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Paul says he has no intention of dropping out
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By BETH FOUHY
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GORHAM, Maine (AP) -- Ron Paul said Saturday the Republican presidential race has "a ways to go" and he doesn't intend to get out or get behind another candidate anytime soon.
The Texas congressman was campaigning Saturday in Maine, which holds caucuses beginning Feb. 4. He spoke to an overflow crowd at the University of Southern Maine and held an outdoor rally outside the famed L.L. Bean store in Freeport. He picked up the endorsement of Linda Bean, the granddaughter of the Bean company founder and a prominent Republican activist in the state.
Paul told reporters that it didn't make sense for him to campaign in Florida, which holds its primary Tuesday and awards all its 50 delegates to the winner. Polling indicates Mitt Romney is leading the field there.
"Some other campaigns have many, many millions of dollars to run a campaign," Paul said. "We maximize the delegates the way we're doing it."
Paul planned to campaign next week in other caucus states, including Nevada, which also holds its caucus on Feb. 4, and Colorado and Minnesota, which hold caucuses Feb. 7.
Paul dismissed suggestions he would back any of his GOP rivals.
"I think that's premature. We have a ways to go," Paul said, adding he was glad they were speaking favorably about some of his libertarian-leaning views.
"I'll work with anybody who wants to come in the direction of Constitutional government," Paul said.
He noted that Newt Gingrich had endorsed his views on monetary policy in a nationally televised debate this week. Paul has called for the Federal Reserve to be audited and ultimately eliminated, and wants the value of the dollar tied to gold.
Paul said he hoped the former House speaker and others would also adopt his noninterventionist foreign policy views, which are far outside the Republican Party mainstream.
"If he says `I agree with Ron Paul, we should bring the troops home from Afghanistan,' my ears would pop up," Paul said.
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Ron Paul is the only candidate who stands against tyranny
Paul Craig Roberts
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In the Soviet Union common criminals were punished less harshly and received better treatment than political prisoners. A person who had committed a violent crime had more rights than someone who expressed criticism of the government and could be portrayed as having acted against the government. We now have the same situation in the US.
In a recent case the Supreme Court overturned the sentence of a drug dealer who was convicted on the basis of a warrantless 28-day search by having a GPS device affixed to his car. In other words, a common criminal still has privacy rights under the Constitution, but not US citizens who are suspected of vague and nebulous “terrorist support.”
Both Republicans and Democrats have demonstrated disregard for the civil liberty protections guaranteed by the US Constitution. Among the visible candidates for president, only Ron Paul has respect for the Constitution. As it is now possible for the executive branch to take away the life and liberty of a US citizen without due process of law, the Constitution is for all practical purposes lost. Tyranny looms, and Ron Paul is the only candidate who stands against tyranny.
This is why I have written that Ron Paul is our last chance and encouraged his libertarian handlers to be flexible enough for the electorate to elect Ron Paul. I agree that Ron Paul, if elected president, would be hamstrung by the Establishment, but the other candidates offer no hope whatsoever.
What is at stake is not libertarianism, but the US Constitution. Unfortunately, not many libertarians see that. Neither do many progressives. If truth be known, Americans are too divided and in opposition to one another to be able to unite against tyranny.
In previous columns I explained how Ron Paul could appeal to low income Americans, to elderly Americans, and to those Americans concerned about illegal immigration. I suggested that Ron Paul endorse Ron Unz’s proposal to raise the minimum wage to $12 per hour as a way of turning the jobs taken by illegal immigrants into a more livable income for Americans. I suggested that Ron Paul should acknowledge that people who have paid a payroll tax all their working lives have private property rights to Social Security and Medicare benefits.
A number of libertarians replied, as I knew they would from my long years of association with them, with their standard dogmatism that the minimum wage causes unemployment and that Social Security and Medicare are government programs not private property. They were blind to Ron Unz’s point that low wages cause unemployment among Americans who are unable to live on the wages, and, thus, cause an inflow of illegal immigrants who take the low wage jobs.
I don’t need to repeat my suggestions as the columns are available on my web site. I will, however, point out that the fact that Medicare and Social Security are intergenerational transfers does not mean that they are not private property. Consider your homeowner’s policy. If your neighbor’s home burns down or a person’s home in a distant location, the insurance company draws on the pool of funds created by policy holders’ premiums in order to compensate the person who lost his home. The damaged homeowner is not simply compensated from his own paid-in premiums. If more homeowners are elderly than young, it is an intergenerational transfer when a young homeowner’s home burns down.
Like Medicare, private health insurance is a transfer payment as premiums from the healthy support the care of the sick. Private medical insurance could also be an intergenerational transfer. Premium are adjusted for age, but generally speaking, the young are more healthy than the old.
For Ron Paul to further broaden his base, he also needs to add to my previous suggestions to his endorsement of regulation to protect the environment and to protect private savers from fraud and irresponsible debt leverage by private financial institutions.
Libertarians claim that the best way to protect the environment is to have it privately owned. If streams, oceans, and underground aquifers were privately owned, the owners could sue polluters such as the oil companies, the mining companies, agri-business, etc. Thus, private property would protect the environment. Whether this would work or not, we are a long way from such private ownership, and many private economic activities are destroying common environmental resources.
The list is endless. The World Wildlife Fund reports that Asia Pulp & Paper is destroying the last remaining Sumatran tigers by clear cutting the tigers’ last remaining refuge in order to produce toilet paper marketed in the US under the Paseo and LIVI brand names. “Feel the Power! Buy our product and flush a tiger and a rain forest!”
The National Defense Resource Council reports that under an Obama regime and state of Utah plan, massive coal mining will be permitted adjacent to Bryce Canyon National Park. Three hundred heavy diesel trucks per day will travel down the scenic two-lane highway to supply China with dirty coal.
The Obama regime has granted Shell Oil tentative approval to begin drilling off the coast of the Arctic Refuge, the main on-shore birthing ground for polar bears.
Defenders of Wildlife reports that Shell Oil is pushing to open Bristol Bay to oil drilling, despite the danger to fisheries and wildlife and despite the fact that the long-term value of the renewable fisheries far exceeds the short-term value of nonrenewable fossil fuel extraction in the area.
In the Powder River Basin in Montana, coal companies are mobilizing to destroy the water resources and ranchers in the eastern part of the state.
All of these are current hot ticket items with progressives, environmentalists, and ranchers. Obama is vulnerable. He has put the tar sands pipeline on hold, but many believe he will approve the environmentally destructive project once he is re-elected.
Air, water, wildlife, and fish in the sea are not private property and have no protectors. They are being destroyed by the lack of regulation. Moreover, private property has not protected forests from being clearcut or soil from being depleted of its natural nutrients. The chemical farming with which agri-business has replaced natural farming has polluted America’s aquifers, streams, lakes, rivers, and the Gulf of Mexico, which has extensive dead areas from chemical fertilizer run-off.
As Herman Daly and other environmental economists have made clear, the world is running out of sinks into which to dump its wastes. The external costs of unregulated activity are mounting. Once a threshold is crossed, the environment is ruined. The drive to maximize short-run profits is a great source of ruin. The external costs associated with maximizing short-run profits can exceed the value of the private output.
A candidate committed to saving the Constitution, environment, private savings, protecting the security of the elderly, opposing war, and boosting the incomes of the worst off, which has the added benefit of reducing illegal immigration, is a candidate without equal in the presidential election.
We will not have such a candidate, because libertarian sectarian dogmatism will prevent it. Libertarians will be pure to the end and take the Constitution and the rest of us down with them.
This article first appeared at Paul Craig Roberts' new website Institute For Political Economy. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of several books including The Tyranny of Good Intentions and How the Economy Was Lost.
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In It to Win It
Conor Murphy is a talented young writer who contributes to The Washington Times. Murphy’s analysis often addresses political realities others seem to miss. In his latest column, Murphy notes that Ron Paul is not only in this election to win it, but that he might be the best possible GOP presidential nominee given the dynamics of this particular campaign including the weaknesses of the other candidates. Writes Murphy:
During this primary season, many political pundits have assumed that Ron Paul is not actively trying to win the Presidency. To them, he is simply a message candidate who has some interesting ideas but no path to the nomination… The facts, however, say otherwise…
Murphy then makes a very important point about Ron Paul’s supposed electoral limits:
- This time around, the Ron Paul campaign is more organized, has better advisors, and is actually campaigning to win.
- Along with establishment candidate Mitt Romney, Ron Paul is the only candidate who was able to get on the ballot in all fifty states…
- Rick Santorum still has very poor name recognition, and Newt Gingrich is one of the most polarizing political figures of our generation…
- Mitt Romney and Ron Paul are the only electable candidates to choose from…
- Paul’s campaign strategy is not just to stay in the race until the very end, but to accumulate delegates…
There has been a general consensus in the media that Paul has a “ceiling” of support and cannot get past a certain point. The argument goes that because he knows this, he cannot possibly be trying to win a national election.
Once again, this argument might have been true in 2008, but not today. Anyone who has paid attention to the election over the past eight months would see that the ceiling for Ron Paul has gotten higher over time. When he first announced that he was forming an exploratory campaign, pundits said that he would get his 5% of the vote and then drop out. Soon it was 10%, but that was all he would ever get. Within months, the “ceiling” was at 20% and Ron Paul had a shot at winning the Iowa Caucus. At that point Chris Wallace made the comment that Iowa would no longer matter if Ron Paul pulled out a victory there. Ron Paul and his campaign have realized that the “ceiling” that the media talks about does not exist and has simply been created to discourage potential supporters.
There is no question that Dr. Paul’s path to the nomination will be uphill, but the uninspiring Mitt Romney, the unstable Newt Gingrich, and the obscure Rick Santorum make anything possible. He will have many bumps in the road, but he is the only candidate in the race who will cut anything from the budget, who has been consistent, and who is a true conservative.
Santorum, Gingrich, and Romney should take notice: Ron Paul isn’t going anywhere.
In It to Win It*|*Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee
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Newt Gingrich is Not a Conservative (Pt. 20)
American conservatism as defined by it’s most notable political leaders, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, has always been at heart, a critique of the modern state. Goldwater said conservatives must be “extreme” in their defense of liberty. Reagan said that government wasn’t the solution to our problems, but the problem.
It’s been a long time since conservatives have spoke like this. Republicans like Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have a government solution for everything and are willing to circumvent the Constitution to implement their visions. Gingrich in particular has never been shy about his enthusiasm for an activist government and really has no core philosophy to guide his thinking. The philosophy of conservatism is that government is a necessary evil therefore it should be severely limited. This is certainly not the philosophy of Gingrich. But what is Newt’s philosophy? I’m not sure even Gingrich knows. It’s easy to mistake articulation for wisdom.
Pat Buchanan puts Gingrich’s lack of ideological coherence–and lack of conservatism–perfectly:
[I]“n the Reagan White House, Newt Gingrich was considered quite frankly by a lot of folks to be something of a political opportunist and who was not trusted and who had played no role whatsoever,” Buchanan said. “He was a Rockefeller Republican in the great Goldwater-Rockefeller battle, where conservatism came of age…”
“I don’t think he has a core,” Buchanan said. “I don’t think he has a fundamental, ideological and political core… I think he moves from one issue to another to another.”
Newt Gingrich is Not a Conservative (Pt. 20)*|*Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee
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“I Like George Washington Except on Foreign Policy”
Ron Paul’s philosophy is that of the Founding Fathers. For Paul, the Constitution is the law of the land, not a mere rhetorical tool. For Paul, maintaining limited government means “eternal vigilance,” to borrow Thomas Jefferson’s phrase, against political leaders’ tendency to empower themselves at the expense of the people. One of the ways government has historically empowered itself is through constant war.
Like the Founding Fathers, Ron Paul believes in a strong national defense. Also like the Founders, Paul fears adopting an irrational offense. Our first President George Washington expressed this fear on September 17, 1796 when he delivered his farewell address. Washington said America should:
Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all… In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave…
The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives…
The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of nations, has been the victim…
The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop…
Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government. the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel…
It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world… to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism…
How much of what Washington had to tell the American people sounds like Ron Paul today? Was Washington a pacifist? Hardly? An “isolationist?” Not at all.
A lot has changed since the 18th and 19th centuries and not everything the Founders’ envisioned for America is possible in the modern world. But their insight into the nature of man, the wickedness of political leaders and the centralizing tendency of government still holds true today. That we live in the modern world does not discount the genius of the U.S. Constitution. Neither does it discount the timeless wisdom of the men who wrote it.
There is no question that a nation like Iran is run by wicked men. The problem is, there also aren’t any questions about whether or not our typical response to such nations do us more harm than good. In the lead up to the Iraq War, not enough people asked such questions. Many American now regret this. Lessons not learned, many of our political leaders continue to stoke fear concerning any failure to act abroad. But we should be just as fearful that we might overreact. In fact, observing history, overreacting should be our greatest fear.
This was certainly a primary fear of the Founders, and Washington was right about the inherent dangers to liberty posed by permanent entanglements or alliances.
Agreeing with George Washington, Ron Paul is right to worry about those dangers too.
"I Like George Washington Except on Foreign Policy"*|*Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee
Ron Paul Wins Arizona State GOP Presidential Straw PollBests rivals with 85 percent of the vote in an in-person Republican presidential preference pollLAKE JACKSON, Texas – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul easily won an Arizona state Republican Party straw poll, besting his rivals in a presidential preference survey. Paul won first place garnering 256 votes, or 85 percent of the 301 votes cast.
The 12-term Congressman from Texas’s nearest competitor Newt Gingrich placed a distant second with 6.6 percent, or just 20 votes, and Mitt Romney placed third with 5.6 percent, earning a mere 17 votes. For his part, Rick Santorum fared poorly in fourth with 2.6 percent, attracting eight lonely votes.
Voting was required to be done in person at the Arizona GOP straw poll on January 28th at the party’s 2012 State Mandatory Meeting, though electronic receipts were available for use a proxy votes by fellow GOPers representing those unable to cast in-person votes. Straw poll ballots were available for purchase for $10. The Arizona Republican Party’s State Mandatory Meetings are held once a year. State Committeemen, of which there are about 1,000, from all over the state assemble to attend to official party business.
“Straw poll victories like the Arizona blowout today are commonplace because more Republicans are viewing Ron Paul as the only authentic conservative vying for the nomination. These contests demonstrate organizational strength, growing support, and the realization that we have entered a lengthy 50-state campaign,” said Ron Paul 2012 National Campaign Chairman Jesse Benton.
The Arizona primary will be held on Tuesday, February 28th. Early voting for the Grand Canyon State will commence on Thursday, February 2nd, days after the Florida primary and days before the first-in-the-west Nevada caucus.
Full Arizona GOP straw poll results are as follows:
Paul: 256 votes
Gingrich: 20 votes
Romney: 17 votes
Santorum: 8 votes
For a link to the results, please click here.
Ron Paul Wins Arizona State GOP Presidential Straw Poll*|*Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee
Ron Paul wins Arizona Republican Party straw poll
The State Column | Staff | Sunday, January 29, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul won the Arizona Republican Party straw poll Saturday, according to the official straw poll website of the Arizona Republican Party. Although the Arizona Republican presidential primary is not scheduled to take place until February 28th, the results of the Arizona Republican party straw poll suggest that Mr. Paul has an active community of supporters in the Grand Canyon State.
Mr. Paul garnered 256 votes to grab first place. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich pulled in 20 votes to secure second place and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney earned 17 votes to take third place. Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum grabbed 8 votes to finish in fourth place.
Although Mr. Paul won the Arizona Republican Party straw poll, the Texas congressman sits behind Mr. Romney and Mr. Gingrich in Grand Canyon State polls. A Public Policy Polling of likely Arizona Republican primary voters from November found Mr. Gingrich with a 20 point lead over Mr. Paul.
Mr. Paul has chalked up numerous straw poll victories throughout his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Mr. Paul has an active community of voters that can quickly mobilize when a straw poll is announced.
Mr. Paul is dealing with the fallout from a recent Washington Post report that cited several former associates who claim that the former Air Force surgeon signed off on the racist newsletters that were published under his name in the 1990s.
“I don’t know how long you want to beat a dead horse,” Mr. Paul told CNN’s John King on “John King USA” Friday. The Texas congressman continues to deny that he was aware of the content that was going into the newsletters.
The fact that Mr. Paul continues to win straw polls suggests that his base of support has not been diminished by the media’s renewed interest in the racist newsletters scandal.
Ron Paul wins Arizona Republican Party straw poll | The State Column
NDAA Obama vs. Romney vs. Ron Paul. Who is Right? - YouTube
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Jan 12, 2012
Let's take a look at how Mitt Romney and Obama compare. Well, they agree on most everything. Ron Paul is the only candidate we have to support the constitution, cut government spending, decrease the size of government, and bring our troops home.
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Ron Paul Interview On Freedom Watch 01/30/12
Ron Paul On The Kudlow Report 01-30-12 ~ Dollar Would Be Linked To Gold At Fixed Rate
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Bond King Bill Gross: “I’m Ron Paulish”
From ZeroHedge.com:
As a follow up to today’s must read letter from Bill Gross, the PIMCO head explains what was the thinking behind the conclusion that is slowly leading him to become a gold bug, the potentially erroneous assumption that the Fed can not drop rates below zero (not if Goldman and JPM have their way), why Bernanke has no choice but to write checks when the Twist ends in June which will lead to bond buying for the next 12-24-36 months. Nothing new.
What is new, and absolutely stunning, is Gross’ endorsement for president: ‘I’m a little Ron Paulish.” (6’24″ into the clip)…
That’s right. The bond king endorses Ron Paul for president, apparently on the realization that very soon he will have to pay Tim Geithner for the privilege of holding hundreds of billions in US paper…
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“I’m a little Ron Paulish… to take a political slant. I think both parties have basically done the same thing and they would complain relative to each other, but both parties, you know, have followed a policy that hasn’t promoted long term investment in the United States and I think ultimately we need to produce things as opposed to paper…” - Bill Gross 2/1/12
Bond King Bill Gross: "I'm Ron Paulish"*|*Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee
Ron Paul Military Donations Nearly Twice Those of His GOP Rivals and Obama—Combined
Active-military men and women support Dr. Paul about three times more than Obama, and six times more than combined Republican opponents
LAKE JACKSON, Texas – The Ron Paul 2012 Presidential campaign raised more campaign donations from active-duty members of the military than all other presidential candidates combined—Republican or Democrat—according to a Paul campaign internal analysis.
A veteran of the Cold War-era, Paul raised more than $150,000 from active military in the fourth quarter.
This comes after the Congressman out-raised all GOP candidates – including all GOPers combined, and President Obama singularly – in the second and third quarters of last year. Dr. Paul also outraised his GOP competitors in a head-to-head comparison during his 2008 run for the presidency.
Especially notable is that Paul raised about triple the amount Obama received and about six times that of all currently-competing Republicans—Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Buddy Roemer, and Rick Santorum—combined.
Taken together, this means Dr. Paul raised approximately double the money from active military than all the candidates from both parties combined.
Romney and Gingrich each received around $10,000, meaning Paul trumps them by about 15 times in a head-to-head matchup.
“Whether it’s his loyalty to the Constitution, the fact that Ron Paul is the only veteran running, his foreign policy to end nation building, or his Plan to Restore America, veterans are responding to Ron Paul’s candidacy loud and clear,” said Ron Paul 2012 Campaign Chairman Jesse Benton.
“The question ultimately comes down to, ‘What do the troops know that the other candidates don’t know?’ Plain as day the answer is that the men and women in uniform heroically serving our nation seek a shift away from deficit-financed overseas wars, and from the painful reality of returning home to lingering health issues and unemployment among peers. Dr. Paul is the only candidate to have made clear where he stands, and he stands with the veterans and active-duty soldiers,” concluded Mr. Benton.
The data are derived from a Paul campaign independent analysis of FEC reports on contributors who listed their occupation and employer when contributing. A graphic illustration of the results can be viewed here.
To view the Ron Paul 2012 Presidential campaign’s veterans-themed ad, click here.
To view its subsequent foreign policy-themed ad, click here.
To read Dr. Paul’s open letter to President Obama defending veterans’ benefits click here.
To read National Campaign Manager John Tate’s statement elaborating on Dr. Paul’s support of legislation to honor and care for World War II-era Filipino veterans, please click here.
As a first basic step, those wanting to join the active “Veterans for Ron Paul” nationwide coalition should visit the official web page by clicking here.
Prospective members should also send an email to hq.coalitions@ronpaul2012.com, writing the coalition name in the subject line.
Ron Paul Military Donations Nearly Twice Those of His GOP Rivals and Obama
Marc Faber: "Ron Paul Would Be A Very Good President"
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While Marc Faber shares the usual stock of insightful market commentary, together with timing inflection points, and extended thoughts in the attached Bloomberg TV clip, it is the fact that he has officially joined Bill Gross, and so many others, in supporting the candidacy of Ron Paul as president. It is rather sad that only those who see beyond the surface of the current pyramid scheme facade, are bold enough to endorse the only man who is right for the White House. Fast forward to 15 minutes into the video to hear Marc Faber: "Ron Paul would be a very good president."
Video at the page link: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/marc-f...good-president
Other recent Ron Paul endorsements:
and of course,
- Nassim Taleb: "Ron Paul Is The Only One I Trust"
- Bill Gross: "I Am A Little Ron Paulish"
- Jim Rogers: "I Am Jim Rogers And I Support Ron Paul"
- Peter Thiel
- Stephen Colbert
Marc Faber: "Ron Paul Would Be A Very Good President" | ZeroHedge
Norm McDonald Endorses Ron Paul
A Ron Paul supporter ran into the legendary SNL comedian at the Denver airport:
Norm Macdonald endorses Ron Paul 2012 - YouTube
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Ron Paul Draws More Than 700 Voters at First Minnesota Event
Rochester town hall meeting yields big turnout
MINNETONKA, Minnesota – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul attracted an impressive crowd of 700-plus supporters and undecided voters at his Rochester town hall meeting. The event was held at 11:00 a.m. CST at the Mayo High School, located at 1420 11th Avenue SE, Rochester, Minnesota 55904-5306.
The 12-term Congressman from Texas shared his platform of constitutionally-limited government with the audience, which was comprised with people from all ages.
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Ron Paul takes the podium in view of 700 supporters at his Rochester town hall meeting.
Ron Paul Draws More Than 700 Voters at First Minnesota Event*|*Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee
Ron Paul Attracts More Than 600 People at Second of Three Minnesota Events
Big crowd greets Dr. Paul in Chanhassen at second of three events in the North Star State
MINNETONKA, Minnesota – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul again attracted a substantial crowd in Minnesota, this time drawing 600 supporters and undecided voters. News of the uncommonly high turnout comes on the heels of the 12-term Congressman from Texas having drawn an impressive crowd of 700-plus voters in Rochester. Dr. Paul’s Chanhassen town hall meeting, the second of three events being held in Minnesota today, was held at 2:00 p.m. CST at AutoMotorPlex, located at 8200 Audubon Road, Chanhassen, MN 55317.
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Ron Paul speaks to the crowd of 600 people at his Chanhassen town hall meeting.
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Ron Paul Attracts More Than 600 People at Second of Three Minnesota Events*|*Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee
Ron Paul Attracts Over 1,500 People at Final Minnesota Event of the Day—Will Return Monday
Huge crowd greets Dr. Paul at Bethel University
MINNETONKA, Minnesota– 2012 GOP Presidential Candidate Ron Paul attracted a remarkable crowd of more than 1,500 supporters and undecided voters at his third and final event of the day in Minnesota. The 12-term Congressman from Texas also enjoyed large crowds earlier, attracting 700-plus voters in Rochester and more than 600 people in Chanhassen. Ron Paul’s Arden Hill’s rally was held in the Benson Great Hall of Bethel University, 3900 Bethel Drive, Arden Hill, MN 55112.
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Ron Paul speaks to a crowd of over 1500 at Bethel University.
Dr. Paul will return to Minnesota on Monday, February 6th for two more events in the run-up to the Tuesday, February 7th caucus. Details of the events are as follows. All times Central.
Monday, February 6, 2012
4:00 p.m.
St. Cloud Town Hall Meeting & Rally
St. Cloud River’s Edge Convention Center
10 4th Avenue South
St. Cloud, MN 56301
7:00 p.m.
Minneapolis Rally
Minneapolis Convention Center
1301 2nd Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Ron Paul Attracts Over 1,500 People at Final Minnesota Event of the Day