1
00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:04,640
Speaker 1: Hie. This is newt First, I want to wish you

2
00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:07,400
Speaker 1: in your family a wonderful holiday week and a happy

3
00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:10,640
Speaker 1: new Year. My team who helps me this podcast is

4
00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,840
Speaker 1: taking some well deserved time off during the holidays, So

5
00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,759
Speaker 1: instead of producing new episodes of newts World this week,

6
00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:19,919
Speaker 1: We've decided to go back into the archive and air

7
00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,520
Speaker 1: several of the GOPAC tapes I made in the late

8
00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,119
Speaker 1: eighties and early nineties. I've heard from many of you

9
00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,520
Speaker 1: over the years who remember these tapes, and many of

10
00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,639
Speaker 1: you took my advice and ran for office. And for

11
00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:32,400
Speaker 1: those of you who are too young to remember what

12
00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:34,440
Speaker 1: the go PAC tapes are, let me give you a

13
00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:38,280
Speaker 1: little background. In the late nineteen eighties, the Republicans in

14
00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:40,959
Speaker 1: the House have been in the minority for almost four decades,

15
00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:45,800
Speaker 1: and in fact, they didn't have enough ideas, enough energy,

16
00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:48,320
Speaker 1: enough focus, and so we had to go out and

17
00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,720
Speaker 1: recruit a new generation of leaders and recruit people and

18
00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:55,640
Speaker 1: give them new ideas, give them new solutions, and talk

19
00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:59,000
Speaker 1: about the nature of how politics was changing with the

20
00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:01,720
Speaker 1: rise of talk radio and all the other things that

21
00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,080
Speaker 1: were going on. The way we did that is at GOPAC,

22
00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:09,800
Speaker 1: we sent out tapes literally old fashioned cassette tapes it

23
00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,840
Speaker 1: wouldn't use any more today, and people got these tapes,

24
00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:15,640
Speaker 1: put them in their car and drove around because we'd

25
00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:18,880
Speaker 1: figured out that candidates spend a huge amount of time

26
00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:22,399
Speaker 1: in cars going from event to event, and so we

27
00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:25,759
Speaker 1: gave them something to listen to while they were campaigning.

28
00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,119
Speaker 1: At its peak, the Go PAC tape program was listened

29
00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:33,520
Speaker 1: to by seventy five thousand people. Speaker John Bayner listened

30
00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,399
Speaker 1: to the Go Pac tapes, the Governor of New York

31
00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:40,319
Speaker 1: listened to the Go PAC tapes. Candidate after Canada came

32
00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:42,280
Speaker 1: to me and said, you know, it was listening to

33
00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,280
Speaker 1: the GOPAC tapes that convinced me to run. These Go

34
00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:47,200
Speaker 1: PAC tapes were a key part of the work Joe

35
00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,320
Speaker 1: Gaylord and I did for some sixteen years while we

36
00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:54,440
Speaker 1: developed the program, grew the party and created the opportunity

37
00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,280
Speaker 1: to have a genuine majority. And that's why we're writing

38
00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,600
Speaker 1: a book which will come out next summer called March Majority,

39
00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:05,560
Speaker 1: explaining how the Republican Party won after forty years with

40
00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,640
Speaker 1: the Contract with America and became a majority for the

41
00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,400
Speaker 1: first time in four decades. And it's available now for

42
00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,240
Speaker 1: pre order at Amazon, so I think you'll find this

43
00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,680
Speaker 1: a very interesting experience. I hope you'll find these tapes

44
00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,560
Speaker 1: remind you both of some key lessons about government and politics,

45
00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,720
Speaker 1: but also give you a flavor of how we ultimately

46
00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:29,119
Speaker 1: created the first Republican House majority in forty years. Thank

47
00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:32,720
Speaker 1: you to the University of West Georgia Ingram Library Special Collections,

48
00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:37,240
Speaker 1: and specifically the Catherine and Jeff Breedlove Political Collection. They

49
00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:40,400
Speaker 1: provided us with digital copies of the GOPAC tapes. You

50
00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,840
Speaker 1: can learn more about the GOPAC tapes on our show

51
00:02:42,840 --> 00:03:03,920
Speaker 1: page at newtsworld dot com. Hello. I'm Lisa Nelson, executive

52
00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:08,360
Speaker 1: director of Gopak. Welcome to the sixty two percent Majority

53
00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,840
Speaker 1: building our Coalition for the New Century, the latest in

54
00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:16,760
Speaker 1: Gopak's audio training series. We share a vision that by

55
00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,200
Speaker 1: combining the wisdom of the founding fathers with the opportunities

56
00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,799
Speaker 1: of the information age and the world market, we can

57
00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,800
Speaker 1: help every person exercise their creator endowed right to pursue

58
00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:31,080
Speaker 1: happiness that will in turn lead to freedom, prosperity, and

59
00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,760
Speaker 1: safety everywhere. If we are to reach this vision of

60
00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:39,080
Speaker 1: a freer, more prosperous, and safer world, Republicans must expand

61
00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:44,000
Speaker 1: dramatically our electoral coalition. In this tape house, speaker Newt

62
00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:48,520
Speaker 1: Gingrich and others will outline for you visions, strategies, projects,

63
00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,760
Speaker 1: and tactics that should be employed to build the sixty

64
00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,480
Speaker 1: two percent majority coalition necessary in the next century to

65
00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:59,280
Speaker 1: enact our programs and change the world. You've seen what

66
00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:03,240
Speaker 1: these young people have managed to accomplish so far. You're

67
00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:05,880
Speaker 1: here tonight because you have faith in them that they

68
00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:09,880
Speaker 1: will be achievers. You have assisted them in helping them

69
00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:14,119
Speaker 1: make their dreams come true. You've given them a precious

70
00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:18,920
Speaker 1: opportunity to now have the tools to exercise their creator

71
00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:23,479
Speaker 1: endowed right to pursue happiness. In your eyes, those of

72
00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:26,880
Speaker 1: you here at night, there is no black or white

73
00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,880
Speaker 1: or any other color. There is only a genuine need

74
00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:36,480
Speaker 1: and the possibility to offer an opportunity. What you are

75
00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:41,800
Speaker 1: doing is uniquely American in more ways than you may realize.

76
00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,520
Speaker 1: When we look around this room and we see children

77
00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,880
Speaker 1: of many, many hues, we learn frankly that it is

78
00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:53,200
Speaker 1: the common bonds of experience which truly bring us together.

79
00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:57,839
Speaker 1: These bonds have as much influence on our lives, our

80
00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:05,320
Speaker 1: successes and ultimate failures or futures than anything that is

81
00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:11,359
Speaker 1: as ultimately superficial as race. Consider the experience of the orphan,

82
00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:19,599
Speaker 1: whether because of war, famine, accident, irresponsibility, or illness, a

83
00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:24,800
Speaker 1: child is suddenly alone in the world, the obstacles that

84
00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:30,040
Speaker 1: child has to overcome, and the opportunities that organizations such

85
00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:34,960
Speaker 1: as the Orphan Foundation provide for that child. Those experiences

86
00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:43,520
Speaker 1: shape each child in a particular way. And so one orphan, black, White, Asian, Muslim, Christian,

87
00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:47,280
Speaker 1: or whatever combination of those characteristics you can imagine, can

88
00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:50,680
Speaker 1: look to another and say, yes, I've been down the

89
00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,240
Speaker 1: same road that you've traveled, and regardless of how you

90
00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:57,400
Speaker 1: may look or how you may worship, I can see

91
00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:01,880
Speaker 1: that you and I share the same experience. This is

92
00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:07,120
Speaker 1: a particularly apt metaphor for America at large. America is

93
00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,520
Speaker 1: a nation of immigrants, and in certain ways, the experience

94
00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:14,719
Speaker 1: of the immigrant and the experience of the orphan mirror

95
00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,360
Speaker 1: one another. We have in America people who have, for

96
00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:23,560
Speaker 1: various reasons, come to America for a better opportunity. You know,

97
00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:27,880
Speaker 1: before there was a nation called the United States, pilgrims

98
00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:33,440
Speaker 1: fleeing religious persecution landed in place they called the New World.

99
00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,640
Speaker 1: In the eighteen hundreds, the Irish came to these shores

100
00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:42,000
Speaker 1: fleeing of famine which had devastated their country. As recently

101
00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,560
Speaker 1: as the nineteen seventies, Vietnamese fled a homeland wounded by

102
00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:51,680
Speaker 1: decades of war. These and so many others saw hope

103
00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:56,560
Speaker 1: and opportunity in America. They came here for a chance

104
00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:01,480
Speaker 1: to succeed. They made the conscious decision to become part

105
00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:06,159
Speaker 1: of a new family, to become Americans. And you all

106
00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,960
Speaker 1: know here in Washington, d c. If you've caught a

107
00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:13,400
Speaker 1: cab at National Airport, that the experience of new immigrants

108
00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:18,120
Speaker 1: from virtually everywhere continues. And it would be a fascinating

109
00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:20,800
Speaker 1: study to take ten cabs in a row and find

110
00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:22,760
Speaker 1: out how many countries you just had a chance to

111
00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:27,040
Speaker 1: learn about on your way into the city. And that's

112
00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:29,560
Speaker 1: the genius of this country, because you know, becoming an

113
00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:34,680
Speaker 1: American is a unique experience which comes with certain responsibilities,

114
00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:39,200
Speaker 1: certain habits that one has to absorb and that we

115
00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:43,280
Speaker 1: have to accept to successfully finish the process of Americanization.

116
00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:51,000
Speaker 1: An American is not American the way French live in

117
00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:55,160
Speaker 1: France or Germans the way Germans are. You can live

118
00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:57,080
Speaker 1: either of those in either of those countries, and some

119
00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:59,960
Speaker 1: of you may have for years and you never become

120
00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:05,320
Speaker 1: French or German. You always remain a foreigner who happens

121
00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:09,520
Speaker 1: to be living in France or Germany. I think one

122
00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:11,720
Speaker 1: of the reasons Tiger Woods has had such a big

123
00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:17,800
Speaker 1: impact is because he is an American. He defines himself

124
00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,760
Speaker 1: as an American, and I think we need to be

125
00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:26,480
Speaker 1: prepared to say the truth is, we want all Americans

126
00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:31,880
Speaker 1: to be quite simply American. That doesn't deprive anyone of

127
00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:35,320
Speaker 1: the right to further define their heritage. I go to

128
00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:38,480
Speaker 1: celebrations such as the Greek Festival in my district every year.

129
00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,760
Speaker 1: It doesn't deprive us of the right to have ethnic pride,

130
00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:46,520
Speaker 1: to have some sense of our origins. But it is

131
00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:50,320
Speaker 1: wrong for some Americans to begin creating subgroups to which

132
00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,360
Speaker 1: they have a higher loyalty than to America at large.

133
00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:58,280
Speaker 1: The genius of America has always been its ability to

134
00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:01,520
Speaker 1: draw people from everywhere and to give all of them

135
00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:04,960
Speaker 1: an opportunity to pursue happiness in a way that no

136
00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:09,319
Speaker 1: other society has been able to manage. That is a

137
00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:14,240
Speaker 1: particularly useful way of discussing the question of race, which

138
00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:16,560
Speaker 1: I raised at the beginning of the year when I

139
00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,760
Speaker 1: was re elected Speaker, and which the President addressed this

140
00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:24,199
Speaker 1: past weekend in California. The question of race is at

141
00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:30,839
Speaker 1: the heart of America's darkest moments, slavery, the Civil War, segregation,

142
00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:35,240
Speaker 1: and yet dealing with it in the public sphere also

143
00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:40,480
Speaker 1: produced two of our most brilliant and influential leaders, Abraham

144
00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:45,720
Speaker 1: Lincoln and Martin Luther King Junior. Such has been the

145
00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:49,160
Speaker 1: tragedy and triumph of race in America. As W. E. B.

146
00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:53,400
Speaker 1: Du Bois observed, the twentieth century has in some ways

147
00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:57,199
Speaker 1: been defined by the color line. As we move into

148
00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,640
Speaker 1: a new century, we have to look at what is

149
00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:04,199
Speaker 1: work when it comes to race, what hasn't, and what

150
00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:07,720
Speaker 1: lessons we should learn, Because, as the old adage goes,

151
00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:12,520
Speaker 1: there is no surer sign of insanity than doing the

152
00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:17,720
Speaker 1: same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

153
00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:23,120
Speaker 1: Looking to the new rather than repeating a failed pattern

154
00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:27,800
Speaker 1: is a very American truth. To those who doubt whether

155
00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:32,000
Speaker 1: America holds promise even in the most hostile of circumstances,

156
00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:35,160
Speaker 1: we need only churned to the narrative of the life

157
00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:39,240
Speaker 1: of Frederick Douglass, an American slave that was the title

158
00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:43,640
Speaker 1: of his autobiography. Well, the question of a federal apology

159
00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:47,120
Speaker 1: for slavery can be discussed by reasonable people of all persuasions.

160
00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,839
Speaker 1: Let us not forget someone like Douglas, who didn't wait

161
00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,960
Speaker 1: for an apology. He allowed bonds, neither physical nor mental,

162
00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:58,360
Speaker 1: to prevent him in one lifetime, to go from being

163
00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:01,760
Speaker 1: a slave to become an adviser to the President of

164
00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:07,520
Speaker 1: the United States. That is quintessentially an American story. That

165
00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:11,000
Speaker 1: is a story like many others in this unique nation.

166
00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:16,080
Speaker 1: It stands as one of many historic lessons which all

167
00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:21,760
Speaker 1: Americans can benefit from learning. Slavery was a terrible period

168
00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:24,880
Speaker 1: in this country's existence, one which we as a country

169
00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:28,920
Speaker 1: must never forget. That's why I was glad that J. C.

170
00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:34,760
Speaker 1: Watts introduced his Juneteenth resolution observing the day many African

171
00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:39,679
Speaker 1: Americans celebrate as the traditional end of slavery. The more

172
00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:44,320
Speaker 1: Americans learn about America, the triumphs and tragedies, the more

173
00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:49,640
Speaker 1: we mature as a nation. But while Americans must respect

174
00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:54,120
Speaker 1: the past, part of being an American is about looking forward.

175
00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:59,280
Speaker 1: The scholarships being awarded here tonight are a good place

176
00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:03,080
Speaker 1: to continue the dialogue on race because they are awards

177
00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:07,800
Speaker 1: of pure achievement, pure merit, rewarding individuals for their superior

178
00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:12,679
Speaker 1: work as individuals. They're not being granted because somebody felt

179
00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,800
Speaker 1: sorry for you or thought you needed assistance because your

180
00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:19,960
Speaker 1: particular race or genitor. You're being rewarded for your hard

181
00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:24,440
Speaker 1: work as individuals. That is the way we must approach

182
00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:28,360
Speaker 1: the issue of opportunity. We will not be successful in

183
00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:34,640
Speaker 1: moving our society forward if we submerge individuals into groups. Unfortunately,

184
00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:39,200
Speaker 1: government policy has concentrated on groupings over the last thirty years.

185
00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:42,520
Speaker 1: The results of the group think approach are in and

186
00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:48,400
Speaker 1: they have proven tragic. Let me draw a distinction. I

187
00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:52,120
Speaker 1: was an Army brand. I was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

188
00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:54,040
Speaker 1: I grew up in the United States Army when it

189
00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,320
Speaker 1: was an integrated institution. I went to the South as

190
00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,280
Speaker 1: a teenager, and I was in Columbus, Georgia when there

191
00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,839
Speaker 1: was still legal segregation. I first encountered when I was

192
00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:08,360
Speaker 1: sixteen years old. Segregation was the legal imposition by the

193
00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:14,440
Speaker 1: state of a set of unfair rules. Ending segregation was

194
00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:19,600
Speaker 1: an inherently political fight. It made perfect sense for people

195
00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,320
Speaker 1: who wanted to advance the cause of freedom and end

196
00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:28,160
Speaker 1: government imposed segregation to focus on politics and government. Since

197
00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,000
Speaker 1: the rules of segregation were focused on a specific group,

198
00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:34,920
Speaker 1: it made sense that the focus was on removing the

199
00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:41,719
Speaker 1: impediments at the group level. Having ended segregation, however, the

200
00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:48,120
Speaker 1: next struggle, frankly is and has been economic and educational achievement.

201
00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:54,600
Speaker 1: Government is a peculiarly ineffective institution in these areas. This

202
00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,600
Speaker 1: is a lesson. We now tell the Chinese, we tell

203
00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:03,439
Speaker 1: the Russians, we say everywhere around the planet. Centralized bureaucratic

204
00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:08,280
Speaker 1: command and control systems don't work well. Guess what. It

205
00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:10,719
Speaker 1: don't work very well in the inner cities of Washington,

206
00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,720
Speaker 1: New York, or Detroit either, and they have proven tragically

207
00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:18,880
Speaker 1: not to work on American Indian reservations. We need to

208
00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:25,320
Speaker 1: treat individuals as individuals, and we need to address discrete

209
00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:29,080
Speaker 1: problems for the problems they are, and not presume them

210
00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:32,240
Speaker 1: to be part of an intractable racial issue which will

211
00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:36,400
Speaker 1: never be torn out. Consider the difference if you say

212
00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:38,680
Speaker 1: to somebody you'll never rise because you're part of some

213
00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:42,880
Speaker 1: problem we can't solve, why try. If you say to somebody,

214
00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:44,840
Speaker 1: tell me what you need is you don't know how

215
00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:47,240
Speaker 1: to do math? We'll get you a tutor. You've never

216
00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,680
Speaker 1: worked before. We'll find you a job. You don't know

217
00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:51,360
Speaker 1: how to get a house, We'll take you to habitat

218
00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:55,240
Speaker 1: for humanity. It's a totally different model of how we

219
00:14:55,280 --> 00:15:02,280
Speaker 1: try to solve problems we need to consider. For example, education,

220
00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:06,360
Speaker 1: following the removal of racial quotas in the University of

221
00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:11,440
Speaker 1: California system, Berkeley experienced a precipitous drop in accepted black

222
00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:15,000
Speaker 1: students for their fall classes. The old way of thinking

223
00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,120
Speaker 1: assumes this to be a racial problem that must be

224
00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:23,240
Speaker 1: addressed in a race specific manner. That is exactly the

225
00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:27,360
Speaker 1: wrong kind of thinking. If in fact, enough young people

226
00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:29,920
Speaker 1: are not being educated well enough to get into Berkeley,

227
00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,520
Speaker 1: the folks should be on what's wrong with the schools

228
00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:37,000
Speaker 1: that are producing them, and how can we improve those schools?

229
00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:40,680
Speaker 1: And if the need is for more tutoring, and if

230
00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:43,520
Speaker 1: the need is for better education, if the need is

231
00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:46,680
Speaker 1: for a way to dramatically overhaul the schools, then let's

232
00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:52,480
Speaker 1: overhaul the schools. None of that involves race. Similarly, if

233
00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:55,720
Speaker 1: there are not enough young blacks, in particular younger Hispanics,

234
00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:59,120
Speaker 1: to a less extent going out and creating small businesses,

235
00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:01,840
Speaker 1: then lets look at what are the inhibitors to creating

236
00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:05,440
Speaker 1: small businesses. All of the set asides in the world

237
00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:10,600
Speaker 1: will not change Anacostia or other pockets of poverty. We

238
00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:15,160
Speaker 1: have to have a profound, fundamental rethinking of the assumptions

239
00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:18,400
Speaker 1: that have failed for thirty years. As you look at

240
00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:23,400
Speaker 1: the success of West Indians first generation immigrants, or of Koreans,

241
00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:25,720
Speaker 1: or you look at the success, for that matter, of

242
00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:27,680
Speaker 1: people who have come here from Africa in the last

243
00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:31,240
Speaker 1: thirty years, the fact is a surprising number of people

244
00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:36,240
Speaker 1: of color rise surprisingly rapidly. And by rising, I mean

245
00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:40,800
Speaker 1: get wealthier by property, have freedom, and go on nice vacations.

246
00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:44,440
Speaker 1: And the most obvious, famous example is the former chairman

247
00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:49,200
Speaker 1: of the Joint Chiefs. They rise very rapidly. They rise

248
00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:53,000
Speaker 1: because they have the right habits, skills and networking ability.

249
00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:57,960
Speaker 1: But if you trap people into public housing with anti

250
00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,880
Speaker 1: work and anti achievement regulations, send them to schools that fail,

251
00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,320
Speaker 1: teach them a set of habits about not working or saving,

252
00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:08,280
Speaker 1: create an environment where no one near them gets up

253
00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:10,560
Speaker 1: on Monday to go to a job. Have nobody in

254
00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:14,040
Speaker 1: the neighborhood opens a small business. It should not shock you,

255
00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:17,919
Speaker 1: though we end up with cycles of despair which repeat

256
00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:22,840
Speaker 1: for generations. What we've done, with the best of intentions

257
00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:27,320
Speaker 1: is artificially create both on Indian reservations and in the

258
00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:31,879
Speaker 1: inner city zones of despair and depression where people have

259
00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:35,320
Speaker 1: no hope. So we need to talk about a very

260
00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:40,639
Speaker 1: different model. The President's Commission needs to begin with this new,

261
00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:47,119
Speaker 1: more powerful approach. In America, everyone is an individual. Everyone

262
00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:51,040
Speaker 1: in America has the creator endowed right to pursue happiness.

263
00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:56,120
Speaker 1: In America, we pragmatically solve problems by asking why isn't

264
00:17:56,119 --> 00:17:59,600
Speaker 1: this happening? For example, why weren't children learning in a

265
00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:04,440
Speaker 1: particular neighborhood. Then systematically break the problem into components and

266
00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:08,879
Speaker 1: solve it. In many cases, a solution will require a

267
00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:12,919
Speaker 1: replacement rather than a repair. That's why we developed a

268
00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:17,159
Speaker 1: replacement for the failed welfare system. You couldn't repair the

269
00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:22,200
Speaker 1: old welfare system of passivity and lifetime dependency. It had

270
00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:25,640
Speaker 1: to be replaced with a different model that emphasized training,

271
00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:29,280
Speaker 1: work and self help. I would argue the same. It's

272
00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,920
Speaker 1: true with much of the public housing rules. You can't

273
00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,600
Speaker 1: repair them. You have got to replace them with a

274
00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:38,800
Speaker 1: different model. If you do create, create a replacement system.

275
00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,639
Speaker 1: At a practical level, what behaviors are you trying to

276
00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:44,840
Speaker 1: encourage among large numbers of people. You want to make

277
00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:48,439
Speaker 1: it easy to open a small business, Most big cities

278
00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:51,840
Speaker 1: make it hard. Hernando de Soto fifteen years ago wrote

279
00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:55,160
Speaker 1: the other path. It is based on anti job rules

280
00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:59,840
Speaker 1: in Lima, Peru. It applies as well to Washington, Atlanta,

281
00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:04,600
Speaker 1: New York, Los Angeles, and virtually all large American cities.

282
00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:07,720
Speaker 1: And I would say, given our host tonight, compared the

283
00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:12,040
Speaker 1: difficulties in Iowa or South Dakota of creating a new

284
00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:15,520
Speaker 1: corporation with the difficulties in Washington, d C. New York City,

285
00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,040
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, or Atlanta, and you will understand that it

286
00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:22,199
Speaker 1: is dramatically cheaper and dramatically easier to not be in

287
00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:25,919
Speaker 1: the very cities where we have the largest centers of poverty.

288
00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:28,760
Speaker 1: So the very place we want more business, we're going

289
00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,960
Speaker 1: to face this problem of local anti job taxes and rules.

290
00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:36,960
Speaker 1: I'm the leading advocate for tax breaks for Dorshon and DC.

291
00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,280
Speaker 1: We have nearly five hundred and eighty million dollars in

292
00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:42,879
Speaker 1: tax breaks over the next ten years in the tax

293
00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:46,040
Speaker 1: bill for our nation's capital. We have fought hard to

294
00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:51,040
Speaker 1: protect these tax breaks. Yet DC's city taxes are one

295
00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:55,359
Speaker 1: third higher than the surrounding counties. Now it's not hard

296
00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:58,160
Speaker 1: for any student of Adam Smith to figure out why,

297
00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,639
Speaker 1: if you are a rational all businessperson, you go to

298
00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:05,639
Speaker 1: Prince George's county. It is safer, it is cheaper, and

299
00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,159
Speaker 1: the local government doesn't make us so difficult for the

300
00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:12,159
Speaker 1: entrepreneur to succeed. It doesn't matter how many quotas you have.

301
00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:15,920
Speaker 1: If you're not willing to confront the central need to

302
00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:19,959
Speaker 1: reform and replace the systems that have failed, they will

303
00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,920
Speaker 1: continue to fail. I would hope the President's Commission will

304
00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:27,080
Speaker 1: have the moral courage to erase the assumption that we

305
00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:30,320
Speaker 1: are a group society. If they will look to Canada

306
00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:34,199
Speaker 1: right now, they will see profound reasons for Americans to

307
00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:37,800
Speaker 1: want to avoid our decaying into a series of groups.

308
00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,480
Speaker 1: I hope this Commission will decide that its goal must

309
00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:46,160
Speaker 1: be to have every Americans succeed as an individual within

310
00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:50,080
Speaker 1: the framework of their creator endowed rights. We must focus

311
00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:55,720
Speaker 1: on individuals and their personal, educational, and economic achievements. Obsessing

312
00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,440
Speaker 1: on race will not allow us to move beyond race.

313
00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,960
Speaker 1: We must follow these ample of the orphan foundation and

314
00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:06,560
Speaker 1: recognize specific needs and provide principles that will allow Americans

315
00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:10,520
Speaker 1: of all backgrounds to open the doors of opportunity. We

316
00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,840
Speaker 1: have to start with the development of a solid foundation

317
00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:17,560
Speaker 1: with an economic and social pillar, which will allow us

318
00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:21,800
Speaker 1: to build a true opportunity society. We must emphasize continuing

319
00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,800
Speaker 1: economic growth with low inflation and rising take on bay.

320
00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:29,680
Speaker 1: Within this economic growth, we must emphasize creating opportunities for

321
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:34,840
Speaker 1: minorities to create new small businesses. Our goals should be

322
00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:38,320
Speaker 1: to encourage at least a threefold growth in black own

323
00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,959
Speaker 1: small businesses over the next few years. This will require

324
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,800
Speaker 1: reductions and taxation, litigation, and regulation to make it dramatically

325
00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:51,840
Speaker 1: easier to launch small businesses. You will also require an

326
00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 1: aggressive outreach program to encourage minority individuals to create their

327
00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:01,680
Speaker 1: own businesses as an alternative to working for In addition

328
00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:06,040
Speaker 1: to expanded economic opportunity, we should insist on solving other

329
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:10,480
Speaker 1: challenges which affect all Americans, but bear particularly harshly on

330
00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:16,439
Speaker 1: minority populations. Imagine that it is January first, two thousand

331
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,359
Speaker 1: and one, the first day of a new century and

332
00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:24,359
Speaker 1: a new millennium. It is a Monday morning, imagine waking

333
00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,920
Speaker 1: up in America that is virtually drug free, in which

334
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,119
Speaker 1: practically every child is learning at their best rate, and

335
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:35,200
Speaker 1: in which almost all children were born into or adopted

336
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:40,360
Speaker 1: into families that could nurture and raise them. I am

337
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:45,000
Speaker 1: not describing a utopia. This is the America I went

338
00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:48,800
Speaker 1: to high school in in nineteen sixty. Drug use was marginal.

339
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,920
Speaker 1: There was an expectation you could read the diploma before

340
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:56,359
Speaker 1: they gave it to you. Self esteem was earned, not given.

341
00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:01,000
Speaker 1: Young males knew that fatherhood was a responsible not just

342
00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:06,680
Speaker 1: a biological side effect of hedonism. All of America will

343
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 1: be better off if we create a drug free, learning

344
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:14,679
Speaker 1: oriented America of children growing up in families. Minority Americans

345
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 1: in general and Black Americans in particular would find their

346
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 1: lives dramatically improved by these changes. Stopping drug addiction, drug

347
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 1: related violence, and drug generated wealth will do more to

348
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,600
Speaker 1: improve the lives of young blacks in the prospects of

349
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 1: poor neighborhoods than all of the quotas and set asides combined.

350
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: When neighborhoods are drug free and crime free, businesses will return,

351
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:44,400
Speaker 1: jobs will reappear, and economic opportunity will be re established.

352
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:50,840
Speaker 1: True learning is infinitely more powerful than social promotion combined

353
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:56,679
Speaker 1: with quotas and set asides. Every child of every background,

354
00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 1: in every neighborhood deserves their food rights to pursue happiness

355
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 1: as their creator Creator endowed them. Recently, I attended an

356
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 1: eighth grade graduation at Saint Augustine Private School here in Washington.

357
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 1: Ninety eight percent of the private school children in Washington,

358
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 1: d C. Will graduate. The public schools, which cost three

359
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 1: to four times as much, will graduate less than half

360
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:28,480
Speaker 1: as many of their entering children. Saving the children who

361
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 1: are dropping out requires new approaches, not new quotas. We

362
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 1: know we can dramatically reduce everything. We can dramatically reduce

363
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:42,720
Speaker 1: single teenage pregnancy because it is being reduced. K Granger,

364
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,920
Speaker 1: former mayor of for Worth and now a freshman member

365
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:50,640
Speaker 1: of Congress, worked in a YWCA program for eight hundred

366
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:56,880
Speaker 1: at risk teenage girls. Statistically, seventy percent should have become pregnant.

367
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: The program taught these young girls ambition, integrity, and motivation.

368
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 1: Instead of five hundred and sixty girls becoming pregnant, the

369
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 1: statistical probability two became pregnant. It's proof that we can

370
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:17,440
Speaker 1: break the cycles of dependency and despair in our poor neighborhoods.

371
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:22,160
Speaker 1: Notice this is not a proposal for a massive new

372
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 1: government program. If centralized bureaucracies in Washington could have stopped drugs,

373
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,920
Speaker 1: guaranteed learning, and ended single teen pregnancy, the job would

374
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 1: have been done. We have created the bureaucracy and spent

375
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: the money. It was just the wrong model. Yet America

376
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,639
Speaker 1: is a great country filled with good people. Toakville pointed

377
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 1: out in the eighteen forties that volunteerism, local leadership, and

378
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:53,480
Speaker 1: faith based charities were the unique attributes that gave America

379
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:58,440
Speaker 1: its dynamic character. Marvin Olasky recaptured these principles of American

380
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 1: success in his ninth book, The Tragedy of American Compassion.

381
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 1: Instead of focusing on broad, sweeping generalizations about race, the

382
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:14,640
Speaker 1: President's Commission needs to focus on practical, doable, immediate action

383
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 1: steps that can solve America's problems. If Americans get busy

384
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 1: enough working together to achieve real goals, racism will receive perspiration,

385
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 1: and teamwork will dissolve racism faster than therapy and dialogue.

386
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 1: I'm sure many of you saw the Bulls Jazz Championship

387
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 1: game last week in the closing moments, when Michael Jordan

388
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 1: looked to find an open man for a winning shot,

389
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: he didn't look for the closest black player. He looked

390
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 1: for the nearest Chicago jersey that happened to be Steve Kerr,

391
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 1: who is white. This is the example for society to

392
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:57,160
Speaker 1: follow a group of individuals so focused on a common

393
00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 1: goal of winning that they don't have time who worry

394
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: about what color the other guy is. I was in

395
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:09,160
Speaker 1: Kentucky Monday with former President Jimmy Carter building houses for habitat,

396
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 1: and I can tell you, as we were out there

397
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: in the Kentucky sun and Appalachia, I didn't notice who

398
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 1: was holding the ladder, or who handed me a hammer,

399
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 1: or who had the nails. I wasn't paying attention to

400
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: whether it was a man or a woman, or what

401
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,360
Speaker 1: color they were. I just knew we were all sweating

402
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: and working and trying to get it done together. And

403
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: we went to lunch. There was a sense of being

404
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: one team, focused on one mission, helping each other that

405
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: was dissolving any possible antagonisms of our ethnic or other pasts.

406
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 1: I'll also remind everyone here and those watching on c

407
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,680
Speaker 1: SPAN that Michael Jordan tragically lost his father a few

408
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:48,439
Speaker 1: years ago, Steve Kerr, while a college freshman lost his

409
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 1: father to Middle East violence. They are good examples of

410
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: overcoming adversity and triumphing in the face of difficulty. We

411
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 1: thanked the President for wishing to continue the dialogue and

412
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 1: race last weekend, but frankly, there's been a lot of

413
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 1: talk on this issue and very little action of the

414
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:10,239
Speaker 1: sort which will dramatically change people's lives. Let me now

415
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 1: suggest ten practical steps, which started today, can build a

416
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: better America and in the process close the racial divide.

417
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: First learning, we must create better opportunities for all children

418
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 1: to learn by breaking the stranglehold of the teachers' unions

419
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 1: and giving people giving parents the financial opportunity to choose

420
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 1: the public, private, or parochial school that is best for

421
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: their children, as outlined in Majority Leader Armies Educational Opportunity

422
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: Scholarships for District of Columbia students. Second, small business, we

423
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 1: must set a goal of tripling the number of minority

424
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 1: owned small businesses by bringing successful small business leaders together

425
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: to identify and then eliminate the government impost barriers to entrepreneurship. Third,

426
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: urban renewal, we must create one hundred renewal communities in

427
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: impoverished areas through targeted pro growth tax benefits, regulatory relief,

428
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: low income scholarships, savings accounts, brown fields clean up, and

429
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: home ownership opportunities, as outlined in J. C. Watts and

430
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: Jim Talon's American Community Renewal Act. Fourth Civil Rights. The

431
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: Equal the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission should clear its existing

432
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 1: backlog of discrimination cases by enforcing existing civil rights laws

433
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 1: rather than trying to create new ones by regulatory decree.

434
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: Fifth Equal Opportunity. We must make America a country with

435
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 1: equal opportunity for all and special privilege for none by

436
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: treating all individuals as equals before the law and doing

437
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: away with quotas, preferences, and set asidence of government contracts, hiring,

438
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: and university admissions, as outlined in the Kennedy McConnell Hatch

439
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 1: Civil Rights Act of nineteen ninety seven. Sixth Racial clari classification.

440
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: We must break down rigid racial classifications. A first step

441
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: could be to add a multiracial category to the census

442
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: and other government forms to begin to phase out the outdated,

443
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: divisive and rigid classification of Americans as blacks or whites

444
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: or other single races. Ultimately, our goal is to have

445
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: one classification American. I might add, as a constituent of

446
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,239
Speaker 1: mine who on behalf of her children, has been a

447
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: primary leader in arguing that her children deserve the right

448
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 1: to recognize that they come from a multiracial backgrounds. Seventh homeownership.

449
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: We must ease the path towards home ownership by giving

450
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 1: local communities and local housing authorities the flexibility and authority

451
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: to more effectively and more efficiently housed low income Americans,

452
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: as outlined in the Housing Opportunity and Responsibility. We must

453
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 1: also expand faith based charities such as Habitat for Humanity,

454
00:30:55,600 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: which grow families as well as build homes. Eighth o crime,

455
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: we must make our cities safe and secure places to

456
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: live and work through community placing, tougher sentences for violent criminals,

457
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: and innovative anti crime programs as outlined in the Juvenile

458
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 1: Crime Control Act of nineteen ninety seven. We must also

459
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: dramatically expand the community based anti drug coalition efforts and

460
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: insist on a victory plan for the War on drugs.

461
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: Ninth Economic growth. We must expand economic opportunity for all

462
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: Americans by promoting continued economic growth of flow inflation and

463
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: rising take home pay through tax cuts, tax simplification, litigation reform,

464
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: less regulation, and overhaul of the government burden on small business.

465
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: After all, if welfare to work is to be successful,

466
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: work has to be available for those leaving welfare. And

467
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: tenth welfare reform, we must take the next step in

468
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: welfare reform by fostering and promoting innovative local job training,

469
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: welfare to work, and entry level employment programs to move

470
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: welfare recipients into the workforce, as outlined in the Personal

471
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: Responsibility Act of nineteen ninety six and the Welfare to

472
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: Work initiatives of Governor George Bush of Texas. Notice these

473
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: ten steps are examples of the kind of practical, down

474
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 1: to earth problem solving efforts which will improve the lives

475
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: of all Americans, but have an especially important and dramatic

476
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: impact on the lives of poor Americans and minority communities.

477
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: I hope the President's Commission will establish a goal of

478
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: practical reforms and practical changes, and will hold hearings designed

479
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: to elicit pragmatic, down to earth proposals for real change.

480
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,239
Speaker 1: That Commission would do well to start right here with

481
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: the Orphan Foundation. This is a uniquely American institution in

482
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: your generosity of spirit, in your inner strength, and in

483
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: your boundless optimism. But most of all, you are uniquely

484
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: immersed because in giving these and many other young people

485
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: the rarest of treasures, a sense of hope, a sense

486
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: of place, and a sense of possibility, you are, in

487
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 1: fact helping show them what it means to be citizens

488
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: and part of the American family. And those are the

489
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: greatest gifts of all. You're part of a worldwide movement

490
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: of freedom and faith. You're all making our jobs a

491
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: little bit easier. I thank the Foundation for its work.

492
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: I salute this year scholarship winners, and I thank you

493
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: for allowing me to join you on this rare and

494
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:49,479
Speaker 1: particularly thank you very very much. I'd like for you

495
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: to all kind of travel with me into the future,

496
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 1: if you would, to the year two thousand and four

497
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: and what has happened between now on this date in

498
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven and two thousand and four politically, to

499
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: the country, and if you travel with me and can

500
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 1: envision that a Republican president has just been reelected, that

501
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: there are more than sixty Republican United States senators there

502
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: is a stable Republican majority of two hundred and sixty

503
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: five to two hundred and seventy Republican members of Congress,

504
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: that at least thirty five of our fifty governors are

505
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 1: still Republican, and that the GOP controls seventy percent of

506
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 1: all legislative seats in America, a majority of the city

507
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:48,280
Speaker 1: halls in America are under Republican control, and two thirds

508
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 1: of all county courthouses are dominated by Republicans. That's the

509
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:58,360
Speaker 1: vision that this party could hope to achieve between now

510
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 1: and two thousand and four. In other words, how do

511
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: we translate the conservative majority in America to the Republican

512
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: governing majority all across this country, from coast to coast

513
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 1: and from north to south. I think that when you

514
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: are envisioning this kind of project and thinking about this

515
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: kind of political work, it's very helpful when you say,

516
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 1: if this is our result, how is it that we

517
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,760
Speaker 1: got there? And so we start with in the planning model,

518
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 1: the vision, strategies, projects and tactics model, to start with

519
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 1: the vision of if this is if we have two

520
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,320
Speaker 1: thirds of all of the people in the country identify

521
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:50,439
Speaker 1: with us as Republicans who are they? Who are they?

522
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: When asked the pollsters and ask of political scientists and said,

523
00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:00,959
Speaker 1: if you wanted to recreate essentially are governing majority as

524
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 1: strong as the Roosevelt coalition was, what would those people

525
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: look like and what would they be like? And the

526
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: truth is they would be middle class American taxpayers, They

527
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 1: would be family members, and they would be small businesswomen

528
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: and men all across the country. Now, if you think

529
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: about that as the broad vision of what the majority is,

530
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 1: the question that we have to ask ourselves is how

531
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: are we going to get there? Not what policies are

532
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: we going to change, not what values are we going

533
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: to exchange, but how is it that we are going

534
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: to make sure that a comfortable majority of Americans are

535
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: indeed comfortable with our party and where we're going and

536
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: where we're leading. I think that it's interesting to take

537
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: a look at America as it exists right now. The

538
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: country is actually divided into five different regions, and they

539
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:10,280
Speaker 1: are decidedly different in political outlook and political persuasion. The first,

540
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: the one that dominates the news media, is New England

541
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 1: and the Metroliner corridor that exists from New York to

542
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 1: Washington and includes most of Maryland, all of Delaware, southeastern Pennsylvania,

543
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and on up north. That's

544
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:34,240
Speaker 1: about sixteen percent of the voters in the country. Second

545
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: is the region from Virginia to Florida, which is the

546
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: South Atlantic Coast. The third is the Great Mississippi Valley

547
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:52,760
Speaker 1: that stretches from northwestern upstate New York to Minnesota down

548
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 1: as far south as Alabama and Louisa, Mississippi and Louisiana.

549
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 1: The third is the Interior that stretches from Texas to

550
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: the Canadian border and includes all of what was once

551
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: known as the Great American Desert. And the fifth region

552
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 1: is the Pacific rim that is California, Oregon, Washington, and

553
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 1: stretches from the coast to the mountains in most of

554
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 1: those states now the great Each one of them constitutes

555
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 1: about a sixth of the American population, except for the

556
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: Mississippi Valley, which is about thirty percent. And if you

557
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: think about the country in that way, people talk about

558
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: the shocking loss of Republican congressmen in New England, and

559
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 1: truly there are only four of nineteen, but no one

560
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: mentions that in the Rocky Mountain states and in the

561
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: Great Plains that there are twenty Republican Congressmen and only

562
00:38:56,160 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: four Democrats, because it's not part of the media elite

563
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 1: and it's not part of the understanding somebody has or

564
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:05,760
Speaker 1: that if you look at just the Great Planes alone

565
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 1: from Oklahoma to North Dakota, that there are thirteen Republican

566
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: congressmen and only one Democrat. I mean, it's an interesting

567
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,760
Speaker 1: way in the way that people think about the country

568
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:21,359
Speaker 1: itself and what it is that we're doing politically. There

569
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 1: are a great number of issues that unite us as

570
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,760
Speaker 1: a party, and there are a great number of issues

571
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:33,319
Speaker 1: that we can utilize to expand the majority that we have.

572
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about some of those this morning.

573
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about and we're going to discuss

574
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: various ways of reaching out and talking to constituencies that

575
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 1: are not normally considered Republican, that are not normally part

576
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: of the natural majority that we have. We have I

577
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: think a very as I said earlier, or distinguished panel

578
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: to talk about this. First, we have Ken Blackwell, who

579
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: is the state Treasurer of Ohio, who has a distinguished

580
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 1: background in both the academic and political and business and

581
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 1: governmental world. I asked him if I could announce his

582
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 1: candidacy for governor of Ohio here this morning, and he

583
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: said that I could do that, but I probably shouldn't,

584
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 1: but he may so, and we're delighted Ken that you

585
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 1: could be with us. We also have Dylan Glenn who

586
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: is with Jensen and Company, who is a communication specialist,

587
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:46,360
Speaker 1: former formerly with the in the in the Bush administration.

588
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: They have Barbara Laden who is the executive director of

589
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: the Women's Independent Forum, a forum that was started about

590
00:40:55,680 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: three years ago and speaks speaks to issues facing American women.

591
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 1: And we also have Tony Lichens, who has both a

592
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 1: background in the political world at the RNC and two

593
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 1: different stints and managing campaigns in the administration of government itself,

594
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 1: the chief of staff for Congressman Barbara Vakanovich of Nevada,

595
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:33,799
Speaker 1: and also very active in organizing and working with conservative

596
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: Catholic voters. And if you look at the array that

597
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: we have presented here for somebody, we're talking about women,

598
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:44,400
Speaker 1: the majority of people in America. We're talking about Catholics,

599
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: the largest religious group in America. We're talking about minorities,

600
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:54,720
Speaker 1: which is a genuine and four real outreach and communications program.

601
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: I think you will find this panel both interesting and stimulating.

602
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: What we're going to do to move through just as

603
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: they are in the order of the program, for each

604
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: to speak, and then we'll take questions after that. So

605
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,879
Speaker 1: I'm delighted at this point to turn over the program

606
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 1: to Ken Blackwell, the State Treasure of Ohio. Thank you, Joe,

607
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. I'm always pleased when I'm asked to

608
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: provide perspective to such an august group. I'm always surprised

609
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:32,280
Speaker 1: because I'm from Cincinnati, and those of you who don't

610
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: get that comment, let me just tell you what the

611
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 1: great literary giant Mark Twain said about Cincinnati. After third visit,

612
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: he was asked by young report on his way out

613
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 1: of town what he thought about the queen city of

614
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: the Midwest. He said, son, if I heard the world

615
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:50,319
Speaker 1: was ending tomorrow, I would get to Cincinnati as fast

616
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 1: as I could, because things happened there ten years after

617
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:57,879
Speaker 1: they happened in the rest of the world. So we're

618
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 1: pretty sure footed and conservative. And yes, I am running

619
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:15,879
Speaker 1: for governor of the State of Ohio. There are two

620
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 1: ways to broaden the base within the African American and

621
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 1: non traditional Republican communities over the long haul. First is

622
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: to elect African Americans to offers under the GOP banner,

623
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: and second is to develop and maintain a consistent, coherent

624
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:44,839
Speaker 1: communications program targeted to those communities. These are not new

625
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 1: ideas that have been retested and reconfirmed time and time again.

626
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: Our problem as a party has been the lack of

627
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: commitment to stick with a long term plan and a

628
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 1: lack of unders standing by many Republican operatives of the

629
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 1: approaches necessary to attract these voters. We get sidetracked easily

630
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 1: by the immediacy of the next election and the need

631
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: to put together a winning coalition for today's campaign versus

632
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:27,760
Speaker 1: a long term coalition to assure control of the governing

633
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: apparatus for generations. This strains our resources and our attention

634
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 1: from our often stated but seldom implemented plans for outreach

635
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 1: and base broadening. If we are to be successful, we

636
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:51,919
Speaker 1: need to make our efforts an integral part of our

637
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: parties permanent operating overhead as well as its permanent rhetoric

638
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: considerations are electing African Americans. If this is a priority,

639
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: we as a party may have to do things a

640
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: little differently. At first, remember, if this is a priority,

641
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: it deserves attention and resources. Attention and resources you would

642
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 1: apply to any other political objective. This cannot succeed if

643
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 1: we continue the ineffective and frankly condescending approach of keeping

644
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: these efforts in an auxiliary status. This is a path

645
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 1: that we have gone down for decades. It is totally ineffective.

646
00:45:55,440 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 1: I grew up in an urban context, and I want

647
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 1: to just tell your brief story and as to why

648
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: we cannot continue to go down that path. And so

649
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:09,760
Speaker 1: as state treasurer, I put a lot of time against

650
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 1: working with farmers because I absolutely knew very little about

651
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:21,800
Speaker 1: the importance of agriculture to our state and our state's character.

652
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: So I was with a farmer and he told me

653
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: the story. He said, he had a young farmhand that

654
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 1: came to work one morning and he noticed as he

655
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: walked through the barn your daughter, his right ear was

656
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,399
Speaker 1: badly singed, and he asked him what happened. And as

657
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: the young man started to talk to him, he understood

658
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 1: or he noticed that his left ear was also badly singed.

659
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 1: He said, farmer, Jim, you know that my wife works

660
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 1: down at the dinner right down the road. And she

661
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: has this bad habit of getting up every morning and

662
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 1: ironing her uniform on the bed. This morning she was

663
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 1: ironing a uniform forgot to unplug it, put the iron

664
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:03,879
Speaker 1: on the nights and telephone rang I reached over, thought

665
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 1: I was grabbing the phone, put the arm into my ear.

666
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 1: Farmer Gym said, son, I feel your pain, he said,

667
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 1: but that explains your right here. What happened to your

668
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: left ear? He said, Well, the food called back. I

669
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:24,800
Speaker 1: would just suggest, ladies and gentlemen, that we, in fact

670
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 1: cannot be burned again by going down that Arran path.

671
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:38,440
Speaker 1: So I would suggest that we avoid tokenism. If blacks

672
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: are recruited, do so for a race that matters to

673
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 1: you and the party. Just having a black on a

674
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:53,760
Speaker 1: ticket that's absolutely no good. Black candidates basic philosophy should

675
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 1: be no different from other candidates being considered for the ticket.

676
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:04,760
Speaker 1: If the district or election area will have a substantial

677
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 1: black population, it is important that GOP candidates have roots

678
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 1: in and are recognized by that community. There is little

679
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: to no reason to run a black Republican in a

680
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: heavily black area if that individual is not already identified

681
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 1: with the community, you will be just as well off

682
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: to run a white candidate in your early attempts to

683
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 1: elect blacks. Avoid primaries if possible. If not possible, be

684
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 1: prepared to get resources to the candidate to get the

685
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 1: job done. It is counterproductive in the long run to

686
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 1: recruit a black or non traditional Republican to run and

687
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: didn't fail to get them through the primary. The opinion

688
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 1: in the community will be that you have abandoned the person.

689
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 1: Fair or not, this will be the perception and it

690
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 1: will make it harder for the party the next time around.

691
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 1: Don't make promises that you are not prepared to keep.

692
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 1: Considerations on long term activity, ladies and gentlemen would include communication, presence,

693
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 1: and campaign activity by nine black GOP candidates. First presence

694
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 1: in the community. There needs to be that presence and

695
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 1: it needs to be consistent over time. This means not

696
00:49:56,200 --> 00:50:00,359
Speaker 1: just at election time, but throughout the year. Lets not

697
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:03,839
Speaker 1: have to be a daily or weekly presence, but consistent

698
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: and in conjunction with key activities. Secondly, you want to avoid,

699
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:14,399
Speaker 1: and this is in conjunction with the presence, the rap

700
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: of only coming around at election time. Understand the importance

701
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 1: of family reunions and holidays and other activities in the

702
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:30,760
Speaker 1: community celebrate African American History Month with a true appreciation

703
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 1: for the contributions that African Americans have made to the

704
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 1: freedom and the character of this country. Communication Communication in

705
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 1: the African American community tends to be with an emphasis

706
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 1: on the verbal over the print. That means that while

707
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 1: newspapers are important and crucial in spreading the word in

708
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: the African American community, radio is the better and the

709
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 1: preferred medium. Radio is better than mail as a message

710
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:16,319
Speaker 1: delivery system. Despite the persistent fear of GOP operatives that

711
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 1: it is dangerous to go on black radio or radio

712
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 1: formatted and directed towards Black audiences for fear backlash, the

713
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: truth is that there is very little crossover. But more importantly,

714
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 1: the messages that you are advocating in the African American

715
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:40,800
Speaker 1: community are no different than the messages that you should

716
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: be advocating in the mainstream media. It is merely perhaps

717
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 1: difference in tone and presentation, but I underline, not content.

718
00:51:54,880 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 1: There are Republicans who understand a great deal about this approach,

719
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: and I would make sure that we tap all of

720
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:07,880
Speaker 1: our resources throughout the party at the local, state and

721
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 1: national level. It is important that we set concrete objectives

722
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: for attainment. There's no reason why at the national level

723
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:23,240
Speaker 1: in the year two thousand, we should not get twenty

724
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:28,360
Speaker 1: five percent of the African American vote. Ladies and gentlemen,

725
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:35,320
Speaker 1: I have consistently been a standard bear for conservative underlying

726
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: Conservative Republican agendas, and in nineteen ninety four I got

727
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 1: close to forty percent of the African American vote. George

728
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:51,800
Speaker 1: Voronovic and our governor of our great state got forty

729
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 1: percent of the African American vote. There is no reason

730
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:04,320
Speaker 1: why Conservative Republicans articulating a line that is unquestionably sincere

731
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:11,439
Speaker 1: cannot effectively carry twenty five to forty and one day

732
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 1: over fifty of the African American vote. I would close

733
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:25,719
Speaker 1: by by telling you to remember the three rs in

734
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 1: our base broadening efforts. First is recognition. You earn recognition

735
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 1: within the African American community non traditional Republican communities, just

736
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 1: as we have earned the respect and mainstream American The

737
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 1: other one is respect, and you get respect by giving respect.

738
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 1: And the third is repetition. You just do it, and

739
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 1: do it and do it. If we in fact persist,

740
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:04,040
Speaker 1: if in fact we are sincere, we in fact we'll

741
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:17,320
Speaker 1: get the job done. Thank you very much. Good morning.

742
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: I'm Dylan Glenn Joe. Thanks for that introduction, and I

743
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:24,240
Speaker 1: just want to say show on behalf of I mean, actually,

744
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: you've done a wonderful job on behalf of Go pack

745
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 1: in your new tenure. I think it was my late

746
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:31,400
Speaker 1: great friend Lee at Ward who coined the phrase a

747
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: big tent, and certainly that was a wonderful tent. We

748
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: had an opportunity to be in last night on behalf

749
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 1: of Gay Bank Games and listen, I just want to say, Gay,

750
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 1: you've done a wonderful job with Go Packet and changing

751
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 1: your America, and thank you for all the work that

752
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 1: you've done. I know we're running a little behind schedule,

753
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 1: so up be brief, but I just want to say, Ken,

754
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,880
Speaker 1: you alluded to this. If there's one thing that's been

755
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: established during my lifetime and arguably the lifetime of Go

756
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:02,360
Speaker 1: Packet's that time they are changing. I think Jane Kirkpatrick

757
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: spoke about this last night. The dramatic collapse of communism

758
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:09,480
Speaker 1: removed for the Republican policy, I mean removed for Republicans

759
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 1: the foreign policy as an issue, and probably caught us

760
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:15,759
Speaker 1: off guard and probably cost us two presidential elections. I

761
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:18,840
Speaker 1: think we simply weren't ready for the dynamics that that

762
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 1: brought about to what moved voters. A major factor, though,

763
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:24,320
Speaker 1: as we enter into the next few decades, will be

764
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:27,319
Speaker 1: the growing strength of racial minorities in this country. We

765
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:30,839
Speaker 1: cannot ignore the browning quote unquote of America. With more

766
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:34,880
Speaker 1: what Blacks, more Hispanics, more Agians participating in the voting

767
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 1: elections to come, we as Republicans must be ready for

768
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:41,239
Speaker 1: that certainty. And of course, that subject is what we're

769
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 1: here discussing today. Thirty two years ago, Lyndon Johnson wags

770
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:48,879
Speaker 1: his trillion dollar war on poverty, and one group today

771
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:50,680
Speaker 1: is clearly worse off than it was then, and that's

772
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 1: Black America. I think when Speaker Gingwich discusses the plight

773
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 1: of American youth, he's really speaking disproportionately about the problems

774
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 1: facing the children of Black America. Those killed in gang

775
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:05,480
Speaker 1: fights at age twelve, those having babies at age fourteen,

776
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 1: at eighteen, getting diplomas that they can't read. And yet

777
00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:13,480
Speaker 1: this legacy of the Democratic Party continues. It appears that

778
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 1: they only have two interests when it comes to Black

779
00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:21,280
Speaker 1: American America, rather one keeping blacks maintain the status quo

780
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:24,719
Speaker 1: with a permanent underclass, and two keeping them voting the

781
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 1: straight Democratic ticket tragically. I think they've been successful on

782
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:31,440
Speaker 1: both counts. There are those who say that the only

783
00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 1: way to compete is trying to outliberal the libers, if

784
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 1: you will, a little more social spending here, a little

785
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:40,120
Speaker 1: social engineering there. That doesn't work, my friends, I think,

786
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 1: if history has taught us anything, those ideas are simply

787
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: outdated and wrong. So why do we even try. I

788
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:49,439
Speaker 1: think there's a time when ideas triumph over rhetoric, when

789
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 1: good defeats evil, and Republicans I think that time is approaching.

790
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 1: Let me give you one just very clear example of this,

791
00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:02,360
Speaker 1: the difference between Publicans democrats, if you will. In the

792
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 1: last Congress, Republicans tried to institute a voucher program, a

793
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:08,919
Speaker 1: program which would have allowed children of the poorest neighborhoods

794
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:12,680
Speaker 1: to obtain a quality education. The speaker had gone to

795
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: the schools, walked through the communities, met with the parents

796
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 1: and children, and proposed a minuscular amount of money, a

797
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 1: fifteen million dollar program, which would have as a pilot,

798
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:24,000
Speaker 1: would have allowed some of our thousand children. Rather in

799
00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 1: the district a new chance at life. This innovative program

800
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 1: was the first opportunity, the best hope that these kids

801
00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 1: ever had. This was a dream of a lifetime, and

802
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 1: the Democrats killed that dream. The elitist Democrats in the

803
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 1: United States sent some of who don't even know what

804
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,600
Speaker 1: a public school looks like and certainly wouldn't consider sending

805
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 1: their kids to one. Philipbuster that piece of legislation of death.

806
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 1: They denied our poorest, our most vulnerable risk children in Washington, DC,

807
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 1: the real opportunity to get away from terrible schools and

808
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 1: risk that they risk their lives to attend. And why,

809
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:00,959
Speaker 1: I think because it was opposed by the teachers Union,

810
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:04,720
Speaker 1: which gave millions of dollars of Democrats in nineteen ninety six,

811
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:09,120
Speaker 1: and basically because it threatened the emitest views of who

812
00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 1: could and who should succeed in life. So the children

813
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,160
Speaker 1: of Washington, DC and the ghettos are still condemned to

814
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 1: inferior education, lives of virtual hopelessness. This is the most

815
00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 1: blatant example of liberal hypocrisy, liberal dishonesty, and yes, I

816
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:27,480
Speaker 1: believe liberal equal It is the power of ideas, not rhetoric,

817
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 1: not style that will change America and will make the

818
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 1: Republican Party the permanent majority in this country as we

819
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: move into the twenty first century. The keepers of the

820
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 1: welfare state, the Democrats, have not had a new idea

821
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:49,439
Speaker 1: since I was born. They're sober rep they can't even

822
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:52,240
Speaker 1: put together a budget descend to Congress. But they are

823
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:56,880
Speaker 1: the masters of demagoguery. Let's pit race against race, men

824
00:58:56,920 --> 00:59:00,680
Speaker 1: against women, young against old, and let's blame it all

825
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:04,200
Speaker 1: on the Republicans, especially new Gingridge. I'm very proud to

826
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:06,840
Speaker 1: be from Georgian. I see some of my friends from

827
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:09,280
Speaker 1: George and the audience, and I'm proud to say that

828
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 1: we are We have two of the greatest leaders in

829
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 1: this country, and Newt Gingridge and Clarence Thomas. I want

830
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 1: to say again that it is ideas and the will

831
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 1: to implement them that will make Republicans the permanent majority

832
00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:33,240
Speaker 1: in this country. Is not tv ads, coalition building, fundraising,

833
00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: nor even the manifold sins of Bill Clinton and Al Gore.

834
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:40,720
Speaker 1: We are the only party able to face the future realistically.

835
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 1: We're the only party with the energy, the commitment to

836
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:47,760
Speaker 1: represent all Americans, not just those contributing in Buddhist temples

837
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 1: or embassies or Union headquarters. It is the power of

838
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 1: ideas that will realign American politics and will make us

839
00:59:56,600 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 1: the permanent majority. And there are certain basic truths that

840
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 1: we as Republican can subscribe to, and I'll go through

841
01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 1: them just briefly. One, we are the party that respects

842
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:13,080
Speaker 1: the individual, regardless of race, age, gender, or color. Two,

843
01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:17,120
Speaker 1: we're the only party that recognizes big government is an impediment,

844
01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:20,320
Speaker 1: is an impediment to national progress. We are the party

845
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:22,640
Speaker 1: that we're free the workingmen and the women of America

846
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:26,720
Speaker 1: from higher taxes, burdens from regulations, and outdated social programs.

847
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:30,040
Speaker 1: And three, we're the only party that dares to dream

848
01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:32,800
Speaker 1: about a brighter future because we're not tied to a

849
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:37,480
Speaker 1: failed past. We must privatize the economy, we must allow

850
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:40,520
Speaker 1: children to attend schools of their choice. And we must

851
01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:42,160
Speaker 1: permit all of us to keep more of our herd

852
01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 1: on dollars. These are three troops that are the backbone

853
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 1: of our message not only to Black America, Hispanic America,

854
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:51,960
Speaker 1: Asian America. But this is our this is our message

855
01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:55,680
Speaker 1: to all America. This is our challenge to communicate this message,

856
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:58,600
Speaker 1: the message that what we're all about and counter the

857
01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 1: attacks and lies, and to see demogogueries that our opponents

858
01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:05,800
Speaker 1: continue to plant through our communities throughout the country. As

859
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:09,080
Speaker 1: a young man, I'm optimistic about our future. The minorities

860
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:12,439
Speaker 1: across the country, they're not living in a vacuum. They

861
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 1: will see which party serves their best interest and they

862
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:17,520
Speaker 1: if we can just provide them with the truth. Rather

863
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 1: every day it becomes clear and clear the Democrats are

864
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:23,600
Speaker 1: the party of fear and division. They have no ideas,

865
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:27,160
Speaker 1: they have no agenda, just protecting the status quo. This

866
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 1: is not some political game we're planning. It's about our

867
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,720
Speaker 1: future and the future of this country. We must find

868
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:35,080
Speaker 1: better ways to communicate our message to every community in

869
01:01:35,120 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 1: this country. We know that our cause is right for

870
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 1: all Americans, and let's work together to get that message

871
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:43,720
Speaker 1: out to every state, every age, and every race. If

872
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:46,240
Speaker 1: we do, that will be the permanent majority. Thank you

873
01:01:46,240 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 1: for thank you for inviting me. I want to say

874
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 1: first of all that the Independent Women's Form is a

875
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:12,800
Speaker 1: nonpartisan national women's policy organization which represents the vast majority

876
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 1: of American women who believe in common sense, practicality, equal opportunity,

877
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:23,080
Speaker 1: and maximum options for men, women, and families. This means

878
01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:26,880
Speaker 1: that we believe the market works best to solve problems,

879
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 1: much better certainly than the federal government. We may be

880
01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:35,360
Speaker 1: the only women's group that will say that our group

881
01:02:35,440 --> 01:02:39,640
Speaker 1: takes no position on abortion for or against, since we've

882
01:02:39,680 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 1: noted that so many groups do such a wonderful job

883
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:47,320
Speaker 1: at representing both sides of that issue, it stops all

884
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:51,080
Speaker 1: further conversation. So when we formed our group, we decided

885
01:02:51,120 --> 01:02:53,760
Speaker 1: that we would just move on to other issues which

886
01:02:53,800 --> 01:03:00,480
Speaker 1: we feel our of interest. Our first question was what

887
01:03:00,560 --> 01:03:04,080
Speaker 1: can we do and how can we make life easier

888
01:03:04,120 --> 01:03:08,440
Speaker 1: and better for the majority of American women? And so

889
01:03:08,520 --> 01:03:10,880
Speaker 1: I came here today to give you just a few

890
01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:14,960
Speaker 1: little suggestions of things that we've learned in the past

891
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 1: three years. While we've tried to cut an area a

892
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:23,480
Speaker 1: nivels at all to talk about women's issues. First of all,

893
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:27,480
Speaker 1: we've done no polling at all to discover what these

894
01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:35,400
Speaker 1: issues might be. We feel that leading is more important

895
01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 1: than polling, and that we would just pick our issues

896
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:43,320
Speaker 1: and the other side could eat our dust. Literally, what's

897
01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:48,240
Speaker 1: been happening. We started gathering women around us who could

898
01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 1: write articles, who could articulate issues who could go on

899
01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:55,520
Speaker 1: TV and who were not afraid to have a fight.

900
01:03:57,480 --> 01:04:01,120
Speaker 1: Most of us had never joined women's groups before. In fact,

901
01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:04,360
Speaker 1: we thought women's groups were really kind of silly. But

902
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:07,440
Speaker 1: we came up against politics and decided that for the

903
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:10,400
Speaker 1: past thirty years, when we looked at the field, the

904
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:13,840
Speaker 1: other team had always had somebody on the field, and we,

905
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:18,520
Speaker 1: because of our principles, never did. So the past thirty

906
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:23,320
Speaker 1: years has seen the growth of women's organizations from the

907
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:27,920
Speaker 1: other side, who are brilliant at articulating their nasty, bitter,

908
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:33,160
Speaker 1: gnor old spinsterish kind of message. We like men. In fact,

909
01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:36,480
Speaker 1: one of our buttons says sex is better than gender.

910
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:46,080
Speaker 1: We sent that button to the Beijing Women's Conference and

911
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:51,760
Speaker 1: we heard about it afterward. So I'd like to just

912
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 1: give you a little summation of what happened. As a

913
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:57,920
Speaker 1: culmination of the past thirty years of women's groups, my poster,

914
01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:07,200
Speaker 1: thank you. This poster says most politicians still think women

915
01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:10,280
Speaker 1: should be seen and not heard. In the last election,

916
01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:12,600
Speaker 1: this is referring to one hundred and fourth Congress. In

917
01:05:12,640 --> 01:05:15,360
Speaker 1: the last election, fifty four million women agreed, and you'll

918
01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:19,240
Speaker 1: see her mouth is morphed away. Women were not able

919
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:23,360
Speaker 1: to speak, notwithstanding the fact that women voted fifty five

920
01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:27,480
Speaker 1: to forty five percent for Republicans. This ad was put

921
01:05:27,520 --> 01:05:32,040
Speaker 1: in every women's magazine multiple times in the United States.

922
01:05:32,600 --> 01:05:36,160
Speaker 1: This ad was funded by Anne Houser Busch with a

923
01:05:36,240 --> 01:05:39,600
Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars grant. Anne Hauser Busch is in

924
01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 1: Congressman Gapart's district. Thank you. This poster was signed on

925
01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:52,040
Speaker 1: not only by Now and Narrow and the National Women's

926
01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:56,840
Speaker 1: Political Caucus, The American Association of University Women signed on

927
01:05:56,880 --> 01:06:01,000
Speaker 1: for it. So did the YWCA, So did the Girl Scouts,

928
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:04,880
Speaker 1: so did the League of Women Voters. I tell you

929
01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:07,919
Speaker 1: this because I want you to understand that the other

930
01:06:07,960 --> 01:06:11,640
Speaker 1: side has created an empire. There are not just a

931
01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:14,960
Speaker 1: few women's groups out there. It is an empire. It

932
01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:18,560
Speaker 1: is funded by millions of dollars, millions, shall we say,

933
01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:25,400
Speaker 1: of your tax dollars. They have created a separate force

934
01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:29,640
Speaker 1: within the Democratic Party. Christina Summers went to the Democratic

935
01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:31,480
Speaker 1: Convention in Chicago and came back and told us that

936
01:06:31,520 --> 01:06:33,880
Speaker 1: at the same time the convention was going on on

937
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:37,720
Speaker 1: the Democratic Convention floor, there was another convention going on underneath,

938
01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:40,720
Speaker 1: which was for the women something that I know we

939
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:44,479
Speaker 1: couldn't possibly imagine, but that's true. This administration has something

940
01:06:44,520 --> 01:06:48,920
Speaker 1: called the inter Interagency Task Force. It's chaired by Missus Clinton.

941
01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:54,440
Speaker 1: It meets monthly. Every agency in the government sends a representative.

942
01:06:55,040 --> 01:06:58,120
Speaker 1: They are monitoring how they are implementing the Beijing Platform

943
01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:02,720
Speaker 1: for Action. There have been no oversight hearings. Now. The

944
01:07:02,760 --> 01:07:07,520
Speaker 1: Democrats for thirty years have proceeded to define women, blacks, Hispanics,

945
01:07:07,560 --> 01:07:11,520
Speaker 1: Asians as interest groups, just as Ken said, as if

946
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:14,600
Speaker 1: all the individuals within these categories think the same and

947
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:18,320
Speaker 1: have the same interests. For Republicans, this leads to a

948
01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:23,280
Speaker 1: paradox because if you have an outreach program to interest

949
01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:28,200
Speaker 1: groups based on sex, race, national origin, or, for goodness sakes,

950
01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:32,840
Speaker 1: the sex of one's mate, aren't improving that the party

951
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:41,240
Speaker 1: is at its core a white male bastion, men, women, blacks, Hispanics, whites, etc. Etc. Etc.

952
01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 1: Share interests as Americans. Ward Connorley was here last year.

953
01:07:45,920 --> 01:07:48,920
Speaker 1: I heard him here and he talks all the time

954
01:07:49,880 --> 01:07:54,120
Speaker 1: about getting out of the box. I believe that affirmative

955
01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:59,800
Speaker 1: action has maybe five more years of life left. Why

956
01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:03,040
Speaker 1: because kids are born now that can't check off one box.

957
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:06,600
Speaker 1: Why don't we have a slogan, Why don't we have

958
01:08:06,600 --> 01:08:09,560
Speaker 1: a campaign? Get out of the box. We can't be

959
01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:12,640
Speaker 1: in these boxes. We ought to tell people stop checking

960
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:20,920
Speaker 1: the box. It's easy. The second thing we learned over

961
01:08:20,960 --> 01:08:23,559
Speaker 1: the past three years is that Republicans should have just

962
01:08:23,680 --> 01:08:26,599
Speaker 1: accept the fact that there are some people who will

963
01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:31,200
Speaker 1: never ever vote for them. Never to some people. Conservatives

964
01:08:31,200 --> 01:08:35,280
Speaker 1: come in only two flavors, bad and worse. Accept it.

965
01:08:35,720 --> 01:08:38,240
Speaker 1: These people won't vote for you. They will never vote

966
01:08:38,240 --> 01:08:41,400
Speaker 1: for you, not even if you dangle two day maternity

967
01:08:41,439 --> 01:08:45,479
Speaker 1: stays or three day messed ectomies days or four days

968
01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:49,200
Speaker 1: for any other plumbing situation that you can imagine. But

969
01:08:49,360 --> 01:08:52,800
Speaker 1: by appealing to those women, what you will do is

970
01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:54,880
Speaker 1: that you will have sold out your own women who

971
01:08:54,880 --> 01:08:57,280
Speaker 1: are voting for you because of your principles. You will

972
01:08:57,320 --> 01:09:00,360
Speaker 1: have thrown all your principles out. And those conservative women

973
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:03,840
Speaker 1: are concerned that you keep enough of your principles so

974
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:07,639
Speaker 1: as you can keep the barbarians outside the gate. If

975
01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:13,920
Speaker 1: you sell us, if you sell those principles down to

976
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:16,479
Speaker 1: try and get a few Democratic votes which you will

977
01:09:16,520 --> 01:09:20,360
Speaker 1: not get, what will you get in return? This is

978
01:09:20,360 --> 01:09:25,640
Speaker 1: called the Packward strategy. Remember him Another important thing that

979
01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:29,240
Speaker 1: we learned is to reconsider how you conceptualize yourself. If

980
01:09:29,280 --> 01:09:36,760
Speaker 1: you think of yourself as conservatives, stayed backwards thinking conservatives,

981
01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:41,559
Speaker 1: you will die. Conservatives are the progressives. Liberals are the

982
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:50,880
Speaker 1: defenders of the establishment. They are statistically challenged, and we

983
01:09:50,920 --> 01:09:55,320
Speaker 1: should challenge them more. They misrepresent the facts. They do

984
01:09:55,360 --> 01:09:59,639
Speaker 1: this about affirmative racism, They do it about education, they

985
01:09:59,720 --> 01:10:02,800
Speaker 1: do it about crime, about women's health, about women in

986
01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:06,920
Speaker 1: the military, and about women's economic status. They take things

987
01:10:06,960 --> 01:10:10,240
Speaker 1: out of context and they draw phony pictures, and they

988
01:10:10,320 --> 01:10:14,080
Speaker 1: do this to build support for their legislation, which funds

989
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:18,160
Speaker 1: their distortions. And so the circle goes round and round

990
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:22,639
Speaker 1: because rarely are they challenged successfully. In order to change

991
01:10:22,720 --> 01:10:26,320
Speaker 1: the realignment for a majority that Joe talks about, these

992
01:10:26,400 --> 01:10:33,320
Speaker 1: challenges need to occur forcefully, regularly, and with constant forward motion.

993
01:10:33,680 --> 01:10:37,719
Speaker 1: Once you take the lid off, their mushroom fades, it dies,

994
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:41,080
Speaker 1: cannot take sunshine. How do we do this? I have

995
01:10:41,120 --> 01:10:43,040
Speaker 1: a few suggestions. The first thing to do is to

996
01:10:43,040 --> 01:10:45,599
Speaker 1: put a human face on some of these issues. Think

997
01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:48,400
Speaker 1: about the people that you know. Most women are busy.

998
01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:51,559
Speaker 1: They don't have time to hear all the details, and

999
01:10:51,680 --> 01:10:55,240
Speaker 1: most don't pay attention At the federal level. Many people

1000
01:10:55,360 --> 01:11:00,519
Speaker 1: filter everything they hear through the noise of their daily lives, shopping, family, commuting,

1001
01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:04,880
Speaker 1: daycare friends. They want to hear a rational person talked

1002
01:11:04,920 --> 01:11:10,280
Speaker 1: substantively about solutions to problems to deliver for their kids.

1003
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:14,200
Speaker 1: Clinton gives us a great example tonight. He told us

1004
01:11:14,240 --> 01:11:16,160
Speaker 1: during the campaign, I'm going to tell you how every

1005
01:11:16,240 --> 01:11:18,519
Speaker 1: child is going to learn to read by the third grade.

1006
01:11:19,200 --> 01:11:21,160
Speaker 1: Never mind that we all used to learn to read

1007
01:11:21,200 --> 01:11:23,000
Speaker 1: in the first grade. Now they're going to learn to

1008
01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:26,920
Speaker 1: read by the third grade. He did not say, I'm

1009
01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:29,400
Speaker 1: going to tell you how terrible the schools are, and

1010
01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:32,200
Speaker 1: it is only forty percent of third graders who can

1011
01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:36,080
Speaker 1: read at the third grade level. He knows it's terrible,

1012
01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:38,760
Speaker 1: We know it's terrible, but he's just told us how

1013
01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:43,400
Speaker 1: he's going to fix it. Our politicians must connect the

1014
01:11:43,479 --> 01:11:49,479
Speaker 1: dots between daily life and legislation, between daily life and government.

1015
01:11:50,200 --> 01:11:54,639
Speaker 1: Airbags is a perfect example. Every automobile costs two thousand

1016
01:11:54,640 --> 01:11:58,000
Speaker 1: dollars more than it needs to because airbags are required.

1017
01:11:58,560 --> 01:12:02,280
Speaker 1: Small framed women must have airbags in their car, even

1018
01:12:02,360 --> 01:12:05,960
Speaker 1: though if the airbags explode, they will be hurt. Most

1019
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:09,760
Speaker 1: likely also their children will be hurt. This is one

1020
01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:14,320
Speaker 1: size fits all federal government at its worst. We cannot

1021
01:12:14,360 --> 01:12:17,640
Speaker 1: deactivate them, and we cannot buy a car without them.

1022
01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:21,479
Speaker 1: It's a perfect example of how the federal government affects

1023
01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:24,759
Speaker 1: a woman in her daily life. The government has taken

1024
01:12:24,800 --> 01:12:27,960
Speaker 1: certain actions about her life, and we need to say

1025
01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:30,400
Speaker 1: to her that whether you want to or not, whether

1026
01:12:30,479 --> 01:12:32,839
Speaker 1: you are going to vote or not, the federal government

1027
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:37,400
Speaker 1: will take action which affects you. We must point out

1028
01:12:37,439 --> 01:12:41,400
Speaker 1: how government controls a woman's choices, some of their favorite words,

1029
01:12:41,960 --> 01:12:45,160
Speaker 1: confines her daily life and makes it harder for her

1030
01:12:45,520 --> 01:12:49,799
Speaker 1: to raise her children. This must be an ongoing, constant effort.

1031
01:12:49,880 --> 01:12:53,920
Speaker 1: Constant effort, much like Ken said, This cannot start six

1032
01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:58,040
Speaker 1: months or four weeks before an election. They have to

1033
01:12:58,080 --> 01:13:02,840
Speaker 1: be educated. Nobody his hopp them how government works. Now

1034
01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:05,400
Speaker 1: that the media has created soccer moms, we should pull

1035
01:13:05,479 --> 01:13:09,240
Speaker 1: that lever. And boy, did Clinton give us an opportunity.

1036
01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:11,800
Speaker 1: I know that mister Nicholson has told you about the

1037
01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:15,559
Speaker 1: Working Family's Flexibility Act HR one. HR one is an

1038
01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:18,880
Speaker 1: opportunity for us to do a little political jiu jitsu.

1039
01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:23,719
Speaker 1: Mister Clinton supported HR one during the campaign and during

1040
01:13:23,720 --> 01:13:27,040
Speaker 1: his State of the Union address. It's past the House.

1041
01:13:27,680 --> 01:13:30,439
Speaker 1: I hope it passes the Senate, but we should be

1042
01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:33,320
Speaker 1: talking about it. Everybody back home should be talking about it.

1043
01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:36,840
Speaker 1: This is a number one issue for women flexibility. Do

1044
01:13:36,920 --> 01:13:38,960
Speaker 1: I have to work this week? Or can I work

1045
01:13:38,960 --> 01:13:41,840
Speaker 1: a few hours less and take the money. We did

1046
01:13:41,840 --> 01:13:45,080
Speaker 1: a poll actually just after the election by the polling company,

1047
01:13:45,120 --> 01:13:48,080
Speaker 1: and we ask the question, how willing are you to

1048
01:13:48,120 --> 01:13:50,719
Speaker 1: give up pay at work in exchange for more personal time?

1049
01:13:51,280 --> 01:13:54,160
Speaker 1: Fifty five percent of all respondents replied that this is

1050
01:13:54,200 --> 01:13:57,519
Speaker 1: an option that they prefer. The most enthusiastic age group

1051
01:13:57,520 --> 01:14:01,240
Speaker 1: where workers aged eighteen to twenty nine seventy three percent

1052
01:14:01,280 --> 01:14:03,439
Speaker 1: and sixty eight percent of men in this group answer

1053
01:14:03,520 --> 01:14:07,479
Speaker 1: the question positively. There are common sense Americans out there.

1054
01:14:07,680 --> 01:14:10,519
Speaker 1: We ought to begin to appeal to them. Another great

1055
01:14:10,560 --> 01:14:13,960
Speaker 1: realignment issue is AIDS. I'm sure no one's talked to

1056
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:17,040
Speaker 1: you about AIDS as an issue, but Congressman Tom Coburn

1057
01:14:17,120 --> 01:14:20,439
Speaker 1: and Senator Don Nichols have sponsored the HIV Prevention Act

1058
01:14:20,479 --> 01:14:24,080
Speaker 1: of nineteen ninety seven. Today, AIDS is the number one

1059
01:14:24,160 --> 01:14:27,760
Speaker 1: killer of African American women, the number one killer of

1060
01:14:27,840 --> 01:14:30,960
Speaker 1: African American women between the ages of twenty two and

1061
01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:34,840
Speaker 1: forty five. Sixty percent of children who are younger than

1062
01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:39,840
Speaker 1: thirteen who have AIDS are African American. The Coalition of

1063
01:14:39,920 --> 01:14:45,680
Speaker 1: Women Minorities mainstream minority gay lobbies has permitted AIDS to

1064
01:14:45,720 --> 01:14:48,320
Speaker 1: be treated as a political civil rights issue and not

1065
01:14:48,439 --> 01:14:51,120
Speaker 1: as a public health issue. It is on the verge

1066
01:14:51,240 --> 01:14:56,440
Speaker 1: of becoming catastrophic for minority communities. It is so catastrophic

1067
01:14:56,720 --> 01:14:59,599
Speaker 1: that even the American Medical Association has just announced its

1068
01:15:00,560 --> 01:15:10,280
Speaker 1: for this HIV bill of nineteen ninety seven. Already, during

1069
01:15:10,320 --> 01:15:14,120
Speaker 1: this break two Democrats who were original co sponsors have

1070
01:15:14,320 --> 01:15:16,840
Speaker 1: ducked and have taken their name off the list of

1071
01:15:17,040 --> 01:15:20,599
Speaker 1: co sponsors. So threatened are they by the gay community.

1072
01:15:21,120 --> 01:15:24,120
Speaker 1: They are afraid of the backlash both from the gays

1073
01:15:24,240 --> 01:15:27,400
Speaker 1: and from the women's groups when we challenge the women's groups,

1074
01:15:27,720 --> 01:15:31,080
Speaker 1: particularly on one facet of this bill, which would require

1075
01:15:31,680 --> 01:15:33,680
Speaker 1: that rate victims have a right to know if they're

1076
01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:37,200
Speaker 1: rapists are HIV positive. I know most people think that

1077
01:15:37,240 --> 01:15:39,759
Speaker 1: you would have that right, but you don't. The rapist

1078
01:15:39,840 --> 01:15:42,479
Speaker 1: has an absolute right to privacy. The victim does not

1079
01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:44,880
Speaker 1: have a right to know. This is part of the

1080
01:15:44,920 --> 01:15:48,040
Speaker 1: bill we go to women's groups, mainstream women's groups, and

1081
01:15:48,080 --> 01:15:51,360
Speaker 1: we ask them to defend that decision violence against women.

1082
01:15:51,479 --> 01:15:55,360
Speaker 1: Right we are. The Independent Women's Forum is the only

1083
01:15:55,360 --> 01:15:58,360
Speaker 1: women's group that's in favor of this bill. So I

1084
01:15:58,400 --> 01:16:00,840
Speaker 1: would give this to you as an issue that can

1085
01:16:00,880 --> 01:16:05,519
Speaker 1: be used to split a coalition on the other side

1086
01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:08,439
Speaker 1: and that we can use to build a coalition on

1087
01:16:08,439 --> 01:16:10,640
Speaker 1: our side. I'm sure there are many other issues of

1088
01:16:10,680 --> 01:16:12,880
Speaker 1: that kind, and I look forward to working with you

1089
01:16:12,920 --> 01:16:18,280
Speaker 1: on them in the future. Newts World is produced by

1090
01:16:18,320 --> 01:16:23,639
Speaker 1: gingwistreet sixty and iHeartMedia. Our executive producer is Guardense Sloan,

1091
01:16:24,080 --> 01:16:28,439
Speaker 1: our producer is Rebecca Halle, and our researcher is Rachel Peterson.

1092
01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:31,960
Speaker 1: The artwork for the show was created by Steve Penley

1093
01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:35,720
Speaker 1: special thanks to the team at Gingwich three sixty. If

1094
01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:38,320
Speaker 1: you've been enjoying Newtsworld, I hope you'll go to Apple

1095
01:16:38,439 --> 01:16:41,720
Speaker 1: Podcast and both rate us with five stars and give

1096
01:16:41,800 --> 01:16:44,439
Speaker 1: us a review so others can learn what it's all about.

1097
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:47,400
Speaker 1: Right now, listeners of newts World can sign up for

1098
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:51,560
Speaker 1: my three free weekly columns at gingwistreet sixty dot com

1099
01:16:51,600 --> 01:17:03,439
Speaker 1: slash newsletter. I'm Newt Gingrich and this is news world,