Have surrogates for all candidates except for three. We have someone speaking for all 12 candidates except for three of them. We have nine out of the 12. Im going to tell you who those candidates are. If someone from the audience wants to come up and speak for that particular candidate, they will need to come forward, give us your name and we will give you the parameters. You get not 30 minutes. Excuse me. Trust me, phones, it folks, it long day. You get three minutes. But there are three candidates. If someone would like to come and speak for one of the three, you we need one person for each three. Kasich, gilmore or carly. If anyone would be interested in speaking for either of the three of those candidates, please come down and see me. The other thing that we did not get it announced, we were going do it as people leave, on the table in front, it could be done now if you would like to, are the nomination papers for various offices. So if you want to come up and sign them. Steve king has some here. Chip baldimore, the governor, jerry bane. Theres a couple more. If you want to come forward and sign them, you are welcome do that now while were waiting. Otherwise, there will be time after the caucus to do that also. We will try to proceed just as quickly as possible. Thanks a lot for your patience. Good evening, everyone. The time has came. We can get started. 15 minutes late. But look around the room. What a crowd. Great. Very great. Id like to welcome every one of you here. Im the chair of the Boone County Central Committee and a member of the state Central Committee. Im addressing you tonight on behalf of the Boone County Republican Party to welcome you and to review some basics before the official business of the caucus is conducted. Lets first begin with our pledge of allegiance. The pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Were going to talk about the purpose of the caucus. We are here as republican neighbors to first conduct a president ial poll. Secondly, to elect precinct people. Thirdly, to elect delegates, alternates and junior delegates to the county convention. Fifth, to discuss and submit platform issues to the county convention. Theres never a meeting like this where there arent some rules. And im going to go through them. Theyre very short. But its very important that everybody understands them and that we all obey and go by them. First off, no signs of any kind will be allowed inside the building except those posted by the owner of the building. Secondly, no noise making instruments of any kind will be allowed inside this area. Thirdly, people who attend excuse me. People who attempt to disrupt the procedures will be removed from the building. Fourth, members of the media will need to check in, receive credentials and stay in the media area until the caucus is concluded unless prior arrangements have been made. And last, only boone county residents who have checked in and received an official ballot will be allowed inside the precinct areas. As of now, we have ten reps that will be speaking. We still need two more. And youve probably got three or four minutes if someone else wants to come up. We need someone from gilmore and someone for car ll lly fiorina. They can do it, otherwise that opportunity will be gone. Each of you as a registered republican has a president ial ballot. They will be marked and collected during precinct business. As your precinct finishes, you will be allowed to leave. But polilease respect the other precincts that are still conducting this business. If you plan to submit a platform suggestion, please take a fill out an index card as soon as precinct business begins. You can get the cards as soon as you want from the captains or the chair people at the tables. You can start writing them down. It will save time if you have something, unless you have them prewritten. If there is any discussion about the platform suggestions, they will be limited to two in favor which includes the initial presenter and then there will be two opposed to that particular platform suggestion. Everyone who is talking about platforms will be allowed one minute to speak. At this time, were going to hear from our president ial candidate representatives. And they are here in the order that they signed in. Theres no special treatment given to anyone. They will be given three minutes to discuss and talk about their candidate. If you would give them your utmost attention. Thank you very much. And first we start with congressman steve king for cruz. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you, gary. Thanks for the welcome. This is a great big night for iowa. We get to make a recommendation to the rest of the country on who we think should be the next president of the United States. I cant say enough about you all being here and filling this gym tonight. Im here speaking on behalf of ted cruz. You will know that i have not endorsed a president ial candidate in eight years. I said it has to be a conviction. Well it came to a conviction for me on november 13th. A announced november 16th. Ive been working with the Cruz Campaign ever since. Here are things that come with a president cruz. First, he is a full spectrum constitutional christian conservative. Its in his bones. And he was spoon fed the constitution and bible at the kitchen table. I know about what that is like. It goes into you and it stays and your convictions will allow you to face down about anything if it goes deep in your bones. Here is what you get with ted cruz. He has been a fighter that has fought for each of these things in a public arena. He defended innocent unborn human life. Hes done so before the United States supreme court. And did he so with a partial birth Abortion Case successfully. He has defended marriage before the court between a man and a woman. He believes it. He has been active. He has been a fighter. He has defended religious liberty in a number of ways as well before the courts as well as the Second Amendment. You know the hiller decision, the first time we won anything for our gun rights, it was ted cruz that put that case together that protected at least the right to keep and bear arms to a degree. And then along the way, i put a lot of my effort into battling obamacare. I want obamacare ripped out by the roots. Ted cruz has fought it as hard as anybody in the United States senate. He will do that and push the congress to repeal it word for word. He has taken on the washington cartels. He has fought amnesty every step of the way and his immigration policy has signed off on by Jeff Sessions and steve king and ted cruz has signed that policy as well. He will tear to shreds the Iranian Nuclear deal which is a terrible nuclear deal. The question you might have is, what about ethanol . I sat down with ted cruz on this midsummer. I wanted to convictince him my was the right way. It is to a degree. But he said, i have written a business to phase down the rfs over five years. Not a bankrubruptly end it. It sunsets in 2022. I will tell you its gone anyway. What ted cruz has done he said i will tear down the blend wall. Will use antitrust laws to make sure ethanol will be sold at the pumps in order to shut down the Petroleum Industry thats trying to shut us down. Theres a Better Future for ethanol with ted cruz than anybody elses plan. We need a constitutional conservative. I believe in him. I ask you to vote for him tonight. Thank you very much. [ applause ] thanks, congressman. Thank you very much. Our next speaker will be ashley rungey. She will speak for senator rubio. Ashley. [ applause ] good evening. My name is ashley rungey. I hope you will join me in supports senator marco rubio tonight. Im voting for marco because i believe he not only will unite our party but has the greatest chance of beating Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders in november. Marco believes in american exceptionalism ands apresident he wi he will reverse disastrous policy. He is committed to securing our borders. I have heard marco speak. Im convinced his faith has been a great influence in his life. As president , Marcos Christian values will guide him in making the best decisions for our country. 2016 is a Pivotal Point in the direction of the United States. I want a president who believes in america, who will uphold our constitution and who will unite our country. Please join me in caucusing for marco rubio tonight. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you, ashley. Third speaker will be denny hammond, representing donald trump. [ applause ] good evening. Welcome, my name is denny hammond. Im representing donald trump for president. Theres a lot of things that i have that support for donald. Im going to give you a few of them. First of all, folks, washington is broke. Weve got to fix whats going on out there. Weve had theyve had their chance. Congress to do things. It doesnt seem to get done. Donald is a doer. He will get it done. A few things that i think to point out to show that hes going to do such things may follow. First of all, his tax plan. He will lower the taxes in the middle class. He will take his business experience and uniquely qualify to grow the economy. He has dealt with the World Leaders throughout his Business Career and most importantly, he knows how to negotiate. Also, mr. Trump understands the Illegal Immigration Program and problem that we have. We have to build that wall. There isnt a candidate out there that doesnt agree with that. He will get that done. He will make mexico pay for it. He also has to take care of the syrian problem. We have got to stop this illegal immigration coming into this country. The insurgents need to be done before they get into the country, not after. It makes it simpler to stop it before it begins. Number three, mr. Trump, usa remember, is a selffunding campaig campaign. He has not taken money from special interest groups. He is not doing this for the money. He wont have to owe any favors to anybody in washington for any paybacks. That to me is very key. He is free to make decisions on his own and that are in the best interest of america. Also, mr. Trump knows that its smart to benefit the American People and he will do that by cracking down on china, mexico, japan and bring these jobs back to america. Im in the car business. I know this personally. Our gm products are built all over the world. We need to bring that back here. He has had that negotiation process done through his entire life and knows how to deal with those particular people. To maintain what he has built and to want more than he has and to continue to grow, he knows how to negotiate with the World Leaders and to bring everything back here so that we can get america going again. Also, mr. Trump wants our military he has to build this up. We look weak around the world. He will build the military back to where it was. We also will take care of our vets. He has done that in the past week that you saw. Im sorry. My time is up. I hope you all vote for mr. Trump. Thank you for your time. [ applause ] thank you. Next, pete wasberger will speak for governor bush. Pete, i can bring it to you over there. Do you want to speak from where you are at or do you want to come up front . I hope the time i spent walking up here wasnt deducted from my allotted time. Greetings, my fellow republicans. Tonight i am honored to speak on behalf of governor jeb bush. Im not going to follow the script that the campaign gave me. Instead, i want to tell you why i support governor bush based on my own perspective. Before i get to that, the Campaign Hierarchy insisted that i mention governor bushs outstanding record in florida as a governor. Okay. Ive mentioned it. But im realistic enough to know that if you are talking outstanding governors, everyone in this room knows that no one can compare to our own terry branstad. This campaign has disappointed me. The divisiveness of it is disgusting. Part of the reason governor bush is not doing well in the polls is because for the most part he stayed above all of that. Thats a fine example i think for all of us. We must be a party that reaches out to those who do not strictly adhere to all of our values. Governor bush does this. But this does not mean that his own values and the ones he will support as president are significantly different from any of ours. We need to have a strong yet Reasonable Voice for our values. Otherwise, we risk letting those values be subjugated. The average voter on either side is looking for that Reasonable Voice. We must not alienate them. I am not evangelical. But the impression of evangelism that i have is that its a philosophy of reaching out with love to those who do not share all their views in hopes of gently getting them to at least listen to those views and beliefs. In my opinion, based on personal and political experience that goes back more than a half century, all of our potential nominees, jeb bush is the most qualified to reach out with the voice of reason which america craves. Yet we will not betray any of the values that we, the base of the republican party, cherish. One more very personal note. Governor bush is the tallest of the candidates. Yet if i am to be an example in any form, let that form be the fact that i have managed to overcome my personal prejudice and still support him. Thank you very much. [ applause ] thank you very much, pete. Our next presenter is for dr. Carson. Rita davenport. [ applause ] there you are. Okay. Thank you. All right. Hi, neighbors. Im rita davenport. Im caucusing for dr. Ben carson. My husband jeremy and i are life long iowans and residents of boo boone since 2002. I work right here at the college. Im proud to say my family has lived in iowa since the late 1800s. Others of you may know im a longtime member of the republican Central Committee for precinct one. Even before i came to boone i proudly served on committees beginning in 1990. I know that working at the local level is how things get done. And i believe, of course, that government that is closest to the people is the best kind of government. I also believe in the grassroots work for change. If i see something that i think should be changed, i will not just talk about it, i will work to change it. The proof, i started volunteering with the National Draft ben carson for president movement two years ago. This evening im joined by these wonderful ladies. We have brandy lee and her daughter abby lee. They are also part of that effort. Im glad to stand before you this evening to say that all of that clamoring we did from thousands of volunteers across the United States worked. The result, dr. Ben carson is a candidate for the republican nomination for president of the United States. Now, i need to tell you why i support dr. Ben carson. Tonight, everyone will say their candidate is the best choice. They say their candidate will fight for whatever you want to hear. Like a politici unlike a politician, dr. Carsons moral compass does not bend. Dr. Carson has the strength, judgment, clarity and trustworthiness that can inspire america forward. Those of us who follow dr. Carson know that he does not bow to political correctness. He is a humble man. He is more likely to talk to god in prayer than to talk about himself. We need a leader who prays. We all know dr. Carsons story, only in america could a boy from the streets of detroit pull himself out of poverty through hard work, prayer and determination. Dr. Carson is the man with the strength and judgment to keep america safe. He has this unique distinction and qualification of all the candidates. Dr. Carson really has had 2 00 a. M. Calls where he would frequently have to rapidly analyze complex information and situations to make literally decisions that could mean the difference between life and death. Some people worry that dr. Carson isnt loud enough. But you dont heal the sick by yelling. Our nation is sick. We wont heal it by yelling either. The task before us will require judgment and a good diagnosis for how to revive america. God has blessed america. God has blessed dr. Carson. Just as he has blessed many of the candidates currently running. Dr. Carson has seen sickness and fought it. Our country is sick. They are looking for the government to take care of them. Families are breaking down. Our country is sick. More importantly, dr. Carson has the strength to inspire us to be that shining city on the hill again. Only in america is a story like dr. Carsons possible. Im caucusing for dr. Carson because i want that same opportunity for my family, for my neighbors and for millions of people i will never have met. Im proud to stand here tonight and ask you to not only think with your head but to act with your heart and join me. Lets make today the day when we the people stand for whats right and set america back on the path of righteousness, success and opportunity with dr. Carson, United States of america is in safe hands. [ applause ] thank you, rita. Thank you, ladies. Next we will have a representative for senator santorum, charlie kastolnick. Thank you. Tonight, im here to vote for rick santorum. A faithful husband, a homeschool dad to seven children and a former u. S. Senator from pennsylvania. Our top priority tonight must be to vote for the person who is prepared to be commander in chief on day one. Rick has the most Foreign Policy experience of all the candidates. He served eight years on the Senate Armed Services committee. He helped modernize our military and authored sanctions on syria and iran. Rick is the only candidate isis has targeted by name as their enemy. At home, our conservative values are under attack. Not only by foreign fighters but also by the political establishment that wants us to remain silent about our moral values. Yet we cant have limited government without a moral code that binds