Would any of you care how your Ron Paul donations were spent ?

1) I think we get better value for our money from his family than just some joe out to make a living. His family really cares to do a good job for the campaign, and no doubt give more than they actually get paid for.

2) Remember, Ron Paul is the unique congressman who, out of pure principal, REFUSES his congressional pension -- which is worth millions! To accuse him of wrong doing for paying family members for their time is beyond absurd.

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We don't know how to mind our own business
'Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
-Steppenwolf 1969

made voluntarily and with no strings or conditions attached to the money. It was a donation; not an investment, such as buying a share of stock in a public company. I had no expectation of any rights to say how the money was spent and no expectations of any accounting for how the money was spent. There are laws in place governing how the money can be spent. If those laws were obeyed, then I have no problem at all. As far as hiring family members, to work on the campaign, being "bad practice", I suggest that issue be taken up with the Kennedy family. They've been doing it for over 40 years and nobody seems to have a gripe about it.

he still has over $5 Mill in the bank, so my money hasn't been spent yet. He could spend my money wiping his ass for all I care. It's well worth the education that I received from him.

if it were any other candidate, sure.

let's see:

no hookers
no booze
no gambling
no high-rise hotels
no high-end limos
no private jets

hmmm. seems that if he hired his family to help with the campaign, that the good dr. knows that unity and family are important when fighting a good fight. i applaud dr. paul for his character and integrity. i'm glad his family was with him throughout. knowing the good dr. and seeing dr. rand paul in action, i have no doubt that these fine folks worked very hard on the campaign.

kudos.

If these allegations are true then it implies that the money was not spent in the best way it could have been...does it not?

If we follow this to it's logical conclusion then had the money been spent differently, and more in line with the author's implied recommendation, Ron Paul would now be the frontrunner and the presumptive nominee!

So yes, I do care and I am really ticked.

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I mean really, wtf is the point of the article if not to discredit a man who by all accounts will not win the Republican nomination. It's time to ask: what are you afraid of?

This is simply a smear campaign. No one lost any significant amount of money. There was no law broken, no fraud perpetrated. Why do they care?

Oh yes, I am full of righteous indignation!

How dare Ron Paul pay his granddaughter who ran his campaign store about $2,000! $2,000 to send out millions of pieces of literature, hundreds of thousands of signs, t-shirts, buttons and other goods. Why I bet this granddaughter probably got paid something like one tenth of a cent per item she mailed out. OUTRAGEOUS!!!!

OMG? $60,000 for accounting services? Why does a $35 million campaign need to spend any money on accounting? Damn it, don't they have abacuses they could use???

As long as he's not blowing the money on coke and hookers I'm ok with how he spends the money. That's the thing about the Revolution. Ron Paul has earned our TRUST with multiple decades of integrity and principled voting to the point where he had to vote all by himself 300+ times. We know Dr.Paul is a good steward of our monies and wont be derelict in his duties as an elected official.

with you. In fact I trust his family more than anyone else. Where is the outcry against Mclame. He gets a bill past on campaign finance and he breaks his own rules. What's up with that? How can we get that investigated?

What the hell could be wrong with his family helping him ?
Isn't that what a family does ? help each others ??! And they are not helping for nothing here.. We're talking about things like Constitution, liberty, peace, prosperity..

I'll send him more money without hesitating if he needs some.

...I sent him for his presidential campaign. I feel better knowing he hired people he knew he could trust. So they're family....so what? If they're anything like the good Dr., they can't be corrupted by money either.

The turds of this world love trying to make mountains out of molehills when it comes to Dr. Paul. Look at the way he was villified for his 'racism' because he accepted a $500 donation from a white supremacist, but Obama gets a bye even though he attended a black supremacist church for 20 years and McCain gets a bye even though he still calls 'certain' Asian people gook. Have we all collectively forgotten about that? How is this thing with the money any different? How many of Clinton, Obama, or McCain's 'people' are there to represent the money that backs 'their' candidate? How many of those same people will call in their markers when 'their' candidate gets elected? And that's better than hiring family how exactly?

Dr. Paul can spend the money I sent him however he chooses.

Just wish he'd made better choices for key positions.

One thing that Ron Paul supporters have that NO other candidate's supporters have....that's the knowledge that their guy is a totally honest man. This guy doesn't even take the Congressional pension! Even a LITTLE bit of research will show you that he could give a damn less about the money. So if he hires his family...that's fine with me. WHATEVER he does with the money, he will surely stick with the principles that have guided his life and his career for as long as I've known him, and I've known him for 30 years. My money is safe is my Doctor!
www.paulforronpaul.com

When the money left my hands, it was no longer my money. It was the Ron Paul campaign's money to spend as they saw fit. If they ended up squandering it, oh well, I was aware of that risk before I donated. So far I haven't seen any evidence Ron Paul's campaign has misused it's funds.

Oh yeah I forgot to add...I will be sending RP much more money if he asks for it.

Ron Paul deserves my money and i'll donate again.

Ron Paul hires family members most likely because they are about the only ones who wouldnt do something to try to screw him over.

169K with over 30 mil donated?

are you kidding me?
it's a drop in the bucket.

ron's family has taken a beating like none of us.
screw ANYONE who has something to say about that.

the numbers speak for themselves.

i'd say.......my family would need a cool quarter mil to put up with the crap our stupid ass elections throw up. i think it's pretty sick to even have to talk about it. yeah.....now.....why don't we all go over here and look the gift horse in the mouth?

I gave my money with no strings attached ( He wouldn't take it otherwise). I have read that article and yes his family works for him but no wrong doing is every exposed. The article infers something is wrong but provides no evidence to back its claim. I can't take stock in assumptions based on guesses, If I did I could read the Inquirer.

and pay himself a salary while he was running for president! Alan Keyes paid himself $8,500 a month for his services as a candidate.

money to and I would do it again in a heart beat.
I'm glad to see he hired his family. :o)

He is the most trusted man in my book. and why not hire his family I would. Who can you trust more than your family. I say do what you want with my donation

can spend my donation anyway he sees fit.

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"RON PAUL SUPPORTER SINCE 1997"
RON PAUL 2008 / RE-ELECT 2012

Yeah, I agree. I don't think its bad practise at all. They should be honoring the man for having such a big, STABLE (He's been married forever!), successful, inspired, enthusiastic family. Well done Paul family!

Plus, I'd rather Paul family members than people that could be necons trying to derail us.

A Washington Post money bomb. We will call it We don't give a shit where Ron Paul spends his money Washington Post money bomb, we trust our candidate. Anyone in?

I love the good doctor's idea of starting a liberty media with the remaining seeds of the campaign. As we've all seen, this is desperately needed.

From the way his campaign was run, which I consider pretty shoddily and replete with very badly produced TV commercials, I surmise that people were taking advantage of his trust and squandering the money he was paying them in order to line their own pockets with as little productive effort on their parts as possible. I'm not saying this about family members, but about others in the official campaign.

Ron paul and his family are very close unlike the other slimy candidates. Except Barack seems to have good family values.

i would trust Ron Paul with anything of mine! however he thought the money should be spent is fine by me!

as for me and my home, we shall worship the LORD

and i will be sending more.

This article is a hit and DOES NOT need to be posted here.

so I trust him to use my donation money as he sees fit.

no, I don't care. I trust Ron Paul completely.

In fact, I'd donate again now if he asked.