Mr. Paul garnered 256 votes to grab first place. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich pulled in 20 votes to secure second place and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney earned 17 votes to take third place. Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum grabbed 8 votes to finish in fourth place.
Although Mr. Paul won the Arizona Republican Party straw poll, the Texas congressman sits behind Mr. Romney and Mr. Gingrich in Grand Canyon State polls. A Public Policy Polling of likely Arizona Republican primary voters from November found Mr. Gingrich with a 20 point lead over Mr. Paul.
Mr. Paul has chalked up numerous straw poll victories throughout his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Mr. Paul has an active community of voters that can quickly mobilize when a straw poll is announced.
Mr. Paul is dealing with the fallout from a recent Washington Post report that cited several former associates who claim that the former Air Force surgeon signed off on the racist newsletters that were published under his name in the 1990s.
“I don’t know how long you want to beat a dead horse,” Mr. Paul told CNN’s John King on “John King USA” Friday. The Texas congressman continues to deny that he was aware of the content that was going into the newsletters.
The fact that Mr. Paul continues to win straw polls suggests that his base of support has not been diminished by the media’s renewed interest in the racist newsletters scandal.
By: Newswire
When Ron Paul was practicing medicine he was known to give free medical care to lower income minorities. He would not accept medicare or medicaid, but instead would give medical attention at no cost.
ReplyDeleteHere is an account of one of his patients from 1972: http://youtu.be/8Rv0Z5SNrF4
In 1988, while running for President in the Libertarian Party, he teamed up with NORML to expose the racist origin of drug laws: http://youtu.be/HXHQM2SASFU
Ron Paul had entered into politics in 1976, when he won his first term for congress. Ron Paul left congress in 1985 and entered again in 1996. (From the years 1985-1996 Ron Paul was a Doctor with two jobs practicing medicine)
Now, Ron Paul had been releasing Newsletters since 1976. It had gone by several names. The Ron Paul Political Report, The Ron Paul Investment Letter, etc.
But it wasn't until 1990, while Ron Paul was practicing medicine, that the first racist content had appeared in his newsletters. The last racist content was in the year 1992.
The newsletters were sent out every month. So during this time period, there were 36 newsletters, but only 9 of them contained racist content. (and out of these nine, none of them had any byline. They were signed off by no one. Except one, which is signed by one James B. Powell)
This means that for 20 years, from 1976-1996, there were 240 editions published, and only 9 had racist content, during a time Ron Paul was practicing medicine giving free medical care to black people.
Excellent summary.
ReplyDeleteGo Ron Paul.