Ep. 895 Ron Paulian State Legislator: How He Won, What He's Done, What He Saw at Two GOP Conventions, and More

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 25 April 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Eric Brakey is a 28-year-old state senator from Maine. We discuss how Eric got elected against a longtime incumbent, what he's accomplished in the legislature, and his campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2018. Not to mention some stories from the past two GOP conventions.

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, episode 895.
0:03.4	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:08.0	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.
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0:22.1	These books help you win debates, and they're fun to read. Check them out at tom's freebooks.com. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.
0:27.4	Talking to Eric Brakey today. I just finished a conversation with him and at the time I did it,
0:33.3	I was a little bit discombobulated because if you've been following my personal life at all,
0:37.7	I've been flying around quite a bit over the past month, and I was a little bit tired.
0:43.1	So I was not up to my usual standard for the first few minutes of this conversation.
0:48.0	But I thought, you know, it's real.
0:49.6	It's raw.
0:50.2	We're going to keep it in.
0:51.0	Not going to change the thing.
0:52.5	But Eric Brecky's a member of the state senate of Maine. He has further ambitions, but he's got some very interesting stories and lessons for us from that experience. Eric, welcome to the show.
1:04.8	Good morning, Tom. I'm happy to be on with you. I got to know about you back in 2012. When did you get elected to the legislature in Maine? Well, I got to know about you back in 2012.
1:14.0	When did you get elected to the legislature in Maine?
1:17.3	Well, I got elected in 2014, two years after I... That's what it was. Okay. Okay. So we, but was there any reason I would have heard about you before that?
1:23.6	Well, before that in 2012, I worked on the Ron Paul campaign in the state of Maine.
1:28.4	That's right.
1:29.3	Okay, it was that and the convention and all that.
1:31.4	Okay, I think that's where I actually got to know you first or know of you.
1:35.3	And then now you're in the state legislature.
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