Fifteen Years Ago, Ron Paul Wasn't Claiming Somebody Else Wrote His Newsletters. Ron Paul's Campaign Is a Family Business, FEC Reports Show. Rep.
Ron Paul (R-Tex.) has built a national following largely by preaching an isolationist foreign policy. Stick with your own kind, says the maverick presidential candidate. And that's more or less what he has been doing over the past few months, putting relatives in a slew of key positions and paying them a total of $169,063, according to the latest campaign finance reports. Paul's granddaughter Valori Pyeatt helps organize fundraising receptions and has been paid $17,157. Another granddaughter, Laura Paul ($2,724), handles orders for Ron Paul merchandise. Who keeps track of all these finances? Campaign aides said they discussed the possibility that involving so many family members could create the impression that nepotism was driving hiring decisions, but ultimately they saw no problem with the practice. Most of the money has gone to typical campaign expenses such as television, radio and Internet ads, travel, and political advice from consultants and strategists.
Ron Paul Spent $1 Million on Charter Flights. Rep.
Ron Paul hasn’t led his Republican rivals in the polls this election season, but he has led in one category: spending on charter flights. ABC News and the Center for Responsive Politics have crunched the numbers and you might be surprised to know that the U.S. Congressman that just recently released a tax plan cutting $1 trillion from the federal budget has spent close to $1 million on charter flights. Paul has far outspent his nearest rival Michele Bachmann, who logged receipts totaling $439,000 on charter fights. And despite raising vastly more than Paul, Mitt Romney has only spent a third of what Paul has on charter flights: around $300,000 to $400,000. Romney has tweeted about his penchant for flying commercial on low-cost air carrier Southwest Airlines, and in 2010 he flew coach with ABC News’ John Berman. Paul has a novel idea for his campaign leftovers.
WASHINGTON — Ron Paul failed to translate an impressive fundraising operation into widespread support for his 2008 bid for the presidency, but the Lake Jackson Republican still may end up hitting pay dirt.
To further Paul's Libertarian-leaning agenda, his campaign is exploring a novel way to use millions of dollars in leftover donations: setting up a for-profit publishing company that would focus on free-market economics and personal liberties — causes the Texas congressman holds dear. Political finance experts say such a business venture funded with some $4 million in political cash would test the bounds of federal campaign finance regulations.
"I've never heard of anyone taking their campaign money and putting it into a for-profit corporation," said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, an organization that advocates campaign finance reform. FEC guidelines. Votes by Ron Paul - U.S. Congress Votes Database - The Washington Post. The War on Logic. Mike Bloomberg's Marie Antoinette Moment. ApplauseGate: The Right Wing Jumps the Sanity Shark in Desperate Bid to Smear Obama. Obama's Jumbotron of Tyranny!
Dinner with a Right Winger Claiming Obama Demanded Applause for Memorial Just a head’s up my friends. Everywhere you go, little brainwashed minions of the TeaPublican Party will be foaming mad about Obama demanding applause during the Arizona memorial speech. If you don’t watch Fox News or read certain right wing blogs, you may be hard pressed to respond or even get the relevance when shown the graphic of Obama speaking at the Arizona memorial services for the slain with the word “applause” under it on the Jumbotron. Certainly, if the President demanded for people to applaud him it would prove that he is, indeed, the tyrant they say he is and we must all acknowledge that the Right isn’t responsible for their violent rhetoric and threats.
Steeped in shame as they are, naturally they want to lash out at others to release the hot embers of personal lack. Bring a napkin and remember that compassion is the sign of humanity. About Sarah Jones (2,398 Posts) The Republicans' Farcical Candidates: A Club of Liars, Demagogues and Ignoramuses - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International. Africa is a country.
In Libya, the Taliban reigns. Muslims are terrorists; most immigrants are criminal; all Occupy protesters are dirty. And women who feel sexually harassed -- well, they shouldn't make such a big deal about it. Asher Smith: Why Does the Media Persist in Calling Ron Paul a Libertarian? The Iowa Caucuses are Tuesday.
"Still decidedly in the mix," according to Monday's New York Times, is "Ron Paul, a libertarian-leaning congressman from Texas. " But what exactly about Ron Paul merits the oft-repeated libertarian label? The answer certainly does not lie in his personal views, or his campaign's policy positions. The Ron Paul phenomenon -- in some pre-Caucus polls, Paul still maintains a slim lead -- represents nothing new under the sun of American politics. Paul represents not a new libertarian age, but old-fashioned American federalism -- the belief that sovereign state governments should have free rein within their borders, free from pesky federal intervention and regulation. Paul supporters seem to be yearning for a return to a pre-Civil Rights Era federal system. Not imposing "political correctness" on the states, of course, is not new policy. The Irrelevance of the Republican Party. Read the entire article on the BATR archive page Check your Creek IQ: The 100th episode of Dawson’s Creek airs April 17, so we ask: How well do you really know the Creek?
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