Peden a liar??? I'm shocked

Posted February 22nd, 2008 by katjust

I pulled this from the Houston Chronicle website. It is a comment in response to a piece on Peden on the Chronicle's website. The comment is by Ron Paul's congressional campaign manager (who I have met and would know what he is talking about) Text of comment is below
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I hate to dash the spirits of what few Peden supporters exist out there, but the desperate propaganda being promoted by the Peden campaign on how well Peden is doing in the polls is no where near reality. Peden is NOT leading Dr. Paul in this race. In fact, most voters still don't even know who Peden is. How do I know this? Because I am Ron Paul's campaign manager and I have personally overseen 4 different political surveys in district 14 in recent weeks. All 4 surveys have shown the same results: Ron Paul has a high favorable rating and high marks on his job approval. And if the election were held today, 60+ percent of the GOP voters say they would vote to reelect Ron Paul, while only 18-20% chose Peden. The remaining 20% or so say they are undecided or refuse to give an answer to these scientific and statistically accurate surveys.

For those who follow the Ron Paul congressional campaigns you will remember that Shane Sklar, Dr. Paul's Democrat opponent pulled this same kind of deceptive game toward the end of his campaign, putting out press statements saying he had polls claiming his was tied with or even ahead of Ron Paul.

For example:
Burnt Orange Report::: TX-14: Shane Sklar Can Beat Ron Paul
Shane Sklar leads Ron Paul 54-30% in an informed Congressional vote.

And let me see now...Sklar got beat by Ron Paul by how much? This press clip may jog your memory of the election outcome...

Ron Paul .... defeated Democratic rancher Shane Sklar with 60 percent of the vote. ...

So, those of you who believe Peden's supposed lead in the polls should really place some bets on this one...BIG bets. And then when Peden, who is still virtually unknown to the voters and has almost no money in his campaign, (other than what he has loaned himself) loses the election and you lose a lot of money...then, maybe, reality might become a little more clear.

Just presenting the facts to help provide a little political reality check.

Oh, and BTW, Ron Paul can not and will not access money he has raised for his presidential race for use in his congressional campaign. It is not allowed under federal election rules. But then again, he doesn't need to, because his congressional campaign has raised over $1 million dollars over the past two weeks. Check it out at:

www.RonPaulforCongress.co...

Sincerely,

Mark Elam
Campaign Manager,
Committee to Reelect Ron Paul

The piece can be found at http://blogs.chron.com/tx...

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I live almost in his district, missing by 300 feet !

On February 22nd, 2008 zamboni says:

Damn Redistricting!! Everyone I talk to who does live in the district (about 1/2 my town and neighboring LaMarqu) even Huckabee and McCain Supporters Say WE HAVE TO KEEP HIM IN CONGRESS !

The ones that are against him are constipated mean warmongers. There aren't a lot of those in the 14th. It is a pretty cool district.

Some parts of the district I see a lot of Ron PAul signs. Especially Galveston Island. But on Highway 3 there are a lot of Peden but no Ron Paul. We need to do something about that! The last rally ran out of Congressional signs pretty quick.

I did put up my last sign at the early voting place today. There were 2 Peden Signs. But, I know the people working the polls there are pro Peden so I expect my sign to disapear tomorrow.

I expect Peden will get "SERVED"!!

Mark Elam used "BTW"?

On February 22nd, 2008 aVoiceof Reason. says:

Mark Elam used "BTW"?

This might be someone

On February 22nd, 2008 katjust says:

This might be someone pretending to be Elam, but it seems legit. Also, this was from a blog comment (although it's been posted elsewhere), so the informality would not be odd.