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Publication Date: October 15, 2012

Author: Ryan Alessi

Rand Paul's PAC enters Senate races with message of stop sending money abroad

10/15/2012 08:49 AM

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is spending his political — and real — capital in helping Republican senate candidates in three battleground races near Kentucky and said he is likely to get involved in a fourth on behalf of Missouri’s Republican U.S. Senate candidate, Todd Akin.

Paul told Pure Politics his leadership political action committee, Rand-PAC was investing money against Democratic senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Bill Nelson of Florida and potentially Claire McCaskill in Missouri.

“We’re spending money to let voters know that their (Democratic) senators voted to give money to countries that are basically burning our flags and not protecting our embassies. And we’ve got needs at home here. We’ve got roads that are decaying. We’ve got bridges in need of repair,” he said.

Paul also discussed with Pure Politics why he didn’t think either party had the will to take on reforms to Medicare and Social Security. Paul also said he expects Congress to handle the expiring Bush-era tax cuts by extending them for another year, which he said only causes more uncertainty.

About Ryan Alessi

Ryan Alessi joined cn|2 in May 2010 as senior managing editor and host of Pure Politics. He has covered politics for more than 10 years, including 7 years as a reporter for the Lexington Herald-Leader. Follow Ryan on Twitter @cn2Alessi. Ryan can be reached at 502-792-1135 or ryan.alessi@twcable.com.

Comments

  • Cumberland Gap wrote on October 15, 2012 09:45 AM :

    So, Rand Paul wants to stop sending support to our allies who fight against the Taliban network inside their own countries. He wants us to turn our back on our military personnel serving in the Middle East? He wants us to cut ties to countries that buy our goods and services and we buy a oh, a few gallons of oil from them?

    This is a good example of his black & white fundamentalist thinking and ability to simplify the issue to attract citizens who might not want to think real deeply about it. Why do his opponents let him get away with it?

  • waybert17 wrote on October 16, 2012 05:05 AM :

    Who really, other than Israel, acts like an American ally in the Middle East? All the Arab nations in the Middle East have been caught over and over using their oil wealth to fund terrorism and the actors of terrorism. Look around in the Middle East today, and see what good Obama has done the last four years in the region. The place is on fire with anti-Americanism, Israel in in danger, and it looks more and more like World War III may be a possibility with this President.

  • edward spalding wrote on October 19, 2012 02:10 PM :

    He is the man, and has the right ideas for wahat we need in America today.

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