“Rand has the chance to be the iPhone of politics and be truly different from some of the flip-phone and rotary dial, same-old-idea candidates around him,” former Kentucky congressman Geoff Davis says.
Rand Paul Begins a Campaign for President With ‘Guts’ and ‘Gray Cells’
By Heritage Foundation Ken McIntyre——Bio and Archives--April 7, 2015
John Gaskin wasn’t sure what to expect when he heard a U.S. senator wanted to meet privately with local activists, educators and pastors to talk about the concerns of black residents during the unrest in Ferguson, Mo.
Gaskin, a college student and youth organizer who was born in Ferguson 22 years ago, set up the meeting at the request of the national NAACP on the senator’s behalf. He figured the lawmaker–a white Republican from Kentucky–would do most of the talking.
So the young black man was pleasantly surprised when Rand Paul actually did a lot of listening to the 15 or so folks who showed up last October at a real estate office in Ferguson. And when the senator spoke, it was about ideas to create jobs, improve schools and turn around criminal offenders—all with a smaller role for government and its taxes, regulations and fines.
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