Wingman
12-16-2007, 10:07 AM
Nice description of his leadership style and persoanality :-
http://www.eveningsun.com/localnews/ci_7735297
Candidate's roots run through Gettysburg
By MATT CASEY
Evening Sun Reporter
Article Launched: 12/16/2007 04:05:52 AM EST
Ron Paul has risen to Internet stardom through his presidential campaign, but this unconventional fiscal conservative's roots run through Gettysburg.
The Libertarian-turned Texas Republican congressman graduated from Gettysburg College in 1957, and lived both in the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house on Broadway, and in a small apartment across from the Majestic, according to his college roommate Dave Foreman.
Paul's 2008 presidential campaign has consistently left him polling at the bottom of the list of contenders for the Republican party's nomination, but he has raised an impressive $16 million.
That puts Paul behind the "top tier" candidates of Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Fred Thompson, but at the top of the "second tier" candidates of Sam Brownback, Tom Tancredo and Mike Huckabee.
Paul previously ran for president in 1988 as a member of the Libertarian party - a group that espouses as little government and taxation as possible - and finished third with .47 percent of the nation's popular vote
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- 431,750 total votes.
The Ron Paul campaign would not comment on this story after multiple calls for comment over several weeks.
Long before Paul's foray into politics, he smelled like chlorine, according Foreman - now co-owner of Foreman and Foreman Financial Consulting in Harrisburg.
Paul co-captained the swim team according to school records, and Foreman said Paul spent long hours in the pool.
He also occasionally annoyed his house mates while studying.
"He had a habit of studying with a pencil in his hand," Foreman said. "He was always tapping the pencil on something."
Paul moved out of the fraternity and into a small efficiency on Carlisle Street during his senior year, Foreman said, after he married Carolyn Wells, his high school sweetheart, and she gave birth to the first of the couple's five children.
Foreman said he spent time at the Pauls' apartment because they asked him to baby sit when they went out for a night.
"He always had a can of beer in the refrigerator - or a couple of cans of beer - that was my pay," Foreman said.
Before leaving the frat house, Foreman and school records say Paul rose to prominent positions within the fraternity.
Paul served as house manager during his sophomore year - putting him in charge of house projects - and became house steward in his junior year.
Foreman said house steward took charge of choosing the food and scheduling the menu for meals at the house.
"He knew the food was gonna be good because he was the one that selected it," Foreman said.
Foreman said Paul, a biology major, expressed an interest in economics, and used a minimalist-style of leadership, firm and fair.
"He wouldn't ask anyone to do anything that he wouldn't have done himself," Foreman said. "When he spoke out at fraternity meetings... it was no nonsense. He was taken seriously and he expected you to carry out whatever he asked you to do."
Foreman said he kept in touch with Paul and shared the occasional lunch or dinner with his college friend in Washington, D.C.
They spoke about policy, Foreman said, but he said he wouldn't try to convince Paul of "anything that he would not have thought of himself."
Foreman said he is a big supporter of Paul, calling him a "very sincere, honest man," but said he and his house mates hadn't considered Paul as a presidential candidate.
Paul first became a doctor, then entered the Air Force as a draftee during the Cuban missile crisis, but Foreman said "We knew whatever career he decided to go to ... he would succeed in because of his dedication at the job in hand."
The Gettysburg College communication office said it will not endorse his candidacy or any other candidate's, but Communication's Director Kendra Martin said the school is proud that Paul earned his undergraduate education there.
For Foreman's part, he said Paul would "make quite a man in the White House."
Contact Matt Casey at mcasey@eveningsun.com
http://www.eveningsun.com/localnews/ci_7735297
Candidate's roots run through Gettysburg
By MATT CASEY
Evening Sun Reporter
Article Launched: 12/16/2007 04:05:52 AM EST
Ron Paul has risen to Internet stardom through his presidential campaign, but this unconventional fiscal conservative's roots run through Gettysburg.
The Libertarian-turned Texas Republican congressman graduated from Gettysburg College in 1957, and lived both in the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house on Broadway, and in a small apartment across from the Majestic, according to his college roommate Dave Foreman.
Paul's 2008 presidential campaign has consistently left him polling at the bottom of the list of contenders for the Republican party's nomination, but he has raised an impressive $16 million.
That puts Paul behind the "top tier" candidates of Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Fred Thompson, but at the top of the "second tier" candidates of Sam Brownback, Tom Tancredo and Mike Huckabee.
Paul previously ran for president in 1988 as a member of the Libertarian party - a group that espouses as little government and taxation as possible - and finished third with .47 percent of the nation's popular vote
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- 431,750 total votes.
The Ron Paul campaign would not comment on this story after multiple calls for comment over several weeks.
Long before Paul's foray into politics, he smelled like chlorine, according Foreman - now co-owner of Foreman and Foreman Financial Consulting in Harrisburg.
Paul co-captained the swim team according to school records, and Foreman said Paul spent long hours in the pool.
He also occasionally annoyed his house mates while studying.
"He had a habit of studying with a pencil in his hand," Foreman said. "He was always tapping the pencil on something."
Paul moved out of the fraternity and into a small efficiency on Carlisle Street during his senior year, Foreman said, after he married Carolyn Wells, his high school sweetheart, and she gave birth to the first of the couple's five children.
Foreman said he spent time at the Pauls' apartment because they asked him to baby sit when they went out for a night.
"He always had a can of beer in the refrigerator - or a couple of cans of beer - that was my pay," Foreman said.
Before leaving the frat house, Foreman and school records say Paul rose to prominent positions within the fraternity.
Paul served as house manager during his sophomore year - putting him in charge of house projects - and became house steward in his junior year.
Foreman said house steward took charge of choosing the food and scheduling the menu for meals at the house.
"He knew the food was gonna be good because he was the one that selected it," Foreman said.
Foreman said Paul, a biology major, expressed an interest in economics, and used a minimalist-style of leadership, firm and fair.
"He wouldn't ask anyone to do anything that he wouldn't have done himself," Foreman said. "When he spoke out at fraternity meetings... it was no nonsense. He was taken seriously and he expected you to carry out whatever he asked you to do."
Foreman said he kept in touch with Paul and shared the occasional lunch or dinner with his college friend in Washington, D.C.
They spoke about policy, Foreman said, but he said he wouldn't try to convince Paul of "anything that he would not have thought of himself."
Foreman said he is a big supporter of Paul, calling him a "very sincere, honest man," but said he and his house mates hadn't considered Paul as a presidential candidate.
Paul first became a doctor, then entered the Air Force as a draftee during the Cuban missile crisis, but Foreman said "We knew whatever career he decided to go to ... he would succeed in because of his dedication at the job in hand."
The Gettysburg College communication office said it will not endorse his candidacy or any other candidate's, but Communication's Director Kendra Martin said the school is proud that Paul earned his undergraduate education there.
For Foreman's part, he said Paul would "make quite a man in the White House."
Contact Matt Casey at mcasey@eveningsun.com