[big campaign] Tracking Update: McCain Town Hall in Wilkes-Barre, PA 07/23/08

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Hello All, Just off the phone with our tracker Ryan who is on the ground today in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Below are the notes from our call. *BIG HIGHLIGHTS: * - Background was a huge "ENERGY SOLUTIONS" banner - Repeats Obama 'would rather lose a war and win a campaign' - Again says "I know how to win wars! I know how to win wars!" - Pledges $2billion / year in research and development of clean coal technology - McCain says he still supports McCain-Feingold - Other main topics: Middle East, gas tax holiday, NCLB, draft, Social Security * Wilkes-Barre, PA: McCain Town Hall 07/23/08 Background Details:* * - Signage: giant flag and giant "ENERGY SOLUTIONS" banner--smaller print at the bottom reads "Lexington Project" and has campaign website - About 400 people: mostly older white people - McCain speaking from a theater stage -- venue NOT at capacity - entire balcony was empty - No protesters outside the event - Hackett (PA 10 Congressional candidate) gives Introductory remarks-- - Obama has moved so far to the right we've started to invite him to our fundraisers - Obama doesn't want to drill on OCS - - Obama and Congress so beholden to special interests - McCain is called a maverick for a reason - McCain will veto wasteful spending - People of all political stripes are moving to McCain's position -- that's leadership - PA is key to McCain's win. Get involved in McCain's campaign. - McCain not typical politician-- he's on time today. - 15 minutes later-- Announce that McCain will be out shortly - Sen. Lisa Baker gives introductory remarks-- notes that this is McCain's first visit to PA and northeast PA; paints McCain as a "straight-talk"ing maverick; physically and spiritually tested - flubs-- McCain has the steel of spirit that a "divisive"--corrects "decisive leader needs" Speech Highlights:* * - TY for coming out -- I know everybody has something else to do today. Town halls are the essence of USA. - Americans are facing major challenges in this country. We're all going to have to come together--Dem and GOP--and put our country first. - USA has faced greater challenges in the past and we may again in the future. - Right now we know in the past we have overcome those: we went to the moon faster than anyone had anticipated, we defeated the Nazis. - Price of gas hurting every one. "Every time you go to the gas station you are shocked by the price of a gallon of oil" Lowest-income Americans hurting the most, that's why I wanted to give them a little gas tax holiday. You know what might happen? We might not be able to fund some of those pork-barrel projects that Congress loves spending money on, or build a bridge to nowhere. [awkward: 'You might-- you might-- you might--!"] - This is an economic, national security, energy issue. - We are sending money to people who don't like us very much. - Largest transfer of wealth - I believe greenhouse gas emissions are real, climate change is real. - We need wind, solar, nuclear. Navy hasn't had an accident in 60 years. The problem is that we don't store or re-process the spent fuel. We always want to imitate the French. So what do they do? Reprocess it! We can store and re-process it. It will have an immediate impact on our demand for foreign oil. - A week or so after the Prez lifted the federal moratorium on dirilling"We need to drill off shore! We need to get our resources that are off shore and get them into our market!" So that the world will know we're on our way to being independent. - US sits on one of greatest . I'm willing to spend $2B / year on R & D for clean coal technology. think about how many jobs that would generate - It takes French 5 years to build a nuclear power plant. why should it take us 15? I want 45 new plants by 2030. - Obama doesn't want to drill. Obama's presidential seal said in Latin something like 'yes we can.' I think it should say 'No we won't' - I was recently in Detroit and saw this new car they're trying to get out by 2010. We need to have flex fuels (use ethanol) cars, hybrids, cars with batteries that will take them 200 mi. If people want to buy that car, I will give them up to a $5k tax credit. - I call it the Lexington Project. You can call it anything you want. - We have faced greater challenges. There are people here who have served in teh military. They were able to emerge victorious and I'm sure USA can follow in their footsteps. - One more issue-- this on-going debate about the war in Iraq. We won a very easy initial strategy. Then we employed a very bad strategy that almost lost us this. I knew it was bad, I fought against it, and I was called disloyal by GOPs. I knew the strategy we had to take, we switched strategy and we found the great Gen. Petraeus to lead us. It's called a surge, but it's more-- it's basically a counter-insurgency strategy. Petraeus has troops going into neighborhoods, stay, and make sure they can do all the things that are part of a normal life. First, they had to fight back AQI. This strategy has succeeded. And we are winning this conflict. - The benefits of this success are that we would restrain Iranian influence--btw, Iranians are still importing IEDs killing Americans. It would prevent AQI from establishing solid base in Iraq. And consequences of defeat would be terrible. If we lost - I knew all this. I knew then and I know now. - Obama said the strategy was doomed to failure, that there would be an increase in sectarian violence. This shows a tremendous failure to understand facts on the ground. "He would rather lose a war and win a campaign" He favors an unconditional withdrawal, which could lead to our failure and our return to IRaq. With me, we won't have to come back. because we will have won and we are succeeding. Obama says if we lose that we may have to go back. And we may. - [Matthew Stanley story-- Make sure my son's death was not in vain. - I want to be POTUS because I believe I can inspire a generation of Americans becuase I believe I can inspire a generation of young Americans to serve a cause greater than myself. Many years ago I had an opportunity to leave POW camp early because my father was a high-ranking admiral. But there was a Mexican-American named Everett Alvarez who had been there 2 years earlier. And I chose my country first. [enthusiastic applause] - We may disagree on specific issues. Adn we can talk about them--well I hope not, I hope we agree on everything! Debate is healthy. - (1) I need your support. PA will be battleground again. And I will always appreciate that support. (2) I will always put my country first and I will never let you down. Question and Answer - [jokes: We have work-release program - 1Q) What are your feelings about Israel right now? Them having to give back land to the Palestinians? Status of Palestinians? - MCCAIN: That's a matter to be dealt with within Israel. Israel is probably under greatest threat since their independence--there is ample evidence that Iranians developing nuclear weapons and Russia is preventing us from imposing UN sanctions; but European democracies willing to help us. We have Hezbollah and Hamas on their borders. There's some disruption in Israel political process itself. Mostly I'm concerned about Iran's nukes, with leader claiming to wipe Israel off the map before the UN. US once said that we will never allow a second holocaust. - 2Q) [lifelong Democrat--but independent-minded] Our country will have to monetarily support our troops. But will you continue to pour money into Iraqi government--they're not using their oil revenues. (2b) The $0.18 rebate doesnt amount to much. - MCCAIN: I'd like to introduce you to the guy that drives the diesel truck. For the lowest-income Americans it means a lot. Congress's approval is 9%. What would you rather have your tax dollars doing? Helping the low-income Americans or going to bridges to nowhere. It's not the answer. It's just a bit of a break. And we need to give them some breaks. - FOLLOWUP: I kind of get that, but it doesn't make a big difference. - MCCAIN: A lot of people I talk to say I want a little break. I'm not saying it's the answer. As soon as the Prez announced he was lifting the fed moratorium, the price of oil went down. - MCCAIN: Iraqis are taking up more of their responsible. There's corruption--it's not terrible, in Afghanistan its worse. They are paying for their oil production. And as American troops withdraw--and they will--that'll cut down our expenses there. Some straight-talk: a resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and we're going to have to send more troops there. Good news is that it's a NATO operation, though we will have to take the lead. - 3Q) How will you address mandating and not funding for education? - MCCAIN: I think it's the worst thing they can do, because it leaves the burden on local governance. I think you're referring to NCLB--good idea but we never provided the funding. We need to fix it. I think it's been a great change in education because it allows us to assess. I believe in choice, I beliEeve in charter schools, rewarding good teachers, vouchers. That every family should have opportunity Cindy and I did when we sent our kids to Catholic school--and I'm not Catholic. Cases in point: NYC (when a school has a bad grade, parents move their kids to another school); NOLA (they had to start from square 1; they have over 30 charter schools. choice and competition "duh"). I think it's the civil rights issue of this generation providing every American with quality education. - FOLLOWUP: How do we control size of classes? - MCCAIN: I think too large class size degrades quality of education. But I believe you should have some flexibility in dealing with that situation. If your student grades can make progress, then good. If not, then you should pay a penalty. - 4Q) What's your plan vs. Obama's on how you see the future of the economy within our nation and then across the world? - MCCAIN: Americans are hurting badly, especially downward spiral for homeowners. The energy crisis has been a double whammy, with the increased price of gas hurting plus increased inflation for food prices. This is a time of great challenge for America. We have to address energy crisis. WE have to be able to keep people in their homes: I want everyone to be able to get FHA 30-year mortgage for their homes at their NEW value and then pay that because the value of their homes has gone down. We have to stop the spending in Washington. - A little straight-talk: We GOPs when we came to Congress let spending get out of control. And I fought it every step of the way. I have never asked for or received a single earmark for my state of AZ. Obama has asked for tons. There is a difference. I will veto every earmark pork-barrel bill that comes across my desk. The last bad news is that it hasn't stopped in Washington even in these hard times--still the spending. - 5Q) My son is at Drexel on a wrestling scholarship. My concern is if you needed to instate a draft, what would be your protocol? - MCCAIN: First of all, wrestling is great. ... Remind me of your question. I don't need we need to reinstate a draft. Our military today is the greatest, best-trained. But it's simply not big enough. And the PA Guard and Reserve have done magnificently. They've given and given and given. I served when there was a draft--it was unfair. The poorest Americans served and the wealthiest avoided it. The military today is so highly-trained that it doesn't do well with the short period of a draft. I want Americans to have the opportunity to serve, not be forced to. One of the biggest problems with after 9/11 is that we shouldnt have asked Americans to shop, but to serve. - 6Q) What's your comment on Bush's remarks 'say bye to the world's #1 polluter? Why is it taking Iraqis so long to take control of their country? - MCCAIN: on 2nd question-- Because we mishandled it for nearly 4 years. We sent people from bases to fight and kill people and then they went back to the base. The new strategy isn't just more troops--they stayed, they lived and ate and slept along with the Iraqis. They had never known of a noncommissioned officer with real power. And then we got Petraeus and it turned it around in a relatively short period of time. It's succeeding and it's succeeded. And it means schools running and markets going without fear someone's going to run and cut off their heads. There are still going to be spectacular attacks and suicide bombs, but if you look at the overall stats, it's a success--but it's a fragile. Obama wanted us out last March. Can you imagine?! "I know how to win wars!" 2x - FOLLOWUP: I agree there's been progress. But sometimes Americans have problem admitting they made a mistake, e.g. Bush. And there are American soldiers lost! And Walter Reed! - MCCAIN: There's a great difference in the war in which I fought and this war. In the war I fought, vets were mistreated. Now Americans are divided, but they are treating the vets right. We need to improve our medical abilities to treat the wounds, we need to treat the PTSD. For routine health care needs, vets shouldn't ahve to stand in line at the VA, but should get a card and go to a doctor of their choice and get treated. - The issue of pollution will come up in another question because we covered a lot of ground. I think we can address it in a economic and efficient way. - 7Q) On SS: Am I contributing to a program that will retire before I do? - MCCAIN: Unless we fix it. A great unjustice done to your generation is that this system is going to go broke adn you're not going to receive the benefits you're paying into. We know there's a set of solutions to restore the fiscal health. We need to sit down together. In 1983, SS was going broke. Reagan and O'Neill said we're gonna fix it. That's what's missing in America today in Congress. I'm committed to doing exactly that. I'll tell Pelosi and Reid, I'll give you all the credit. But I want to put Americans' interests first. - 8Q) As GOP candidate for POTUS, do you have second thoughts on McCain-Feingold? - This meeting is adjourned. I do not. I believe that special interests outweigh the voice of those without the money and lobbying. There's corruption. I will continue to stand up against them. I voted against the energy bill, Obama didn't. The farm bill, incl the ethanol subsidies. I'll continue to work to clean up adn reduce the influence of special interests in DC. I'd like to tell you in DC today that your interests are uppermost, but I dont think they are. We'll have to continue to work. And our citizens should express their voice at hte ballot box. - 9Q) How could you influence Congress to stop the spending? - MCCAIN: First, get enacted a version of the line-item veto that is Constitutional. 43 of 50 governors have it. States have to balance their budget, fed doesn't have to. We need to increase the transparency. I'd like to do something like the British PM going back and forth with Parliament. Anything that gets Americans more involved. The day I'm elected--not inaugurated--is call Speaker and say I'm going to be in town next week. Let's get together and set priorities. And I promise you, I'll give you all the credit. We have to do it. This country deserves so much better than what it's got today. And you in PA will probably play a very large role in determining that. - I strongly believe our best days are ahead of us. We talk about the problems. But I believe in the fundamentals of America. Every time I travel around the world, I am so happy to come back. God bless America. I need your vote! * -- Sara DuBois Deputy Director of Tracking & Media Monitoring Progressive Accountability Office [email protected] 202-609-7681 (office) 410-967-7306 (cell) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "big campaign" group. 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