are intended as economic organizations, and should not be exercising political rights. he also speaks approvingly of antitrust laws. now, the extent to which that was genuine or just a way to morehis antiunion he was an icon of the arizona business community before he became a politician. he was comfortable with large businesses. the general libertarian economic position is that [indiscernible] againstnt to guard trusts and restraints against trade, and are suspicious of antitrust laws.

certainly the point of view that corporations have protected's free speech rights is pretty standard fare in libertarian and conservative philosophy. not he iss he would restraints on business in terms of its collection of data and use of data as he would the federal government. that, thank you so much. we will see you outside. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014]

>> we are live this morning in des moines for the iowa state republican party convention, a thatou -- by annual event gives party members an opportunity to approve their platform and address party business. some of the speakers will ,nclude rand paul, bobby jindal and rick santorum, all of whom have been mentioned as potential presidential candidates in 2016. iowa traditionally holds the first presidential caucus.

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please take your conversations outside of this hall and show respect to the delegates. i can and notes only in the english language. no other languages are -- announce only in the english language. no other languages are permitted. as a grateful legal immigrant, as a proud citizen of the united states of america -- [applause] business owner who created , as aor the last 34 years state cochair of the republican party of iowa, it is a special privilege and a great honor for

me to call the 2014 republican state convention to order. [applause] to win elections, all of us ,hould never forget two words republican unity. [applause] all candidates who are running for the u.s. house and u.s. who wants toybody become the president of the united states of america has to remember and fight for two things. protect our second amendment rights. [applause] no amnesty.

[applause] let us get started. [indiscernible] we will do the presentation of colors. willscout mason jeffries lead us in the pledge. please stand and remain standing until the end of the national anthem. thank you. >> let us pray. god our loving father, as we gather, we lift up our hearts to you in a moment of gratitude.

grateful that you have marvelously created each of us in your own image and likeness, and thus gifted us with the divine origin and divine destiny . from this derives our unique human dignity, precious, and upheld by the fundamental human rights, rights that come directly from you. inalienable.re the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. give us to recognize our divine origin, giving dignity to each human being, regardless of their class or culture or condition. grant us the courage and desire to secure that dignity by upholding the fundamental right to life from conception to natural death. help us to create a culture of life, to offset the darkness of the culture of death.

in securingativity your fundamental right of liberty, and the courage to stand against policies that would force us to compromise our religious beliefs and act against our consciences. thank you for gifting us with our human dignity and inalienable rights. may we hold these precious gifts reverently and guard them fearlessly. as we plan and work together at this convention, and all the people said, amen.

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welcome to a warm the state chair of the republican party of iowa. [applause] >> good morning, fellow republicans, iowans, americans. it's an honor to serve as your state chairman and welcome you to this 2014 republican party of iowa state convention. we have a lot of work to do today as we elect a republican nominee for lieutenant governor, attorney general and state treasurer. you will want to stay until the very last moment as we debate the platform. we are anxious to hear from any dignitaries today, state and federal candidates that will be filling out the republican

ballot this fall. still have one important piece of business to conclude after today, and that will happen a week from today next saturday when the third district delegates will reconvene and nominate a republican candidate for the third congressional district. our hats off to those delegates who have that important work to do. it has not happened since 2002. it is not something that happens very often. in fill many different roles our life. family, work, church, community and friends. today, we come together as iowans, registered with the republican party of iowa. [applause] click -- kick off this

election season, a unified party has never been more important. cany is not something that be achieved by just a few people in leadership or someone who can give a good speech. the word unity suggests that everyone is doing their part. republican party unity will happen when we are able to set aside our differences and pull together as a team. as is often said, many hands make light work. one of the best things you and i state,is find a local, or national republican candidate that embraces your beliefs and philosophy and get involved in that campaign. as a past candidate, they will appreciate your help. in fact, they are counting on it. some people call me an evangelical.

i guess i'm flattered by that term, though i'm not sure i deserve it. i'm a sinner in need of a savior. [applause] , however, toabels try and categorize people so that it makes it easier to keep score. i have an idea. why don't we call each other americans? [applause] isn't that who we are? isn't that why we are here? because we believe in this country? we are republicans, and today we will carry out our responsibility to our political party. but we come here today as fellow americans, and instead of criticizing and finding fault, let's remember what our mom taught us a long time ago. if you cannot say anything nice,

don't say anything at all. [applause] as republicans, we have a common adversary, and it's not necessarily other americans registered with other parties. believe that maintains that government is the answer to most of life's problems. that is our adversary. we know that is not true. different races for answers before we go to the government greatly look to our neighbor, our families, our church, our community. down that government road, it leads to dependency and bondage. gentlemen, we will unite and win elections when we embrace those time-tested ideals that are based on hard work, respect, and personal responsibility, and not on the next government program. republicanswin when

run on the issues with a health acknowledgment of god's divine rule in life. [applause] and so please, join me as a fellow republican as we live out this calling for self-government that hinges on the inseparable runs of religion and morality, that honors god, and blesses a people. bless iowa,nd god and god bless united states of america. [applause] >> at this time, we will move to , our statent chair auditor, our parliamentarian,

assistant parliamentarian, secretary cindy michael, assistant secretary maureen olson, auditor, assistant , and our timer, jackson kamran. in the absence of senator robbie smith. is there a second? all those in favor of the motion say aye. the aye's appear to have it. the report is adopted. the junior delegates are released at this point. if you are a junior delegate, you need to find your way back near the entrance. next it is my honor to introduce a special friend. a champion.

an american, conservative, someonen, hard worker, that ought only -- not only do i believe that she will be the next united states senator from iowa, she will be the first woman united states senator. joni ernst. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, joni ernst. [applause] >> thank you, everyone. wow.

group thiszing morning. isn't it a great day to be a republican? thank you. danny, thank you so much for the wonderful introduction. so much.ate it danny is a great friend to all of us, a great colleague. thank you, everyone, for being here today. it is such an honor to be with you this morning. thank you for all that you are doing to help our party as we head toward this important election, as well as everything you have done in a past number of months for our great party. ladies and gentlemen, campaigns are not easy. they are tough on the candidates, hard on our families , hard on our staff and volunteers and supporters. we had some of the most , dedicatedsupporters

supporters that i could have ever asked for. from the bottom of my heart, i thank you all. than thank myore supporters. i want to thank everyone who came out and supported their candidate of choice in the united states senate race. thank you. [applause] whether you supported sam, mark, matt, or scott, i appreciate your effort and your sacrifice for all of these wonderful republican candidates. [applause] they were in this arena and so were you. i'm proud of the campaign that we ran. but i'm also proud of all of the energy and the passion so

many thousands of iowans put into this race. because at the end of the day, we're all working to make our state and our nation the best that it can be. and whether you voted for me or someone else, i promise you that i will work every single day to earn your trust and your support. because together we all have the same goal, and that is to defeat bruce brailley in november. cheers and applause] >> thank you. i'm running for senate because iowa means everything to me. i grew up walking beens, canning food, and feeding hogs

on our family farm. and some of you may have heard that i did more than just feed the hogs. the church that i was raised in is the church where i was married. it's the same church where our youngest daughter libby was baptized and it's still where i teach sunday school today. now, some in washington may think that that's pretty small. some might even attack me because i don't have a law degree. well, i think that's a good thing. well, let me tell you what i do have. i do have iowa values. we have hard work, strong character, love of country, hat is iowa.

[applause] this is home to me. iowa. and home means everything. i decided to serve in the iowa army national guard because i nted to do my part just like generations before me to protect the gifts of freedom that make america so special. this is where i learned that america's greatness comes from its people, not from its government. [applause] it's a long way from red oak to washington d.c. but with your help that journey is just beginning. when we talk about iowa values, those aren't just words. they're not just words to all

of us. it's who we are. it is what defines us. they are the values that we learned from our parents. honesty, service, hard work. knowing the value of a dollar and not to waste it. that's what iowa values mean to me. that's what i have spent my life fighting to protect. and that's why i'm running for united states senate. [applause] i'm running for senate to bring our iowa values to washington where they are sorely needed. the problem with washington is that it's full of liberals like bruce brailley who think government is the solution to

every problem. this campaign will come down to a very simple choice. r iowa values versus bruce brailley's liberal washington ways. you see, in bruce brailley's america hard work and sacrifice don't mean a thing. in bruce brailley's america, the more you work, the more the government will take from you. time and again brailley has voted to raise taxes on iowa hard-working families. he didn't do it because it was the right thing for iowa. he did it because nancy pelosi told him to do it. nancy pelosi knows that she can count on bruce brailley because he votes with her nearly 100% of the time.

when pelosi was pushing cap and trade that would raise taxes on every single iowan, bruce brailley was there for her. when pelosi was fighting to kill the keystone pipeline, bruce brailley flip flopped to help her. when pelosi and obama were passing obamacare, bruce brailley was their loudest cheer leader. since bruce brailley has been in washington, government spending has increased almost $1 trillion. today we owe more than $17 trillion. and no one in washington from either party have a clue on how we're going to repay that. so they will pass it on to our kids and their kids and their kids and that's shameful. from day one, congressman praily has been a rubber stamp

for big spending policies of nancy pelosi and barack obama. and if he makes it to the senate he will be just another rubber stamp for harry reid. and that's the last thing that owa needs. so i'm asking all of you to think a little bit about congressman brailley just for a second. just for a second. and then we'll move on. here's a guy who took one look at the united states senate and he said to himself, you know what this place needs? nother liberal trial lawyer. remember that video, brailley did a lot more than just insult our great senator chuck grassley. bruce brailley told swrout of state trial lawyers that if

they gave him money, he would be their voice in the united states senate. and let me tell you something. i won't be the voice of special interests. i will be the voice for you in the united states senate. [applause] and let me tell you what i'm going to do when i get there. i'm going to fight every single day to force our government to live within its means. and that starts with a balanced budget amendment. [applause] yes. in the iowa senate i helped lead the fight to pass the largest tax cut in iowa history. and working with our governor and lieutenant governor we forced government to live within its means. it's time to force washington o do the same.

and that starts with repealing obamacare and replacing it with something that is a free market system that puts our patients first. in the senate i'll also fight for our men and women in uniform. they sacrificed -- [applause] they sacrificed so much and risked everything to protect our freedoms. they deserve better than what they're getting from washington today. and that starts with top to bottom reform of our v.a. [applause] and i'm also going to fight to reduce the size and scope of government to get it out of the way of our job creators, let

them create the jobs. [applause] we knew what to expect from washington democrats and their special interests. in fact, we're already starting o see it with the false, negative, and desperate television attacks coming from brailley, liberal california billionaires, and even harry reid. the democrats are desperate. they're running out of ideas. and they woke up last wednesday morning and realized that their candidate was a liberal trial farmers.o attacked and now that trial lawyer is running against a farm girl from iowa.

so these attacks that are out there don't believe them. soon we will also be hearing about the phony war on women. well, i have a message for them. i have been to war. and if the democrats are going to use that word, they had better do it to honor those men and women. [applause] because those men and women have fought every day to defend our freedoms. in closing, i want to say something about this absolutely incredible country that we are so very blessed to call home.

and as they say, only in america. here in the fields of iowa, my grandparents worked and they dreamed of a better life for their children. they were poor. they were very poor. but they were determined to give their children a better life than what they had. and so they did. and while neither of my parents grew up with very much, they were better off than the generation that they came from. my parents worked very hard and they made sacrifices. and because they did, doors opened for me. they created opportunities for me. opportunities for things that they never could have dreamed of. i went to college. i joined army rotc.

i serve in the iowa state senate. i'm a battalion commander in the iowa army national guard. and after a long road and a spirited fight, i am proud to soldier, ther, this and this proven iowa conservative, is your republican nominee for united states senate. cheers and applause] thank you. thank you. only in america.

right here right now this is our chance to change the direction of our country. this is our chance to make sure that the nation we leave behind to our children is better than the one that we were given. this november we have a choice. iowa values versus big washington liberal ways. this election we can send a message to bruce brailley and every other typical politician in washington. that we have had enough of their washington ways. bruce brailley and barack obama had their chance and they failed. .ow right now it's our turn god bless you all. god bless the state of iowa. god bless this great united states of america. thank you all so very much.

on to victory! [cheers and pplause] >> well, good morning, everybody. my name is mary missouriman. it is my distinct privilege to be serving you as the permanent chair for the 2014 iowa g.o.p. state convention. the next item on our agenda is the preliminary credentials report. would the chair please come to he microphone. >> thank you, madam chair. as mare yea said my name is patricia and i am from

washington county in the second district. and i am very honored to be serving as the chair of the credentials committee at this year's state convention. i need to express thanks to several people before i give you my report. credentialing is a tough process at the state convention. it's been an interesting week for those of you who have been reading the mead yafment i would like to thank all of the members of the state credentials committee. from the first district, from the ustin, chuck, from ct ed, , tracy d district naomi , and from the fourth district

and karen. i also would like to express my appreciation and gratitude on behalf of the entire committee to yeaens for tax relief who generally provided us all of the lanyrds. if you know anybody who works for itr please express a thank you for them. i would also like to thank sid from i graphics printers in washington who printed all of our name badges. all of the volunteer whose have helped with credentialing at any level, count, district, state. it's a tough job. you all know that. thank you. we cannot do it without you. and finally, john from rpi. john has been amazing. he has been such a wonderful help to all of us at the state convention. and i wanted to publicly thank him.

now for the numbers. this is the preliminary credentials report. as of the time of reporting, the first district has 286 seated delegates. the second district has 363 seated delegates. the third district has 279 seated delegates. not all counties in the third have reported. they are still working on getting some more seated. and the fourth is 347. not all have reported. that makes a grand total ,275 delegates seated. thank you very much. - 1,275. >> we will take action on the final credentials report and we will just let them continue their work. at this point in time it is my distinct privelf privilege to introduce a special guest

speaker. please help me welcome to the stage the united states the senator from kentucky the honorable rand paul. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. i can tell you most everybody in washington has seen joanie earns t's add. and i can tell you that the purvares of pork are shaking in their boots and worried that joanie will come up there. i can also tell you that we're going to do everything to make sure that she can come up there. i don't see how iowa can send us a guy who disparages farming and disparages my friend chuck

grassley. i don't see how that's going to happen. [cheers and applause] >> now, i don't know about you but i'm not so excited about the president freing the taliban. i'm not so excited about the president saying somehow they're no longer a danger. i'm not so excited about hillary clinton saying oh, the taliban's of no danger to americans. so i said the other day, i was in texas. i said, you know, if this president likes to trade so much, we've got that marine on gun charges down in mexico. why don't we do a trade but this time instead of trading the taliban, why don't we trade them five democrats? [cheers and applause] john kerry, hillary clinton,

nancy pelosi. i can come up with a list. but here's the funny thing about trying to tell a joke when you're in politics. immediately the reporters are like, seriously? did he just compare democrats to the taliban? so we had to issue a correction. so we sent out a tweet and we said, just kidding. except for pelosi. i've got good news and bad thuse though from washington. the good news is your government's open. the bad news is your government's open and still borrowing $1 million every minute. the debt is spiraling out of control. if you've seen the debt clock.org? just look at the numbers and you'll be frightened for

if you're declared unessential, you don't have to show up but you're still paid. only in washington could you shut the government down and it costs more than keeping it open. completely insane. i asked for a report from my staff. what did the i.r.s. say?

essential, unessential? 90% unessential. what did the e.p.a. say? 95% unessential. and i said we're getting somewhere here. maybe we're going to learn something. and then they actually went through some of the e.p.a. employees. one woman had not been to work in 20 years. she had had no contact no email for five years. and you say well good we found out now she's been fired. no you don't get it. she's a federal employee. we can't even fire the people at the v.a. who have lied to us about our veterans made up these lists and allowed veterans to wait in a line and die. we captain fire them. this is how dysfunctional your government is. they discovered another woman at the e.p.a. who was selling jewelry and vitamins from her computer add and had employed 17 paid interns that were family members of hers. they found another guy had been down loading porn for six hours a day. and you think well certainly he

was fired. he still works for the e.p.a. it's a disgrace. but my favorite is they found a guy named jonathan beal. he had been working at the e.p.a. for 11 years. he was jeana mccarthy's right-hand man. and they looked and he always was getting raises. he always got performance bonuses. his reviews were good. but he hadn't been to work in six months. so they asked him boss. they actedly followed up and asked his boss. oh, the reason he is not here he's also a c.i.a. agent. and they were like really? he works for the e.p.a. and the c.i.a.? kind of an interesting combination. but then they called the c.i.a. and they said jonathan who? it turns out he had never worked for the c.i.a. but i imagine this guy makes $150,000 a year sitting at his apartment or his house next to the pool with a beer and he's like his boss calls and says are you coming in? no, i'm in istanbul on secret

assignment. this is where your government is. it's completely crazy and completely out of control. so we went through this shutdown and you said, well, i guess that was terrible. all the government's shut down. right? no. two thirds of your government's anauto pilot. two thirds of your government is mandatory spending and never shuts down. this is medicare, social security, and medicaid. so a third of your government is national defense and the other stuff we spend money on. so we did the right thing. we said we should pay our old jers. we can't have them in the field. so we opened up the military and paid. so now we're down to a sixth of got. about 16% was closed. you would have thought the world was ending and the sky was falling from all the talk. the president though was afraid you might not notice. so do you remember what the president did? he wrapped the world war ii monument. no telling how many employees it takes to wrap the world war ii monument. there is no entrance, there is

no exit. nobody works at the world war ii monument but he wanted to make sure you knew you were going to pay a penalty if you messed with it. if you messed with the the president and said i'm not going to negotiate so he wraps the world war ii monument. but if you want an image to remember from the confrontation from the shutdown? from trying to get the president to do the responsible thing? if you want an image to remember, you remember the world war ii veterans cutting the placards, cutting the barricades and throwing them on the lawn at the white house. cheers and applause] the democrats and the president they say woe is me. where would we cut? we can't find anywhere to cut. so i've been pointing out a few things and a few areas where he might consider it. we spent $1.8 million on rollup beef jerky. we spent $5 million studying the collective action of fish.

we spent a half a million dollars developing a menu for mars. now, that is good job. if you've got a 26-year-old kid who can't find a job and you're looking for a job, this is a great job. pays $5,000 stipend, two weeks all expenses paid in hawaii. the prerequisites to get the job are difficult though. you have to like food. so they sent these 20-something-year-old kids to hawaii with the assignment to develop a menu that's a half million dollar study to develop a menu for mars. you know what a butch of college kids came up with? pizza. we spent a quarter of a million developing a 3-d printer for pizza. so i'm madging are we going to be able to get the 3-d printer on the mars module? we're going to send a 3-d printer to mars. this is your government the total and complete dysfunction nalt of your government. but they can't cut anything.

but realize two thirds of the problem are the enentitlements. and none of us are saying get rid of that. we're saying reform the entitlements. [applause] but here's the disappointing thing. and this is what discourages me about washington. we had a vote about four months ago to try to cut $3 million. now, some will tell you, $3 million, that's peanuts. why bother? if you don't start somewhere, how are we ever going to get started? [applause] this was to cut $3 million for twiggy, the water skiing squirrel. now, i like dumb pet tricks and if you email me one i will look at it. but i'm not for having the taxpayers spend $3 million for twiggy the water skiing squirrel to support the selling of american walnuts in spain. and god love you if you've got

a walnut farm but that's your job to advertise them, not the taxpayers. [applause] but we had a vote. and here's the disturbing thing. that's easy. this should be really easy. the vast majority of republicans, americans, democrats, should say when you have a $1 trillion annual deficit that we should be able to cut twiggy the water skiing squirrel. but here's the disappointment. it failed. the majority of republicans voted to keep the money. and here's the other thing we need to know as republicans. it's not that we're against the safety net. but we think a safety net should be temporary and the able bodied should eventually get back to work. that's tough love. but as republicans, we can't be out there for what it takes, which is tough love, if we're not willing to stop corporate welfare. we've got to stop and end all the welfare at big business.

t's crazy. when i think of this administration, i think of old mcdonald's farm. old mcdonald's farm of scandals. here a scandal, there a scandal, everywhere a scandal. but of all the scandals the one i think that bothers me the most is benghazi. [cheers and applause] there's been a lot of discussion of the talking points. the democrats say well that's political. well, i'll tell you what's not political. if you are going to consider somebody to be your commander in chief, you have to have somebody who will secure the troops, protect the embassies, and who will send reinforcements. cheers and applause] the debacle in benghazi started in the very beginning at the

very top with hillary clinton deciding that the benghazi consulate was more like paris than it was baghdad. it was a war zone and it was a mistake from the very beginning to have nobody protecting that consulate. [applause] six months in advance of the attack on the consulate, there was a request made of hillary clinton for a plane to fly the plane around in case of emergency. guess what. that emergency did arise and the night we were looking for reinforcements in triply, do you know what we were doing? we were begging to let them have the libyans use one of their planes, which was an american plane that we paid for. but we had to beg the lip libyans because there was no plane because the state department refused to allow a plane to be there.