Ron Paul Excluded in Iowa

FreeState · #1 06-19-2007, 12:43 PM

From: http://blog.ronpaul2008.com/

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Ron Paul Excluded in Iowa

Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa Christian Alliance will host a presidential candidates forum on Saturday, June 30th in Des Moines. Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Sam Brownback, Jim Gilmore, Mike Huckabee, Tommy Thompson, and Tom Tancredo will participate.

Ron Paul, however, will not participate. Why? Because he wasn’t invited.

We heard about this forum from numerous supporters in Iowa who asked why Dr. Paul was not going to participate. Those supporters assumed that Dr. Paul was invited and would participate.

The campaign office had not received an invitation so we called this morning to ask about; thinking we might have misplaced the invitation or simply overlooked it. Lew Moore, our campaign manager, then called Mr. Edward Failor, an officer of Iowans for Tax Relief, to ask about it. To our shock, Mr. Failor told us this morning that Dr. Paul was not invited; he was not going to be invited; and he would not be allowed to participate. And when asked why, Mr. Failor refused to explain. The call ended.

Lew then called Mr. Steve Sheffler, president of the Iowa Christian Alliance, to talk with him. Mr. Sheffler did not answer so Lew left a message. He has yet to respond.

Why are the Iowans for Tax Relief and the Iowa Christian Alliance excluding the one Republican candidate who scored at the top of every online poll taken after the MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN debates? Why are they denying Iowans the opportunity to hear from the Republican presidential candidate whose popularity is growing by the day?

We couldn’t get answers to these questions from Messrs. Failor and Sheffler. Maybe you’ll have better luck. Their contact information is below.

It's ironic that on the same day we learned the Iowans for Tax Relief and the Iowa Christian Alliance excluded Dr. Paul from their candidates forum, we received a call from ABC News confirming Dr. Paul’s participation in its nationally broadcast August 5th debate to be held in Des Moines.

Kent Snyder, Chairman
Ron Paul 2008

Edward Failor
Executive Vice President
Iowans for Tax Relief
563-288-3600 or 877-913-3600
Fax: 563-264-2413
itr@taxrelief.org

David M. Stanley
Chairman
Iowans for Tax Relief
563-263-7203 and also 563-264-8080 (receptionist will answer this line)

Katie Koberg
Public Relations Director
Iowans for Tax Relief
515-875-4936 and also 563-284-6796
kkoberg@taxrelief.org

Steve Scheffler, President
Iowa Christian Alliance
515-225-1515 and also 515-971-7363
515-225-1826 (fax)
slscheffler@iowachristian.com

We need to call these people now!

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Devil_rules_in_extremes · #2 06-19-2007, 12:53 PM

That's a bunch of crap...

At the very least, they need to explain why they didn't invite Ron Paul.

Im about to do some e-mailing...

FreeState · #3 06-19-2007, 01:06 PM

I think they are testing the waters. Perhaps to see if they can get away with it, and to see how his supporters will react.

I'm sure they think along the major media lines that Ron Paul has no support. If they are able to keep him off of this it will open the door for other exclusions.

I think in this case we would be better off calling, or emailing and calling, as thats what worked with michigan.