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Bob Dold

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first: 2017-06-15
most recent: 2017-06-15
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“I'm not closing any doors on anything. I just think it's important to keep options open. And I would love to have the opportunity to serve again in some capacity.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Listen, it's been the honor of my life to be able to be the voice and serve the people of the 10th Congressional District. I think public service is something that, frankly, each and every one of us ought to be looking at how we serve in some way, shape or form. It may be narrow, it may be with a school board, it may be helping out, it may be volunteering, but for me, I think public service is absolutely critical. And I would love to have the opportunity to serve again. And what I said in a statement before, I just don't think 2018 is going to be the year for me. So I am not looking to run for Congress in 2018 and am going to look to try to see how we might be able to spend more time with the family and try to work on the private sector type stuff and hopefully keep options open down the road, whether that happens or not. I don't know.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I think it has a real potential to be much more difficult in the next one. And I think, what is it, three congresses or three elections since in the last hundred and some odd years where the incumbent party has gained or maintained seats? So I think that certainly the odds are against incumbent party, which would be the candidate. Got to look right.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To be able to really have that. Policy agenda really started to take hold, and then afterwards the politics really starts to kind of be pervasive in this thing. And certainly by the time the new year rolls around, people are in full re-election mode.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It does. And what people also have to recognize is that if you're calling it Labor Day Turning the Corner, which is completely accurate, Congress is out in most of August. So you've got till basically August 1.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Hopefully there. I don't see that happening anytime soon. And my colleagues, at least many that I continue to talk with, are concerned that they're not going to, because pretty quickly, as you well know, we were going to be in political season. And the campaigns are going to understand that.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is extraordinarily difficult. And, you know, I would argue that ultimately we want to move forward with a legislative agenda. And that's why hopefully things can calm down. And hopefully people can have an opportunity to look at the issues and try to do it. I think that we're going to...”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think that there are some. That are looking at this and saying to Speaker Ryan, you know, we've got to move forward with our agenda. And I think there's going to be a push to continue to talk about what is Congress doing? What is Congress doing? It's obviously being overshadowed by tweets and what happens at 1,600 Pennsylvania Avenue and ultimately we still have to govern and we need to move forward. I think there's a lot of people out there concerned that the legislature. It's hard to do.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As you say, it's complicated. We've got complicated. Well, tax reform is going to be complicated. We have a lot of complicated issues and that we need basically all the rows, all the ores in the water row in the same direction. And frankly, I would argue that we want those ores to be Republican and Democrat ores in that water row in the same direction”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Condoleezza So I don't have any regrets about the way things went down or the positions that I've taken. I stand by them and I'm happy to discuss them with anybody. I had some people ask me, you know, would you work with the president, with Donald Trump, if you became president? I said, of course. Like it would work with any president. And there's a significant amount of things that I know that my colleagues would like to try to tackle, including tax reform and regulatory reform. We have obviously a big issue with regard to healthcare to ensure that we have quality affordable care for people that is going to take people coming together to solve issues.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's not. I mean, listen, I wrote in somebody, actually I wrote in an African-American woman to either president of the United States. So I don't have any regrets because”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I never had any second thoughts about that. I recognize that people were angry with me. They said, how can you not support Donald Trump? He's our nominee and the like. And I said, look, I will support whomever you send to sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue in the sense that I'm going to work with whomever's there to be the voice of the tenth congressional district, but I'm not going to go back, nor would you want me to change my position on that. I certainly was not a Hillary supporter. I think there was some integrity issues there, which I'm happy to talk about if you want to. It doesn't seem relevant.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Me that right there and then. I said this is not someone that I can support to be commander in chief. For me very personally because the one thing that we do know, David, is that someone's going to be shot down again. And it's not going to be something that we want to have happen. We just know that there will be a conflict, there will be an American serviceman or service woman that's going to be flying a mission that's going to be shot down. And what we don't need is them to believe that the commander-in-chief doesn't think highly of them or prefers somebody else. Honestly, if anybody wants to say that my uncle or John McCain or any of those POWs aren't heroes, To me, it is completely unacceptable.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Listen for me. My oldest daughter's name Jacqueline Harper Dold. We named her Harper after my uncle, who was a POW in Vietnam. He was the second one shot down, he was flying off the USS Coral Sea on an F eight crusader. Ejected out of his plane 35 feet above the ground, broke his back on impact. And for the next eight years in a day was in captivity When Donald Trump came out to say that he didn't think John McCain was a hero because he was captured and shot down, he prefers those that were not shot down.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Honestly, no. I thought, as did my team, that even, you know, election night after all the regular votes were in and we were just waiting for the early vote to come in, we thought we were going to win this race. And, you know, we worked about 2,200 events in the district, and we're able to get a message out. And again, as a master record as one of the most independent and bipartisan members in the United States Congress, which is exactly what the district, I think, was looking for. Donald Trump, I think, was one of those things that, frankly, had it been anybody else running, I think that we would be in Congress today.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I think there should have been, and I recognize that this is still a process. And again, healthcare is tough. There's no question, it is a very complicated issue. And ultimately, I think that some of the things that the Republicans are talking about in terms of patient-centric care are positives. Those are really good things. We want people to be more in control of the healthcare that they're going to be able to receive. But again, how it gets rolled out and what the actual details are are extremely important.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And ultimately, this is about my hope is can we get beyond this now? Can we start to fix it? Can we fix this issue because this is something that's going to impact every single American and ultimately... It's 150 to have me. So for me, I would have been a no on this until I had seen.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This most recent bill, I would have voted no in the sense that I do not believe that the replacement was one that was up to speed. I don't think that it was ready, as they say, ready for prime time. And I do think that it does require some additional work. Again, the thing that I hear from constituents, again, as we see premiums that are on the rise, deductibles that have gone through the roof, I do think that there is certainly things within the Affordable Care Act that need to be changed. And colleagues, frankly, on the Democratic side of the aisle will say the same.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“While the race in 2012, we lost by seven tenths of a percent when President Obama won the district by seventeen. And then in 2014, we won by four points. And then this last time around with President Trump at the top of the ticket, we lost by four.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With amendments, no question about it, but I still think that the process was not the appropriate one and was against it. And then once it had been rolled out, Again, I was campaigning and believed that you can't take something away from folks without having the alternative, having the replacement there. And so even during that second term voted not to was one of very, like I think two or three Republicans to vote not to repeal the Affordable Care Act, largely because we hadn't come up with what the replacement was going to be. And in this plan”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I also voted not to as it got later. So in the first term, it was more of this hasn't really rolled out. Let's not move forward. I didn't think that the way it came about in terms of Without a single Republican vote, when you're talking about one fifth of our economy, not the appropriate way to do it.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In essence, we're not going to, we need to continue to be the champions of this, largely because the way their districts are drawn, that's what they want, their constituents want them to be banging that drum. And ultimately what that is, is that's a recipe for absolute gridlock, for nothing to happen. And I would argue that that is not what people generally were sent to Congress to do. They were sent hopefully to solve some problems. And even if it's not everything that you want, my hope is that you're getting something there that you can look at your children in the eye and say, this is what we were able to do to try to make life a little bit easier, a little bit better, try to make sure that we were growing our economy a little bit. It might not be everything that we wanted, but ultimately we need to know that this is the things that we're fighting for.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Members of Congress go to the speaker to advocate that, and you're going to have others that will basically be championing the, we're not going to give in, we're going to continue to take the heart line.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Both are going to happen. So, what I mean by that is that you'll have the moderates that will go to the speaker's office basically saying that, look, we came to Washington to get things done. The only way that we're going to get things done is by working with the other side. We need to forge an agreement to be able to have some give and take where, again, as Ronald Reagan or as others have said, get us partway there. We'll get the rest next time. Let's continue to make sure that we're moving forward. And so you're going to have a huge number of”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We seem like we were in the crosshairs for a good chunk of my time in frankly both different Congresses, but that's okay. I mean, that's, you know, I knew what I was signing up for with regard to this and really felt we had an opportunity to try to move the needle. But we were constantly in the crosshairs because we had a Republican majority that wanted to pull things further to the right. And ultimately, we had to try to appease some of those folks. And I honestly wish that we were able to get more stuff done and really believed that we would be able to... If we were able to try to forge a little bit more of a conciliatory tone.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And they said, No, I voted no and hell no, so I didn't do a thing. And I said, no, no, we had an agreement for ten twenty eight, and if you had voted yes, we would have spent one trillion twenty eight billion, but you voted no, so we're going to spend one trillion forty eight billion. So you spend an extra twenty billion dollars of our children or our taxpayer dollars, and you need to understand that there's a cost on some of these things that frankly is going to end up hurting a lot of us.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The more conservative guys that voted no on the 1028 because they wanted 1019 certainly weren't going to get there. And so my conversations with those folks were after we had to vote for 1048 and the speaker came to me and said, Bob, we need your vote because we're not going to shut the government down. I asked him what makes you think my constituents want to spend an extra 20 billion dollars. They said, well, we need you in order to keep the government up and operational. So I said, okay, I'll vote for it. My conversations off the floor with them are, you guys just cost us an extra $20 billion.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I said, nope, we're not going to do 1028. We can do it for 1019. Ultimately, we put 1028 on the floor and it failed because no Democrat voted for 1028 until the Republicans could show that we could get 218 votes. So it failed. Stenny Hoyer, who was the whip, Democratic whip at the time, walked across the floor to Kevin McCarthy, who at the time was the Republican whip and said it looks like you need a few Democrat votes. The new number is ten forty eight. You had Republicans that had voted for ten twenty eight that were really having problems voting for another twenty billion dollars in conservative districts.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In the absence of a budget we have a continuing resolution and the agreed upon number between the House and the Senate was one trillion twenty eight billion. It's a sizable number to fund the government for a period of time. And there were some on the right that said, you know what? We think we can do this for one trillion nineteen billion. And I said, listen, I'd like to save $9 billion just like the next guy, but are agreed upon number with the Senate is 1028.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I argued that with, frankly, of both speakers, to say, look, if the Freedom Caucus is going to take us down that path, let's cut the deal. And frankly, it's going to have much better opportunities. Certainly in that first Congress, when we had a democratically controlled Senate, to say let's absolutely work with some Democrats and make sure we've got a bipartisan support, let the Freedom Caucus continue to go off further to the right. Before there was a Freedom Caucus, some of the folks that would have been in that caucus, and let me just give you an example, we're talking about a continuing resolution, how we're going to fund the government. We had an agreed-upon number.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, my frustration certainly from members on the right that are unwilling to either listen or compromise on, and again, compromise is not a bad word, but knowing that we need to get 218 votes is that the frustration level is that they would constantly be moving things further and further to the right. And if this was a conservative piece of legislation, they wouldn't vote for it because they wanted to move it even further to the right. So the answer was generally always no regardless. It got to the point where we needed folks from the Freedom Caucus, otherwise we weren't going to get 218 votes. And so the frustration level is it would put others in a particularly difficult situation in order to try to get things done.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Tuesday group. Yeah, we weren't strong marketers of the Tuesday group. I want to let you know and make sure that people know that are listening. I did not brand it the Tuesday group.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did. I had a very good relationship with John, with Speaker Boehner. And this is a guy that had a tremendous respect for the institution. Would do anything to protect the institution and recognize that the institution worked best by making sure that he was giving and there was some give and take there, certainly with the other side. And he had a lot of great relationships. And frankly, when there was when he was under some pretty significant pressure from folks on our side of the aisle, I had conversations with others that would have come to his rescue should there be kind of a vote of no confidence to take him off the floor that they would have stepped up to vote in his favor.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That was not the tenor of the politics then, and so not in that time or in the next couple of Congresses, we've seen a kind of a sharp departure from that in that, you know, this was really. The first time that when I came, we had taken over the house. And so there was much kind of exuberance from the Republicans that we had taken over the House first time in a long time that we had actually controlled the gavel there. And then coming back in 14, when we took over the Senate.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think you've got a number of people that are looking to kind of come in and make a change immediately, not recognizing or understanding kind of the way things were and the fact that the way things were in politics for a long time was this reference which people longingly look for in the Tip O'Neill Ronald Reagan type thing that we can disagree without being disagreeable. We'll fight like cats and dogs during the day on policy and at night we're going to Be friends and not be holding. That wasn't really”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“New members of Congress that were coming in, some of those Democrats that were filling further Democrats, I think there were nine of them that came in and a huge freshman class, 63, which had taken over four Democrats, I think something along those lines. So it was when you look at kind of just the institutional knowledge of the institution. I think we've had over the course of the last few Congresses, over two-thirds of them have been there less than six years. So it's just interesting when you look at that.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's, yeah. I mean, you've got that going for you. But the thing is, the class was actually a bigger class because the numbers that you're not putting in there are those seats that Republicans left that Republicans filled. So in terms of new faces, it was actually closer to 97.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You have to go knock on the doors. You have to, in essence, interrupt people during dinner at the diner, that sort of a thing. And that's one of the things you have to get over, something that I saw happen in the past and knew that was one of the things that I needed to do. And so I guess I'd seen it a little up close before and was all too willing to help. I mean, the advanced work, I think, was helpful in terms of kind of making sure that whatever images we were putting out, message of the day, do we have that in a picture? And can we put that on Facebook or can we do those types of things? But there's nothing that's going to replace the face-to-face, the opportunity to talk to people about why me and what makes them comfortable enough to put their trust in them.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think more so the grassroots type work helped largely because the people that really got me over that initial threshold were the grassroots folks and they wanted to know kind of where have you been, what have you done, and the fact that I was a precinct captain and had worked and carrying water for the local organization for a long time. Was helpful as opposed to someone that parachuted in and said now is my time, I'm going to run and would like your support. And so, you know, that, I think, was enormously helpful and also helpful to try to make sure that, you know,”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But the crowded primary, I think there were more people after I decided to jump in. Other people decided to jump in, so it became more crowded. And I think ultimately we had about seven people that were in the primary at one time. A couple of them dropped out. But it was one of those things that we were never supposed to win. We weren't really on the radar for the National Republican Congressional Committee. So therefore, we had to work hard to try to get their attention. And ultimately, nobody told us we weren't supposed to win. So we just outworked the other side and ultimately at the end of the day emerged from the primary with 38% of the vote. Which was in that five-way primary at the end was pretty significant.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Again, in this type of a situation, the emotional side was that was the reason to step up to try to run. The practical side was that, as you pointed out, Mark Kirk wasn't running, so it was an open field because trying to run a business and a young family certainly wasn't a convenient time to run for office.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No question. And there was one person that could have ended this whole thing at any time, and that's my wife. So we made a decision that we can do anything for six months. Is what her words were. Needless to say.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's an emotional and a practical side to it. So, what I tell people is that the emotional side was, as a small business person, you know, I felt the government was making it harder and harder for me to put the key in the door of my small business than it is small business. And they should be making it easier for me to open my doors, easier for me to hire the next individual. That was kind of the emotional side, like, okay, do we run?”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you certainly are very close in that sort of a situation. You certainly are. Yeah, I mean, that's a good thing to do. But again, rolling up your sleeves and kind of understanding what people that are leaving paycheck to paycheck are going through, I think, is good medicine for frankly anybody that wants to be in public service and never to lose sight of those things.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is. And when one of the things that certainly I'm very proud of is that during every downturn that we've experienced, at no time do I know that we've ever laid people off because of a downturn. Now, certainly we've laid people off for other reasons or they've left for some other reasons, but we've never just tightened our belt, largely because the goal of our organization, at least that I make sure everybody knows, is that we want long-lasting relationships with coworkers and customers”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People's homes and the food supply and all that other stuff. So I'm just enormously proud of what the work that we're able to do in the business. And frankly, when I look at that 135 people, that's 135 families that we've been able to help. And my hope is, again, that we are one big family. That's the idea behind a family business is that, frankly, we're able to operate a little bit differently than those that are doing quarterly earnings for Wall Street.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And the people that I work with, they don't really care that I went to law school. They certainly don't care that I want to business school. The fact that I was a member of Congress maybe actually hurt me. But you crawl the crawl space with them. All of a sudden, then you've got their respect. And I've never forgotten the idea that, you know, look, this is a business that I have great pride in the work that we do and protecting”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the biggest thing on a family business is that you have to work hard to earn the respect of the people that have been there for a long time.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which again just allows you to bring those experiences and different set of ideas back to the family business, which I think is healthy.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, after Kellogg, I actually ended up working in Exodus communications, which was doing web hosting and during that whole process and was doing business development for them, and then went into the family business. So I think it's, again, I would encourage people to get an experience if you're going to do a family business outside of the family business first.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source