Limit elective travel from West Africa to curb Ebola spread, Sen. Rand Paul says
The administration should allow health care workers to go fight Ebola in West Africa but suspend all non-essential travel to the Ebola-stricken region, says Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky.
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DETROIT The GOP field office on Livernois Avenue is a squat, brick building with a grillwork of bars on its windows. The outpost in the predominantly Democratic, African-American neighborhood is a place where prominent Republicans dont often venture.
Rand Paul seems right at home.
The first thing he does when he walks in is to break up the rows of chairs assembled in front of a podium.
Paul, the junior Republican senator from Kentucky, has held other informal discussions with voters in mostly African-American communities throughout the year.
I just had a meeting like this in Atlanta last week and before in Ferguson, he noted, referring to the St. Louis suburb rocked by riots this summer after a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager.
Hes also had meetings in Chicago and the west end of Louisville, where Cassisus Clay was raised.He held another one in Detroit in December, when he also spoke to the Detroit Economic Club.This one, in Detroits Sherwood Forest, was the first open to the press, according to an aide.
Instead of shooting out policy proposals from behind a lectern, Paul sets up the meetings as listening sessions just what Hillary Clinton did in upstate New York when she ran for Senate in 2000. At the time, Democrats saw the state as enemy territory.
Paul emphasizes criminal justice reform as well as conservative approaches to fighting poverty and improving education.
The senator is usually a harsh critic of President Obama, who remains popular among many African Americans. But on the subject of criminal justice reform, he praises Obama warmly.
We talked a little bit about criminal justice reform and I complimented him on some of the commutation of sentences hes done. He tried to correct some of the crack powder disparity with cocaine but still some people are already in jail, Paul told The Hill in an interview, noting a rare phone call he had with Obama a few weeks ago.
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Rand Paul courts the black vote
By Eric Bradner, CNN
updated 1:15 PM EST, Sun November 2, 2014
Washington (CNN) -- Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday stood by his comment that the GOP brand "sucks," but said he sees "a lot of avenues for Republicans to break through" with young and minority voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
The Kentucky Republican said on CNN's "State of the Union" that the members of his party "have a chance" when they discuss issues like privacy rights, criminal justice reform, poverty and long-term unemployment with traditionally Democratic constituencies.
"But our brand is so broken, we can't even break through, you know, the wall that's out there," Paul said. "And this is the same with Hispanic voters, it's the same with young people in general."
Paul drew attention Thursday when he first said the GOP's brand "sucks" and compared it to Domino's crust, pointing to the pizza maker's advertising campaign admitting it had put out a poor product in the past. His comments were a hot topic among Washington's political class on Sunday.
James Baker, the former secretary of state and chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan, disagreed with Paul, saying he wants Republicans to "stop the fratricide that has occurred from time to time in the past."
"I don't think the GOP brand sucks at all. I have never felt that," he said on CNN's "State of the Union."
But Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told ABC's "This Week," that he's "very close" to Paul, and agrees with the sentiment that the GOP should engage with a diverse set of voters.
"Rand Paul is saying what I've been saying, which is we have spent way too long as a national party showing up at the end, and we've got to do better," he said, noting that Paul's comments came at an African-American engagement office in Detroit.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Rand Paul went on Meet The Press Sunday to talk about the Republican Party's image problems and how they can get the black vote.
Paul discussed the Republican party's problems with its popular perception earlier this week, saying people think "no one in the Republican Party cares." Paul explained how he reaches out to the black community. "I think you have to show up, and then you have to say something. I've spent the last year showing up," he said.
Paul pointed out that he visited many colleges and Ferguson, Mo. to try to reach out to the black community. He said he believes Republican appearances in black communities aren't enough.
"Showing up is not enough. We have to show that we have a policy," he said. He has spoken against Voter ID laws that many believe are aimed at keeping minorities from voting, but he also said he has no problem with making people show an ID to vote.
Paul claims people in black communities have told him they're not happy with their Democratic leaders, so he believes the Republicans have an opportunity to change their political affiliations.
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If Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie face off for the Republican Party's presidential nomination in 2016, they may invite voters to compare more than just their policy proposals.
Christie, who has built a reputation as a brash, no-holds-barred politician who isn't afraid to spar with his detractors, is facing questions about his campaign-trail etiquette after telling a heckler at a recent event to "sit down and shut up."
Asked about the outburst on "Face the Nation" Sunday, Paul said that Christie's style of "bullying demeanor may go over well in certain places. But, you know, I grew up in the South. And we're, 'Yes, ma'am,' and, 'No, sir,' and a little bit more polite."
He expressed an appreciation for Christie's bold behavior, and said there was a time when he thought, 'You know what? When he stands up and he says things boldly, that's kind of good. And he's not taking any flack."
"But there can be too much of that, too," Paul said. "And we live in a world where we have so much cacophony of voices on TV sometimes and yelling back and forth. And I think there's a resurgence of people who want a little more civility and discourse."
On his own presidential aspirations, Paul said he is, in fact, thinking of running for president.
"Sometime in the next six months, I'll make a final decision," he said. "Sometime in the spring."
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