Open letter to Trevor & Blimp Company

There are many ways to accomplish a job. Our job as citizens who believe in Dr. Paul is to get him elected in 2008. I maxed out my donation before the first Tea Party so could not participate but continue to promote encourage others to donate during the Dec. 16th drive. I gave money towards the blimp project, it’s a brilliant advertising campaign and is and inexpensive relative to other media. The best part is I can spend as much as I am able to afford, that is true freedom. Can we please rise above this debate over how to get the job done each of us commit to doing our best. We must be positive and driven in order to motivate others and get Dr Paul elected.

The attacks on Trevor are ridiculous. The guy has accomplished some pretty amazing things for the cause. Lining his pockets??? Go check out Free Market News. Doesn't sound like that to me.

get some slim jims, and go raise some supporters.

trevor has.

D00d, if u dont like the emails then add it to spam. ur so annoying trolling the message boards bitching about crap like this.
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Please lighten up on Trevor. He did help raise $4.2M.

And he believes the blimp will help Dr Paul as well.

It doesn't hurt to stick in an ad for something that may do some good - no one knows how that thing will go.

Please visit http://bestronpaulvideos.com/

I have seen no indication that Trevor is making a bunch of money on this or any other project. In fact, I read one article which said he had sunk his life savings into the project and was almost broke.

There are very few people who can give up their jobs and devote 100% of their time to a project for any length of time.

I would bet that Romney, Giuliani, Thompson, Hillary, Obama and probably a few others are paying campaign consultants $30-40,000 a month and they have not achieved the results Trevor has.

I would bet Ron Paul is paying his chief fund raising person more than what Trevor was going to take as a salary from the blimp project.

Trevor is worth more than Ron Paul's chief fund raiser, so don't get down on him.

We are all big boys and girls and we will make our own decisions on what projects we will fund. If you don't like it, don't fund it. But quit the negative comments.

He's breaking new legal ground. In a situation like this, you want to keep things as simple and clean as possible.

Right now, as long as he continues to be involved with TeaParty07, Trevor is in a complicated situation. Basically, he is wearing two hats, and there may be an inherent conflict of interest.

There is no longer any need for Trevor to continue to be associated with teaparty07.com directly. He can easily give this over to someone else.
In the event that a legal challenge to his company is mounted, I think that this will make it a lot easier for him.

In a sense, once Trevor established his for-profit company, legally, he is no longer what he was. His whole relationship to the campaign has changed. Keeping up previous relationships, even if they were officially "non-relationships", makes everything very murky.

I know he's very busy right now in trying to get the blimp off the ground, but I think his high-powered lawyers should be out there giving him better advice.

If a mention of the blimp on a tea party update bugs you I feel sorry for you.

Please keep your eye on the prize. We want to get Paul elected; a blimp will help us reach that goal. Please stop threatening people with election law or you yourself will be responsible for damaging the tea party.

Jeez what's the matter, your index finger tired? Just delete it rather than cry about it...especially here. Seems you put 100 times the effort into your post than it would take to delete anything and everything that promotional emails to obvious Ron Paul supporters have delivered to you.

You don't want to contribute...don't. Just quit whining over an extra email or two.

“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.” -Joseph Goebbels-

“Allow me to control the issue and the nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws!” — Amshell Rothschild

I could understand if this ingenious young man were doing this for his own personal gain, but please realize, we are all trying in our own various ways to GET THE MESSAGE OF DR. PAUL TO THE MASSES!!! As others have said, you don't like it, DON'T SUPPORT IT!! Back to the grind...............

There was a very good article yesterday on the blimp. See it here: http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/12/ron-paul-blimp....

They aren't getting rich on this. They just found an extremely creative way to get around the rules on donations. If you don't like it, don't support it. But stop crying about it. We can all do what we want. There are lots of people (me included) who wouldn't have even noticed that Ron Paul was running for president without the Nov. event. The blimp and the Dec event are sure to pop up more news articles and raise awareness. As I see it, the success of this campaign so far is the creativity of its supporters, not the people sitting around complaining about what these supporters are doing. Everyone on this site should be applauding the fact that the company is for profit!

Politico explains that the organizers behind the blimp, who are not associated with the Paul campaign:

Have developed a detailed business plan carefully structured to avoid Byzantine campaign finance laws.

They shunned traditional mechanisms such as creating an independent non-profit group under section 527 of the IRS code -- like Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and the other groups that spent millions on ads in 2004 -- or a political action committee -- like EMILY's List. Instead, they went an almost unheard of route, establishing a for-profit company: Liberty Political Advertising.

The name is a nod to Paul's ideology and the website boasts the "legal arrangement offers the best of both worlds: no limits and virtually no regulations." In other words, very libertarian.

Instead of soliciting donations like a PAC or a campaign or a non-profit political group, Liberty says it's "selling political advertisements that you can sponsor."

Look we all don't support the way the blimp scenario went down and I respect both sides of this. I for one did not support it, but made sure every available dollar I have goes towards our main goal. I think Trevor does all his projects in one on emails to save time and server efficiency. I would ask the poster to just ignore that part of the email. I don't think Trevor went the way he did on the blimp on purpose. I think he took what was deemed to be efficient/workable and went with it. I just ask for leanance and understanding of others view points.

There is alot more to the Blimp process than many know. I beleive I understand why they went the way they did and for good reason.

Please lets all stay focused on the goal for we are making huge process.
We all have different view points, but are looking to reach the same destination. Lets focus on that and try to be tolerant of others for that is the american way!

Cool! $25,000 in wire transfers for the Blimp today!
Those of you that don't like the Blimp, Freedom 1, there might be a second Blimp, Freedom 2! Can't wait to hear the rants on that.
It's all good folks. Tea Party will probably get over $5 million. I'll be donating double what I did on Nov 5th.
Heck their will be other ideas that may outdo these.
The beauty of the free market.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
Thomas Jefferson

Nice

let the dude pimp his own success. the blimp is huge. the tea party is huge. there's nothing wrong with the same peole supporting both!

(and before you jump on me, I do get the point of the post, Agreed. I'm just commenting on some of the comments on the post) when you're done reading this post take a look around the screen and tell me that you think this forum for us to exchange ideas is possible just by willing it so. The ads by google on this page sometimes pimp other candidates if you have not noticed, I prefer IE and this site advertises firefox, king of the online capitalist jungle "Amazon" is right here.

You feel how you feel, I just think that what's good for the goose is good for the gander. I just try to stay focused on the idea "spread the word of the Good Doctor" people are going to do it in different ways and that's how I see it. People are going to do what they're going to do, for the reasons they do it, no matter what others say. My 2 cents.

M.