This was in my latest RP newsletter

[external]Ron Paul Excluded in Iowa

June 19, 2007


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.

The campaign office had not received an invitation so we called this morning; thinking we might have misplaced the invitation or simply overlooked it. Lew Moore, our campaign manager, called Mr. Edward Failor, an officer of Iowans for Tax Relief, to ask about it. To our shock, Mr. Failor told us 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 [external]

This is my 1st thread so go easy on me if it's written wrong. I realize this is a state held debate, but if he is a presidential candidate, are they allowed to exclude him? Doesnt that infringe on Text freedom of speach? I know you guys can answer this question for me, since society in general seems unable.

Well, that seems to fit with another thread here that YouTube has made some changes, and now Ron Paul doesn't seem to be available there either.

Something seems to be going on in an effort to push him out of the race.

NGC- you rock! I should have known you'd be the 1st to respond! I actually just posted that similarity on the 'utube thread' - Is there a way to put the link to that thread into this one for other references? Yeah, Im a slow learner, I know.lol

Good find OP. Thank you. This is just astounding. I think we all should bombard the phones with our phone calls asking the same questions as the author of the post.

Do we really need another one of these threads..

There are so many threads about supposed censorship of him, and threads about him in
general, it's really annoying.


Now, onto the topic.

The organizers do not have to include him if they don't want to, it's not being funded
by public money, or a publically sponsored debate, and therefore they can exclude whomever
they want.

Besides, it's not like people can't find about things about him if they want to,
it's ignorant to expect people to organize a local event (when they've already participated
in a national one) so they can go stand/sit around like morons and listen to the same
thing over again.


Oh, and as for those polls, well consider how few people actually participate in them,
now consider how many die-hard Paulites go out of their way to make him seem like everyone likes him.

Thanks Iori!!!
Any kind of new information, sites, opinions,etc.. is what Im looking for- Whether it be for or against his candicacy, any kind of discussion is always welcome in my eyes - How else could we learn and form beliefs?