Rand Paul and his family live in Bowling Green where he has practiced medicine and performed eye surgery for 17 years.  Paul owns his own ophthalmolgy practice, which employs three full time staff.  He grew up in Lake Jackson, Texas and attended Baylor University.  Paul graduated from Duke Medical School in 1988.  In 1993, Paul founded the Kentucky Taxpayers United (KTU) in an effort to better inform all Kentuckians on how their elected officials were voting on key spending and taxation issues.  KTU is a non-partisan citizen's watchdog group dedicated to rating the state legislature's tax honesty. In the R primary, he beat the Republican-endorsed candidate; he then won the general election over D Jack Conway.  His father has been a longtime Congressman from Texas.