Rand Paul looking to make D.C. splash with Senate Tea Party Caucus

Speaking of his relationship with his father, Texas Republican Congressman and former presidential candidate Ron Paul, Rand Paul said he and his father have a bit of a political relationship in addition to a familial one.

“We do talk, but not always specifically about things, some about issues and some about policy,” he told TheDC. “But, pretty much, throughout the campaign, we sort of ran our own independent campaign. Obviously, he was very helpful to us in many ways, but not really so much of him calling me up and saying, ‘you need to do it this way or that way.’ It’s really much more of a hands-off type of thing where we’re interested in each other as family members and also interested in each other in what we’re doing lately, but, day-to-day, I’m not going to tell him what to do or vice versa.”

A spokesman for Bachmann did not respond to TheDC’s request for comment.