Kentucky Governor-Elect Matt Bevin Victory Speech 2015 Governor Race
Kentucky Governor-elect Matt Bevin Victory Speech 2015 Governor Race
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin - Wife - and their 9 children
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Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin - Wife - and their 9 children[/caption]
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Kentucky Governor Elect Matt Bevin gives his victory speech, "Core Christian Values"
https://youtu.be/xGrfDldD9tI
Machine generated transcript, expect errors
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thank you very much
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extraordinary tell you what is awesome at this is a race that is a collective
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effort you all are the wind behind us you all were the momentum that brought
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this forward you all represent those who from east to west from north to south or
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why we indeed will be the next governor and lieutenant governor of this
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Commonwealth of Kentucky it is love to hear those bells I wanna I want to start
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by first of all thanking somebody who I could not do this without in its funny I
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hear so often how is it possible that you always seem so rested and you've got
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things together and you have all these children how is it possible that you're
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able to do this and I'll tell you you marry well that's how it's done
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my wife is somebody who does not love a lot of fanfare she's a fairly quiet
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woman she's an extraordinary mother she hates me for doing this to her but I'll
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tell you what this is an extraordinarily strong person somebody who is gracious
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somebody who will make a fantastic first lady for the Commonwealth
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I don't know why she's here and as a captive audience i truly I am grateful
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to you gonna I really thank you and God bless you I also want to thank each of
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my children who have endured an amazingly long slug and the lot of times
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where I was not there for things that I would have liked to have been there for
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as I was traveling the state with so many of the others that were running for
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office
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crossing paths with many of you so much more often than even with my own
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children and i really wanna thank each of them by name
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Carolina grace go to the first names it could be a long time I'm gonna go to
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Madison Olivia
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highs it Lydia Jonah
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there just because it's always fun to I am grateful to you a little while ago I
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had an opportunity to hear from Jack Conway who very graciously reached out
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and conceded this race in it is something I was grateful for we had a
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good conversation about several things not the least of which is that we have
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much work ahead of us and that we are Republicans and Democrats and that we
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are 1 Kentucky at the end of the day and we have much work that must be done I do
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want to tell you before I make a couple of simple comments and we'll keep this
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short and sweet I know that many of you are weary of turning on your TV and
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seeing my evil twin and so I just want you to know I have asked him to move out
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of Kentucky I have asked a guy I don't know who he is exactly but he's been up
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to no good apparently and he's been given me a bad name and he has been
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absolutely inundating your airwaves so I have I'm hoping for all your say that
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you'll be able to watch the football game you'll be able to watch jeopardy
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you'll be able to watch whatever it is you happen to watch without seeing him
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and his shenanigans so we've asked him to move on out of here and I appreciate
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you putting up with him for so many months about the fact that we as a state
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we as a party we as a people and frankly we as a nation in some measure but
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specific to this moment in time in the Commonwealth of Kentucky we need a fresh
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start
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we truly do we need a fresh start and I'm grateful for the fact that this
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trajectory that put me here and I do believe that people find themselves in
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certain places certain moment in time for a reason and I'm grateful for the
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fact that everything that has afforded me this opportunity began because I was
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raised by a man and a woman who raised me with things that were
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maternal value maternal consequence they raised me with an incredible work ethic
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but they also raised me with an appreciation and respect for God for
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them from my country for the rule of law in my mother and father here with me
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right in front
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give a hand on my mother and father have other siblings here as well one of my
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brothers one of my sisters a lot of my nephews are here and I'm grateful to you
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all for being here I truly and I'm grateful for the trajectory that you
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want me on my mother told me earlier she thought she liked it a little better
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when I was the president of the 48 club and not and not the governor of a state
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or the governor-elect in this case but I'll tell you what I'm grateful to you
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mom i'm grateful to you dad thank you so much for everything I appreciate it
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I will simply say this at the risk of bringing us down I do want us to
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remember that the task before us has only just begun its really has only just
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begun in the wall there are people in other rooms just like this and other
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parts of this state that are disappointed tonight who have poured for
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various reasons and in various ways themselves into campaigns and things did
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not turn out as they had hoped for and yet my hat is off to every single
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individual from my immediate opponent Jack Conway Andrew Curtis who I also
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heard from to those that ran in the down ticket races on both sides of the aisle
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to all the men and women who have put themselves forward it is at times a
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thankless task and I'm grateful to those who have done so because it is the very
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thing that makes the fabric of this nation strong when we continue to weave
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ourselves together with disparate ideas different ideologies different
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perspectives
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this is the strength and the beauty of america it truly is and I'm grateful to
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those who have run I'm grateful for the fact that while we have great
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opportunity ahead of us and while it will be a great amount of work that we
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have this kind of enthusiasm this type of encouragement because this is the
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chance for a fresh start it truly is and we desperately needed I'm grateful for
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the fact that we and when I say we I mean all of you have run this race our
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way in by our way what I mean is we have not chosen to climb into the trough we
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have chosen to take the proverbial high road in this is good because I believe
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this offers us an opportunity to change the tenor of what has become expected in
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the world of politics that we have become
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are living proof of the fact that we don't need to follow down that cycle
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that we don't need to settle for the lesser of evils that we don't need to
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settle for the divisiveness that we can celebrate solutions that we can
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celebrate the greatness of our diversity and yet the things that bring us
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together this is what I am grateful for I'm grateful for the fact that you all
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went to the ballot box in those that are watching and those that have
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collectively decided that we want a fresh start that we want to turn the
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page this is your Kentucky this is our opportunity we will seek the future
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together but we will do it as one Kentucky Republican and Democrat alike
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independent those who did not even vote to those of you who did vote I
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personally thank you I thank you on behalf of those men and women who have
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given everything who have given us the ability to go to the ballot box I thank
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you
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for the one and a half million Americans who have given their lives in uniform of
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our nation's military for the men and women who have given their lives in the
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uniform of our police officers and firefighters and other first responders
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these are people who did not have the ability to vote but because of the fact
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that they have gone into places and done things that we did not want to do that
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some of us were not even able to do but they were willing and able to do these
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things they have afforded us the variability to be here tonight
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freely assembled really speaking and having the very privileged of the ballot
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box and so our hat is off to those of you who have given everything into your
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families who are watching tonight
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this is a call out to everyone in Kentucky tonight whether you voted for
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me whether you didn't vote for me whether you voted or didn't vote this is
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your Kentucky this is your america this is our opportunity to come together as
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one we have much work ahead of us live set it off and on the campaign trail but
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Thomas Edison noted that most people in life miss opportunity he said they
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missed opportunity because it usually shows up in overalls and looks like hard
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work and indeed it's true indeed it is true we have much hard work ahead of us
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but we have extraordinary opportunity we are blessed with things in this state
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you could not buy at any price we are blessed with an abundance of resources
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we are blessed with an incredible set of values that the vast majority of
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Kentuckians hold the core christian values that this nation was built on in
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while some will apologize
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there is no reason that we must apologize for the core principles that
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make us an exceptional nation that make us an exceptional state we are
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remarkably like I have driven 95,000 miles around this state in the last two
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years that's a lot of miles i've seen many of you many times and some of you
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have seen for the first time tonight but I'll tell you this we are for all the
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things that separate us we are incredibly alike and I want us tonight
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to go out of here
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inspired to unite I challenge each of you tonight to find somebody as you go
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about your business tomorrow somebody who you know was on the other side of
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this particular battle this particular political equation it reach out to them
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extend your hand literally figuratively whatever the case might be that we are
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only going to be the greatest version of ourselves if in fact we are 1 Kentucky
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it must happen my challenge to you is do not fail to take the high road as we
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have done to this point continue to take the high road because this is the
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opportunity for Kentucky to be a beacon to the nation the values that we hold
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the principles that we hold the work ethic that we hold the high road that we
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will take this will change the tenor of what happens in the 2016 race it's truly
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well because it will be you who represent the fact that kentucky is a
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crown jewel in the crown of America we truly are
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I am grateful to you I am grateful to you then I would be able to express even
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if I were to try I'm humbled by the challenge before us I'm humbled by the
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opportunity before us i'm grateful for the fact that you have been so generous
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with your support to so many others who have run as well from the conservative
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side of the aisle and I'll tell you while I'm a Republican and I've always
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been a Republican and I'm proud for the fact that this is a great night for the
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republican party in the state of Kentucky I'm also I'm also grateful for
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the fact that even more importantly this is a great night for conservatives in
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the state of Kentucky we have a lot of work ahead of us we have a lot of work
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to do its gonna be time to get the overalls on get the boots on get out of
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bed but this is our opportunity to go out and sees it I am grateful to each
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and every one of you for being here enjoy this night but do not forget that
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we are 1 Kentucky black white rural urban at both ends of the socioeconomic
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spectrum we represent an opportunity as a ticket to be something that Kentucky
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has never seen representation of who we are a seat at the table for people from
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every perspective of our state this is going to change the tenor of the state
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just as a changed the tenor of the selection in the way we executed this
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campaign I truly think we as a state have the ability to change the tenor of
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what politics looks like what representation looks like what a seat at
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the table means what it will mean when Kentucky shines like the beacon that it
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will be I'm grateful to you I'm thankful to you god bless you and may God bless
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the Commonwealth of Kentucky
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