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Paul Entices College Supporters Not to Skip Town for the Holidays
December 19, 2007 1:14 PM
ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf Reports: With the explosion of his moneybomb and his flush campaign coffers, Texas Republican Ron Paul, who is mounting a spirited libertarian-flavored run for the Republican nomination, is trying to ramp up his ground game in Iowa, which caucuses on January 3rd.
Unfortunately for Paul, who seems to be more popular than most Republicans on college campuses, the caucus is smack dab in the middle of winter break.
In order to entice potential Paul supporters who are enrolled in school in Iowa, but don't live there normally, to stay in the icy state, the campaign is putting some of that $6 million plus dollars they raised over the weekend into the hands of the college students who have helped give Paul so much buzz on the Internet.
According to campaign spokesman Jesse Benton, college students are bing given a debit card by the campaign with a $40 per day perdiem (for meals) and are being encouraged to stay in cabins at a camp ground outside Des Moines.
"Because the students are all volunteers and pay for their own travel, it is relatively cheep. About $70,000," Benton said.
Keeping the students in town is only one aspect of the Paul game plan in these waning weeks of the Iowa primary campaign. Just paying for the room and board and giving them a meal stipend.
Students who go to school in Iowa, but are not from there are allowed to caucus under Iowa law.
"We are really ramping up our ground game," Benton said. "We are hiring between 50 and 100 county field coordinators. They are paid and they are on an incentive system. If they do well, we'll give them some extra cash."
December 19, 2007 in McCain, John, Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (58)
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Overdoing things especially(bribery)
shouldn\\\\\\\'t be done in the first place.
Posted by: 110lb Ron Paul | Dec 19, 2007 2:58:33 PM
Offering students money is more brilliand the HILLary's new plan to use Bill to handle her campaign. Is she stupid or just looks it? The reason she LOST the nomination is BECAUSE OF BILL! (who alianates blacks and women voters, both of which would have needed to win the nominations)
GO OBAMA! (the real First Black President)
Posted by: pedro | Dec 19, 2007 2:58:53 PM
I am voting YES, for Dr. No.
-- No more meddling in other country''s political affairs. Mind our own business.
-- No more aggressive military actions overseas and pre-emptive illegal wars
-- No more torture prisons and destroying the evidence
-- No more Federal Reserve (the group of private banks which owns our government)
-- No more erosion of Social Security to pay for militarization
-- No more U.N. (one world government) participation
-- No more NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO or GATT
-- No more North American Union
-- No more federal gun control laws
-- No more illegal aliens pouring-in over our country''s borders
-- No more national ID cards (Real ID Act)
-- No more government invasion of your privacy, spying on Americans email and telephone conversations.
-- No more federal Laws which are not authorized by The Constitution
-- No more federal erosion of State sovereignty
Posted by: LeGrand | Dec 19, 2007 2:59:40 PM
This is not buying votes. The people that are mainly being hired are people who can't vote in the Iowa primaries anyways. DUH!!!!
Posted by: M. Lane Culpepper | Dec 19, 2007 3:01:12 PM
providing 150 volunteers with spending money for food while they are campaigning for RP is hardly "buying votes", especially since many will be from out of state and unable to caucus.
if you want to see "buying votes", see mitt paying supporters to vote 20 plus times each in straw polls.
p.s. - spell check "cheep".
Posted by: wampum | Dec 19, 2007 3:02:24 PM
It is par for the course, the mainstream media slanting a story to try to smear Ron Paul.
Since when did the nations media get purchased by Joseph Goebbels?
Posted by: Jay | Dec 19, 2007 3:06:12 PM
Actually, the Hillary supporters are just jelous because she has to have cooperate donors from Exxon, Haliburton and others, to even compete with Ron Pauls contributions. Plus, she, and other candidates have to have big name endorsements to attract people. Fact is, the R3VOLUTION is bigger than Hillary, Obama, Huckleberry and the others.
The R3VOLUTION is growing because it's based on facts, freedoms, and people who support honesty. Not liars from the "status quo" elite.
People want change. We want something new. We want Ron Paul. God Bless Ron Paul.
Posted by: M. Lane Culpepper | Dec 19, 2007 3:07:22 PM
where in the constitution does it say this is ok? classic libertarianism--buying politics with money
Posted by: steve | Dec 19, 2007 3:12:22 PM
During his 20 years in Congress, Ron Paul has never taken a government-paid junket, has never voted himself a pay raise, and does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program. He has never voted for an unbalanced budget or to raise taxes.
Now, there is a Statesman with integrity, who walks the talk.
Posted by: LeGrand | Dec 19, 2007 3:15:03 PM
How about some truth. Why isn't the media exposing Clinton's fundreasing activities?
Posted by: Helen | Dec 19, 2007 3:26:34 PM
The implications of this article are outrageous. Ron Paul is paying students to pass out flyers and wave signs, not to participate or vote in the caucus. I think that would be illegal anyway. Whoever wrote this just had the wrong idea and took even the quotes out of context.
Posted by: Adrienne | Dec 19, 2007 3:26:34 PM
The Paul campaign is in no way paying students to stay for the caucus, nor are the 'buying votes' as you seem to suggest. What they are doing is enabling hundreds of students - most of them from outside Iowa - to volunteer for the campaign in Iowa by helping them with travel and lodging expenses. Click the "Christmas Vacation in Iowa" link on the RP2008 website if you'd like to see what is REALLY going on here.
Posted by: Rob Tyree | Dec 19, 2007 3:30:57 PM
I am not even a Ron Paul Supporter, and I can clearly do 30 seconds of investigating and see this is completely false and slander. Clearly nothing wrong going on here, like Romney Busing in people and giving them dinner to vote.
Posted by: Bob S. | Dec 19, 2007 3:34:15 PM
The msm articles with "slants" won't work. Too many people want to turn this country around, have invested too much money and time for the establishment to try this ploy. They are running scared....moneybombs, teaparties and blimps have them bewildered.
Posted by: Glen | Dec 19, 2007 3:39:50 PM
Any which way to smear Ron Paul, the only life long integrous American politican of the last hundred years, who wants to save Americans from themselves, and the media and all the parrots out there want to lie and tear him down... RIdiculous.. buying votes? Ever hear of the word, libel, ABC?
Posted by: chris | Dec 19, 2007 3:45:56 PM
Good for the Ron Paul campaign. The "establishment" has used every freaking law in the history of the world to keep Ron Paul message of Constitutional freedom from gtting out and now Ron Paul has found a law that he can use to his advantage. Good for him.
Posted by: Tom Lundy | Dec 19, 2007 3:50:38 PM
As Ron Paul says himself, his message of freedom has not changed in 30 years. The American citizens see how our freedoms are being snatched from us especially after 9/11/01. Please help this peaceful revolution for liberty and justice for our all just like our Constitution promises.
Posted by: Glen | Dec 19, 2007 3:58:41 PM
I knew this article didn't sound right the minute I read it.
And I knew a minute later I'd be proven correct in that assumption. Hey media! It's called GOOGLE. Try using it sometime.
This is just another glaring example of how the internet is going to make it awfully hard for the mainstream media to mislead people from now on.
Posted by: gb8898 | Dec 19, 2007 4:19:18 PM
Mohatma Ghandhi said..."First they ignor you, then they laugh at you,... they will smear you, and then you Win".... RON PAUL You are becoming a threat to their crooked establishment. You are now in the smear phase....soon you will WIN!...GO RON PAUL!!!
Posted by: Maria | Dec 19, 2007 4:45:59 PM
LeGrand:
Neoconservatives are big-government Republicans. Big-government is synonymous with left-wing. Neoconservatives are liberal, despite the word "conservative" in the title.
Posted by: Mokkan | Dec 19, 2007 5:48:06 PM
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