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06-11-2013, 04:08 PM
ROAD-TRIPPING WITH RAND PAUL
By Grace Wyler
June 11, 2013
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I’m in an eight-seater plane, flying over the San Joaquin Valley with Rand Paul, the Tea Party-loving, filibustering provocateur of the US Senate who is quickly climbing the shortlist of potential Republican contenders for the 2016 presidential race.
At this moment, the fiery sparkplug who demanded President Barack Obama explain his policy on drone-ing Americans and, more recently, berated his Senate colleagues for dragging Apple executives before a congressional hearing, is AWOL. Paul is tired, and a little cranky. He’s losing his voice and he thinks he ate something that disagreed with him during his meeting at eBay's offices.
We’ve just finished a whirlwind tour of Silicon Valley, with stops at Facebook, Google, and meetings with deep-pocketed techno-libertarian donors. But when I ask Paul what his favorite part of the trip was, his response is “golfing,” referring to the 27 rounds he played at a Half Moon Bay resort with his youngest son Robert, who is 14.
By most measures, the trip has been a big success for Paul. The Kentucky Republican was well-received by tech executives—Mark Zuckerberg even flew back early from his trip to Europe to attend their meeting—and Paul has made the kind of valuable relationships he needs if he ever decides to run for president, which, at this point, seems like the plan.
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By Grace Wyler
June 11, 2013
http://assets.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/no-slug/e71aa9a5820bf62efd26e47e5ab0a278.jpg
I’m in an eight-seater plane, flying over the San Joaquin Valley with Rand Paul, the Tea Party-loving, filibustering provocateur of the US Senate who is quickly climbing the shortlist of potential Republican contenders for the 2016 presidential race.
At this moment, the fiery sparkplug who demanded President Barack Obama explain his policy on drone-ing Americans and, more recently, berated his Senate colleagues for dragging Apple executives before a congressional hearing, is AWOL. Paul is tired, and a little cranky. He’s losing his voice and he thinks he ate something that disagreed with him during his meeting at eBay's offices.
We’ve just finished a whirlwind tour of Silicon Valley, with stops at Facebook, Google, and meetings with deep-pocketed techno-libertarian donors. But when I ask Paul what his favorite part of the trip was, his response is “golfing,” referring to the 27 rounds he played at a Half Moon Bay resort with his youngest son Robert, who is 14.
By most measures, the trip has been a big success for Paul. The Kentucky Republican was well-received by tech executives—Mark Zuckerberg even flew back early from his trip to Europe to attend their meeting—and Paul has made the kind of valuable relationships he needs if he ever decides to run for president, which, at this point, seems like the plan.
...
read more:
http://www.vice.com/read/roadtripping-with-rand-paul