But when he stepped to the podium on St. Paul's Open Forum Stage at 8:20 a.m. there were just two people listening: a reporter and an organizer's relative.
A total of three backers of Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul from Maryland spoke, but uncomfortably, with virtually no one on hand to get the ice-breaker thrown out by Patrick Citroni, who manages Matthews' campaign and was representing another...
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