Iowa State Fair Des Moines Register Soapbox Speech

I want them to believe that that's true because it is true and we have to fight for it to be true again I'm

and one of the first day of the Iowa state fair let me begin with a recommendation pork chop on a stick dnmt

trust me it's what's for breakfast lunch dinner and snack and I've already been down there how to say thanks to other more and register for giving us the opportunity to have this forum and thank all of you for and

taking a minute out away from some fried foods and rides just to hear a politician talk but I think a lot of times you and I what you hear a lot of politicians talk you

we handful of Democrats who will come as well Hillary probably is not going to come she'll email in her appearances nnj

nnj ndz pretty well I was born in hope Arkansas the same I'm bill Clinton's mornin people

wonder sometimes how in the world is it pop so many politicians would come one small town answer is I don't know but

there anybody on our side that has a good opportunity to take on the Clinton political machine folks

on the only one who's ever done it because every election I ever ran in Arkansas every

time I didn't just run against an opponent Iran against the entire political apparatus that the Clintons had built over a twenty five year period I'm

gonna tell you something it's formidable I know most of you probably think that the most odd democratic state in the country is Massachusetts maybe

you think it's Oregon a Vermonter remain our New York or New Jersey but you would be wrong as in the nineteen nineties the most democratic state in all of America was Arkansas when

I was so happy to see me being the only Republican in the state capital that my door was nailed shot

from the inside literally nail shot and by the way it stayed that way for my first fifty nine days as the elected lieutenant governor of the state that

was my introduction to the hardball politics but the Clinton political machine knows how to play every

not only took upon but I repeatedly beat them and I lived to tell about it that's right here today dnmt

you'll hear from the other I think they've done such a great job running the country in the in the economy is in recovery but

everywhere I go across this tree and right here in Iowa I don't talk he is recovering I talk to people whose economy is not last

owns a small business he does landscaping and I've been talking about a guy that I met in South Carolina three weeks ago a

guy named mark and the guy South Carolina named mark guy I met at the Fairfield and an ache in South Carolina at six o'clock in the morning my

the morning for breakfast and Mar his work in the shift there for the Fairfield and he strikes up a conversation we get to talk and mark

is a college educated accountant and three years ago he was working as an accountant for a manufacturing company there in a can South Carolina when

thousand manufacturing plants have closed in this country since the year two thousand and last night when I was talking to the landscape contractor in walkie he

was saying that he could relate to mark story that I told he said because that's mine working a hundred hours a

make it so that when we ask god to bless as he can look down from heaven and say I will I