if you think of reagan democrats the way stand for principle you pay in bold colors. a few months ago, a woman brought in a poster and asked me to sign a poster for a woman named kristin for her birthday she said kristin is a liberal california democrat. i said so i m signing. she said kristin called me and said i picked my force for 2016. she says okay. you re backing hillary? she said no. cruz. she said what are you talking about? kristin said, i just got my health insurance bill sh i can t afford obamacare. how will you address the diversity of the american people? well, listen. i am a cuban irish italian.
she battled her father. 17 kids. well, that was her mother. and she became my mom became the first person in her family ever to go to college. and she went to rice, graduated 1956 with a degree in math and went into computer programming at shell. i mean was shattering glass ceilings. my mom is 80 this year. she was there at the event. and she is a woman of strength and fortitude but also incredible compassion. she is a wonderful mom and an incredible grandmother to our two little girls. and your dad fought bautista in cuba, came here at 18. he did. one of the things i try to do with the students at liberty is try to help put them in his shoes. that he was 14, 15 years old. he was a kid in high school in student council when the revolution began. and the revolution in cuba it
incredible compassion. she is a wonderful mom and an incredible grandmother to our two little girls. and your dad fought bautista in cuba, came here at 18. he did. one of the things i try to do with the students at liberty is try to help put them in his shoes. that he was 14, 15 years old. he was a kid in high school in student council when the revolution began. and the revolution in cuba it started in the student councils, in the high schools, in the colleges. and, you know, i sort of laughed. i was in student council growing up, but nobody would confuse our student council with revolutionaries. and my dad ended up when he was 17 bautista s police captured him and threw him in prison and beat him halfway to death. and he fled cuba. my grandfather told him look, they know who you are. they re just going to hunt you down and kill you.
so he applied to three universities, applied to university of miami lsu and university of texas. and ut let him in. so my dad my grandfather drove my father to the ferry boat. my father lay down on the floorboards in the bottom of the car to hide because the police were keeping an eye on him. and he got on the ferry boat. he had a passport. he d gotten a legal student visa from the american consulate because he d been admitted to ut could get a student visa. and then they had a family friend who ended up he needed a stamp from the bautista government to get out and they weren t going to get it to him, so a family friend paid a bribe to the cuban authorities to get the cuban stamp to let him out. he took a ferry boat to key west and then got on a greyhound bus and went all the way to austin and couldn t speak english had a hundred dollars in his underwear. very similar stories for a lot of families, my family as
said i picked my force for 2016. she says okay. you re backing hillary? she said no. cruz. she said what are you talking about? kristin said, i just got my health insurance bill sh i can t afford obamacare. how will you address the diversity of the american people? well, listen. i am a cuban irish italian. raised in texas and i think we re together a melting pot of cultures we come together and i also think we do that by not treating people in buckets python-holing them but appealing to universal values liberty individual rights, the constitution. that brings us together rather than dividing us. have you ever in your adult life worked a job earning