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WILTON Saying that "the wind is at our back," U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was optimistic here Wednesday about his party's chances in thefall election.

Paul, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, was the headliner at an event for Republican Senate nominee Joni Ernst and state Rep. Bobby Kaufmann.

Winding up a day of campaigning in Iowa, Paul predicted victory on Nov. 4. "In two weeks we're going to boot 'em out, we're going to send 'em home and we're going to get America going again," he said.

Paul said the government has "gone crazy" with regulatory overreach. And he saidthe governmentcould improve the economy by trying to lure the more than $2 trillion in corporate profits from overseas back to the U.S. by lowering the tax on it to 5 percent. He said that would mean a return of $1 trillion, an influx of tax revenue and "real stimulus."

Currently, the corporate tax rate is 35 percent.

"If you want jobs not to go overseas, we have to be competitive," he said.

Paul is the latest national GOP figure to come to the state to help Ernst in her campaign against Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, for the state's open U.S. Senate seat.

Both Paul and Ernst took turns poking fun at first lady Michelle Obama's mispronunciation of Braley's last name in her appearance here earlier this month. Ernst said the first lady's return to the state Tuesday to campaign again with Braley was a "mulligan tour."

In her remarks, Ernst criticized Braley on a range of issues, from the debt to foreign policy.

She called the Affordable Care Act the "largest tax increase in United States history."

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WILTON, Iowa A potential Republican presidential contender and the GOP candidate for one of the hottest races in the U.S. Senate were among the special guests at a barbecue benefit in Wilton on Wednesday evening.

About 300 guests at the event, not including both local and national media, packed the Wilton Community Center to meet with and hear from U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, and state Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Red Oak.

Paul, who was there to support not only Ernst, but other local Republican candidates, is a first-term senator who is known for his libertarian political philosophy. Considered to be a contender for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, he is the son of former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, who himself ran for president twice as a Republican.

The event was the sixth annual fall barbecue hosted by the Kaufmann family of Wilton, a prominent family in state Republican politics. Iowa Rep. Bobby Kaufmann, R-Wilton, who hosted the event, is running to secure a second term representing House District 73. Kaufmann said he'd met Paul on a campaign trip and found that they shared a common passion about the rights of property owners, one of the subjects of Paul's recent book, "Government Bullies."

"We just really hit it off," Kaufmann said.

Bobby Kaufmann noted that Paul is the fourth presidential contender to visit one of his family's barbecues during the past several years.

In his remarks, Paul argued against federal overreach regarding not just property rights, but in free speech and search and seizure issues, saying that the government has intruded too far on citizens' rights with electronic surveillance.

"This was what the [American] Revolution was fought over," Paul said.

Ernst, who spoke after Paul, is campaigning for the U.S. Senate to replace retiring Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. A lieutenant colonel in the Iowa National Guard, she is facing U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, in a tight race for the seat. She spoke out against Braley, saying that he has been too willing to attempt to raise taxes and not do enough to reduce the national debt.

"I'm not willing to pass that along to my children," she said.

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The Libertarian Irrational Brain

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NORTHWEST ARKANSAS -- Libertarian Lieutenant Governor Candidate Christopher Olson stopped by our KNWA/FOX 24 studios Wednesday morning.

He weighed in on everything from marriage equality, to legalizing cannabis for medicinal purposes, to eliminating state income tax, to reducing the size of the Lieutenant Governor's office. Watch the video for the full interview or read below to see what Olson had to say.

Marissa Kargas: To start things off, some have said our state does not need a Lieutenant Governor and believe those tax dollars could be better spent elsewhere. You have said you want to eventually reduce the size of the office of Lieutenant Governor. What do you mean by that?

Christopher Olson: Well, my first preference would be to eliminate the office. Now I understand that the legislature only has three option for a constitutional amendment each year and it would take a constitutional amendment to abolish the office. If they were unwilling to use up one of their three to do this, I would like to reduce the size of the office by reducing the staff down to one part-time secretary to answer the phone and I myself would decline half the salary. As the office now, it's budgeted for four staff members and a $43,000 salary for the Lieutenant Governor. Doing that would reduce the size of the office and the budget.

Marissa Kargas: So you still think that there is a need for the position of Lieutenant Governor, but just diminishing the pay for Lieutenant Governor and the size of the office.

Christopher Olson: Yes. I don't know if we actually really need one, but if we're going to have one, it needs to be what it's supposed to be. A part-time job.

Marissa Kargas: Candidates often talk about their plans for jobs and our state's economy, but you have also come out expressing your support of initiatives to legalize cannabis for medicinal purposes and your support for marriage equality. Why is it important for you to take a strong, public stance on these more controversial issues?

Christopher Olson: I'm for these issues not because I'm running for Lieutenant Governor. I don't believe the Lieutenant Governor will have any role in those issues whatsoever. However, I am in favor of liberty and equal rights for people. I believe that cannabis has a legitimate medical use. There are numerous studies done that list the ability of it to treat epilepsy in children, for example, or help AIDS and cancer patients tolerate their medicines. As far as marriage equality, I really don't believe that the state has a role to play in marriage. If it does though, it needs to treat each of its citizens equally. If men and women have the right to engage in that contract and get married, then other legally consenting adults should have that same right.

Marissa Kargas: State income tax is a topic that draws debate from both sides. You have said you plan to reduce and eventually eliminate the state income tax. How do you plan to do that?

Christopher Olson: It's not necessarily my plan. It's the plan of my running mate, Frank Gilbert. He's running for Governor. As I said before, the Lieutenant Governor really has no part to play in this because it has little power whatsoever. If I was elected, I wouldn't be able to do anything for this. But, my vision for that was, over the course of several years to gradually reduce the amount of money that's taken out of people's paychecks. People work hard for their money and they deserve to have the right to spend it however they want, without the government getting its cut first.

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