Sec. Grimes if you are like me, and you have been watching what is going on in that Republican Party, well, it is wrong for kentucky, and it is wrong for the nation. I daresay who the leader of the Republican Party would be . If he ever thought he would hear the words donald trump do you . It is a campaign on the other side that is fueled by racism, bigotry, and hatred. On our side, though, it is someone who is measured, who has been tested, who i do believe is tough, and certainly, has a plan not only for the commonwealth, but this nation. She has put us where we are here today. And now, it is up to us. It is in our hands, if we would deliver that nomination on tuesday. [applause] sec. Grimes Hillary Clinton is someone who is about fighting for those without a voice. And my question to you is, are you ready to sign up and show up on tuesday, folks . [applause] sec. Grimes Hillary Clinton is someone who has literally dedicated her life to fighting for the underprivileged and empowering youth, minorities, and especially i like to think i am young young women, like me. Will you support her . Hillary clinton is someone who has, importantly, given her lifes work to every breath of service, to make this country and kentucky a better place. They love this state. And when i say they, i mean both her, and bill, and chelsea. I mean, they love kentucky east and west to right here in frankfort, kentucky. You know who they love the most . The people of this state, the most. The question is whether we will show up and be there for them . Will we send the message that we are ready for a champion in the white house, who will fight for the civil rights of all americans . Let me hear you say, yes. Yes sec. Grimes are we ready for someone who will make sure our students can earn degrees, and not debt, especially, our ksu students . Let me hear you say, yes. Yes. Sec. Grimes are we ready for someone who will fight for working women and men across this country and, especially, right here in kentucky . And are we ready for someone who will not only crack, but shatter that Glass Ceiling . And fight for women, all across this nation . Listen, i think it is long past due. We should not be having conversations anymore about equal pay for equal work or paid family leave. If we get Hillary Clinton to the white house, we get it done. [applause] sec. Grimes so, kentucky, are we ready to show this nation that the commonwealth is clinton country . Get on your feet. And help me welcome the 42nd president of the united states, William Jefferson clinton. [applause] mr. Clinton hello. Hello, frankfort. [applause] mr. Clinton first of all, lets give another hand to Alison Lundergan grimes. Alison, i told alison earlier today, if she had become a television minister, she would have the Biggest Church on the planet. [laughter] mr. Clinton im so grateful for her service and her support for hillary. I want to thank many people who are here. But let me just mention a few. Thank you, senator and former governor julian carroll. [applause] mr. Clinton the first time i ever came to kentucky was when i was a firstyear governor, in 1979. Julian carroll hosted the National Governors association. And i came here, my eyes were as big as dollars. I was so excited. [laughter] mr. Clinton thank you, senator graham, for your support. [applause] thank you, former lieutenant governor, for your support. [applause] mr. Clinton representatives, thank you all. The chair of the democratic party, thank you. And the mayor, thank you so much for being here, with your son and daughterinlaw. Thank you to our field organizer, jamie pollard, who spoke earlier. Folks, let me cut to the chase here. We are having an election tuesday, and there are 35,000 potential votes in frankfort. If there is anybody in the entire commonwealth of kentucky who knows about health care, education, and the longterm welfare of this country if you have a republicanonly government, you do. Because if it were not for the democratic house, you would be in a world of hurt today. [applause] mr. Clinton so, at its most basic, you know we cannot afford to have a republican president , a republican senate, and a republican house, and a Republican Supreme Court in washington, d. C. Or you will not recognize this country in four or eight years. Let me tell you the positive. You will admit, it is kind of an unusual election. There is a reason for that. [laughter] mr. Clinton america is a tale of two nations today, because we are outperforming every other big economy in the world. We have almost 15 million new jobs in the last five years. That is the most we have had since that other democrat, whatever his name was, was president. [laughter] mr. Clinton we have more than 90 of our people with Health Insurance, for the first time in history. [applause] mr. Clinton some people in your states are doing what they can to roll it back. But it is working pretty well. And we have got the youngest workforce in the world, the best Technology Base in the world. We have a lot of things going for us. But 80 of the American People have not had a pay raise since the financial crisis. And the median Family Income, the one in the middle, get this, after inflation it is 4000 lower than it was the last day i was in office, 15 years ago. Now, why is this . That is because, for 400 years, we actually have good records, for 400 years, it has taken every single country at least 10 years to get over a financial crisis. In fairness to the president , back seven years ago, but thanks to political gridlock, trouble abroad, most people have not had a raise. So, we have a decision to make. I spent a lifetime, is the governor and president , now working on america and the rest of the world for the last 10 years, try to give people something to look forward to when they get up in the morning. I have always believed that people had a decent job entities and access to education and health care, starting a Small Business, if they can most importantly, believed that they could make every today better than yesterday, and they could look forward to tomorrow, america would be fine. And we have been through many years without that being the case. So, basically, we have two choices now. In addition to all the problems i mentioned, the fundamental message on the other side is vote for me. And i will make it like it was yesterday. [laughter] mr. Clinton isnt that what it means . Make America Great again, the way it was . Now, i have to put up a few walls to do it, and pretend that we dont have an interdependent world. But we can do that. Now, first, i want to say it depends on who you are whether you like this. Remember what the great will rogers said. He said two things relevant to today. He said, first of all, i do not belong to an organized party he was a democrat. But he said, do not tell me about the good old days. They never were. But the truth is, they were good for some, not good for others. But we cannot go back. So, hillary says, what we really need to do is put america back in the future business. We need to take advantage of the benefits and opportunities that are out there, that no other country has. But this time, we have to make sure we raise middleclass incomes, restore upward mobility, and take every person in america along for the ride to the future. We cannot leave anybody behind. [applause] mr. Clinton so, my case for her is pretty straightforward. There are three reasons that kentuckians ought to vote for her in the primary. One is, you have the best ideas to create more jobs, raise more income, reduce inequality, and advanced social mobility by tearing down the barriers that keep certain places, including cold country, behind. And giving people who cannot have a good education behind. She really has some plans to do that. And her numbers add up. And everybody says she is the only person left in the race whose numbers add up. People ask me how we reduced three surpluses and the best in 50 years, and i said we brought a great new idea to washington. Arithmetic. [laughter] mr. Clinton i do not care how liberal or conservative you are [laughter] how far left or right you get, once you think you can repeal those laws, you begin to get in trouble. She has really good ideas. She once a National Infrastructure program, while Interest Rates are low, to rebuild our roads, bridges, airports. And flint, michigan is nowhere near the only place in america where children have elevated levels of lead in their blood. And if we took them all up, if we took them all up and lay down clean ones, we could give every kid in his job a healthy future. That is the kind of thing she wants to do. [applause] mr. Clinton if we gave every town in Rural America access to affordable broadband, we could have the national economy. That is something we ought to do. So, we need an infrastructure program. We have to prove that every place in america can get its fair share of clean energy jobs. You say, well, we are a coal state. And we will continue to run on coal for some years to come. But that should not include other things. The second most important state in america, and solar panels, is new jersey. There are three states in america they get over a third of their electricity from wind. One of them is texas, the oil and natural gas leader of america. Why . Because they can sell the other stuff, and they like having cheap power, and they like having jobs in texas, and getting income to people who own the land were the windmills are. We have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time if we are going to go from where we are where we need to go. [applause] mr. Clinton and the third thing we need to do is to bring more manufacturing jobs back to america. Every American Manufacturing job we bring, we create two other jobs. We brought back 900,000 of those factory jobs we lost. Thanks, in part, to the fact that the president and the Congress Save the auto industry. And not allow us to fall in the great depression. We had the best ever last year. And we can do better. I think the plant in indiana, listen to this, in indiana, they are making mercedesbenz. Most of which are sold in china. Every year, you can pay a good, solid middleclass income because labor is a small percentage of the cost every year. And materials, transportation, and energy are bigger parts of the cost. So, hillarys position is very simple. We are going to try to take away the transportation costs, because america is the biggest market in the world and put americans back to work. [applause] mr. Clinton and the only reason that she won so big in ohio is that they believe in a 21stcentury manufacturing system. They know she was the cofounder of the Senate Manufacturing caucus, when she was a senator. They know she gets this. And that we can do this, together. And thirdly, we cannot forget that two thirds of our jobs have come from Small Business. Now i think the secondmost important bill that the president signed the last four years was the doddfrank bill. It did stop wall street from making a wreck of main street. Anybody that tells you otherwise has not been paying attention. The problem is it was not supposed to apply to traditional Small Business lending. There is a long line of folks which of not been able to be enforced during the downtown. If you put a machine in neighborhood, you have to consider is that people in that neighborhood for affordable Small Business loans, without so much bureaucracy, without so much hesitation. You cannot charge so much on 80,000 loan as 80 million loan. She wants to get back so we can get the Small Business going. [applause] mr. Clinton so, you cannot reduce inequality and increase opportunity, unless we have more jobs that pay greater. The second thing you have to do is actually take affirmative steps to reduce inequality. What do i mean by that . We all know most of the gains have gone to people all of the wage gains have gone to the top 20 . The big income gains have gone to the top fraction of 1 . Why is that . A big reason is that more and more and more companies are being run for the benefit of their shareholders and top management, at the expense of the employees, communities, and even the customers. [applause] mr. Clinton i would just give you an example. With the exception of a couple of years when i was president , when the stock market raced ahead of the labor market, but then we all caught up, about . 65 on the dollar of corporate revenues went to pay and benefits for employees. It is now been hovering around . 62 on the dollar. If you just raised it three cents on the dollar, throughout the company, you would see wages rise dramatically. You would see middleclass Living Standards rise. And we would be living in a different world. People would actually believe a middle class life as possible again. Hillary said we need sticks to get that done. First, what is the carrot . Give companies that share profits with employees a 15 tax credit for doing it. [applause] mr. Clinton there are a lot of companies in this country that do that. But not most. I have a friend who is been a partner of mine, who came here many years ago as an immigrant from turkey, and started a greek yogurt company. It is called chobani. Some of you have eaten it. [laughter] mr. Clinton this guy has about 20,000 employees. He is about to take it public. They say it is worth about 67 billion. You know what he did . Before he took it public, he gave an ownership in the company to all 2100 people and let me finish he gave them ownership, not based on how high they were in the company, but how long they have been with the company. The ones that have been there the longest got the biggest ownership, even if they had relatively low level jobs. He is going to make them all rich because they made him rich. That is the way america ought to work. [applause] mr. Clinton and then, there is the stick you see where carrier airconditioning is going to throw 2100 people out of work in indiana . If they were losing money, we would feel bad. But they are not. Carrier made 2. 9 billion last year. Moreover, the Profit Margins were increasing, not decreasing. And finally, the units offered to save much money, they were done by reorganizing. But they were pressured by activists investors, a fancy name for billionaires who want to make all of the money in a year and a day so they can immediately set the stocks on again and pay only 20 income tax. I could fill this room with Academic Studies from economists showing that people who tend to their workers make more money over any 510 year period than any other company to please these activist shareholders. If the finance tail wags the economic dog, you cannot be in business to do what you want to do. Hillary said we need to stop that. Let us stop making them make a 20 Capital Gains on a year and a day. Let us encourage people to hold the stock longer, so the company can be run for the benefit of the enterprise, the community, the workers, and the shareholders. Pay it down at 20 over five years. Do not give them all of the benefits, but give them an immediate benefit if they share the problem. If you do that, we will move back to . 65 so our stock will rise. [applause] mr. Clinton but that will not help the people who cannot access the economy. You still have to access it. You have to tear down the barriers to access. And there are many, but i will just mention three or four real quick that are relevant to kentucky. One is we have to improve education from prek, and the best way the federal government can do this, all of you in State Government know that the lions share of prek12 education, the federal government only has about 8 of the total budget. She things we have spent too much of that on acquiring too many tests, and too little investment, and too little teachers. The evidence is all of the Research Shows that the most important thing you can do with limited investment dollars is help teachers get better, help principals get better, help teachers build with each other to identify a culture of learning and potential and possibility. There is more evidence on that. That is why finland does so well. And a very diverse student body. That is why shanghai, china, the big city school system, works. The principal sounds like he came from kentucky. I read an interview with this guy. I wanted to taken up to lunch. He said i did not do very much. I looked around, we have some of the best schools in the world, really good schools, we had ordinary schools, and a few that were not very good. I just wanted to try to make all of the teachers at least good. We did that for a few years. After we got done doing that, i took the very best teachers and sent them to the best schools, and sent the best principles to the best goals. After we did that for a few years, all of our classes were good, all of our students were good, all of our kids were doing great. I so did not do very much. I just did not get in the way of common sense. [laughter] mr. Clinton why have we abandoned that . Hillary thinks you ought to get a good education no matter what your zip code is, no matter what your Family Income is. [applause] mr. Clinton you have to make college more affordable and the debt more manageable. And here is one place where there is a difference, and that is the primary election. These two candidates that you can choose from voted with me when they were both in the senate, they agreed with each other about 90 of the time. They did not agree over the final auto bailout legislation, which required money, that you get paid back with interest on. She was for it. He was not. They disagreed over the last reform bill, that we had a chance to get a republican president , the second president bush, to sign. He was for it. She was not. But they disagree over this. He favored free public tuition free tuition for all institutions of higher education. She favors debtfree educatio