Vice President Al Gore and Senator Tom Harkin
1.13.2000
Gore Baby Pool (I I- 1.3 Opm)
Sloane, Iowa
RS 3
11:38:49 Gore walk in, people rise to applause, Gore shakes hands to a lot of cheering
11:39:05 Gore works the crowd
11:39:20 Gore is with Sen. Harkin on stage, surrounded by people
11:39:34 Harkin: good morning, lets give the vp a big Iowan welcome
11:40:34 they represent what we're fighting for here in Iowa and across the country, agricultural
the best the world has ever seen
11:40:57 well motivated work force, when I travel around the country, maybe even around the world I am astounded....
11:42:07 if al and tipper gore were your neighbors, you'd like em, he's shovel your walk, if you
had a sick kid in the hospital, he and tipper would run errands...
11:43:36 every step of the way we've had al gore on our side fighting for us (applause) in the
1980s when we had some tough time in agricultural, having the banks write off debts, al gore was with us, voting with us, helping us out, sorry to say that his opponent was not ... al gore fought with us ... provide the same help to farmers ... brought about 2 billion dollars..crucial issue of ethanol ... we had a vote on the senate floor, big debate on whether or not keep the tax credits for ethanol, oil companies came in, big battle on the senate floor, came down to a tie vote, fortunatley the VP was the president of the senate and he put in the tiebreaking vote on ethanol, his opponet led the charge against ethanol
11:46:34 I always wanna look at the foundation, I want to see what the foundation is like...
11:47:19 applause for Gore, not going to say anything bad about his opponent but I served with
both of them
11:48:10 Gore takes the mike, applause, people stand up
11:48:20 wide shot
11:48:27 push on Gore
11:48:34 thank you very much Tom, let me say right off the bat, but you couldn't possibly have a
more dedicated harder working, champion for farmers here in Iowa than sen. Harkin, and you know that he deals right straight from the heart, been wonderful friends to Tipper and me...
11:49:43 I've been to the north pole, been to the south pole, but the coldest I ever felt in Iowa, great to be here and the warmth of this crowd...
11:55:02 very much opposed to the freedom to farm act, lot of interesting experiences,
11:55:20 saying a few words about what I think needs to be done, some people who have not been a part over the debate over farming, have the idea of what you're talking about when you call for changes is more tax payers subsides .... freedom to farm law was passed, largest tax payer...
11:56:49 a lot of farmers in Iowa farm beans and corn, and in the past some of the best money came from growing hogs, cattle as well, hog farming profitable because farmers who had grain on their land were able to get an advantage, feeding their own grain to their own hogs, well now the selling price for grain is well below the cost of production for grain ... family farmers are at a disadvantage
12:00:00 have a doubling of the conservation resource programme, Harkin has been the author of a new package of iniatives, we also need to have more on farm, farmer owned storage, little ... market dictates what the price will be ... have to buy whats demanded by the seller, well if you have more fanner owned storage that shifts the balance of power, going into the market, open more markets for our products overseas ... long since passed the time when anybody believes that a magic solution for our problem
12:06:05 cutaway
12:06:11 pan of audience, another cutaway
12:06:36 wide shot of Gore speaking
12:06:41 I want to fight for you and I want to fight for family farmers, I need your help to be the
next president of the US
12:07:02 questions:
12:09:21 I said I'm for anti-trust enforcement, on the wto rejected, these talks are going to start
again ... signed, sealed and delivered, but our number one objective is to get a reduction in argicultural tariffs overseas ... Tom Harkin talking this morning if you look at all the subsides ... they don't by very much from us... their consumers pay an extra ... lot of agricultural products, that's going to benefit our farmers....
12:12:42 1 called for mandatory price reporting for the large livestock, slaughterhouses, as this new, we'll need the evidence, evidence in the prices ... what I said earlier...needs to be documented,
12:15:29 same people exploiting lot of low income, not giving them health care and benefits, working conditions, you know what in the ... doesn't sound like a very good deal for Iowa, this company comes in causes a lot of human misery, causes a decline ... you know if there is any basis under the antritrust laws, these huge factories
12:18:45 side shot of Gore speaking
12:18:55 pull back to wide shot
12:19:11 wide shot of Gore on stage
12:27:07 not squandering the tax bonus, keep the economy going strong, build a bipartsian
consensus with presidential leadership, medicare a little tougher challenge, scheduled to go bankrupt by 2015
12:29:12 tiger woods gets ten cents a box (applause) holding up a box of Wheaties ... that
computers to about 7/1 Os of the retail price, if they throw the wheat out of the box of Wheaties ... if there is one point I would love to make, conunodity groups go to Washington and say they representing the down home farmer are not representing us anymore
12:35:09 1 will go anyplace any time to try to help this man get elected because he is a friend of the family farm, I came all the way out from NJ, just to reach people his opponent knows nothing