Tag: Rand Paul

Rand Paul Seeks to Buy an Election in Kentucky

Buck Banks

$250,000

Amount Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has transferred to the Republican Party of Kentucky “as a down payment on the presidential caucuses he has asked the party to conduct in March,” the Lexington Herald Leader reports. “Paul is seeking the party’s help in bypassing a state law that prohibits him from running for president and for re-election to his Senate seat on the same ballot next year. He wrote to the party’s state central committee, which has nearly 350 members, in an effort to quell concern about the cost of a caucus.”

Rand Paul’s Economic Theory Sounds Like Every Other Republican’s

Buck Banks

The thing is, income inequality is due to some people working harder and selling more things. If people voluntarily buy more of your stuff, you’ll have more money.

— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), responding when asked if his flat tax plan would further separate the haves from the have-nots, Paul said that income inequality is the result of some Americans working harder than others, rather than economic policies, the Huffington Post reports.

Rubio Has Missed More Votes Than Any Other Senators Running for Prez

Buck Banks

42

Number of floor votes Sen. Marco Rubio has missed since announcing his run in mid-April, more than a third of roll calls on the Senate floor. “Trailing not far behind him on the absentee scale are Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas). At the other end of the spectrum is Rand Paul of Kentucky, who has missed just two votes,” reports Politico.

Walker Leads in Iowa

Buck Banks

18%

Scott Walker’s lead over the GOP presidential pack in Iowa, followed by Donald Trump at 10%, Ben Carson at 10%, Rand Paul at 9%, Ted Cruz at 9%, Jeb Bush at 8%, Marco Rubio at 7% and Mike Huckabee at 5%, a new Quinnipiac poll in Iowa finds. Said pollster Peter Brown: “Those who thought the Republican race in the Iowa caucuses might begin to clarify itself better think again. As even more candidates toss their hats into the ring, the race has gotten even more muddled.”

Rand Paul Determined to Stick Out from the GOP Crowd

Buck Banks

Sen. Rand Paul didn’t get the same backing from his Republican colleagues than the last time he talked his way through legislative deadlines – but that’s part of the point. This was a stunt that was about his 2016 candidacy, if the campaign merchandising push and online trolling of Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton didn’t make that clear. It shows, again, that Paul will inject a strain of national-security thinking into the GOP debates that will push his rivals in uncomfortable ways. It’s possible that his timing is off; the march of ISIS, with scenes of beheadings seared into memories, might change the tone of any discussion inside the Republican Party. But Rand standing alone will make him stand out, for better or worse.

— Rick Klein, on ABC News.