Rand Paul's Clean Money Campaign
From RandPaul2010.com, by David Adams:
U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul on Monday pledged not to accept campaign contributions from any U.S. Senator who voted for the bank bailout and challenged his opponents to follow suit.
Dr. Paul issued this challenge after learning that Trey Grayson has scheduled a Washington D.C. fundraiser co-sponsored by several U.S. Senators, seventeen of whom voted for the so-called TARP bailout in 2008, which was then used to fund an auto industry bailout Congress rejected.
“This isn’t about holding politicians to an impossibly high standard of agreeing with everything one’s supporters say or do,” Paul said. “But a primary focus of my campaign is that we need Republicans in office who will have the courage to say no to federal bailouts of big business.”
“There is nothing in the Constitution that allows the government to pick winners and losers in the private sector and the Republican party platform specifically condemns bailouts,” Paul said. “I’m running for the U.S. Senate to stand up for true Republican principles and the Republicans I’ve talked to agree that is what we need.”
Pledge your support for Rand on September 23
On September 23rd, twenty three Republican US Senators are holding a $500 per plate fundraiser in Washington DC for Trey Grayson - Rand Paul's opponent. This deck stacking favoritism in a highly contested GOP primary is unacceptable!
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Hope the media is there Sep 23 to show Trey and his fatcat senator friends. Somebody could show up in a fatcat suit carrying a sign saying, "Let me in Trey".
Statement from the Grayson Campaign:
"Trey Grayson opposes the bailouts and disagrees on that issue with some Republicans. However, rather than attacking fellow Republicans, Secretary Grayson has called for an exit plan to end the TARP program, stop the bailouts, and get the government out of the business of owning and managing private companies. If elected, Secretary Grayson will focus on solutions and will work to rally more Republicans to his position while working to build our party, not tear it down."
http://www.wkyt.com/wymtnews/headlines/56385402.html
Sounds like more of the Republican status quo.
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Trey's dad got TARP money ....
If he accepts, he can't take money from dad ... LOL.
WAHOR!!
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/48994
WAHOR!!
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/48994
I hope this local play in Kentucky
Thomas Jefferson once said, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
Well, I guess he called that one.
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Brilliant Politics Here!
Very savy way to make a challenge that makes your own points.
Just saw KY local news picked up on the story! Here:
http://www.wkyt.com/wymtnews/headlines/56385402.html
Looks like this tactic is working.
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Let's go one step further
Let's go one step further and Send a letter/call all our congressmen to inform them that we support rand paul and not trey grayson!
Just think about it sure it's all good and well when they are helping their friends get votes at no cost. BUT what happens when we start telling them that we will not vote for them, we will not send them money, and we will actually campaign against them if they go through with this. will they continue to stick their necks out for trey grayson even if it means they're losing votes and they know it? lets find out! if your congresscritter is taking part in this, let him/her know what you think. ESPECIALLY if your senator voted against the bailout.
i sent one to thad cochran already on behalf of me and some friends and family. got it up on the DP: http://www.dailypaul.com/node/105117
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"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." - Professor Bernardo de la Paz
keep this bumped
keep this bumped
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What a play! Talk about Trey's fundraising blowing up in his face
We need Tuma to make us a cartoon, Grayson can be Wile E. Cayote with his Acme box of Bailout cash blowing up in his face as Rand runs by as the Road Runner. Run Rand Run!