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Paul’s wife says senator wants to subpoena Fauci records
By BRUCE SCHREINER
2 hours ago
Kelley Paul, wife of Senator Rand Paul, (R-Ky.), addresses the audience
gathered during the Fancy Farm Picnic at St. Jerome Catholic Church in
Fancy Farm, Ky., Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. Paul represented her husband at
the political event. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
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Kelley Paul, wife of Senator Rand Paul, (R-Ky.), addresses the audience
gathered during the Fancy Farm Picnic at St. Jerome Catholic Church in
Fancy Farm, Ky., Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. Paul represented her husband at
the political event. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
FANCY FARM, Ky. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul wants to subpoena the records
of the country’s top infectious disease expert, the senator’s wife said
while standing in for him at Kentucky’s premier political event Saturday.
Paul, a Republican, has repeatedly clashed with Dr. Anthony Fauci over
the government’s COVID-19 policies and the origins of the virus that
caused the global pandemic. Paul’s wife, Kelley, waded into the dispute
while promoting her husband’s candidacy during the political speaking at
the Fancy Farm picnic in western Kentucky. Paul is seeking a third term
and is being challenged by Democrat Charles Booker on November’s ballot.
“Now I promise you this, come November when we win, Rand Paul will
subpoena every last document of Dr. Fauci’s,” Kelley Paul said.
Rand Paul and the state’s senior senator, Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell, missed the stump-style speaking event because of Senate
duties in Washington.
Sen. Paul and other conservative critics have focused their ire at how
the pandemic was handled on Fauci. Paul has promised to wage a vigorous
review into the origins of the coronavirus if Republicans retake the
Senate and he lands a committee chairmanship. The Senate currently has a
50-50 split, but Democrats have the edge with Vice President Kamala
Harris’ tie-breaking vote.
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Continuing her comments about Fauci, Kelley Paul said: “Now some people
ask why me, why is Rand so hard on poor Dr. Fauci? Well it’s simple,
because the American people deserve the truth.
“We deserve the truth about the origins of a virus that killed millions
of people,” she added.
U.S. intelligence agencies remain divided on the origins of the
coronavirus but believe China’s leaders did not know about the virus
before the start of the global pandemic, according a Biden-ordered
review that was released last summer.
Booker, a former state lawmaker, told the picnic crowd that Paul votes
against the interests of Kentuckians, denouncing him as a “terrible
senator” and an “embarrassment” to the state.
“Rand Paul is voting against infrastructure because he doesn’t care
about Kentucky,” Booker said. “He is not going to invest in our health
care because he doesn’t care about Kentucky.”
Meanwhile, Paul has access to “the best health care your tax dollars can
buy,” Booker said.
The event gave Booker a chance to make inroads against Paul, with a
statewide television audience watching the speeches that also featured
GOP candidates running for governor in 2023. The Fancy Farm political
speaking is the traditional start of the fall campaign in Kentucky.
Speaking to jeering Paul supporters, Booker said: “Even if you boo, I’m
fighting for you to get quality health care.”
Booker and Paul’s wife spoke to a boisterous crowd of Republicans and
Democrats. The event is a rite of passage for statewide candidates, who
are tested in stump-style speeches in the August heat while facing
taunts and shouts from partisans from the other party.
In her speech, Kelley Paul also focused on surging inflation, and the
strain it’s putting on family budgets, at a time when Democrats control
the White House and Congress.
“Democrat policies are killing the middle class,” she said. “Record
inflation, soaring gas prices, empty shelves. The economy is tanking and
every American knows it.”
Booker is a progressive who promotes such social programs as Medicare
for All and a basic universal income, saying the initiatives would help
people in both poor urban neighborhoods and struggling rural
communities. He also supports a clean-energy agenda and criminal justice
changes.
Paul was first elected to the Senate in the tea party-driven wave of
2010. Paul rails against socialism and big-government programs he says
encroach on individual liberties and drive up the nation’s debt.
Booker is the first Black Kentuckian in state history to be the
Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate.
Kentucky hasn’t elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in three decades.
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