Campaign Literature—Primaries


Rand Paul for President
   
Booklet (20 pages).  5 1/2" x 8 1/2".  2015.
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DR. PAUL GOES TO WASHINGTON

Working as a physician has a way of exposing the lies that are passed off as truth by many in Washington, D.C.

When Senator Rand Paul took to the U.S. Senate floor in 2013, launching an unplanned 13-hour filibuster that inspired tens of thousands of Americans to "Stand With Rand" - all while other Senate Republicans dined with President Barack Obama - his no-nonsense respect for truth and the very foundations of American freedom were on full display.

It's that Rand Paul - the widely popular conservative champion and junior senator from Kentucky who rose to national prominence as the embodiment of the Tea Party tidal wave election of 2010 - that most people know.

But there's another Rand Paul that many Americans never heard about:

The husband, father and youth sports coach.

The small business owner who has experienced firsthand the heavy hand of government.

The doctor who understands just how damaging ObamaCare is to American healthcare.

The man of faith who regularly volunteers his skills as an ophthalmologist to perform pro bono eye surgeries for impoverished children in underdeveloped countries around the globe.

The man whose physician's instincts -to first clearly identify problems and treat the source -have put him at the top of many Americans' list for the next President of the United States.

The Rand Paul story is a story about the best in all of us – and it's a story worth reading.

Rand Paul was born on January 7, 1963 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before moving to Lake Jackson, Texas in 1968 at the age of five. Rand Paul excelled both in the classroom and as an athlete, both on the high school swim team and as defensive back on the high school football team.

But in August of 1976, at the age of 13, Rand Paul wasn't competing at a local swim meet or practicing on a football field like so many other boys his age.

Instead, he found himself on the floor of the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri – the last truly contested GOP convention.

His father – just elected to the U.S. House four months earlier – shunned political insiders and became one of only four
members of Congress to endorse Ronald Reagan for President of the United States against incumbent Gerald Ford.

Hearing Ronald Reagan speak and witnessing the convention floor fight with all its passion had a lasting impact on Rand.

Suddenly, the 1970s political issues he heard commonly being discussed by many of the adults around him – like "stagflation," the Panama Canal giveaway and standing up to the Soviet threat – became incredibly real.

History wasn't something locked in a few textbooks at school. History was being made right in front of all of us. He understood, perhaps for the first time, that each of us -knowingly or not -play our role. From that moment, Rand Paul was determined to play his role to make a positive difference.

As a high school senior – when many churches were still hesitant to speak out on social issues – Rand Paul did what no adult in his church had yet done when he publicly spoke out against the travesty of abortion.

As Rand Paul recounted, "My hands shook; my heart pounded. I thought to myself, I can't do this. But somehow I did," as he chided his congregation for failing to take action sooner and encouraged them to join him in standing up for the unborn.

While still a teenager, Rand Paul attended a local Right to Life meeting where an OB/GYN who had performed abortions in the past recounted his personal agony of regret and talked about his faith in God that saved him.

Soon after graduating from high school, Rand Paul attended Baylor University where he studied medicine, participated on the school's swim team and rose to local chapter leader for Young Conservatives of Texas.

While an undergraduate, Rand Paul took the Medical College Admission Test, scoring better than 90% of other medical students! Those test scores earned him admission to Duke University's prestigious Medical School in North Carolina.

At Duke, Rand Paul studied to become an ophthalmologist. But he couldn't keep himself from weighing in on critical political issues whenever he could free himself from his studies.

Within three months of moving to North Carolina, Rand Paul formed North Carolina Taxpayer's Union, called a press conference and gave out "Taxpayer's Best Friend" Awards to state legislators based on how they voted on taxing and spending – even appearing on local TV.

He also took yet another tough stand on principle, becoming one of only a handful of medical students at Duke who refused to learn how to perform abortions.

During his surgery internship at Georgia Baptist Medical Center in Atlanta, he met Kelley Ashby at a friend's backyard oyster roast. Her date had left early. But Rand Paul soon learned, despite that, courting Kelley might not be so easy.

"I kind of blew him off a little bit," Kelley admits today with a laugh, mistaking Rand's boyish appearance for youth the first time they met.

But as the granddaughter of a Baptist minister, Kelley soon found both she and Rand shared a deep commitment to faith and family. For many politicians, those have become little more than political buzzwords. But after nearly 25 years of marriage, Rand and Kelley's actions speak louder than words ever could.

Both Kelley and Rand quickly became active in their local church as their family grew.

Kelley also serves on the board of Helping a Hero, a charity that builds houses for wounded war veterans.

And just two years after moving back to Kelley's native Kentucky in 1993, Rand Paul founded the Southern Kentucky Lions Eye Clinic, an organization that provides eye exams and surgery to needy families and individuals – a passion he's pursued even after his election to the U.S. Senate.

Last year, during Congress' August recess, Rand Paul traveled to Guatemala to perform pro bono eye surgeries for the underprivileged.

Today, Kelley and Rand have three boys – William, Robert and Duncan.

Despite launching his own private medical practice in 2007, Rand has always been incredibly active in his children's lives – coaching Little League baseball, soccer and basketball.

Anyone who's ever run a business can tell you – with all of government's taxes, regulations and endless bureaucratic red tape – it's never easy. In the medical field, it's even worse.

Pursuing politics full time was the last thing on Rand's and Kelley's minds. But watching all the madness coming out of Washington, D.C. during the first two years of the Obama administration convinced them both it was time for good people to act if our fragile Republic was to be saved.

Not long after Rand announced, he stated plainly, 'Tm worried about our country. I'm worried about the level of our debt. I'm worried that it could get to the point where it's unmanageable ... it's going to take someone from the outside to change that."

Even in the midst of record spending by both parties and ObamaCare being rammed into law against the will of the American people, many in the media sneered at the idea that someone without the so-called "right" connections, "right" pedigree and easy access to big money could win Kentucky's Senate Primary.

Establishment insiders spread lies behind the scenes to stop Rand Paul – even misrepresenting his views to evangelical leader James Dobson to convince him to endorse Rand's opponent. But after realizing what happened, Dobson quickly decided to switch his endorsement to Rand Paul.

Then, in May of 2010, a photo suddenly appeared showing Rand Paul taking a deep breath before a TV interview wearing a sport coat, button-up shirt, tie – and shorts!

Rand Paul had been forced to run from his son's soccer game and didn't have time to change. Perhaps some in the press saw an opportunity to smear Rand as unready or ill-prepared.

But Kentucky Republicans saw a man who wasn't a career politician. Instead, they saw a patriot that simply cared for his kids, cared for his country and cared for the constitutional liberties many in both parties seemed all too willing to abandon.

On May 18, 2010, Rand Paul won Kentucky's Republican Senate Primary by a 23.4 % margin, sending shockwaves throughout the national political establishment. And, in the November General Election, Rand Paul defeated Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway by 12%.

But it was the victory speech Rand Paul gave on primary night whose echoes are still being felt throughout the American political landscape.

That night, he took to the podium to ensure members of both parties understood exactly why he was running, stating, "We've come to take our government back."

Unlike so many politicians who run for office and promise the world to voters, but quickly become part of the status-quo once elected, Rand Paul chose to chart a different course as a U.S. Senator.

Less than two months after being sworn in, Senator Paul introduced a detailed plan to balance the federal budget in just five years by repealing ObamaCare and eliminating four federal departments - including Commerce, Education, Housing and Urban Development and Energy.

If Congress had passed the first budget Senator Paul introduced, the U.S. Federal Government would be running at a $19 billion surplus by 2016! But he didn't stop there.

He also introduced the National Right to Work Act to free American workers from forced-unionism. He introduced the Life at Conception Act to end abortion nationwide by legally recognizing the scientific fact that life begins at conception.

He loudly argued for common sense American foreign policy that put American interests first while insisting that the United States stop sending American citizens' hard-earned dollars to countries that burn our flag.

The same night several of his GOP Senate colleagues dined with President Obama in the wake of their 2012 election defeat seeking "compromise," Rand Paul was charting a new course forward based on principle.

On March 6, 2013 Senator Rand Paul took to the U.S. Senate floor, launching a 13-hour Senate filibuster that galvanized Americans from all over the country after Attorney General Eric Holder refused to rule out drone strikes on American citizens on American soil in a Committee hearing.

The next morning, the Obama administration relented.

The path forward for the Republican Party – standing strong on constitutional principles - was set.

In the months ahead, Senator Paul would rack up many more victories.

Even when many in the media thought it unwinnable, Senator Paul led the fight to defeat President Obama's gun control schemes.

He also answered President Obama's call to arm ISIS ­affiliated militants in Syria in a nationally-televised foreign policy address of his own, which succeeded in stopping the President's rush to war.

In 2014, he became one of the Republican Party's most sought-after campaigners for his soaring popularity among voters of all stripes – even receiving a standing ovation at the University of California, Berkeley for his staunch defense of Americans' right to freedom from government snooping.

As a result, he's been called Time Magazine's "Most Interesting Man in Politics" and "Democrats' Enemy #1."

With his coalition of liberty-minded supporters, Tea Partiers, and social conservatives to go along with his outreach to young people and those in the African American community, Rand Paul's goal is to create nothing short of a movement.

And it's not "just"  a movement to help Republicans win back the White House, but to restore America to the constitutional principles we all hold dear.

Today, the Rand Paul story is still being written.

It boils down to a few simple lessons - lessons every American should take to heart.

Good people can make a difference.

God often has different plans for our lives than the ones we make for ourselves.

And sometimes being the right man for the job is more important than anything else.


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MY PLAN TO DEFEAT THE WASHINGTON MACHINE

MY PLAN IS SIMPLE AND ROOTED IN THE LIMITED GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES THAT HAVE MADE AMERICA THE GREATEST AND FREEST COUNTRY IN HUMAN HISTORY.

1. MAKE 'EM READ THE BILLS

Make Members of Congress Read the Bills They Vote On. This would stop the practice of ramming thousand-page bills into law before anyone can read them. My law would require waiting one day for every 20 pages of legislation before voting on the bill;

2. TERM LIMITS

Enact Term Limits for Congress. This would end the reign of career politicians in Washington, D.C., ultimately resulting in more citizen legislators in Congress;

3. END OVERBEARING REGULATIONS

End Overbearing Bureaucratic Regulations. Whether it's the EPA, Health and Human Services or even the IRS, I believe America's farmers and small businesses have suffered enough at the hands of regulation-happy government bureaucrats.

4. STOP GOVERNMENT MILITARIZATION

Stop the Militarization of Government Agencies. Almost every federal agency now has its own paramilitary force to enforce its regulations. This will end on day one of my presidency. We have federal law enforcement agencies, we do not need militarized bureaucrats.

5. BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT

A BALANCED BUDGET WILL..
CUT WASTEFUL SPENDING  
REDUCE THE DEFICIT

Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment. It works in almost every state. It's the only thing that can work in Washington to stop out-of-control spending. There is nothing more immoral than the massive debts we're saddling our children and grandchildren with today;

6. CUT TAXES

Cut Taxes for Every American. More money in the hands of those who earned it is proven to create jobs. I think it's time to put Washington, DC on a diet, and break the chains that sky-high taxes have put on our economy.

7. REPEAL OBAMACARE

Repeal ObamaCare. I don't mean just some provisions of ObamaCare. I mean ALL of it. As a doctor, I can tell you the best way to fix American healthcare is not with more government, it's by getting government out of healthcare!


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