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Roemer 2012 Exploratory Committee

NH GOP Debate - #01. Introduction +
2:47 web video released June 14, 2011.

Roemer: Hello everybody, I'm glad you could join us.  We're not at the debate tonight; we didn't quite make the numbers yet, but we're getting closer.  Some day, somewhere, some place we'll have a chance to talk about how to make America great again. 

My concern tonight is that the biggest question won't even be asked.  America is in so much debt it may never pay it back.  We're addicted to foreign oil.  We're not growing any new jobs.  Small business is burdened by over-regulation from this administration.  We have a tax code you cannot read.  We have no plan to scrub the budget.  We're a nation without a plan, without direction, without leadership. 

But my big concern is as long as our presidents and our candidates take big checks from the special interests, we'll never rise again.  Let me say it.  When GE can give three and a half million dollars to candidates for president and pay no taxes, when Goldman Sachs can help break the country by what I consider illegal and fraudulent action on Wall Street with 18 other Wall Street banks and have a fundraiser for the President at $35,000 a ticket, there will be no bank reform, and America will not be strong again.

My purpose is to tell the truth about money in politics.  And the truth is that the special interests have bought us.  Fewer that 1-percent of the people give money to presidential candidates.  The other 99-percent of us live with the results.  What do the 1-percent get?  Special favors, no taxes, and visits to the White House.  We should stop it.  My campaign's about a $100 limit, no PAC money, and full disclosure. 

Can you win that way?  Absolutely.  It's the only way you can lead, but you can win too.  I need one person out of a hundred to make that $100 contribution.  That's three million people, one out of a hundred, at $100.  And that's more money than Romney or McCain spent in the last election combined.  This can be done.  America's in trouble.  What we need is a leader free to lead a rising nation.  We'll answer the questions [inaud. word or two].


NH GOP Debate - #30. Closing - What did you learn from the debate
3:04 web video released June 14, 2011.

Roemer: I enjoyed the last two hours answering every question, not just some of them, and not listening to their answers [but] giving you mine.  I hope you enjoyed it too.  I learned a lot in the last two hours.  I'm reminded of New Hampshire, the home of Robert Frost's farm, the home of good people, the home of small businesses.  It used to be the home of small manufacturing companies.  We threw those out of the country.  It used to be the home of people who were self reliant—live free or die—and more and more of their toes and freedoms are being stepped on by the federal government.  Our government has changed from one of the good guys to one of the bad guys.  And I learned again, every time I go to New Hampshire—and I'll spend a lot of this campaign there—that people want to be free, they want to have decent work, theu want to be treated fairly, they want to make up their own mind. 

And that's what I hope you do about me—make up your own mind, because it's my belief that the most important question of this campaign, the most important question to lift America up again, to lift New Hampshire up again, to create jobs again, is about the corrupting power of special interest money that owns these politicians.  That's where they get their money from.  A thousand dollars, $2,000, $2,500, $5,000, $10,000, in Obama's case $35,000 from guys who "don't want anything special," except to write the tax code, except to keep from paying their fair share, except to keep from you stopping them sending their jobs overseas. 

Look.  We can take our country back.  I need one out of a hundred.  One out of a hundred.  That's three million people at $100.  I've gotten contributions from 44, 45, 46 states.  It's averaged $90.34.  www.BuddyRoemer.com.  We can do this.  You heard the last question.  No one leads the polls.  People aren't excited about this race yet.  There is no leader.  We don't have to beat anybody; we just have to get on the stage and show what we believe and let the people decide.  If they do, I predict they'll pick a hundred dollar limit, no PAC money, no special interest money, full disclosure, free to lead a rising nation.  Good night New Hampshire. 

Notes: Roemer recorded his answers to questions in the June 13 New Hampshire debate live during the debate and posted them in 30 videos the next morning.