NOTICE idea Merge with Bill of Rights Day Rally?
Submitted by rickfriedrich on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 21:34Can we email Trevor and merge this idea with the new Bill of Rights Rally drive: http://www.rightsrally07.com/
PDFs and Docs found here: http://rpmgt.org/RonPaulFlyers.htm
New stage of the game:
Let's do it folks. Here is something that can gain some attention. Imagine if a million of these NOTICES were posted all across the country in December?
No! Don't say it! Not a NOTICE B...! I can just hear it:)
I am willing to modify the bottom portion of this flyer and post the doc and pdfs of each on my website for free downloading. Post your requests on this thred. Let's take this beyond Michigan. Below is the notice and a few details about it:
Some days ago we discussed this NOTICE idea to put up a small notice on people's doors using painter's tape on 1/3rd sheets of paper. i made an offer to my Grand Rapids meetup group 155 to print it out for free unlimited to all in West Michigan.
NOTICE!
• The United States Federal Government has borrowed $9 Trillion in YOUR name from China, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. You and your children are expected to pay it back, with added interest.
• The Government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars of OUR money meddling in the affairs of other nations around the world, and making enemies, while it leaves our own borders unprotected.
• Every year, the Government grows bigger, more expensive, more intrusive, more irresponsible, and less respectful of your rights.
• The Government is no longer restrained by the principles of our founding fathers in the constitution. Our newly elected President needs to provide sound fiscal management and respect the Liberties Americans have fought and died for.
TAKE NOTICE!
There IS time to change this disastrous course.
Finally there is Hope for America. Please support Congressman Dr. Ron Paul for President.
• He is the only candidate of either party advocating a reverse in these trends, and he has a perfect conservative voting record to show us his ability to do it.
• He has never voted for tax increase;
• Returns a portion of his office budget every year;
• Receives the most donations from military members (because as a former Air Force Officer he always seeks the interests of the military, is strong on national defense, and upholds the constitution).
To support Ron Paul for President, you must vote for Ron Paul in the Republican primary. If you are not registered to vote you must do so by December 17th to vote in the Michigan primary.
1-877-RON-PAUL
http://RonPaul2008.com
http://ronpaul.meetup.com/155/
Not approved by the official Ron Paul Campaign.
Email Trevor about merging this NOTICE idea with Dec 15th
I just emailed Trevor about making a banner for the new Dec. 15th drive so I could put it on my website. Let's merge this NOTICE idea with this day. Can you email Trevor about this if you think it is a good idea?
TEXAS added by request
Texas Meetup group 1009 asked for one and it is now uploaded.
I finally got my software installed and can do the pdfs now as you can see.
There is growing interest for this in Michigan and I will probably print 100,000 of them in the next few days.
Is there more interest in this? If there is then let's see some pushing it.
New version of the flyer
My graphics guy made another version of the flyer which I have posted in doc and pdf formats. It has too much toner for me to us, but it has a nice look to it if toner is not an issue.
Also, the next State to get the flyer is good old Texas. As soon as the info is sent back to me I will do it.
Turned out great
Well done I printed one out. Three to a page and I like that they are the size of a slim jim. This should be posted on the front page of Daily Paul so others can use it. I live in Michigan also and since it is to cold for me I am going to do a mailing campaign. I just had a thought I wonder if this could be printed on a post card. Hmm! any thoughts on this it could save on postage. What do you think?
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Good idea
We can make it in different formats if you give the sizes.
If you are going to do mailings then contact West Michigan Mailers. We use them to send out sermons every month to all the congress and Senate. They save me much time and money on postage.
Yes we need to get this on the front page and to the other forums. I don't think I have much time for spreding the word around and will leave that up to others.
Thanks.
See new title and details above
I just took this to a new stage. Three new points:
1. We are ready to print
2. We have the links uploaded as Word and PDFs.
3. We are willing to make modifications for every State and post the files on my website.
4. Let's make this a big grassroots effort country-wide. Can we contact our meetup groups to have these printed out with or without other materials like the slims?
I have made great efforts here, it is up to you people to push it further.
Rick
http://rpmgt.org/RonPaulFlyers.htm
ALL DONE. Link to printable Word file
Please bump this up and pass the info around so everyone is aware of it.
I have finally completed it as a printable Word document here:
http://rpmgt.org/RonPaulFlyers.htm
I did not put a border on it as that just takes more toner and makes less space for margins. I could have used more bold but that takes more toner as well (and this is going to cost me a lot as it is). I have spent two days on this and have left my customers waiting for me to get back to work...
Let's see this go forward. I will begin printing this today for West Michigan. Feel free to modify the flyer for your own State and meetup group, or even make changes to the text.
Don't put this off. We have two weeks left in Michigan to get people registered to vote, and over a month to get them to the primaries. Everyone assumes they can wait till next election to vote. If we can get all the RP supporters to the primaries then we will win by a landslide as less than 20% come out to these things.
How about a PDF version?
Since a DOC file may not open on every system, you might consider converting it to a PDF (and putting both on the website); you can use e.g. an open-source PDFCreator:
http://www.pdfcreator.de.vu/
Yes i just requested this
I am not going to install another program on my computer when I have another preferred one I have to yet install (takes too long right now). So I requested that someone else do this for me. I will then put the file up and link on my site.
Okay
Okay, that was me in the other thread as well. Hope you've got the e-mail?
Yes I got it and just finished uploading the page
Now the PDF is available for download.
THANKS!
Great!
Glad I could help!
Add something like this to the very top of the flyer:
As president RP would drastically shrink the size and scope of the federal government (shrink spending) and would work to eliminate the IRS, Income Tax, & Federal Reserve.
I already finished up the flyer
There has to be an end to improving this. And I can't fit anything more in. It is too difficult to shorten the IRS and FR topic for this flyer. This flyer is meant to be given with the slim jims also which cover this.
One more improvement
I wanted to add the Hope for America line in somewhere so here it is:
"Finally there is Hope for America. Please support Congressman Dr. Ron Paul for President."
Got the line to where I am finally satisfied
The unsatisfactory line now reads as:
• Receives the most donations from military members (because as a former Air Force Officer he always seeks the interests of the military, is strong on national defense, and upholds the constitution).
If there are no more recommendations I will finalize the Word document and upload it to my new webpage hosting this and other files.
Removed one military line and combined it
4 bullets on top and 4 below. Now reads:
• Receives the most donations from military members (because as a former Air Force Officer he seeks the interests of the military and is strong on defense).
I reworded Regan's words about RP in my revision.
Hm
Someone posted this farther down:
It should be "Returns a portion of his office budget every year;"
(add his)
Spacing problem
We have to also consider the format issue. To add the word his will mean i need to add another line. These are bullet points and he and his are implied in the first and previous statements.
One line
"Leads in military donations (because he cares about the military while he is strong on defense)."
This makes it sound like he is donating to the military. While that is good, it needs to be turned around.
May I suggest:
"Leads in donations from military members...."
or
"Receives the most donations from military members"
This also adds the aura of individuality to it, rather than just "the military". These are individual soldiers, sailors, and airmen that are supporting Ron Paul and that needs to be made clear
Changed the one line
to: "• The Government is no longer restrained by the principles of our founding fathers in the constitution." from:
"• The Government is no longer restrained by the principle of our founding fathers, the constitution."
Make this Big
Sorry for the mis-post:
Please stay with me on this. I have thought about how to really get this out to alot of people. What I would like to do is attempt to take this nationwide in one day. We will never it on every door by ourselves. Here is what I would like to propose...any ideas,feedback is welcome, I just want to thow something on the board and see if it sticks. I would like to focus us using a even younger force than college students to distribute these and here is my reasoning. If the democrats or republicans win the election besides Dr. Paul the war will go on for 5 more years...see democratic debates. The military is finding it harder and harder to get recruits, they are having to double their signing bonuses. If we have to go to a draft to find military who would have a stake in Dr. Pauls cause? High schoolers! I am proposing we find highschoolers to spread the word. For them to save their friends and themselves from having to fight a war for oil that they print off 5 of these "Notices". Then they should sign the Notices so the neighbors will know who posted them and post them on every neighbors door on the evening of Dec 15th. The high schoolers are very high tech these days and can spread the word over IM probably faster than wildfire. Is this stupid or would it work? I am 40 years old so I dont know if young kids would be that interested and passonate? I would assume that if I were possibly going to war I would become active. We could set up a web site for them to download the Notice.
Regards,
Lupester
I appreciate your points
but there is no way to get people organized to do this as you would like. It is enough to get people to go out at all, you will never be able to get them to do so on one day. It would end up just preventing most of the work as people could not make the day, or the weather would be bad, etc.
We need to get this out this week here in MI as the time is just about up. This is a top priority. People are rightly focusing on Iowa and NH, but Michigan is definitely a very high priority because most of MI is ignorant of RP and most would vote for him if they knew him. We are way behind in the work needed to be done. We are having trouble getting people to come out to meetings and to go out door to door. This will be a big shame if we miss all these people who could be reached and give their support.
Anyway, do try and get anyone to deliver. Make your plan simple and attractive and reasonable.
It's getting better!
Just a few thoughts:
He "has" never voted for a tax increase
and
"Our newly elected President needs to provide sound fiscal management and respect the Liberties Americans have fought and died for."
and perhaps:
Leads in donations from military members (Because he believes in upholding the Constitution, which every American soldier/sailor/airman swears to protect and defend)
Changed the first paragraph you say but not the other
I agree that the first is better (as well as "has" above it) but not the second paragraph. I don't think the military is giving primarily because he is upholding the Constitution. I could be wrong but I think it is because he is supportive of the military (in experience and legislation) and is yet strong on defense (securing our borders and real interests). We have already made the Constitution statments.
I am still not satisfied with the way I worded (cares about) and wish to find a better phrase.
My own spin
I liked the first "NOTICE" a bit better and spun it to read as below for posting on doors in my neighborhood and several streets beyond, changing much of "your" to "our" in the wording (other way sounded more like an accusation with "your government"). I referenced the TeaParty at the end, simply so it won't be so overt "who" is the solution until they go to the website. If they've read and agreed with everything on the page by the bottom, they will be curious enough to go to the website to find out "how" LiberTEA is brewing...:
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NOTICE!
The U.S. Government has borrowed $9,000,000,000,000 in OUR NAME from China, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. We and our children are expected to pay it back.
Our Government is destroying the value of our savings and investments through deliberate inflation of the money supply and then lying to us about the higher prices that result.
Our Government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars of our money meddling in the affairs of other nations around the world, and making enemies, while it leaves our own borders unprotected.
Every year, our Government grows bigger, more expensive, more intrusive, more irresponsible, and less respectful of our rights.
Our Government has run amuck. It is no longer restrained by the Constitution, the principles of a free society, the basic requirements of sound fiscal management, or common decency.
TAKE NOTICE!
There is time to change this disastrous course.
& TAKE HEART!
LiberTEA is brewing!
www.TeaParty07.com
Yes, people need to modify it for their own areas and times
This can be changed in any way to suit the month over the next year, or for any State.
I thought the TEA was all diluted by now.
Good twist. Makes me think that some hopeful statement should be added about the movement.
?
Returns a portion of office budget every year;
should you put 'his' office budget
I liked the version from yesterday, I
thought it was different. If not this is fine. I would still put something about the value of the dollar, and the FDR, IRS. Huckabee is winning a lot of his supporters because of the abolish the IRS thing, if more people knew about Dr. Paul's stance, they would switch.
Too many words
We have added a few points about RP and removed one paragraph, and changed a few words, and added a few words here and there.
Looks like what we are going to do is hand this out with the slim jims behind them. Some of this wording comes from that slim jim. I wanted to give just a few points because I know most people will only read the top page. Also, not too long because they will not read any of it, just as people on this forum often ignore my long threds because they say they are too long.
FDR and IRS are too problematic to mention in a notice, unless a short phrase could be added about the value of our dollar. I really don't think it is worth making the font size of the whole NOTICE smaller to add more to this. People generally don't know about the value of the dollar. The other points are enough. It takes too many words to deal with FDR and IRS.