Freemarketland: The Rand Paul camp continues to innovate the process of buying elections.
To circumvent state election laws that keep him from running for both U.S. Senate and the presidential nomination on the same primary ballot, Rand Paul claims he’s paying to move his own state’s presidential nominating contest (now a caucus) up to the Saturday after Super Tuesday:
[…] the Kentucky senator said he gave $250,000 to his state’s Republican Party for the explicit purpose of funding its presidential caucus in March. He promised to pony up another $200,000 in the fall, enough to cover the entire cost of the nominating event. Put another way: Paul is paying the party to hold an election in which he is running.
Hey, that’s only six times more than it costs to pay an Iowa state senator to switch his endorsement from Michele Bachmann to Ron Paul!
Previously from the Rand Paul camp
– AFD: Iowa state senator admits Rand Paul aide bribed him on behalf of Ron Paul
– Washington Post: “It’s actually legal to buy a political endorsement. You just can’t cover it up.”
