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06-13-2011, 04:54 PM
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Carol Paul talks about why her husband was late to the ’07 straw poll (http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/06/13/carol-paul-talks-about-why-her-husband-was-late-to-the-07-straw-poll/)
By: Jennifer Jacobs (http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/author/jennifer-jacobs/)
3:55 PM, Jun 13, 2011
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Ron and Carol Paul in 2009. (AP photo)
Ron Paul was late to the straw poll four years ago.
He was with his wife, Carol, when “all of a sudden my pulse went down and I was having a heard time breathing,” she explained to The Des Moines Register today.
It was Saturday, Aug. 5, 2007, the day of the big event. Ron Paul didn’t want to leave her side, but the medical staff at a Des Moines hospital reassured him that she would be fine while he traveled to Ames for the straw poll, a fundraiser the Republican Party of Iowa and a crucial first test of campaign strength and candidate popularity in the presidential nominating contest.
The next day, a Sunday, Carol Paul had emergency surgery. Dr. Robert Hoyt of the Iowa Heart Center installed a pacemaker, she said.
“And I’m here to tell about it,” she said with a laugh.
Paul finished 5th last year.
Today, he told a crowd in Dubuque to be sure to come to Ames Aug. 13.
“You’re a special state at a special time,” he told them.
The Pauls have five children.
“Three of them are doctors,” said Carol Paul, who was with two grandchildren today, Lisa Paul, who is in medical school, and Mark Pyeatt. “Our kids went into medicine not because we urged them to but because they saw how their dad took care of his patients.”
Asked how the campaign is going, Carol Paul said, “It’s early yet. It’s early. They like to see if they can ignore Ron because his message is so—it takes people’s breath away when he tells them what they’re really doing up there.”
Carol Paul talks about why her husband was late to the ’07 straw poll (http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/06/13/carol-paul-talks-about-why-her-husband-was-late-to-the-07-straw-poll/)
By: Jennifer Jacobs (http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/author/jennifer-jacobs/)
3:55 PM, Jun 13, 2011
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Ron and Carol Paul in 2009. (AP photo)
Ron Paul was late to the straw poll four years ago.
He was with his wife, Carol, when “all of a sudden my pulse went down and I was having a heard time breathing,” she explained to The Des Moines Register today.
It was Saturday, Aug. 5, 2007, the day of the big event. Ron Paul didn’t want to leave her side, but the medical staff at a Des Moines hospital reassured him that she would be fine while he traveled to Ames for the straw poll, a fundraiser the Republican Party of Iowa and a crucial first test of campaign strength and candidate popularity in the presidential nominating contest.
The next day, a Sunday, Carol Paul had emergency surgery. Dr. Robert Hoyt of the Iowa Heart Center installed a pacemaker, she said.
“And I’m here to tell about it,” she said with a laugh.
Paul finished 5th last year.
Today, he told a crowd in Dubuque to be sure to come to Ames Aug. 13.
“You’re a special state at a special time,” he told them.
The Pauls have five children.
“Three of them are doctors,” said Carol Paul, who was with two grandchildren today, Lisa Paul, who is in medical school, and Mark Pyeatt. “Our kids went into medicine not because we urged them to but because they saw how their dad took care of his patients.”
Asked how the campaign is going, Carol Paul said, “It’s early yet. It’s early. They like to see if they can ignore Ron because his message is so—it takes people’s breath away when he tells them what they’re really doing up there.”