Ceasar Ruiz is a Republican extremist.

Transcript of his remarks, 2016. Audience crosstalk removed.

[My name is] Cesar Ruiz and I'm running for state representative in House District 50. Um, I always, it, it's always good because we wind up being at the same meetings a lot, quite a bit, and Gabriel represents the southern half of Tr- or the part of Travis County where I'm at, and I represent the northern half. But our cro- uh, our paths and our districts almost cross.

I mean, they're literally back to back. So a lot of the issues that, uh, affect the people of his district also affect the people of my district. And, uh, and I hope you notice there's one common theme in most, uh, candidates for state representative, at least in the, on the Republican side, and that is helping the people.

Because my opponent, she's an opponent, she just came in, uh, you know, on a special election because the previous gentleman took a high-paying job for Google Fiber, and, uh, he decided that that was more important than, uh, representing the people, which he always said the people always came first, and, uh, he decided that was more important But it was funny because I was recently watching a, a video of my opponent when she was during the, uh, during that runoff election, and they asked her, "Why are you doing this?"

And she said, "Because I wanna bring progressive values to Austin." And I, I had that same feeling. And so, uh, she turned to her, uh, her partner on the Demo- not partner, but her candidate that, or opponent on the Democratic side, and they asked him, "Why are you doing this?"

Well, the guy should've been running as a Republican, because he said, "I'm doing it for the people. I'm doing it to bring good values back to the people. I'm here to protect this," and then he started naming all the progress- all the conservative values that we stand for. And I'm sitting there thinking, and then she turns around and she tries to counter him, saying that those are all Republican points.

You know? Well, maybe they were, but that's what the people need. The people of our district, they need good, solid conservative values to bring pe- to, to bring this district back. Um, so that's where my opponent stands. That's where I'm standing in here. That's why I decided to jump in. It's not, as Gabriel was saying, it's not a Republican versus Democrat.

I mean, to some people it is, but for me, it's not Republican versus Democrat. It's just living up to the solid core of the name representative. We need a solid conservative representative. And actually, I used to say we need a good, solid, uh, conservative representation in Pflugerville or in District 50.

Now, I'm just wanting representation. I mean, she may not have been, uh, she was... You know, I don't like saying this, so I won't talk about her anymore. But I'll just say that, uh, she was pretty absentee this last time as well. I don't know if that's a theme with the Democrats, but being absent and being out, uh, running around doing everything else with Willie Nelson and all these other people-

seems to be more important than representing the people of their district. So I'm here to say that I'm not gonna let her stand there anymore, and I'm gonna d- uh, I'm gonna defeat her, and I'm gonna take her on. Some of the values that I stand on, first and foremost, uh, as a person who went to college to be an educator as well, I wanna fix our education system.

Reforming our education system is top pri- one of the top priorities of my candidacy. We need to bring STEM back to our schools, and, and, you know, speaking to a technology-driven group, science, technology, and engineering is paramount for our young kids. We need to bring school choice back to our parents, because you know what?

You know, who's gonna... Who's, who had... Why should the state tell parents how they should and should not educate their children? That's just wrong. I mean, we're the parents. We should know how we wanna do it. And finally, with education, I wanna fix our teacher retirement system. And I don't know, who knows about the teacher retirement system?

Since we have a little time, I can slow it down. Who knows about the teacher retirement system, other than Gabriel and his wi- and Mrs. Neal then? So you know that it's similar to Social Security, right? In the sense that you're paying into this teacher retirement system, and the state, just like Social Security at the national level, is dipping into that retirement system to pay for other things.

They dip into it just like Social Security, and they're taking away future retirement s- uh, uh, pay for t- uh, teachers and wh- And so when Gabriel retires, when he finally retires in 19, 29, 39 years, when he finally decides to step down, if we don't protect this, he's not gonna have anything, just like you hear all the time, people arguing about Social Security.

It's not gonna be there for the next generation. So we have, you know... Because to me, I mean, and I wanna do this because to me, education is just as important to our national security as our military is. Education and educators. I really believe that. I mean, if we don't follow this, we're gonna lose it, and we're gonna wind up being in last place, and nobody wants that.

Uh, next I wanna fix our, uh, reform our, uh, um, our businesses. I wanna bring business reform back. I wanna protect our small businesses. As one, uh, former, uh, mayor of Austin once said, "Small business is big business in Austin." And I've talked to these small businesses. So many of them wanna start up, and they have to wait six, nine, even 12 months to start up a small business because of the ridiculous regulations and the ridiculous permits that they have to have.

So we need to get rid of some of these regulations. If we have to do it at the state level, then let's go on ahead and do it at the state level so places like Austin can't, you know, invoke these ridiculous permits that, you know, I don't know if you remember hearing about the, uh, the permit for the, uh, the people that wanted the, what's it called, threading for the eyebrows. You remember hearing about that? So if... And I wouldn't, I guess Mrs. Neal might know a little bit more about the threading of the eyebrows. I don't know about... I, I, I guess it's a way to pluck the eyebrows and make 'em shape them or something like that. So they were saying that these threaders had to have the same regulations and the same training as a full-time barber, which was thousand- hundreds of hours of training, I believe.

Something like that, just to be able to do that. And so it was putting them out of business, and they were unable. They were gonna have to move on, just like food carts and many others, and they weren't gonna be able to, unable to do this. So the state had to finally step in and say, "You can't do this. I mean, we gotta, we gotta fix this.

You can't do that." So we need to reform this, uh, our business system, and we need to make it, uh, profitable and equitable for our small businesses so that we can start... I mean, so young minority businesses can start up. Um, there's something called, uh, a s- uh, oh, I'm losing my mind now. Uh, historical hubs. Historically underutilized businesses. Now, I can tell you this. I went one time to a state representative from South Texas, a Democrat, and I was trying to get him, on behalf of veterans, 'cause I'm a veteran, to uh, get- 100% disabled veterans to be recognized as a hub when they want to start up a business.

And he went on this tangent. First he started about saying, "First the Mex- ... Well, fir- we started it for the His- the Black people." That is his exact words. "Then the Mexicans wanted it, so we decided to go on ahead and give it to them." And then he said it just like this, "And then the women wanted it." Just like...

This is a Democrat. This is a person who says they're all for women's rights and women's choice and everything else, and he's throwing a fit because we want to help out our veterans. So that's the type of attitude we're dealing with in the Democratic, uh, uh, uh, people. I know I'm running a little bit long.

That's okay. With the Democrats. They stand on one side publicly, but behind the doors, they're completely opposite. We need to end this. We need to stop this. And finally and foremost, I'm gonna stand for life no matter what. I will fight to my death for the life of our young children. I once took an oath as a veteran, as a, a military person, to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, and my service in uniform may have been, may be over, but my service to the people of the United States of America is not.

And so I will protect and I will defend the right to life to my dying day. It's wrong. It's legalized murder, and I will not stand for it, and I will put an end to that. My generation will end Planned Parenthood. My generation will end abortion. And together we're gonna make this happen because together is how we're gonna do it.

I need you. I need you. I need you. We can't sit on the sidelines any longer because they're gathering in their numbers. They're gathering in their masses. They're getting their people together and saying, "Straight party ticket. Just go up and show up. Straight party ticket. Don't listen to anything. They're all wrong.

They're all idiots. They all want to take away your rights. Straight party ticket." And I'm here to tell you, we have the mass. You, I want... I, I challenge every one of you to talk to two people. Bring two people over to our side, and together we're gonna turn this ridiculous little blueberry into the sweetest raspberry in Texas, and we're gonna make it happen, and we're gonna change this, and we're gonna do it right.

And Pat's gonna be right there beside me, 'cause Pat's been fighting this fight for a long time, and I'm glad to have him on my side.

Transcript of his remarks, 2016.

So, uh, my name is Cesar Ruiz and I'm running for state representative in House District 50.

For those of you who don't know, House District 50 is in North Austin, Pflugerville, goes all the way to West North Austin and Hutto, and, uh, it's, uh, currently held by Celia Israel. So as I always like to say, she's a Donna Dukes in training, and we need to get her out of there because, uh, she is as far liberal as a liberal can be.

Um, she tries to claim that she's very inclusive, yet she just had a fundraiser, and this is in no way a knock to the community, but she just had a fundraiser called the Big Gay Fundraiser. Now, if I had something called the Big Protestant or the Big Catholic Fundraiser, and you weren't of that, would you feel excluded?

So she's very exclusive. She's very, um, inclusive only to her certain area, and she's pushing everybody away if you're not around there. In other words, she's only representing that special constituency group that she cares about. She's not representing you. She's not representing me. And it's a big change from what we had before.

So as Gabriel was talking about, the change is upcoming. The tide is turning. People are coming up to us as well and saying, "Hey, who is she? Where is she?" You know, "Where's Donna Dukes? We never see her. Where's Celia Israel? How come she never stands up for us?" And so I recently, if you're a veteran, thank you very much.

I'm also a veteran, and we recently had a, a meeting together with a couple of my, uh, veteran brothers. And, um, yeah, as you know, if you're, if you know any veterans, they're, they don't mince words. They're very colorful with them. And one of the guys in a very colorful way says, "If she walked right by me, I would not know who she is."

And the other guy said the same. And then the next guy said, "You know what you need to do? You need to get a worse Where's Waldo picture and change it and say, 'Where's Celia?'" "Because we don't know who she is. We don't know where she is." So I just got off the phone with my, uh, my graphics guy, and we're building that up, and we're starting a strong campaign.

We're about to come out. Gabriel's coming out strong. We're coming out strong. And you know what? We're gonna win this. This is winnable. This isn't possible. This is winnable, and we're gonna do it, but we need your help. We need every one of you in here to go out there, to like our Facebook page, like our, our, our, our, uh, webpage, cesarruiz.com.

But come out there and show your support for us. Give us your support, because together we're gonna change this. And as like, I like to say, we're gonna change this crazy little blueberry into the sweetest raspberry in Texas ... with your help. So I thank you, and I hope for your support.