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For Immediate Release:
The United States Senator
Campaign for John Stephenson, the Republican Primary, May 18, 2010 has issued
the attached release regarding the recent Kentucky Tea Party Debate
Place: Evangel
Conference Center,
6900 Billtown Road
Date: Saturday March 13, 2010 10AM to 12 noon
Result: Forum guided by gross unfairness,
discrimination, and bias. Threat
tactics, intimidation and menacing of candidates used to prevent formal U. S. Senate
candidates from speaking. Rand Paul
was quoted by Herald Leader reporter, Jack Brammer,
with regard to Paul’s refusal to debate at the Metropolitan Republican
Women’s Club today because Paul viewed the event as an “impartial
venue” . What about the “impartial venue” Dr. Paul just
participated in with the Kentucky
Tea Party and other participating groups? (See Saturday filming of Tea
Party event via www.jstephenson.com)
John Stephenson challenges
every Republican
U. S. Senate candidate
to a debate to be held in each of the six Congressional Districts.
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Registered
Republican U. S. Senate candidates, John Stephenson and Gurley Martin,
finally get to speak in Louisville at the Kentucky Tea Party event, after Tea
Party Organizers only give Rand Paul one hour and fourteen minutes to speak,
with question and answers segment. “I made a promise to the Lord not to
attack my opponents. I made no promise
not to defend my freedom of speech and fair play under our
Constitution,” Candidate Stephenson said. Kentucky Tea Party
“debate/forum” was held 3-13-10 at the Evangel World
Prayer Conference
Center. Blue Grass Institute Director, Jim Waters,
served as emcee, informing the audience that all candidates were invited.
Only space and time was given on the platform to Rand Paul. The organizers
tried to relegate the other Republican U.S. Senate candidates to “stay”
off the stage and speak from the floor for their “three minutes”.
There was no debate or a fair, inclusive open forum with other present U.S.
Senate candidates. Dr. Rand Paul “left the building” as Candidate
Stephenson was called forward. Mr. Stephenson said, “I can’t help
but recall a question posed by a woman in the audience. Her questions to Dr. Paul was, ‘What do you say about
the charges that you have been associated with organizations that are
sympathetic to Hitler and Nazism?’ Dr. Paul denied the charges and I
took him at his word. However, when Dr. Paul, as a fellow candidate, allowed
this travesty to take place, it reminded me of how many German citizens
turned their heads away while millions of innocent people were being murdered
in their backyards. I would never take part in any event where fellow
candidates, patriots or any citizen were treated so disrespectfully and with
threat of force,” said Mr.
Stephenson. The microphone was
cut off before Mr. Stephenson had a minute and a half to speak. The organizers’ staff continued to
turn off the mike, disrupting Mr. Stephenson’s speech. Every legitimate
Tea Party member and citizen should stand behind every candidate and allow
them equality and fairness, to be heard by participating Tea Party Members.
John Stephenson said, “This is the very reason our founding fathers
threw out the British rule because of taxation WITHOUT
REPRESENTATION.” Like Patrick
Henry, Stephenson’s cry is a familiar one of past patriots, "Give
me liberty or give me death!" As a former History teacher, Mr. Stephenson reports,
“ Hitler came into power in Germany, bringing his thugs ‘to
stifle’ any dissenters who would dare run for office or against the powers to be, or even to speak
or present their ideas about a better government and its
problems.” The organizers and
leadership of the Kentucky Tea Party unfairly and unjustly and unequally
treated Mr. Martin and Mr. Stephenson. This type of behavior will continue to
fuel inequality in the electoral process and only foster continued injustice
for every average
middle class citizen. “At this point I would caution all citizens to
beware of this Tea Party’s goals.
The devil you get might be worse than the devil you think you have.
This Tea Party event leadership, Dr. Frank Simon, Kentucky Tea Party
President, Mr. Jim Waters, Blue Grass Institute, Dan Blanchard, Louisville
Tea Party, Bobby Alexander, Central Kentucky Tea Party Patriots, Sheri Quinn,
Louisville Tea Party, and ‘the bouncers’ should ‘equally’ hide their
heads in shame for allowing such treatment of any formal candidate while
claiming non-partisanship,” reported Mr. Stephenson. The greatest irony
and disappointment to Candidate Stephenson was that this atrocity took place
in a Christian facility. Mr. Stephenson asks the question, “What would
Jesus have done? We all know that answer!” Mr. Stephenson had video
recorded the event in order to add this day’s speech to his campaign
website.
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