Ron Paul staff reneges on column deal
(This sucks...RP could have got a LOT of milage off WND.
WND is the biggest alternative news source in the world!)
Agreement dropped shortly after congressman's 1st op-ed piece runs.
The congressional staff of Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, has reneged on an agreement it had struck with WorldNetDaily to run the congressman's weekly column, which means WND will not carry the Paul commentary in the future.
Said WND CEO and Editor Joseph Farah: "Ron Paul's office made an explicit and exclusive agreement with WND to carry the congressman's weekly column. But within 48 hours after the first column ran, his office was reneging on that agreement. Since we had already publicly announced the column, promising it to our readers, and now Rep. Paul's office is breaking that agreement, WND has no choice but to make a public statement to explain why we will not be carrying the congressman's column.
"Ron Paul has a long and honorable record of congressional service," added Farah, "but his subordinates are not serving him well. In particular, his chief of staff, Tom Lizardo, was uncooperative and rude when I called him to try to straighten out this mess. Normally, those who break agreements attempt to be conciliatory about it. Not Lizardo. He was not even interested in finding an amicable solution to the dilemma he created and the compact he violated."
(I suggest we bombard Tom Lizardo with emails!!!!)
It is my understanding that
It is my understanding that a private company cannot benefit from or use, as an exclusive, a part of the Congressional record, which by the way Dr. Paul Congressional Column is considered and is paid for publication by the tax-payers. There was never, to the best of my understanding, a "deal" made to publish Dr. Paul's Congressional Column even though WND touted it as such.
This has the smell of a publicity stunt by a web-site that really didn't give Dr. Paul much positive coverage during the heat of the campaign, so I am not in the least upset by such claims made by WND that there was a deal made by Dr. Paul. I feel sure that Dr. Paul is very aware that his column, published via the tax-payers dollar, cannot and should not be dolled out for exclusive use by one particular company or website.
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let's hope they address this, then
I know it irritates me greatly when bad PR languishes in the public eye and the campaign doesn't address it.
I'll pass the word up the chain and see what happens. There's probably an explanation; I certainly am curious. ;-)
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so why was the deal made in the first place
Assuming that the "assertions" on LR are correct, why was a "deal made" in the first place. I am tired of the staff and even Ron Paul always having an excuse or a justification for failing to conduct proper diligence and legal review. This consistently happens...and indicates nothing good.
Just wait for October, and we will all see just how far down the rabbit hole the big brains have gone...and taken us with them.
I expected so much more from Ron Paul.
cee cee
Ah we're only hearing one
Ah we're only hearing one side of the story here so your judgment and conviction that it's all Ron Paul's or his staffs fault is premature.
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I wonder why
Seems so strange to me.
illegal...
from LRC blog:
"The funda-neocon site that so viciously opposed Ron Paul for president announced the other day that it would have an exclusive scoop on Ron's congressional column. I took this as eyewash, since that would be illegal, not to speak of politically dumb. The column is produced at taxpayer expense and cannot be used to benefit one company, let alone at the expense of newspapers in his own congressional district. And sure enough, WWD today moans that there is no such exclusive deal, and therefore it will not run Ron's column. In fact, the victimological site can run the column like everyone else, at the same time as everyone else. No exclusives at the people's expense."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/020091.html
I Agree
and I really don't understand it. There has to be more to this than meets the eye.
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