EXCLUSIVE — RAND’S PARENTS RON AND CAROL PAUL: SENATOR’S FILIBUSTER OF NSA ‘WAS FANTASTIC,’ ‘HELPED WAKE UP AMERICAN PEOPLE’
by MATTHEW BOYLE
20 Jul 2015
HOUSTON, Texas — The filibuster against the National Security Agency (NSA) bulk data collection program that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
led in the U.S. Senate earlier this year was “fantastic,” his father, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), tells Breitbart News exclusively.
“I think it was fantastic because it called attention to a very, very important issue,” Ron Paul said in an interview at a fundraiser in Houston for his son’s presidential campaign that many members of the Paul family—whose home is just an hour from here in Lake Jackson, Texas—attended. “It hit a chord because it helped wake up the American people. I think it was great and that kind of stuff goes a long way.”
The senator’s mother, Carol Paul, told Breitbart News that her son’s leadership reminded her of what her husband used to do before he retired.
“I’ve seen that before, so I’m pretty much attuned to that,” Carol Paul said when asked about the filibuster.
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Paul’s father, Ron—a three-time presidential candidate once as a Libertarian Party member and twice as a GOP member—said Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)93%
is the candidate Republicans should pick as their nominee for president because he’s the only one who understands the issues most important to the nation.
“His philosophy is close to my philosophy,” Ron Paul told Breitbart News of Rand Paul. “It’s for less government, for liberty, and nobody else even has the vaguest understanding if you compare what his understanding is for free markets and Austrian economics. Nobody else even comes close.”
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