Rand Paul's Fundraiser Violates Campaign Pledge

Several Kentucky blogs have pointed out that Rand Paul's plans to hold a fundraiser in Washington DC actually breaks a campaign promise of his not to accept money from lawmakers who voted for the 2008 bailouts:

Paul, a favored son of the Tea Party movement, pledged on August 31, 2009, to reject campaign contributions from any U.S. senator who voted for a bank-industry bailout last year and challenged his opponents in the primary election to do the same.

The Bowling Green eye surgeon issued the challenge after learning that his key Republican opponent, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, was slated to attend a Washington fund-raiser co-sponsored by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and several other senators who voted for the controversial bailout in 2008.

“This isn’t about holding politicians to an impossibly high standard of agreeing with everything one’s supporters say or do,” Paul said at the time. “But a primary focus of my campaign is that we need Republicans in office who will have the courage to say no to federal bailouts of big business.”

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A liberal Lexington-based political blog, barefootandprogressive.com, reported over the weekend that Paul had removed from his campaign Web site references to his 2009 pledge to reject contributions from senators who supported the bank bailouts.

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