ATTN: Pennsylvania Ron Paul Supporters

Hello Pennsylvania Ron Paul Supporters.

One major milestone happens today, we submit signatures to the Pennsylvania Dept of State to get Ron Paul and Ron Paul delegates onto the upcoming April 24 Primary Ballot. There have been ample posts discussing this so I won't rehash them.

We have four BIG milestones ahead of us.

FIRST, February 21 is the last day for our nomination petitions to be challenged.

SECOND, February 29 is the last day for the Court of Common Pleas or Commonwealth Court to render decisions on any objections to nomination petitions.

THIRD, March 26, is the last day to register Republican. Pennsylvania conducts closed primaries so you must be registered Republican 30 days prior to the Primary to cast a ballot. Visit this Penna Dept of State page https://www.pavoterservices.state.pa.us/Pages/VoterRegistrat... to check your voter reg to make sure you are Republican. If not Republican or not registered, follow the links on the left of the above page to get it fixed!

FOURTH, April 24 is the Primary Election.

Assuming RP and delegates withstand challenges and get on the ballot, the fourth milestone needs to be discussed.

In Pennsylvania, 59** of the 72 total delegates to the national convention are elected by voters (3 each from the 18 congressional districts, plus 1 additional bonus delegate to the 5 congressional districts that have best supported GOP candidates over the last 4 years). There is no designation on the voting machine that links delegates to candidates because these 59 delegates are uncommitted.

Therefore, getting Pennsylvania Ron Paul delegates to the convention means winning 18 separate elections.

In some districts this could be a daunting task if the other delegates on the ballot are household names within the district--if so, any voters so inclined to vote for delegates will recognize the household name (political principle of "name recognition".) In other districts, say those that cross municipal or county lines in more populated areas, a name that works for one municipality may be a cypher in an adjoining municipality, thus opening up an opportunity for an equally "no name" Ron Paul delegate to get elected. Once the full opposition delegate field is known in a day or two, that analysis has to happen in order for us to marshall limited resources to where they will be most effective.

Pennsylvania Ron Paul delegates need to start organizing by congressional district. These districts must start NOW in the task of identifying RP supporters within each district, reruiting willing supporters to function in the ward/division/precinct grass roots level.

Pennsylvania Ron Paul supporters who have blogged for Paul, posted for Paul and have flame-warred for Paul, will now have to get out from behind keyboards and into the real world and turn out the vote for Paul (in the form of Paul delegates). Turnout in Pennsylvania Republican primaries is usually low, so as we have seen elsewhere, a smaller cadre of dedicated workers who can turn out the vote are going to be the key to success. It's not going to take much money to do this....it is going to take "shoe leather" and the time of dedicated RP supporters.

The election is only 69 days away and we have LOTS of work to do!

**Corrected, thx to ArmorofChrist777 :-) and source http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/PA-R