Thread: "Congressman Ron Paul Isn't Welcome"

Anyone who believes in fair play and the right for Americans (in this case Iowans) to hear from all the candidates should take some action. The hypocrisy and arrogance of Ed Failor of "Iowans For Tax Relief" is beyond belief.

A brief opening from their website: "Iowans for Tax Relief lobbies for reduced state government spending and lower taxes for all Iowans. Lower state taxes bring better jobs and population growth."

http://www.taxrelief.org/about_us.htm

Ron Paul has got the best voting record on taxes than any of the other candidates! It is utterly insane that he is not being included! Once again, there are some sneaky shennanigans going on when it comes to allowing Ron Paul to get his message out to the American people. Anytime this happens, American voters need to be wary and do some online investigating for the reasons why. Here's something one person wrote on a blog:

ED FAILOR, WHO EXCLUDED RON PAUL FROM THE IOWANS FOR TAX RELIEF DEBATE, WORKS FOR JOHN MCCAIN CAMPAIGN AS SENIOR ADVISOR!

In addition, he's a financial supporter of McCain:

Edward Failor Contribution List in 2008
Name & Location Employer/Occupation Dollar Amount Date Primary/General Contibuted To
Failor, Edward D Mr. Jr. MUSCATINE, IA 52761 Iowans For Tax Relief/Executive Vic $250 03/31/2007 P JOHN MCCAIN 2008 INC. - Republican
Failor, Edward D Mr. Jr. MUSCATINE, IA 52761 Iowans For Tax Relief/Executive Vic $1,000 03/31/2007 P JOHN MCCAIN 2008 INC. - Republican

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/mccain/mccainorgia.html


Jan Mickelson of WHO News Radio 1040 in Des Moines interviewed Ron Paul 2008 chairman Kent Snyder about Ron Paul being excluded from the upcoming candidates forum sponsored by Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa Christian Alliance.Â* Ed Failor of Iowans for Tax Relief joined the interview later to explain why his group decided to keep Ron Paul out.
"Congressman Ron Paul isn't welcome at the Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa Christian Alliance candidates forum."Â* Oversight?Â* Nope.Â* Kent Snyder from Ron Paul's campaign and Ed Failor from ITR exchange words.Â* Lotsa them." -- Wednesday, June 20, 2007, WHO News Radio 1040

You can access the audio interview (mp3) on from this page:
http://blog.ronpaul2008.com/ron_paul_20 ... xclud.html


Ed Failor cannot be trusted. One person suggested that people join the Iowans For Tax Relief" Group (it's free) and then protest to have him removed. In this particular debate, Americans deserve to choose the best candidate they feel has the best ideas and voting record when it comes to tax relief.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

no challenges have been made in court yet i see

Simply amazing.

Sign a petition to allow Ron Paul into the debate.


http://www.PetitionOnline.com/rp063007/

June 22, 2007

Kansas City enthusiastically welcomed Congressman Ron Paul last Friday, June 15th.

Dr. Paul started the day with an interview by the editorial board of the Kansas City Star. Afterwards, he spoke to the National Right to Life Convention where he received a standing ovation. A reporter for the Los Angeles Times then interviewed Dr. Paul for over an hour for a major article to be published in a few weeks. After the interview, Missouri State Representative Jim Guest hosted a luncheon for Dr. Paul. They were joined by Missouri State Representative Brian Yates.

That evening, enthusiasm for Ron Paul’s campaign for president was in full display at the historic Uptown theater in midtown Kansas City. The Ron Paul Kansas City MeetUp group and others organized a rally for Dr. Paul at the Uptown. Theater management estimated the crowd to be over 700 people.

There were people of all ages in the crowd; from all walks for life. They were friendly, energetic and eager to support Dr. Paul's campaign for president. Missouri Representative Jim Guest introduced Congressman Paul to the cheering crowd. They gave Dr. Paul an enthusiastic welcome that would make any of the other presidential candidates envious.

Throughout the day, a two-man camera crew from the New York Times photographed Dr. Paul for an upcoming article in the New York Times Sunday magazine. The crew traveled with Dr. Paul to Phoenix the next day.

Photographs of the Kansas City event are posted at http://flickr.com/photos/92572752@N00/s ... 0421461719

Thank you Kansas City!

Kent Snyder, Chairman
Ron Paul 2008

Thanks for posting that article girlygirl. Very inspiring!

I just sent emails to the Iowa Republican Chairman, Executive Director, and several country chairpeople. After having my say, I pasted the article on THE TRUTH WHY RON PAUL IS EXCLUDED FROM IOWA FORUM.........to the email.

Ron Paul and Jim Guest. They both know how America should be run.

Thank you for your email.

The Presidential Forum you are talking about is being sponsored by two non profit groups from Iowa; Iowans for Tax Relief and the Iowa Christian Alliance. The Republican Party of Iowa has no involvement in this forum. I do want to let you know that Congressman Paul has been invited and will be participating at the Iowa Straw Poll on August 11th in Ames, Iowa. The Iowa Straw Poll will be the largest political event in the United States in 2007 and we are pleased that he is participating.

Thank you,

Craig Robinson

Rec'd this answer to one of the email mentioned above

The Iowa Crime of '07
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.


As I wrote on Wednesday, the misnamed Iowans for Tax Relief and the Iowa Christian Alliance (ICA) have chosen to exclude Ron Paul from their candidates’ forum on June 30.

There is more to report.

I’ve received emails from people telling me that the folks at the ICA insist that they had nothing to do with excluding Dr. Paul, and that the blame rests with Ed Failor of Iowans for Tax Relief. (Ed’s not too popular with a lot of people these days, apparently.)

Now I have no doubt that there may be some decent people at the ICA, and that they may really believe what they are saying. But that organization cannot possibly be believed when it innocently claims it has nothing against Ron Paul.

The ICA has a page on its site that lists all the announced candidates for president. Here is the link.

Until yesterday, when I pointed it out on the LRC blog and embarrassed them a bit, there was no Ron Paul.

Now look at the list again. Ever heard of Hugh Cort? John Cox? Mark Klein? The people at the ICA evidently have, since there they are on the list. But they apparently hadn't heard of Ron Paul until just yesterday.

Actually, though, they did know who Ron Paul was. They even used to have him on their list, as this Google cache shows. But then he disappeared.

They also used to have a link to Paul’s YouTube site, along with those of the other candidates, at the bottom of the page, but that’s also been suppressed. So if they thought they could claim that deleting the link to Ron Paul’s campaign site was some kind of innocent mistake, that isn’t going to work.

Heck, they even include a list of "potential" candidates. That list includes Al Sharpton.

So Al Sharpton merits inclusion, but Ron Paul does not. There is the faith of the apostles, according to the Iowa Christian Alliance.

Now let’s return to my other favorite Iowa organization, the Iowans (Allegedly) for Tax Relief. Its executive vice president, Ed Failor, wasn’t happy about my LRC article on Wednesday. Not happy at all.

In fact, he called me on Wednesday and insisted that I correct something I’d said – that by replacing Jim Gilmore with Duncan Hunter at the last minute (a fact I discovered by comparing press releases from earlier this month), Iowans for Tax Relief implicitly revealed that the reason they were excluding Ron Paul – that the event had supposedly been organized months ago and was now cast in stone – was bogus, and a lie.

Here is the earth-shattering change Failor wanted me to make. Hunter, he said, had been one of the original invitees – man, these guys are just great at picking out the credible candidates, aren’t they? – but failed to respond by the deadline. So when Gilmore dropped out, they went back to Hunter, who accepted.

But if they really wanted "credible" candidates, why would they do such a thing? By now even the zombie population can see that Ron Paul is far more credible than Hunter by any measure. The comparison is almost laughable. And since Hunter had his chance to participate but elected not to respond, why not give Paul a chance, since his initial exclusion – on the ludicrous grounds that he was not a "credible" candidate – has subsequently been shown to be a gross misjudgment? Paul seems particularly "credible" given that he came in second behind Fred Thompson in a straw poll that Iowans for Tax Relief itself co-sponsored!

Meanwhile, with Failor’s technicality off his chest, he had absolutely nothing to say about 99 percent of what I wrote: he never denied his support for the execrable George Pataki (what non-hack ever supported Pataki for anything, much less for president?), his support for Pataki’s spending increases, or his donations to the McCain campaign, for which Failor is a senior advisor.

The humorless Failor appeared on Jan Mickelson’s radio program later that day in order to justify his organization’s exclusion of Dr. Paul; Ron Paul campaign manager Kent Snyder also appeared. You can listen to it here.

My favorite part is Failor’s claim that other non-credible candidates weren’t invited, either, so Ron Paul hasn’t been treated unfairly. And which candidates would those be? Why, Hugh Cort, John Cox, and Mark Klein, of course!

You cannot make this stuff up.

The "Rudy McRomney" moniker is meant to suggest that the establishment’s favorite Republican candidates are indistinguishable from each other, and that they collectively represent the same inoffensive commitment to nothing that characterizes the entire political mainstream. As surely as the sun will rise tomorrow, electing one of these men means absolutely nothing will change. Of that you can be certain.

And that’s just the way Ed Failor, Rudy McRomney supporter, evidently likes it. No Ron Paul revolution for him. Who needs a revolution when you can vote for John McCain and get a slightly more maniacal status quo?

This is the man who sits in judgment of Ron Paul?

And no, Ed, I don’t buy your phony explanation. Neither does anyone with an IQ over 75.


http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods73.html
June 22, 2007

Thomas E. Woods, Jr. [view his website; send him mail] is senior fellow in American history at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. His books include How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization (get a free chapter here), The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy (first-place winner in the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Awards), and the New York Times bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.

Copyright © 2007 LewRockwell.com

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Hope this isn't overloading everyone with information! This was sent to me yesterday:

IOWA TAX GROUP BANNING

GOP'S RON PAUL SEEKS

LOOPHOLES FOR SPECIAL

INTERESTS

Friday, June 22, 2007 - www.FreeMarketNews.com

GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-Tex) has been banned from a debate forum sponsored in part by Iowans for Tax Relief. But suprising facts are emerging about IFTR that call into question the substance of its mission and even its positioning as an anti-tax organization.

FMNN feedbacker Gary Johnson writes that "Iowans for Tax Relief" may actually be a misnomer. He points to a suprising commentary from "Roth & Company PC," - posted March 2006 - blasting Iowans for Tax Relief as follows:


The group "Iowans for Tax Relief" has a name that belies its purpose. It supports special interest carve-outs and corporate welfare tax subsidies that shrink the tax base and raise the rates on the rest of us. It also refuses to even consider eliminating the deduction for state income taxes in exchange for lower rates.

All of this gets the Iowa tax system great publicity. Earlier this week Iowa was listed by the Tax Foundation as having one of the ten worst tax environments for business, thanks in no small part to the work of Iowans for Tax Relief. Yesterday Iowa made another top-ten list, in a Wall Street Journal editorial titled "Meathead Economics."

Iowa's listed right up there with glamorous states like New York, California, Hawaii and New Jersey. ... If we just lowered the rates and eliminated the deduction, 6.46% would get us out of the Meathead top-ten list, but thanks to Iowans for Tax Relief, there it is. (Some people say they don't trust the legislature to creep the rates back up. That's where a supermajority for tax increases or a Colorado-style taxpayer bill of rights comes into play). Maybe IFTR will consider changing their name to the more accurate "Iowans for Special Interest Loopholes and High Rates."

P.S.: Iowa's 12% top corporate tax rate is still #1. Thanks, IFTR!

http://www.rothcpa.com/archives/001719.phpÂ*Â*


Jan Mickelson of WHO News Radio 1040 in Des Moines interviewed Ron Paul 2008 chairman Kent Snyder about Ron Paul's exclusion from the upcoming candidates forum sponsored by Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa Christian Alliance. Ed Failor of Iowans for Tax Relief joined the interview later to explain why his group decided to keep Ron Paul out.

http://www.mickelson.libsyn.com/

FMNN Feedbacker Tom writes that IFTR's Ed Failor - who reportedly has affiliations with the John McCain campaign - has also donated $1250 to McCain - in March 2007.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/search_donor.asp

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