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Remarks at a Reception for the Pennsylvania Democratic Coordinated Campaign in Philadelphia October 11, 2000 Administration of William J. Clinton, 2000 / Oct. 11 and beyond. I am an AmeriCorps member, and AmeriCorps volunteer Ardelia Norwood-Ross, I will get things done. who introduced the President; Harris Wofford, chief executive officer, Corporation for National NOTE: The President spoke at 4:13 p.m. at Memo- Service; and Gov. Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania. rial Hall. In his remarks, he referred to Remarks at a Reception for the Pennsylvania Democratic Coordinated Campaign in Philadelphia October 11, 2000 Thank you. Well, thank you for the welcome. Democrats normally do, and I just cannot thank Thank you, Mayor Street. I was honored to help you enough. So coming here to be for the you win because I wanted Philadelphia to win, Democratic ticket, for my long-time friend, and I’m glad you won, and you’re doing great. Catherine Baker Knoll and Jim Eisenhower and Thank you, Senator Tartaglione, for being the Bob Casey, Jr., but especially for Ron Klink, chair of our party and for doing such a good it’s not only easy, it’s an honor. job. Thank you, Bill George. I got here in time I just want to say a couple of things very to hear Bill George’s speech. [Laughter] You candidly. John said them before. I know Ron know, Bill is so restrained and laid back. Klink pretty well. We have worked together for [Laughter] I loved it. He said everything that a long time now. He represents a district in needed to be said and said it well. And he’s western Pennsylvania where the biggest city has been a great friend to me for more than 8 27,000 people. And so as you might imagine, years now, and I thank him for that. they have a lot of concerns that are somewhat And I can’t tell you how grateful I am to different than the ones Lucien used to represent Ed Rendell for being willing to take over the here in Philadelphia. You know, it’s different. leadership of our party, and you should be so And it’s hard for a Member of the House proud of him. He’s done a great, great job. of Representatives from an essentially rural and I came here to campaign for the Democrats, smalltown district way across this vast State to and this is a pretty nostalgic trip for me. As be well enough known on the eastern side of John said, it may be the last time I come to the State for people to know who he is, what Philadelphia to give a speech as President; he stands for, what the differences are between maybe not, though. If I get a chance, I’ll come him and his opponent. back. I love it here. I want to tell you something, folks. I think One of the young men who has been with I know Pennsylvania by now. You know, my me for more than 8 years now, Kirk Hanlin, wife’s family is from here, from Scranton. My is out there smiling. He said, ‘‘Do you remem- father-in-law’s family is there. He’s buried up ber how many times we’ve been to this hotel there. I’ve spent lots and lots of time here over since 1992?’’ [Laughter] What a wonderful time, many years. I have absolutely no doubt that and then we talked about every hotel we’ve if a hundred percent of the registered voters been in, in Philadelphia. And we started talking who will vote on election day knew Ron Klink’s about, you know, going all the way back to early record, knew his opponent’s record, and knew 1992 and our wonderful trips here. what the differences between them on the issues I feel a deep sense of gratitude to the State facing the United States Senate and the United of Pennsylvania. You’ve been good to me and States of America over the next 6 years are, to my family and my administration family. Ron Klink would win and win handily. You’ve given us your electoral votes twice. And Number two, he’s working as hard as he can. both times the great magnet was this breath- He’s working hard. Therefore, if he doesn’t win, taking vote out of Philadelphia, which reverber- it’s our fault, all the rest of us that are for ated into the region here and all over this part him. Now, I don’t know how else to say it. of eastern Pennsylvania. We did better than It’s hard to beat an incumbent, particularly the 2133 Oct. 11 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 2000 incumbent of the other party, because every- Now, while we’ve got more school kids than body with lots of money—they spend overtime ever before, a smaller percentage of the prop- trying to make sure they stay happy. And they erty owners have children in the schools than work at it, steadily, and then when they run, they did 50 years ago when this happened be- they are able to run. fore. So we need to do this. There’s a limit But we don’t have to have as much money to how much the property tax will bear. We as they do. All we have to have is enough. can afford to do it. It’s not even that expensive. And enough means enough for everybody to But we cannot pass it through the leadership know who you are, what you stand for, what of the other party. If Ron Klink were in the the differences are. And if they give you a little Senate, he’d be out there fighting for, not drag- incoming fire, you can give a little answer. ging against, school construction legislation that That’s all you need. And you need a lot of will help our children have the school buildings word of mouth. they need. And I’m just telling you, if people really un- Now, those are just three things. Now, let derstood the true story of the last 6 years, Ron me back up and put it in some larger context. Klink would get as good a vote out of Philadel- I’ll say much more briefly what I tried to say phia as I did in 1996. And I want you to under- in Los Angeles. And you heard a little of it stand this: 18 million people every year in this today. When you gave—when Pennsylvania voted for Bill Clinton and Al Gore, you gave country, 18 million, have care delayed or denied us a chance to try out some new ideas. And because we don’t have a Patients’ Bill of Rights. people ask me all the time, now that we’ve We lost it by one vote in the United States got the best, longest expansion in history and Senate. If he had been your Senator, I would the lowest unemployment rate in 30 years and have signed the Patients’ Bill of Rights into law 22 million new jobs, they say, what great new already. idea did you bring to Washington. And I say, We passed hate crimes legislation in the ‘‘Arithmetic.’’ [Laughter] We brought arithmetic House and the Senate, and then the Republican to Washington. And that’s what caused the Re- leadership turned around and took it out of the publicans—they always talked about balancing bill. If he were in the Senate, it would be one the budget. Remember that? They always told more vote to stop that kind of nonsense from you how they wanted a constitutional amend- happening. If you voted for something, you ment to balance the budget. They wanted every- would send it to the President so he could sign thing to help keep them from having to make it and make it the law of the land. a decision to balance the budget. Why? Because You heard what Ed Rendell said to you about if you’re spending more than you’re taking in, school construction. The average school building there is no way to balance the budget except in this city is 65 years old. I’ve been to schools to spend less, take in more, or do a little of that have 12 trailers out behind it. I’ve been both. It’s arithmetic. to other schools where you couldn’t wire all And for 12 years they quadrupled our national the classrooms for the Internet or the circuits debt, and they ran the interest rates up and would go out. I’ve been to schools where whole ran the economy into a ditch. And so I brought floors had to be closed down because they arithmetic back. And frankly, we lost the House couldn’t be properly insulated or rendered safe of Representatives and the Senate in part be- because they couldn’t afford to fix the roof. cause we had Members with enough guts to We’ve got the biggest group of school kids stand up to the kind of attacks that were rained in history. We say they’re the most important down on people like Ron Klink in 1993 and things in the world to us. We now know how 1994, for saying, ‘‘Hey, you want to balance to turn failing schools around, something we the budget, get growth back, get interest rates didn’t know a few years ago. And I could give down? Arithmetic.’’ you lots of examples. All we propose to do is And oh, they said it was going to be the to share the cost of financing school bonds with end of the world.
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