Ron Paul is a GOP candidate for President in 2012, just as he was in 2008, but in 1988 he was the Libertarian Party’s nominee for the nation’s highest office. Now, Ron Paul has been endorsed by another former non-major party politician, Joel Robideaux, who served in the state house as an Independent before becoming a Republican for his most recent term in the house.
2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul was endorsed today by Louisiana State Representative Joel Robideaux (R-Lafayette) and former Deputy Chairman of the Louisiana State GOP Charlie Davis.
Rep. Robideaux and Mr. Davis will serve as Louisiana co-chairs for the Ron Paul 2012 Presidential campaign. In making his endorsement and assuming campaign co-chair responsibility for Louisiana, Rep. Robideaux offered the following statement:
“Ron Paul is the only Republican running for President who has the credibility to actually follow through on his commitment to stop the runaway train of federal bureaucracy and spending.
“None of the other Republican candidates have offered a plan to make any meaningful cuts in federal spending. In fact, the other candidates only seem interested in wearing the conductor’s hat and tooting the horn a few times as the train goes over the cliff.
“Only Dr. Paul has actually offered a plan to cut spending in real terms rather than just trimming the planned increases. Dr. Paul has proven he has no interest in wearing the conductor’s hat or tooting the horn. He is only interested in pulling hard on the brake to keep the train from going over the cliff and taking all of us down with it.
“As a CPA, and Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee with responsibility for taxation and revenue, Dr. Paul is the only candidate I trust to deal with this immense problem and restore fiscal sanity to America’s budget process. Only Dr. Paul has consistently proven his commitment to limited government and less spending over the last 35 years.”
A former Deputy Chairman of the Republican Party of Louisiana, Charlie Davis has held many positions in the Party since 1995, and was recently elected unopposed to a new term on the Republican State Central Committee. A chief organizer of the “Pro-Life, Pro-Family” delegate slate that won the majority of the state’s 2008 Republican delegates, he also served as a delegate to the 2004 Republican National Convention and was a member of the 2008 Electoral College.
Mr. Davis also currently serves on the board of the Louisiana Family Forum and is married to Ellen Wray Davis with one son and two daughters. Mrs. Davis is former Political Director of GOPAC, former Executive Director of the Republican Party of Louisiana, and 2008 Republican National Convention delegate.
“Ron Paul best addresses the core problems that face America—the bloated federal bureaucracy, an ever-growing national debt, and a systemic loss of personal liberties that are threatening the very foundation of our Republic,” said Mr. Davis in his endorsement as he joined Rep. Robideaux for the Louisiana campaign co-chairmanship.
Ron Paul 2012 campaign Louisiana State Director Pete Chamberlain welcomed the endorsements as well as the intensity the co-chair structure will bring to the Bayou State effort.
“We are excited to announce Charlie Davis’ and Rep. Joel Robideaux’ leadership in the Louisiana campaign. The support of such highly esteemed Republican leaders, both of whom are on the vanguard of the conservative movement in Louisiana, speaks highly of the work already in progress and forthcoming efforts. It’s clear that the Ron Paul campaign is building the momentum and organization it will take to win Louisiana,” said Mr. Chamberlain.
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It was shady, but it wasn’t shady in order to help McCain. It was shady in order to help the delegates themselves–who wanted to be state delegates.
I was on the ground in 2008 in LA when we discovered what they were up to, trust me, most of these people weren’t McCain fans. With that said, they were party-types who also had no problem with voting for McCain over Obama (and werent ever going to vote third party)–the vast majority of Republicans are just like this.
@5 — It just sounds shady to me — By giving them this uncommitted slate, those voters didn’t have to choose b/w Paul and McCain; which ultimately hurt Paul, no?
I hope you’re right and the guy is legit, though
“Only Dr. Paul has actually offered a plan to cut spending in real terms rather than just trimming the planned increases.”
Indeed! I wish the media would pay more attention to this subject, and report more honestly on the fact that so-called “cuts” in the budget are often not real cuts at all.
“As a CPA, and Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee with responsibility for taxation and revenue, Dr. Paul is the only candidate I trust to deal with this immense problem and restore fiscal sanity to America’s budget process. Only Dr. Paul has consistently proven his commitment to limited government and less spending over the last 35 years.”
me-Couldn’t some people think Dr.Paul is a CPA and Chairman of the USA Ways and Means Committee (a powerful position IMA) ? lol all the better I guess!
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Sorry man, you’re just wrong. I was on the ground in Louisiana in 2008 and I met the Pro-Life, Pro-Family delegates, none really liked McCain, all were former Thompson supporters. Like most Republicans, though, they coelesced behind McCain.
That’s a false dichotomy, “just asking”–even many Paul-pledged delegates ended up voting for McCain in order to keep the peace, show they could be trusted, and not burn bridges for no reason.
Similarly for Huckabee delegates.
And how many of those delegates translated into McCain delegates at RNC? How many Paul?
No it wasn’t, “just saying”, it was a delegate slate that had previously been pledged to Fred Thompson–but Thompson dropped iust before the caucus. The delegate slate was uncommitted.
Charlie Davis has held many positions in the Party since 1995, and was recently elected unopposed to a new term on the Republican State Central Committee. A chief organizer of the “Pro-Life, Pro-Family” delegate slate that won the majority of the state’s 2008 Republican delegates,
This is a big red flag. The “Pro-Life Pro-Family” delegate slate was a false flag for McCain/RNC hacks in a caucus that was very shady all around. I hope the campaign doesn’t give this guy Davis key information on strategy. Why do the think he is trustworthy now?