{"id":6202,"date":"2010-05-26T18:21:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T01:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=6202"},"modified":"2010-05-26T18:21:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T01:21:20","slug":"shake-up-in-the-rand-paul-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/05\/26\/shake-up-in-the-rand-paul-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Shake-up in the Rand Paul campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m looking over some headlines at various blog sites — hitting the “Big One” of Huffington Post, and I see this headline:
\nRand Paul REPLACES Campaign Manager With Former Ron Paul Aide
\n<\/em>And I think “Please Let it be Lew Rockwell.\u00c2\u00a0 Please let it be Lew Rockwell.”
\nThen I see…<\/a>
\nJesse Benton, who was communications director for former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul’s last campaign, replaces David Adams as campaign manager.<\/em><\/p>\n

Drat.<\/p>\n

Incidentally<\/a>, as we dig back into that arena<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Ron Paul & Associates (RP&A), Inc. was founded in 1984 by Ron Paul who served as President, Llewellyn H Rockwell Jr. served as Vice President, Ron Paul’s wife Carol served as Secretary and Lori Pyeatt as Treasurer. The corporation was dissolved in 2001.[<\/span>38]<\/span><\/sup>[<\/span>39]<\/span><\/sup>[<\/span>40]<\/span><\/sup>[<\/span>41]<\/span><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n

In 1985 Ron Paul & Associates began publishing The Ron Paul Investment Letter<\/strong>[<\/span>42]<\/span><\/sup> and The Ron Paul Survival Report;[<\/span>10]<\/span><\/sup>[<\/span>43]<\/span><\/sup> it added the more controversial Ron Paul Political Report in 1987.[<\/span>44]<\/span><\/sup> Articles were largely unbylined but often invoked Paul’s name or persona. In 1992, RP&A earned $940,000 and employed Paul’s family as well as <\/em>Lew Rockwell<\/em> (its vice-president[<\/span>45]<\/span><\/sup> and sometime editor)[<\/span>46]<\/span><\/sup> and seven other workers. <\/em>Murray Rothbard<\/em> and other libertarians believed Rockwell <\/em>ghostwrote<\/em> the newsletters for Paul;[<\/span>45]<\/span><\/sup> Rockwell later acknowledged involvement in writing subscription letters, but attributed the newsletters to “seven or eight freelancers.<\/em><\/p>\n

You’d be interested to know that I uncovered an issue of the “Ron Paul Investment Letter”.\u00c2\u00a0 I republish the issue.:<\/p>\n

DOOM DOOM DOOM.
\nBUY GOLD.
\nDOOM DOOM DOOM.
\nBUY GOLD.
\nDOOM DOOM DOOM.
\nBUY GOLD.
\nINFLATION!
\nDOOM DOOM DOOM.
\nBUY GOLD.
\nDOOM DOOM DOOM.
\nBUY GOLD.
\nINFLATION!
\nDOOM DOOM DOOM.
\nBUY GOLD.
\nDOOM DOOM DOOM.
\nINFLATION!
\nBUY GOLD.
\nDOOM DOOM DOOM.
\nBUY GOLD.<\/p>\n

It goes on like that for the entire newsletter.\u00c2\u00a0 The only deviation is this small ad for “Survival Seeds”.\u00c2\u00a0 That one must have been meant for the “Survival Report”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m looking over some headlines at various blog sites — hitting the “Big One” of Huffington Post, and I see this headline: Rand Paul REPLACES Campaign Manager With Former Ron Paul Aide And I think “Please Let it be Lew Rockwell.\u00c2\u00a0 Please let it be Lew Rockwell.” Then I see… Jesse Benton, who was communications […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6203,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions\/6203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}