They're asking for help finding loved ones." "If he actually listened to the people on the ground, he’d know they are asking for supplies to help with cleanup, hot meals, and debris removal. "He's talking like someone who hasn't been on the ground, because if he saw what I saw, he'd know that everyone's help is needed," Booker said. "You know, politicians out there having their picture taken probably isn't that useful." “I think most people think that the people who should be doing the responding are the professionals," Paul said. Rand Paul and Charles Booker, his Democratic opponent this fall in Kentucky, traded shots at each other Monday involving each other's response to the deadly flooding that devastated several Appalachian counties last week.īooker personally delivered a truck full of water and supplies to an emergency shelter at Letcher County Central High School in flood-ravaged Whitesburg on Saturday, with his campaign office in Louisville now full of more supplies that will be delivered soon after his call for supporters to provide donations.īut when asked by a reporter at his Monday press conference in Louisville if he felt like he was doing enough for the flood victims - and the optics of his opponent being there on the ground with his volunteer effort - Paul countered that politicians should stay out of the way. … You are basically saying you believe in slavery," Paul said, according to Politico.Republican Sen. You are going to enslave not only me but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants, the nurses. You have a right to come to my house and conscript me. "With regard to the idea whether or not you have a right to health care you have to realize what that implies. In 2013, Paul said in a speech at Howard University, "I've never been against the Civil Rights Act, ever."īooker's ad also criticizes Paul for remarks he made in 2011, when he compared "the right to healthcare" to slavery. "But I think there should be absolutely no discrimination in anything that gets any public funding, and that's most of what the Civil Rights Act was about, to my mind." I think it's a bad business decision to ever exclude anybody from your restaurant, but at the same time I do believe in private ownership," Paul said. In a 2010 interview with The Louisville Courier Journal, Paul said he liked that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 "ended discrimination in all public domains and I'm all in favor of that," but did not like that it told private business owners what to do. Any attempt to state otherwise is a desperate misrepresentation of the facts," Paul's deputy campaign manager Jake Cox said in a statement. Paul worked diligently with Senators (Cory) Booker and (Tim) Scott to strengthen the language of this legislation and is a cosponsor of the bill that now ensures that federal law will define lynching as the absolutely heinous crime that it is. It was named after Emmett Till, the 14-year-old who was beaten and killed in Mississippi in 1955. President Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act in March. "And in the end, I think the compromise language will hopefully keep us from incarcerating somebody for some kind of crime that's not lynching." "It wasn't a popular stand to slow this bill down, but I wanted to do it because, you know, I thought it was the right thing to do," Paul told The Louisville Courier Journal in an interview in February. In 2020, Paul held up a bill that would have made lynching a federal crime, saying he wanted to see more discussion to "make the language the best that we can get it." He said in a an op-ed in The Louisville Courier Journal that he was concerned that the language in the bill might "unintentionally mete out 10-year sentences for minor altercations."Įarlier this year, Paul cosponsored a new version of the legislation, which passed the Senate by unanimous consent. The person who single-handedly blocked an anti-lynching act from being federal law." The person who said he would have opposed The Civil Rights Act. "The very person who compared expanded health care to slavery. "My opponent?" Booker continues, turning his focus to Paul.
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