(More paraphrasing until I get the audio up)
James Klauser introduced Wisconsin Attorney General JB Van Hollen. He is glad to be here, and that this got rescheduled so he could make it.
Does life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness sound like change? Unfortunately, with the way government is, it is change.
Government has taken away the ability to defend life nowadays. They took the liberty to protect borders away. They changed the pursuit of happiness into (missed it; I will update when I replay the tape).
Even some of those on my side of the aisle (Republican) get caught up in government. We have become so much an entitlement society it is hard to get into government by opposing expansion of entitlements.
When he, as a kid, asked his dad what conservatism means, he answered that it is belief in limited government and self-determination.
The first priority is public safety. Even after he won, he kept his campaign slogan.
At the federal level, the first duty is protect the borders.
Onto the defense of his first year; it may not look conservative, but it is limited government. His vision of the Department of Justice is local control, with some help from the DOJ.
Conservatives do not believe in no government, but in limited government. He has made significant progress on the backlog at the DNA lab.
He will help local governments go after Internet child pornography, has increased the Medicare fraud department, is cooperating with the feds on illegal immigration.
He is contrasting his view on the role of the AG with that of his predecessors; he won’t grow it into a policy-making body, but that it be a law firm (and not a tort law firm either). That is part of restoring integrity.
Change begins with people in the grassroots. We need to change back to the way we were in the first place.
