GOP - Rand Paul's Presidential Highlight Reel w/ his Libertarian Twist

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Rand Paul: ‘White Kids Don’t Get the Same Justice’ as Minorities

Senator Rand Paul spoke out today on the suicide of 22-year-old Kalief Browder. Browder was 16 years old when he was arrested and was thrown in Rikers for three years without being once convicted of a crime. He was released in 2013 when the charges were dropped.

Paul, who’s recently been very vocal on criminal justice issues (especially racial disparities in arrests and convictions), was in Baltimore last night, and according to Al Jazeera, he spoke at some length about Browder and criminal justice.
Paul said he’s been talking about Browder’s case for a while now, and asked incredulously, “Are we going to let people be raped and murdered and pillaged in a prison because they’re convicted?”
He told the Baltimore audience that he understands the anger that African-Americans have, even invoking racial targeting in Ferguson:
“Am I saying they did nothing wrong and it’s all racism? No. What I am telling you is that white kids don’t get the same justice.”
Paul has spoken in many forums before about minorities being targeted by racially-charged drug laws.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/rand-paul-white-kids-dont-get-the-same-justice-as-minorities/

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Rand Paul leads Hillary 44-41 in Ohio, no other republican (except Kasich - present OH Governor) beats her

Kasich is pretty universally popular with Republican voters in the state- 72% approve of the job he's doing to only 17% who disapprove. But he still performs unspectacularly with voters on the right in the primary- among 'very conservative' voters he manages just a tie for third place with Marco Rubio at 12%, behind Ben Carson's 19% and Scott Walker's 17%. But he leads the field among the more centrist ideological groups within the Republican electorate. Among 'somewhat conservative' voters he gets 24%to 14% for Rubio, 11% for Carson, and 10% each for Walker and Rand Paul. And among moderates he ties Jeb Bush for the top spot at 23% with Walker at 11% and Rubio at 10% also in double digits.

Rubio has the highest favorability rating among GOP voters in Ohio, as we have found to be the case many places lately, at 58/16. Ohio makes yet another state where Christie is outwardly disliked by GOP voters- his favorability is 34/44- to put into perspective how poor that is the next least popular Republican we tested- Jeb Bush- is still at +16 at 48/32.

Hillary Clinton remains as dominant as ever on the Democratic side- she polls at 61% to 13% for Bernie Sanders, 7% for Michael Bloomberg, 2% each for Lincoln Chafee and Martin O'Malley, and 1% for Jim Webb.
We threw in Bloomberg because of the fascination of the New York media with a potential bid from him. We found that 1) Bloomberg isn't actually that well known- 54% of primary voters have no opinion about him and 2) he is not that well liked- only 22% of Democrats have a favorable opinion of him to 24% with a negative one.

PPP's new Ohio poll finds that John Kasich would be the first choice of Republican primary voters in his home state- more than a lot of the other GOP hopefuls can say in theirs. Kasich polls at 19% to 13% for Ben Carson and Scott Walker, 12% for Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, 9% for Rand Paul, 6% for Mike Huckabee, 5% for Ted Cruz, and 4% for Chris Christie.

This is the first poll we've conducted since O'Malley and Chafee formally got into the race and their 2% showing suggests neither has gotten much of an initial bump from his announcement. Neither has a positive favorability rating among Democratic primary voters in the state either.

Clinton is polling over 70% with African Americans, over 60% with liberals, women, and seniors, and over 50% with moderates, men, and younger voters. There's no major demographic group within the Democratic electorate she fails to receive majority support from.

The general election match ups in Ohio are generally close with one exception- Kasich leads Clinton 47/40 in a hypothetical contest. Kasich boasts a solid 49/35 approval rating following his resounding reelection victory last year. The key to Kasich's advantage is that 89% of Republicans support him, compared to 75% of Democrats for Clinton.

The only other Republican who Clinton trails in Ohio is Rand Paul at 44/41. She also ties Marco Rubio at 44. She has small advantages over the rest of the GOP field- it's 44/43 over Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, and Scott Walker, 45/43 over Jeb Bush, 44/41 over Chris Christie, and 45/42 over Mike Huckabee.

Clinton may not be polling great against the Republicans in Ohio but there's still a huge gap between how she fares and how any other Democrat does in a general election match up. In match ups against Scott Walker, Bloomberg trails 40/32, Sanders 40/30, O'Malley 41/26, Chafee 39/24, and Webb 41/25.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2015/06/kasich-leads-field-in-ohio.html

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Ted Cruz’s Analytics-Driven Plan to Steal the Libertarian Vote from Rand

Ted Cruz needs to pick off enough libertarian votes to hobble Rand Paul, and his data-analytics team thinks it has identified a way to begin to do so.

The recent fight over the expiration of the Patriot Act provisions that provide the legal basis for the National Security Agency’s controversial phone data-collection program offered a window into each campaign’s strategy. Cruz supported reforming the provisions, while Paul staged a ten-hour filibuster calling for their repeal. Cruz’s camp believes that Paul is overlooking a growing fear of international terrorism among libertarian-leaning voters, and that he erred by pushing to gut the NSA’s program rather than supporting a Patriot Act–reform bill that had already passed the House. It’s one instance of a data-analysis effort that Cruz’s team will use to try to target libertarians and other critical voters in the primaries.

Cruz’s campaign has identified about 18,000 Iowans who will support the Texas Republican next year provided they participate in the caucuses, according to Chris Wilson, the director of research and analytics for the presidential hopeful. Wilson claims they have identified another 110,000 Hawkeye voters — over three times the number of people needed to win the state — who could be persuaded to back Cruz, and they have researched what issues most motivate those voters. “Not only do I know their issues, but we are also scoring them on personality type,” he tells National Review.

Perhaps surprisingly, Cruz’s team discovered that national security is a prominent and growing concern among libertarian voters. “There is a plurality of libertarians whose top issue is national security today,” Wilson says, pegging the figure in the mid-30s. “Now, I doubt that was the case in 2008. It may not have been even in 2012. But today it is.” Consequently, he believes that Cruz’s support for the USA Freedom Act, which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell backed begrudgingly after failing to pass a bill reauthorizing the Patriot Act, hit the sweet spot in terms of appealing to libertarians who dislike the NSA but fear ISIS

That analysis may rely too much on the expectation that those libertarian voters recognize the USA Freedom Act as a middle ground between their national-security fears and their opposition to the NSA program. “That’s a little bit of a false premise to say that because people are concerned about ISIS that somehow they’re more supportive of a robust domestic-surveillance program,” says a Republican operative who is backing Paul. “What I want to know is, does it actually impact the way that somebody votes? And, if so, what solution and what proposal or idea is moving them?”

Paul’s camp assumes that he has too much credibility among libertarians, especially the ones who supported his father, for Cruz to make inroads as an alternative defender of privacy. They believe Cruz’s failure to back Paul on the Patriot Act won’t help him eat into their core supporters. “I think his not supporting Rand [in the NSA fight] hurt him in that base,” Munisteri says.

Nevertheless, the Paul campaign is clearly wary of the threat Cruz poses to their libertarian bedrock. In the aftermath of the NSA fight, they’ve taken the unusual step of claiming credit for the passage of the USA Freedom Act, even though Paul opposed the bill. Munisteri admits that the bill is an improvement over the Patriot Act, but says Cruz must “credit that improvement to Rand Paul, because there is no way that act would have been passed had Rand not caused the Patriot Act to expire.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/419543/ted-cruzs-analytics-driven-plan-steal-libertarian-vote-rand-joel-gehrke

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Time: How Rand Paul Has Already Changed the 2016 Race

The candidate has proven chatty and thoughtful

Rand Paul has been a bad, bad boy. Just ask him. “I’m not very popular in Washington right now” was his opening line at a series of town-hall meetings in New Hampshire, two weeks after he had filibustered and, temporarily, crashed the bulk collection of phone data by the federal government. “I messed up their Memorial Day plans.” The line drew laughter and applause in the great state of New Hampshire, a flinty and skeptical province. Anything that gums up the federal machine is a good thing, it seems, even if it involves national security. “One of my colleagues asked, ‘What do we do if the authority to collect data lapses?'” he continued. “I told him, ‘Well, we could rely on the Constitution for a few hours.'”

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By the time his 15-minute stump speech is over, he has delivered a tutorial about the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth and 10th amendments to the Constitution. “We Republicans won’t be successful as a party,” he says, “until we support the entire Bill of Rights as enthusiastically as we support the Second Amendment”–that is, the right to bear arms.

[...]

The current conventional wisdom is that Paul doesn’t have much of a chance to win the nomination–even though, according to a recent poll, he runs stronger against Hillary Clinton than any other Republican does. But his message is fresh and consequential. It throws a klieg light on the deficiencies of the two major parties: the mindless Republican war-silliness and the utter failure of the Democratic welfare state to alleviate intergenerational poverty. “I was on the South Side of Chicago a few weeks ago,” he said. “And the people there know the current system isn’t working. They’re about ready to try something new.”

More...http://time.com/3917723/chatty-and-thoughtful-rand-paul-has-already-changed-the-2016-race/

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Rand Paul’s disdain for international adventurism was once mainstream conservatism
Countering the GOP’s nation-building mindset

The junior senator from Kentucky drives his colleagues nuts. They don’t like Rand Paul or his positions on domestic spying and international adventurism. Arizona’s John McCain warns that Mr. Paul would be “the worst possible [Republican presidential] candidate of the 20 or so [who] are running” because of his positions on these issues and he admitted that choosing between his GOP colleague and Hillary Rodham Clinton would be “tough.” Mr. McCain’s hostility is nothing new; last year his daughter Meghan told a television interviewer that Mr. McCain “hates” Mr. Paul and assumed that the feeling is mutual.

But Mr. McCain’s views on the Kentuckian are shared by many of his colleagues. It’s no surprise that South Carolina’s Sen. Lindsey Graham, who strives to be more McCain than Mr. McCain agrees with his colleague from Arizona, but as the debate over extension of controversial USA Patriot Act provisions were up for renewal or reform, other Republican senators joined the fray, denouncing Mr. Paul, his arguments and his motives. Some believed Mr. Paul was grandstanding and, shockingly, tried to shout him down as he spoke on the Senate floor. Sen. Dan Coats of Indiana attacked him by name and questioned not just his positions and judgment, but his motives.

The vehemence of these attacks could lead one to conclude that Mr. Paul is at least as unpopular among his fellow senators as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. Mr. Cruz is roundly disliked for his manner and refusal to “play by the rules,” his perceived arrogance, and his willingness to draw stark contrasts with those within the GOP he sees as too wimpish to stand with him in his battles for conservatism. His tactics and perhaps his personality upset them. This was deeper, however, and more serious. Mr. Cruz challenges the will and tactics of his colleagues, while Mr. Paul challenges the merits of the policies to which they are so firmly wedded.

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/9/david-keene-rand-paul-counters-gops-nation-buildin/

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"Like" Rand Paul's wife Kelley on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KelleyAshbyPaul - She's out there campaigning in different states and bolstering Rand's image among activists, donors, voters and party officials. If you aren't on Fedbook, you aren't worth a crap.

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For instance:
Kelley Paul shakes off negativity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aQMaMzF6lg

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Kelley Paul shrugged off the recent attacks on her husband from fellow Republicans — including John McCain, who called him “the worst candidate” — as just the “contact sport” of politics and vowed to reveal “another dimension” to Rand Paul as she hit the presidential campaign trail here for the first time yesterday.

“At this point, I really do say it’s politics ... and politics is a contact sport,” Kelley Paul told the Herald in an exclusive interview. “It’s remarkable how thick your skin gets after awhile ... I don’t pay that much attention to the political attacks. Anything personal does bother me more, obviously, because you feel like your reputation ... is being attacked.”

Paul, campaigning by herself in New Hampshire through today, did admit to being apprehensive about the approaching media scrutiny over all aspects of her and husband’s life. The New York Times on Friday, for example, detailed the driving record of Marco Rubio’s wife, Jeanette.

“I don’t want to comment on anybody else’s particular situation, but that is exactly one of the things that every person in politics really has to look at, is that you live under a microscope and it can be intimidating, difficult, and you go into it with trepidation, for sure,” she said.

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More...http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2015/06/kelley_paul_shakes_off_negativity

[Chef Ramsay]

vote for Rand in Virginia GOP straw poll

http://www.virginia.gop/2016-rpv-presidential-straw-poll/

This is for fun but this thing seems skewed in favor of Dr. Carson.

[Chef Ramsay]

Rand Paul Signs on to Amendment Barring Ground Troops Against ISIS!

No funds appropriated by this Act may be used to support the deployment of the United States Armed Forces for the purpose of ground combat operations in Iraq or Syria, except as necessary-

For the protection or rescue of members of the United States Armed Forces or United States citizens from imminent danger posed by ISIL; or
To conduct missions not intended to result in ground combat operations by United States forces, such as-
intelligence collection and sharing;
enabling kinetic strikes
limited operations against high value targets;
operational planning; or
other forms of advice and assistance to coalition forces fighting ISIL in Iraq or Syria

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-06-11/rand-paul-signs-on-to-amendment-barring-ground-troops-against-isis

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Rand Paul and 4 Other Senators Introduce Amendment To Protect Against Indefinite Detention

WASHINGTON—Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced the Due Process Guarantee amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act. The amendment is designed to protect Americans from being detained indefinitely, without charge or trial.

The amendment aims to end ongoing legal ambiguities by affirming and strengthening the principles behind the Non-Detention Act of 1971.


"The indefinite detention of a U.S. citizen without due process is fundamentally un-American. Our founding fathers believed so firmly in the right to trial by jury that they enshrined it in the body of the Constitution, and again in the Sixth Amendment,” Sen. Paul said. "We can and will vigorously investigate and prosecute all who seek to do us harm, and we can do so while respecting the constitutional liberties of American citizens.”

“America should never waiver in vigilantly pursuing those who would commit, or plot to commit, acts of treason against our country. But the federal government should not be allowed to indefinitely imprison any American on the mere accusation of treason without affording them the due process guaranteed by our Constitution,” Sen. Mike Lee said. “By forbidding the government from detaining Americans without trial absent explicit congressional approval, the Due Process Guarantee amendment strikes the right balance between protecting our security and the civil liberties of each citizen.”

“Detaining Americans captured within the United States indefinitely without trial or even charge is a clear violation of our Constitution and our values, and it must not be permitted,” said Sen. Feinstein. "We’ve seen over and over again that our criminal justice system is well-equipped to interrogate and convict terrorists, and I support that process. We need to stand strong against terrorism, and we need to do so within the bounds of U.S. law. This amendment has been approved by the Senate in the past but not enacted; I’m hopeful that this year it will be adopted by both chambers of Congress.”

“This bipartisan amendment strengthens our nation’s founding principles of justice and fairness under the law by protecting all American citizens and lawful residents from indefinite detention without charge or trial while also guaranteeing due process of law,” said Sen. Collins. “Despite successfully passing the Senate with sixty-seven votes in 2012, this amendment unfortunately failed to be adopted. I am hopeful that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle will take action to swiftly pass this amendment into law.”

"The Constitution does not allow President Obama, or any President, to apprehend an American citizen, arrested on U.S. soil, and detain these citizens indefinitely without a trial,” said Sen. Cruz. “That’s why I have consistently supported measures to prohibit indefinite detention in the NDAA. The Due Process Guarantee amendment will prohibit the President’s ability to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens arrested on American soil without trial or due process. While we must vigorously protect national security by pursuing violent terrorists and preventing acts of terror, we must also ensure our most basic rights as American citizens are protected.”

In recent years, some have argued that the indefinite detention of Americans is permissible under the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF). The Due Process Guarantee amendment clarifies that the AUMF and other general authorizations cannot be construed as acts of Congress that permit indefinite detention and codifies the “clear statement rule” to clarify that indefinite detention can only occur if Congress expressly authorizes it.

The bill also expands the Non-Detention Act of 1971 to include legal permanent residents in addition to citizens.

In December 2012, the Senate passed this amendment to the fiscal year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act with 67 votes, but it stalled in the House of Representatives. This legislation is almost identical to that language.

http://www.paul.senate.gov/news/press/senators-introduce-amendment-to-protect-against-indefinite-detention

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Video - Rand Paul Chairs FSO Hearing on Wasteful Government Spending on the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Cmte - June 10, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GwefTZtMqU

Rand would be epic as a cmte chair in the US Senate and he shows it off in this video.

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What gets me is the naivety of the American Public that has failed to see through the veil of bullshit that pimps out who they MUST vote for in an election. The propaganda is sickening. It seems to be a race to dumb people down before they are too smart to see the light. With tyranny running amok, unless people wake up to what is going on around them, it will be all over soon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUUk1imHVno

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Rand Paul Opposing ObamaTrade - A Great Article To Send To Your GOP Friends!

Many Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio supporters have been left stunned by the two Republican’s support of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), also called Obamatrade, and its massive expansion of Obama’s executive authority and the authority of foreign bodies over the data of U.S. citizens. Rubio even channeled Nancy Pelosi’s comments on Obamacare with himself saying that the Obamatrade bill had to first be passed in order for us to know what is in it. Rand Paul was quick to respond by saying, “We should read legislation before we vote on it.”

lhttp://libertarianboard.com/2015/06/rand-paul-only-candidate-against-obamatrade/

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[Rand Paul Opposing ObamaTrade - A Great Article To Send To Your GOP Friends!/b]

Many Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio supporters have been left stunned by the two Republican’s support of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), also called Obamatrade, and its massive expansion of Obama’s executive authority and the authority of foreign bodies over the data of U.S. citizens. Rubio even channeled Nancy Pelosi’s comments on Obamacare with himself saying that the Obamatrade bill had to first be passed in order for us to know what is in it. Rand Paul was quick to respond by saying, “We should read legislation before we vote on it.”

http://libertarianboard.com/2015/06/rand-paul-only-candidate-against-obamatrade/

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[Rand Paul Opposing ObamaTrade - A Great Article To Send To Your GOP Friends!/b]

Many Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio supporters have been left stunned by the two Republican’s support of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), also called Obamatrade, and its massive expansion of Obama’s executive authority and the authority of foreign bodies over the data of U.S. citizens. Rubio even channeled Nancy Pelosi’s comments on Obamacare with himself saying that the Obamatrade bill had to first be passed in order for us to know what is in it. Rand Paul was quick to respond by saying, “We should read legislation before we vote on it.”

http://libertarianboard.com/2015/06/rand-paul-only-candidate-against-obamatrade/

Good for Paul.

Bad for 'libertarianboard' who greys out the story unless one makes a choice between 'facebook' and 'twitter' neither of which I have any interest in being a part of for a variety of reasons.  Certain of the reasons are, ironically, related to the various 'libertarian' values that I have.

Libertarians are at a natural dis-advantage in that people who are by nature less inclined to be groupies and 'team players' are more likely to be interested in their platform.  Not sure how best to deal with this problem.  Wait for the other more marshalable groups to simultaneous torpedo themselves has some disadvantages.

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[Video] KCAL9 Los Angeles reports on Rand Paul's visit to California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iTYU7NDwUE
Pretty good reporting on Rand and they talk about his stances on being the only one to oppose the Patriot Act as well as his unique stances on drug policy and civil rights.

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Politico: Rand Paul doesn’t run with the herd
At GOP cattle calls and candidate forums, Paul is often notably absent.

It’s practically a campaign-trail cliché: An Iowa interest group or deep-pocketed donor demands an audience of presidential contenders, and the candidates dutifully answer the call, flocking to assorted pig roasts or single-issue summits to test their messages and shake hands with potential supporters.

But not Rand Paul.

The Kentucky Republican was noticeably absent from last week’s so-called Roast and Ride, a rollicking get-together hosted by Paul’s colleague, Sen. Joni Ernst, in Iowa. He turned down an invitation to former Gov. Mitt Romney’s gathering of presidential candidates in Utah this weekend in favor of a swing through Southern California. He skipped last month’s Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Oklahoma City (and his PATRIOT Act filibuster kept several other senators from attending as well). Earlier this year, he also took a pass on a prominent Iowa agriculture summit and a gathering of White House wannabes hosted by Iowa Rep. Steve King.

While Paul’s rivals for the Republican nomination have ricocheted from one high-profile Iowa gathering to the next, Paul’s been mounting a quieter series of solo events, skipping the impersonal cattle calls to burnish his image as a man untethered from conventional campaigning.

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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/rand-paul-doesnt-run-with-the-herd-118951.html

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For instance:
Kelley Paul shakes off negativity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aQMaMzF6lg

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Kelley Paul shrugged off the recent attacks on her husband from fellow Republicans — including John McCain, who called him “the worst candidate” — as just the “contact sport” of politics and vowed to reveal “another dimension” to Rand Paul as she hit the presidential campaign trail here for the first time yesterday.

“At this point, I really do say it’s politics ... and politics is a contact sport,” Kelley Paul told the Herald in an exclusive interview. “It’s remarkable how thick your skin gets after awhile ... I don’t pay that much attention to the political attacks. Anything personal does bother me more, obviously, because you feel like your reputation ... is being attacked.”

Paul, campaigning by herself in New Hampshire through today, did admit to being apprehensive about the approaching media scrutiny over all aspects of her and husband’s life. The New York Times on Friday, for example, detailed the driving record of Marco Rubio’s wife, Jeanette.

“I don’t want to comment on anybody else’s particular situation, but that is exactly one of the things that every person in politics really has to look at, is that you live under a microscope and it can be intimidating, difficult, and you go into it with trepidation, for sure,” she said.

...

More...http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2015/06/kelley_paul_shakes_off_negativity

There was some buzz months ago (at Ronpaulforums.com) that she didn't want Rand to run.
Glad to see she is getting out and staying positive. 

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[Video] KCAL9 Los Angeles reports on Rand Paul's visit to California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iTYU7NDwUE
Pretty good reporting on Rand and they talk about his stances on being the only one to oppose the Patriot Act as well as his unique stances on drug policy and civil rights.

"Senator Rand Paul is visiting California this weekend to spread his message of liberty and says “We’ll look for votes out here in California. We look to win.” Paul talked with KCAL9 mainly about his criminal justice reform and how California has seen some success thanks to Proposition 47 which changed some drug charges to misdemeanors. Paul also says the War on Drugs must be fixed because he says it’s contributing to the impression that law enforcement across the country has a racial bias. Paul was visiting Orange County for the second time during his presidential campaign...."

His second visit already, nice. This is a good video, because the local TV was factual and fair.

[Chef Ramsay]

[Video] KCAL9 Los Angeles reports on Rand Paul's visit to California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iTYU7NDwUE
Pretty good reporting on Rand and they talk about his stances on being the only one to oppose the Patriot Act as well as his unique stances on drug policy and civil rights.

"Senator Rand Paul is visiting California this weekend to spread his message of liberty and says “We’ll look for votes out here in California. We look to win.” Paul talked with KCAL9 mainly about his criminal justice reform and how California has seen some success thanks to Proposition 47 which changed some drug charges to misdemeanors. Paul also says the War on Drugs must be fixed because he says it’s contributing to the impression that law enforcement across the country has a racial bias. Paul was visiting Orange County for the second time during his presidential campaign...."

His second visit already, nice. This is a good video, because the local TV was factual and fair.

Totally, it's easy to to brush off these local tv news broadcasts as they aren't national but when you really think about the whole of LA's news viewing audience seeing such a decent representation of Rand, it really helps out w/ that local perspective of him that people yearning to hear what's going on in LA are seeing of him. That is powerful.