costs?
- MCCAIN: Make loans more affordable and accessible. We have to reward
people for public service, we have to provide our vets with education
benefits but we also have to provide incentives for them to stay in
military.
- Q11) Would you consider opening ANWR to drilling? And what could be
done to encourage oil companies to refine more?
- MCCAIN: I believe this area should be kept in pristine preservation.
But I respect the rights of states to control what goes on off
their shores.
We should tell CA et al that we will increase their revenue if they allow
oil exploration off their coasts.
- Q12) Works for DE GOP. What advice for people who want to go to public
office or to serve?
- Recognize it's a tough business. Sometimes there are
disappointments. There's no perfect servant. I've had the honor
of serving
literally my whole life. My time in Vietnam prison was tough, but a great
experience to serve in the company of heroes. When I whine about things
being taken out of context, etc., I remember that I've been through much
tougher times than a political campaign.
--
Sara DuBois
Deputy Director - Tracking/Media Monitoring
Progressive Media USA
[email protected]
202-609-7681 (office)
410-967-7306 (cell)
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