Mediaboss Marketing

As he prepares to launch his presidential campaign next week, Rand Paul is looking to broaden his appeal to Iowas homegrown biofuel industry by co-sponsoring an ethanol-friendly bill with the states popular senior senator, Chuck Grassley.

Backing the measure gives Paul a way to appeal to Iowas alternative energy sector, while not compromising his free-market ideology when he barnstorms the state next week as part of his expected presidential kick-off.

Story Continued Below

Pauls bill would make it easier to increase the amount of ethanol blended into vehicle fuel. Current Environmental Protection Agency rules impose a 10 percent limit on the amount of ethanol that can be mixed into fuel during the summertime. Pauls change is backed by key renewable fuel interest groups.

Alternative energy is a tricky issue in Iowa, where Grassley has long advocated legislation offering tax breaks for wind power and encouraging the sale of ethanol. Republican presidential hopefuls have to thread the needle between appealing to the critical caucus states energy producers while also attempting to appease a conservative base that opposes government intervention in the energy sector.

Paul and Grassleys bill would allow truck fleets to be converted more easily to run on ethanol blends, permanently extend a tax credit for manufacturers of alternative fuel vehicles, lower taxes on liquid natural gas and, most importantly for Iowans, allow a fuel blend of 15 percent ethanol to be sold year-round.

Paul has been critical of government regulations that dictate what fuels are sold, including the Renewable Fuel Standard, a law Congress created in 2005 and expanded in 2007 thats intended to gradually incorporate more alternative fuels into gasoline blends.

Paul said his new proposal is a way to get around the EPAs onerous regulation of fuels.

Sen. Paul supports removing regulatory barriers to the use of ethanol and other renewable fuels, which would likely have the effect of growing the use of these environmentally friendly fuels. He does not support the government telling consumers or businesses what type of fuel they must use or sell, an aide said on Wednesday.

Some would like Paul to go further. Although the Renewable Fuels Association, a major energy player in D.C., supports Pauls bill, it still wants the federal government to stand fully behind the RFS and not water it down or repeal it.

Continued here:
Rand Paul finds a biofuels proposal he can get behind

Paul will be kicking off his presidential campaign next Tuesday during an appearance in Louisville, Ky. | Getty

Tony Fabrizio polled for Rick Perry in 2012, Bob Dole in 1996.

By Alex Isenstadt

4/1/15 6:10 PM EDT

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has signed Tony Fabrizio, a veteran Republican pollster, to join his 2016 presidential campaign, according to a source familiar with the move.

Fabrizio joins a growing Paul campaign team that includes campaign manager-in-waiting Chip Englander, and advisers Steve Munisteri, Mike Biundo, and Doug Stafford.

Story Continued Below

Fabrizios resume is a long one: He worked on then-Texas Gov. Rick Perrys 2012 presidential campaign Perry recently inked Greg Strimple to poll for his likely campaign and was a top strategist on Bob Doles 1996 bid. Fabrizio also serves as a top adviser to Florida Gov. Rick Scott.

Paul, a first-term Republican, will be kicking off his presidential campaign next Tuesday during an appearance in Louisville, Ky., at the Galt House hotel. The senator will then be heading to New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Iowa for a tour of early primary states.

That would make Paul the second announced presidential candidate of the 2016 campaign; Texas Sen. Ted Cruz launched his bid last week. Another Republican, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, is expected to begin his campaign on March 13 in Miami.

Read the original here:
Rand Paul signs pollster for presidential campaign

Republicans from all across Kentucky will be in the audience next week when Sen. Rand Paul announces his presidential run in Louisville with one big exception.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has endorsed Pauls national bid. But there are official endorsements and then there are endorsements with all the accouterments fundraising help, stops on the campaign trail, leaning on fellow pols to get on board and McConnells imprimatur is decidedly in the former category.

Story Continued Below

In the latest twist in a relationship between two politicians who in many respects are polar opposites, the Republican leader wont be on hand for his junior senators White House campaign kickoff. Sources familiar with his decision insisted its not meant as a slight: McConnell is simply following through on his pledge not to campaign for Paul, lest he play favorites among the three other members of his conference planning or eyeing bids of their own.

While McConnell has made his support for Rand known, he also has a job to do as majority leader, said one Republican official with knowledge of their relationship. With several members of his conference running for the same office, its just easier for him to do his day job that way.

The two Kentucky Republicans cut very different profiles one is the embodiment of the party establishment, the other a tea party libertarian yet theyve formed an alliance the past few years that has paid political dividends for both. Each has helped the others cause with the part of the GOP in which hes weakest Pauls endorsement of McConnells reelection last year helped the GOP leader court the conservative grass roots, and McConnell has lent Paul cred with more mainstream Republicans as he tries to broaden his appeal for 2016.

But McConnells move to skip Pauls presidential launch shows the limits of their alliance.

McConnell isnt the only lawmaker grappling with the presidential ambitions of colleagues from their states delegation. In states such as Florida, where Sen. Marco Rubio plans to formally announce his bid in mid-April, Republicans like Rep. John Mica are instead supporting their states former governor, Jeb Bush. In South Carolina, Sen. Tim Scott plans to stay neutral even as his senior colleague from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, is openly toying with a run. And in Texas, conservative firebrand Ted Cruz has won few allies in his states delegation, with many eager to jump behind another candidate or stay out of the race altogether.

Asked about Cruz, Texas Rep. Pete Sessions said he believes his states delegation will instead rally behind a Republican candidate with wider appeal.

We need someone who can win the state of Florida, can win the state of Pennsylvania and can win the state of Ohio, Sessions said. We can have favorite sons. There is nothing wrong with that, but Republicans want to win before we want an ideological [candidate].

Follow this link:
McConnell-Paul alliance has its limits

Is Ted Cruz A Libertarian Manchurian Candidate?
Caller tells David Knight that senator Ted Cruz is not eligible to run for president. Mr Knight points out that he hopes Cruz is not a libertarian manchurian candidate. http://www.infowars.com/vide...

By: The Alex Jones Channel

Original post:
Is Ted Cruz A Libertarian Manchurian Candidate? - Video

Libertarian Peter Schiff #39;s Elite Democracy - America was better when fewer people were voting
Libertarian Peter Schiff #39;s elite democracy. "Democracy" worked better when only rich white elites were able to vote.

By: antilibertarian

View original post here:
Libertarian Peter Schiff's Elite Democracy - America was better when fewer people were voting - Video