SEP 29/30 - NH Family Walk - Nationwide Rally / Paint the Town RON!!
1. New Hampshire Family Walk
Ron Paul and his family will be in Manchester, NH this weekend. He will be giving a speech on Saturday, Sept. 29 at 9:30 am and then we will all go off Saturday and Sunday to distribute literature throughout New Hampshire.
The campaign is hoping to get 1,000 volunteers to knock on about 50,000 doors this weekend. This is a HUGE effort to reach out to New Hampshire voters because we all know that winning New Hampshire is KEY for Ron Paul. Imagine the amount of "free" advertising that a New Hampshire win will get!!! It will help the efforts of every other state's campaign. National is asking people to RSVP, but right I know we have about 150-200 people RSVPed in the Nashua and Concord meetup groups. WE NEED PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!! Maine, Vermont, Mass, Connecticutt, ... whoever can make the trip. This is the time to demonstrate the organization of our grassroots effort. Even if you can only donate a few hours on Saturday or Sunday, every little bit helps. This event needs to be the focus of all meetup groups in the New England area. As we all know, we cannot depend on the MSM to get the word out without putting their own negative spin on things. This is our chance to control the true Ron Paul message of freedom and take it directly to the people. Please help us make this event a success.
2. Nationwide Rally
This weekend (Sept 29/30), is our last opportunity to boost both the supporter base AND donations for the 3rd quarter. Based on feedback on my original post (below), it appears we have a go for a nationwide rally!
I know many access Daily Paul regularly, but perhaps not all. We need to spread the word as quickly as possible to ALL the meetup groups, so they have time to organize and execute.
The goal of this initiative is to get 100% participation in ALL meetup groups. Keep your plan as simple and cost-effective as possible. Some people really do have time and money constraints. We don't want to give anyone a reason not to participate.
Here is all that is required:
- Pick a day (Sept 29/30), time and venue.
- Notify ALL meetup members that they MUST attend (I know we're all volunteers, but EVERYONE must participate, to make this a smash success).
- Organize signs, banners, handouts, etc., for the event.
- Hold the event.
If we are successful with this initiative, we could significantly boost the supporter base by thousands and 3rd quarter contributions by tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The time is now!
3. Paint the Town Ron
For the event in the planning for this weekend, see: PAINT THE TOWN RON
-----Original Post-----
Have you ever noticed how many Ron Paul supporters attend rallies, when Ron Paul is present? Why not organize big events like that, even when Ron Paul is not in town?
The Ron Paul Revolution now spans over 700 cities. Imagine if once every 2 weeks, in all 700+ cities, a major gathering was organized by the meetups where ALL Ron Paul supporters attended. People are curious by nature, so when they see these large gatherings of people (several hundred, in the big cities!!), they will want to know what is going on. The events would perpetually generate more and more supporters and thus get bigger and bigger each time, until everyone in town knows who Ron Paul is.
One of the keys to success is to find venues that generate the maximum amount of exposure. Some examples may be:
- College campuses
- City centers
- Sporting events
- Music concerts
- Art festivals
- Parks
- Large shopping malls
- ...
Since everyone is generally busy, these events could be limited to 2-3 hours. Who cannot spare 2-3 hours once every two weeks, for such an important cause like this? When will we have a chance to elect another president like Ron Paul? 100 years? 200 years? Just remember what Ron Paul is doing for his country and 2-3 hours will seem like the least EVERYONE else can do.
The gatherings do not have to be 2-3 hours of chanting. As Ron Paul said, people should have fun. So, perhaps some people could mix good music CDs (including some of the good Ron Paul songs) that could be played on a boombox at the events. It might also be nice to have a laptop or two available, to show passersby a video like "Ron Paul Courageously Speaks the Truth", so they can see how Ron Paul thinks and speaks.
In addition to the normal Ron Paul information giveaways, it might be nice to have candy or balloons to offer kids. Imagine offering candies that say "Sweet Liberty" on them, with a brief Ron Paul message, or a balloon with Ron Paul's name, image and ronpaul2008.com on it. Just something to think about.
Next Saturday (Sept 29) or Sunday (Sept 30) would be a good starting point. This will be the last opportunity for 3rd quarter contributions and many new people might be impressed enough to make such a contribution.
RALLY PROPOSAL SUMMARY:
Where: All 700+ meetup cities
When: Every 2 weeks, starting the weekend of Sept 29/30
Duration: 2-3 hours
Venue: To be decided by each meetup group
Who: ALL meetup group members (and invited guests)
I think this could turn the fire in to an inferno. What do you guys think?
C-SPAN
For those of you in New Hampshire yesterday.
Was C-Span filming the event?
Where is video?
What happened to the video that was posted showing today's speech in New Hampshire?
FOund it!
http://www.youtube.com./watch?v=cup1rP-zMaI
in 5 parts.
Dr. Paul's speech begins halfway through this one...
I was there
and it was great! Dr. Paul, his wife, kids, and grandkids were there and it was great to see the amount of support from such a diverse crowd. Granted, I expected more than amount that was present, but people started to really trickle in as the morning proceeded. I suspect, that the time was a bit early for too many people. I could have brought several classmates with me from Concord, but Friday nights are long for many of them and they tend to wake up late on Saturdays. Regardless, it was great to hear Ron Paul and support him afterwards by going around the Manchester area for literature drops (spread the revolution!). Tomorrow, Sunday, Rand Paul will be at the steps of the state house at 12:30pm. Please join us if you can and spread the revolution in Concord!
I wish
I wish someone up in New Hampshire would let us know how things are going up there today.
NH update
There is a FMNN article about it.
http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=49607
Scottsdale AZ
Party starts tomarrow my car is loaded with signs!
Remember to take a photo
Remember to take a photo of your meetup group this weekend, so a slideshow video can be made to commemorate this event.
Watch for a separate post on Daily Paul, after this weekend, for the location to upload your photo.
Write to your local papers!
Everybody participating in this weekends paint the town ron event should write a letter to their local paper and their largest local media source. With all the requests they'll be getting, they'll have to write at least an explanation of who Ron Paul is and why his name is everywhere. Best case scenario hes on some major news channels in large cities and in the paper in every small town. People go to work on Monday, they see "Ron Paul Revolution" a few dozen times, they come home and see some news coverage and wake up the next day to even more news about it in the local paper as well as likely stirring up discussion with the friends, co-workers and neighbors.
Excellent idea!
Excellent idea! That would give this event even more momentum.
IMPORTANT!! PLEASE READ!!
Guys,
I see a lot of plans to do "things from a distance" from the people (sign waving, putting Slim Jims on cars, etc.). This weekend, we need to get in the MIDDLE of the people (shopping malls, festivals, campuses, parks, airports,...). Get EVERYONE in your meetup group out in a high traffic area (people traffic, not car traffic) and you will attract LOTS of attention. People will likely come over to see what is going on, instead of you having to chase them.
We need IMMEDIATE results (i.e. the same weekend). This includes increasing donations, informing people how to vote in the primaries, etc. Again, each group can do what they want, but I STRONGLY recommend doing the "things from a distance" activates another time. If you read my original post, the primary goal, for this event, is to have big rallies in high traffic areas in every city across the country. If you can do both, all the better.
If you have not done so already, start organizing your rally NOW!. And take at least one still photo of your rally, so we can create a slideshow of all the rallies afterwards, to commemorate the event.
This weekend, we need to get
Agreed.
Each activity should probably include the following things:
- At least one video player (cellphone, portable dvd, laptop, tv, projector, etc) with an intro video. Personally, I prefer "A Man for All Seasons"
- A cheap "teaser" handout. Bonus points if the teaser encourages them to watch the video in person or online. (I don't think it's sufficient to point them to youtube. There are too many unpolished videos that might not persuade them)
Ron Paul - Here's your breakout chance
Fresh off the Democratic debate last night - NO Demomcrat will "committ" to immediate troop withdrawal. That's right, NO Democrat. And guess what, NO Republican will either. That creates a spotlight for someone to step into - and we know who that someone is!
In tonights PBS, make it CLEARLY known that you do COMMITT to immediate withdrawals - as you said - "just bring them home".
You'll have the spotlight on you. You'll be saying something NO other candidate is saying.
Who do you think the 70% of Americans that favor immediate withdrawal will support. If our next President did nothing other than end this debacle in Iraq, immediately, we as Nation would be well served. That just tells me that Bush was hellbent on his war......do I smell treason?
Fresh News - There is a report out today that Saddam offered to voluntarily step down for cash......$1B, but hey, we're spending that every week over there now. And we've destroyed Iraq's infrastructure to boot!
alan laney
Good point on PBS
Good point on PBS tonight....
The Region/NW Indiana Meetup
My group is organizing a 2 prong political attack. The 29th, we "paint the town Ron" The 30th, we blitz the town with our Slim Jims. Target: Church parking lots, Hotel Parking lots, any parking lot we can find and any place we can find to put up or post the slim Jims. If your in Lake County Indiana, the time is now, Join us in our Ron Paul Revolution!
Hoosiers Love Ron Paul
Great to read about your Lake County Group. Fantastic job you are doing up there, I hope you post a vid or two. Below is our INDY groups next event.
INDY Meetup Group to raise $1,000.00 for the national campaign. Flea Market 4 Freedom October 5,6,7 at the Indiana State Fair grounds. This is a Four fold event.
1.) Raise $1,000.00 for the national campaign. 2.) Share the Ron Paul message.
3.) Encourage participation of our 250+ (and growing) member organization.
4.) And have fun as Dr. Paul asks, which we always do.
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Statement of Faith
You may wish to have copies of his "statement of faith" on hand when you're at churches.
Still photos
I am sure many groups will be producing videos. However, if at least one still photo is taken of each meetup group nationwide, we could create a slideshow video, to commemorate the whole event. Just an idea.
DFW sign wave
among other things, the Plano TX meetup is hosting a sign wave at a VERY busy intersection. The plano group has been on the side of 75 weekly for the last month. This will be more personal and we hope to have more people show up than for any other sign wave in the DFW area yet.
On that note, the DFW area meetups are working on the TEXAS/OU game WITH Austin and OKC meetup groups. We should have an aerial banner flying over the game.
We have many other things planned and enough events to fill our calender for every day of the week.
Key objectives
In my opinion, the key objectives for this weekend's nationwide event are to:
1. get the message out about Ron Paul.
2. increase the supporter base,
3. increase donations, as much as possible, by the end of the quarter (Sept 30).
4. get potential voters registered (or at least give them the form), so they can vote in the primaries. Some deadlines in some states are in a matter of days.
5. get every member of every meetup group active.
Sign waving is good, but the results are likely to lag beyond the donation and voter registration deadlines. It's up to each group but, for this weekend specifically, I would suggest a high-traffic public place where there is a lot of face-to-face interaction.
Bakersfield CA Meetup 219 is IN!
Bakersfield CA Meetup Group 219 is holding events across the town for Ron Paul. We will be placing banners along Freeway 99 and others. We will also be placing pictures of Dr. Paul on hundreds of telephone polls. In two weeks we will be holding registration rallies at 3 college campuses in Kern County while handing out Ron Paul information!
Good luck to the rest!
Awesome
Wow, that's awesome, folks.
www.paulforronpaul.com
Deerfield Fair
I would also recommend bringing signs and wearing T-Shirts to the Deerfield Fair, perhaps the largest state far in New England. It's just a 20 minute drive from Manchester. I know I am.
www.deerfieldfair.com
Deerfield
Jason -- I hope you will consider working for us at the booth at the Deerfield Fair.
If so please email me and I'll give you the details!
PS - just so you know, they may not allow polticking anywhere but from behind the booth table...at least that's how it's been at most other booths I've worked at.
100% participation; the KISS principle
The key goal of next weekend's nationwide event should be to get EVERYONE involved. That means ALL members in ALL 700+ cities (which include small villages with 5 supporters and big cities with 800 supporters).
We will need substantial face-to-face interaction, to increase donations by Sept 30 (the end of the 3rd quarter). As noted in another comment, we should also distribute voter registration forms, so the new people we meet can get registered in time to vote in the primaries.
The way this is achieved is up to each meetup group, but I suggest we follow the KISS principle: tell everyone where, when and how long. If it is limited to 2-3 hours, no one should have a reason not to participate.
Its on this weekend!!!
We have 5 cars going out, 100+ yard signs and 60 banners. We are also going to put pushcards in our neighborhood newspaper boxes on Saturday night.
Mississippi Gulfcoast Meetup
'Peace is a powerful message.' Ron Paul
I'll top that
In Pensacola, we have 9 cars, and 500+ signs going out on Saturday.
This quarter's numbers
Ron's fundraising team seems pretty upbeat about this quarter's numbers. Anyone hear anything concrete on where we're standing?
Loose Lips
No, they are pretty tight lipped about that... when I asked leading questions of $5M? 10M? 20M? I was told that fundraising is "going well, but they need more NOW" ... and "not to set my expectations TOO high."
Exactly what that means? Who knows. Definitely more and better than 2nd Quarter, but whether we will see a 15%, 50% or 100% increase from that who knows.
I get a sense of purposefully-subdued and stifled underlying "excitement," and also think (pure supposition on my part) that they may be pressing for higher numbers in 3Q but also a hidden fear that if the result is TOO good, then 4Q donations may drop off (from a false sense of security) -- or maybe that will energize it more, and "release" the floodgates on the doubting Thomases?
Who is to say, really. Just have to be patient.
Movie Reviews - Word-of-mouth
When I managed movie theatres, it was obvious that marketing is about managing expectation. You can have the same movie generate these two comments: "It was better than I expected." and "It was disappointing."
For the movie to continue into the next week, you want the former review, not the latter. And that is controlled by managing expectation.
With that in mind, I think he's doing very poorly and we better send him some more money right now to avoid being embarrassed.
IMissLiberty
IMissLiberty