Sen. Rand Paul to speak at local GOP luncheon
By Jim Hook
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CHAMBERSBURG >> U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a potential GOP presidential candidate for 2016, will speak Oct. 31 at a local Republican fundraiser.
"He's a person we've been after for a long time," Franklin County Republican Committee Chairman Robert Wollyung said.
Paul will be the featured speaker at noon on Oct. 31 at the Orchards restaurant in Chambersburg. Tickets are limited for the event and will be on sale at the Republican Party headquarters at 1320 Lincoln Way East, Suite 8, Chambersburg, or by calling 717-263-7999. Office hours are expected to be Tuesday through Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The price of a ticket is $60. A portion of the proceeds will be presented to the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition.
Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, was elected senator in 2010. He is among the early leading contenders for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016. Recent polls have placed him in the lead in New Hampshire and third in Iowa among a tight GOP field. His support among tea party followers has shifted dramatically in recent months to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, according to the USA McClatchy-Marist Poll of Aug. 14.
Paul has gone after Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton and President Barrack Obama in his recent speeches.
In 2013, Paul received a score of 96 percent from the American Conservative Union in 2013, and the National Journal ranked him as the 19th most conservative member of the Senate.
He is the son of former Texas congressman Ron Paul, a former Libertarian presidential candidate. Rand Paul has worked on his father's campaigns.
Paul in 1993 began practicing ophthalmology in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He opened his own clinic in 2007. He founded the Southern Kentucky Lions Eye Clinic to help provide eye surgery and exams for those who cannot afford to pay. The Lions Club International Foundation awarded him the Melvin Jones Fellow Award for the project.
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Sen. Rand Paul to speak at local GOP luncheon