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Ron Paul's Wacky Views Highlight a Bitter Race

By Alex de Marban, Fri., Nov. 1, 1996

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Amid the flurry of audience members draining outof the city hall chambers in El Campo, Texas on October 17, the months-longhate campaign between Congressional opponents Ron Paul and Charles 'Lefty'Morris is about to get even dirtier. A mediator has signaled the end ofthe candidates' first -- and only -- debate, and Morris' campaign managerBilly Rogers has just introduced himself to Paul's campaign coordinatorEric Rittberg.

'Oh. So you're Billy Rogers,' says Rittberg, who then jumpsfrom his chair and shouts down to the still-seated Rogers: 'You oweme an apology for calling my boss a Nazi!'

'We never called your boss a Nazi,' protests Rogers.

'You've been calling my boss a Nazi for months! I'm tired of this!How dare you call Ron Paul a Nazi! As a Jew, I've had to live with thistype of shit for 33 years and I'm tired of it! My parents and grandparentshave gone through this! How can you sleep at night, when you disrespecteverything Jews have gone through?'

Rogers summons forth a cool sarcasm, and remains in his chair. 'Youknow in your heart that we never called Ron Paul a Nazi. All we did wasnotify the press that his name is on the Neo-Nazi Web page. If he has aproblem with it, he should get his name off the list.'

Rogers leaves his seat, and the argument is rehashed outside, with Rogersrefusing to apologize, and Rittberg maintaining the same explosiveness beforejumping in his car and speeding away. And so it goes, this latrine-stylerumble that has even piqued interest overseas; the London Independentran a profile on Paul and his quirky views that has some foreign readers,no doubt, convinced that Central Texas is way out of the mainstream. Andas for the Nazi name-calling issue -- it's only the latest flare-up in astring of accusations, inflammatory commercials, and unsubstantiated allegationsin a race that both sides admit has been unusually brutal.

'I'm for freedom of speech, even for ugly things, but calling mea Nazi is the most aggravating, insulting thing that an opponent has everdone,' says Paul, 60, who has seen plenty of opponents during the threeterms he served in the House of Representatives in the late Seventies andearly Eighties. 'In 20 years of politicking, that's the most despicable.'

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Needless to say, this ain't your typical race. The driving force behindthe mud-slinging is a political pamphlet Paul has been putting out for morethan a decade. In it are the unorthodox views that Paul, who switched fromthe Libertarian to the Republican party to run for U.S. Representative inDistrict 14, has had to spend no small part of his campaign defending. WhenPaul first published the monthly newsletter in 1986, he called it the RonPaul Political Report, but later renamed it The Ron Paul SurvivalReport in these more apocalyptic days (see accompanying sidebar forsome of his greatest quotes). The newsletter includes Paul's attempts tofurther such ultra-right domains as ethnocentrism, dissolution of the federalgovernment, state secession, and armed resistance. And, also true to hisLibertarian roots -- no matter how much it might alienate the right wing-- Paul's newsletter includes an adamant call for drug legalization.

Advocating the abolition of federal drug laws may not sit well with theconstituents of the District 14, which stretches from the suburbs of Austinsouth to Corpus Christi, and east to Houston. Austin's local daily calledPaul the 'fringe-of-the-fringe,' and it's hard to imagine thatthe farmers, ranchers, and suburbanites who populate the rural districtwould embrace much of Paul's Libertarian manifesto. Yet much of the Surfsidedoctor's platform -- his insistence that the U.S. government, includingits public schools and environmental regulations, is the root of all evil-- has struck a chord. As the Republican candidate in a district where conservativeshave the edge, the polls placed Paul far ahead of his Democratic opponentMorris, a 56-year-old personal injury lawyer from Bee Cave, by 15 pointsas recently as six weeks ago, though the race has tightened considerablysince then.

Morris knows his best chance is painting Paul in all his spectacularoddity, and he has kept the press and the public well-apprised. In May,Morris' staffers discovered Paul's newsletter on an Internet directory underthe heading, 'Racialists and Freedom Fighters.' Also includedwere the likes of David Duke, the American Nazi Party, the Knights of theKu Klux Klan, and the Women for Aryan Unity. Morris let the Dallas MorningNews in on it, and the newspaper discovered that the site had been postedby The Heritage Front, a neo-Nazi group based in Canada.

Big-city dailies and small-town weeklies across the state had a fieldday, and headlines like 'Morris accuses Paul of neo-Nazi association'blared from newsstands. But publicly, at least, neither Morris nor anyonefrom his campaign ever called Paul a Nazi, though Michael Sullivan, Paul'spress secretary, claims that Morris, in his 'faux East Texasaccent, tells individuals on the campaign trail that Ron Paul is a Nazi.'Morris denies it, of course, but the real matter at hand is that Paul considersMorris at least a tad guilty by association. After the stories flew offthe presses, Paul's campaign faxed out a press release with quotes fromhis campaign coordinator Rittberg: 'As a Jew, I'm insulted by the senseless,anti-Semitic statements.' To Rittberg, Morris was promoting 'hatredand ignorance,' and to emphasize his distaste, Rittberg showed up atMorris' next press conference sporting his yarmulke.

Rogers is not the only one playing up Paul's appeal to the neo-nazis-- about a dozen volunteers with the partisan political group the 21st CenturyDemocrats protested Paul's August 8 press conference at the Victoria HolidayInn, where Paul announced a 14-point plan for the district. Though billedas a pledge for no new taxes, the plan took a back seat to the protestors,who carried signs denouncing Paul and requesting that he release his newslettersto the media. Morris had repeatedly made the same request; while he hadalready provided the media a smattering of articles received anonymously,there were years of back issues he wanted to see. For months, Paul had respondedthat it is impossible to dredge up all his old writings, but he told votersthat they could request individual copies from his campaign headquarters.However, at the press conference-turned-protest, Paul conceded to pressurefrom reporters, promising to release all back copies.

But that promise has yet to come to pass. His concealment is easy tofigure: The articles that have been leaked have been an embarrassment forPaul. In one 1992 article, Paul labeled the illustrious congresswoman BarbaraJordan, now deceased, a 'moron' and 'fraud' whose accomplishmentsdepended on her race and sex. Paul now explains that he's been wronged --his 'academic, tongue-in-cheek' opinions have been stripped oftheir context. But when the Victoria Advocate requested the entirecopy of the newsletter, promising to publish its entirety, he refused thattoo.

Other tidbits from Paul's newsletter -- also released to the press bythe Morris campaign -- include inflammatory quasi factoids such as the contentionthat 95% of African-American men in Washington, D.C., are criminal or semi-criminal.He writes that he doesn't think that 'a child of 13 should be heldresponsible as a man of 23. That's true for most people.' But, he continues,'black males, age 13, that have

Ron Paul's Wacky Views Highlight a Bitter Race

By Alex de Marban, Fri., Nov. 1, 1996

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