Rand Paul makes first public appearance since gaffes

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In his first public appearance since making some post-election gaffes, Republican U.S. Senate nominee Rand Paul tells a hometown crowd that he will prove he’s not the kind of person the national media makes him out to be.

Dressed in scrubs after performing eye surgery in Bowling Green, the Kentucky physician spoke Tuesday afternoon to a local Lions Club. He drew chuckles when he described last week’s campaign victory with the words of English novelist Charles Dickens: “It was the best of it times. It was the worst of times.”

Last week Paul suggested that the federal government shouldn’t have the power to force restaurants to serve minorities under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Paul told the local group he doesn’t want to repeal the Civil Rights Act.

-- Associated Press