Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa
Christian Alliance will host a presidential candidates forum on Saturday, June
30th in Des
Moines. Republican presidential candidates Mitt
Romney, Sam
Brownback, Jim
Gilmore, Mike
Huckabee, Tommy
Thompson, and Tom
Tancredo will participate.
Ron
Paul, however, will not participate. Why? Because he wasn’t invited.
We heard about this forum from numerous supporters in Iowa
who asked why Dr. Paul was not going to participate. Those supporters assumed
that Dr. Paul was invited.
The campaign office had not received an invitation so we called this
morning; thinking we might have misplaced the invitation or simply overlooked
it. Lew Moore, our campaign manager, called Mr. Edward Failor, an officer of
Iowans for Tax Relief, to ask about it. To our shock, Mr. Failor told us Dr.
Paul was not invited; he was not going to be invited; and he would not be
allowed to participate. And when asked why, Mr. Failor refused to explain. The
call ended.
Lew then called Mr. Steve Scheffler, president of the Iowa
Christian Alliance, to talk with him. Mr. Scheffler did not answer so Lew left
a message. He has yet to respond.
Why are the Iowans for Tax Relief and the Iowa
Christian Alliance excluding the one Republican candidate who scored at the top
of every online poll taken after the MSNBC,
Fox News, and CNN
debates? Why are they denying Iowans the opportunity to hear from the
Republican presidential candidate whose popularity is growing by the day?
We couldn’t get answers to these questions from Messrs. Failor and
Scheffler. Maybe you’ll have better luck. Their contact information is below.
It's ironic that on the same day we learned the Iowans for Tax Relief and
the Iowa
Christian Alliance excluded Dr. Paul from their candidates forum, we received a
call from ABC News confirming Dr. Paul’s participation in its nationally
broadcast August 5th debate to be held in Des
Moines.
