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Ron Paul did not "hand out taxpayer money to shrimp companies". He made a request for his constituent to a committee chair in the form of an earmark.

Now I know why they have so many Aggie jokes_;^)

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Ron Paul did not "hand out taxpayer money to shrimp companies". He made a request for his constituent to a committee chair in the form of an earmark.

Well that truly makes RP a principled politician against pork. I can see the ad now: "I don't give pork personally, I just make sure the requests for prok are passed on so the pork gets handed out by others."