Five for Freedom - Operation Live Free or Die

Are their servers overwhelmed or something? I'm having a horrific time TRYING TO DONATE .... there's no paypal link, and the ChipIn widget doesn't seem to be working either. All I get is:

Could not load data for event
ID 1da......blah blah blah

???? Anybody else experiencing the same problems?

Hey ya'll, don't forget to give a few bucks to the Iowa effort, too. I gave to both! The official campaign is trying to get 150 students on the ground there later this month. That's good. But not good enough! So, let's help the Iowa effort as well; the more ground troops, the better--the Powell Doctrine for IA AND NH!

Run, Ron, Run!

Finally got through and was able to donate. Your plan is top notch and is a must to get a win in New Hampshire. Thanks again for all your efforts. Leaving a Company like Google to help out the good Doctor is , I'm sure, a great sacrifice, but if the canvassing operation goes well, which I'm convinced it will, You will be able to tell your grandchilden someday about how you were part of electing this great candidate.

I can't seem to get the chip-in link to work. Any suggestions?

Apparently there was a problem with the amount of money they were receiving. So due to "government regulations" they had to shut it down and verify it.

Which is complete Bulls!te.

If you all donate, please send Vijay a supportive message.

Don't let these antics get in the way of our cause. Donate twice as much if you have to.

25.00 and it worked for me. Thanks to all the hard working volunteers.

Ok, everybody it works now. Start your donations coming in!!!

8:43 CST December 5, unable to donate.

Is there a plan B or someone else that can take my donation for this?

I am using mozilla.

My attempt failed also.

Is there a problem with the account? Did someone report them for some reason? What happened?! I want to donate!

From me.

This project is all about getting voters, not eyeballs.

EVERYONE should at least be able to give $5 which is all these brave foot soldiers are asking.

Go Guys!

Vijay, I spoke to you on the phone, and now, this is a reminder. People are getting frustrated going door to door. I'm assuming you guys are going off the Republican & Independent address lists?

To MAXIMIZE CANVASSING, you need to hit LARGE GROUPS OF PEOPLE, so *every** Saturday & Sunday, you guys can go to the MALLS--plus, appear at any other large group gatherings---putting "Hope for America" Slim Jims on all the Catholic & Protestant cars during or after services, etc.

Here's how the MALL blitz will work:

1. Leave all signs in your cars.
2. Dispearse everyone into the mall.
3. "Break the Ice" with my 5 point questions:
-----I'm doing a QUICK "yes or no" 5 question survey
-----1. Do you want our boys to come home from Iraq?
-----2. Are you fed up with Illegal Immigration?
-----3. Are you fed up with "do nothing" politicians, both sides?
-----4. Are you a registered voter?
-----5. Do you know Ron Paul?

At this point, you say, then, based on your answers, you NEED to know Ron Paul, and give them the Slim Jim. Stick It notes can be stamped with "Google Video Him" and put on the Slim Jim's. We did this with "Google" in red, and on the bottom was in blue "Video Him".

However, as canvassers get the hang of this they will add their own ideas to people. It will be fun and EFFECTIVE, and you'll reach MANY MORE PEOPLE than you would canvassing neighborhoods. Canvassing, in my opinion, should be done IN THE EVENINGS when both husband & wife are home!

Good luck!

Carl & Laura Pivonka

Imagine a President who understands economics:

Who are your economic advisers?

I don’t have any. I read Austrian economics, which I’ve been doing for 30 years. So my advisers have been Mises and Hayek and Sennholz.

This was from an interview Maria Bartiromo conducted with Presidential Candidate Ron Paul at Business Week.

read the whole thing:
http://www.businessweek.c...

I just dropped 100 bones. And I may drop another 100 next week too. I'm already at my $2,300 limit for the main campaign.

Boots on the ground is what will win this. I HIGHLY suggest watching the movie "Street Fight" for inspiration on what door to door canvasing can accomplish and what the enemy is capable of. http://www.marshallcurry....

I agree!

Donating money to get "Ron Paul" Republicans to New Hampshire is more important than donating to a blimp.

I donated yesterday and will donate more this week.

Thanks,

John Reed
Austin, TX

I just dropped $50 for the project. Who's next?!?

Run, Ron, Run!

I can't find the site, if I go to the donate url listed above all I see is how to pledge, not how to actually donate.

I want to send in some $$$ but they gotta make it easier, I'm not totally computer illiterate, but come on, if you want money make that the first button on the page.

I just gave $25.00. I hope everyone else will chip in a bit.

I mean come on people this guy left his job at google to help Dr. Paul

Realtor for Ron Paul

Can we get 1000 or more in each early state to canvas for Ron Paul. I'd like to see a website showing how many pledges of canvasers we can get for each early primary state. We might surprise ourselves again!

Go to the following link to support Vijay's project to put 1,000 PAIRS OF BOOTS ON THE GROUND IN NH... to go door to door! When the canvassing begins, that will be Vijay Day!

http://www.operationlivef...

Vijay is the Google guy who flew down from Seattle to California to present Ron Paul with a check for $2,300 and then quit his job to devote full time to the RP campaign on a volunteer basis. He is in the video. I believe that it is about 43 minutes into the presentation when questions were taken from the audience.

This is an admirable, young man who deserves all the support we can give him. Go here to donate $5, $10, or $20 to cover costs of housing volunteers who are coming from all over the country. He has only reached 11% of his $100K goal. Let's help him! You can donate via Pay Pal or credit card.

ronpoogle
On December 1st, 2007 Hotwire says:

RON PAUL + GOOGLE= ronpoogle.com, check this out its an amazing search engine that is definitely a help to the cause. Add it and send it to all your friends!

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The word on the street is that they are going to endorse McCain. The U-L has been long on politics and short on intelligence. Well, duh.

That's the ticket! Keep more of our young men and women dying in a useless war.

Man I wish I were up in the Granite State, able to help out on this campaign. I think RP will surprise a lot of people and, in the end, do better than McCain The Throwback.
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I'm going to give more... but does it have to be on 12/5?

All these dates I have to remember... I'm getting old.

I don't think these media controlled polls really say anything about Paul's support in NH. I heard a very knowledgeable meetup member tell me that he gives Paul a 100% chance of winning in NH. At the same time, are we really going to convince any more people? I am not discouraging this effort, which will undoubtedly help, but it seems like the whole state already knows about Paul and he is still "polling" that way. Feel free to disprove this.

I am trying to make arrangements to go after christmas. Other than the Dec 16 Tea Party this is this most important action one can take to help the campaign IMO. If you can't go physically then please chip-in Dec 5. Heck its only 5 bucks.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds... Albert Einstein

Thanks, Vijay.

Keep up the great work and please keep us informed of your progress.

Go For it!

Thanks Vijay!

If you wanna volunteer in Iowa go to http://30daystoiowa.com/

I would like to see a really large number of people give $5 on Dec. 5th. It would be great to see breadth of this movement and not just the depth of it.

And if Vijay can give up his job, giving $5 to this project is the least the rest of us can do.

...because i believe this is very important. The website is okay, but I understand your point. I'll give $25 on the 5th. Is there a shortage of Ron Paul supporters in NH? I think it's great that people are traveling so far to help out, but can't we get most of the NH people from NH? Just a thought for the meetups. Thanks for the post michael....sometimes info such as this goes unnoticed...I didn't see this until today. I will spread the word.

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."

-George Washington

This is a fantastic idea, but Vijay, you really need to change the website like the ronpaulblimp site and have boxes for $5, $15, $25, $55, $105, $555, ... (in keeping with the "5" theme). If all you ask for is $5, that's all people will give. If you put several options, people will give much more.

I cannot stress this enough ... THIS EFFORT IS THE KEY TO A RON PAUL PRESIDENCY!!! I live in NH and right now we need more boots on the ground to complete the canvassing effort and we need them NOW!!! Time is running out. Canvassing can be tedious and can take 3 people 2-3 hours to knock off 100 houses. As hard as our volunteers have been working, we just don't have the resources to reach out to every household. We need the OLFOD people here ASAP!!! There's just not enough time to wait for 20,000 $5 donations. Every day is precious. Don't forget that with the weather and the holidays, we have even less time than you think.

I daresay, the door to door canvassing and phone banking in NH is even MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE BLIMP (as excited I am about that)!!! There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of volunteers waiting to come to NH and work 24/7 to help secure a victory for Ron Paul, but there's been a lot of hestiation because these people have nowhere to stay. NH volunteers are opening up their homes as best they can, but there are too many requests and not enough homes. It's difficult to find short term housing like apartments or houses to rent without a lease, so in order to meet the demand, these people need money for hotels and such. Remember, a lot of these people have already traveled at their own expense and have given up their lives, their homes, and their jobs for this effort.

IMO, the only way for Ron Paul to win the Presidency is to win NH. The only way to win NH is to reach out to every single Republican and Independent voter personally. We all know that Ron Paul's message cannot be captured in a 5 second sound bite. We need to take the message directly to the people. We know what we have to do to win, now we just need the resources to do it.

Vijay, please change the website to accept larger donations, and supporters, please support this effort as much as you can, either by coming to NH or donating money for lodging. Ron Paul's fate is really in your hands.

(P.S. If you need extra motivation, Huckabee just passed Ron Paul in the latest Rasmussen NH poll - going from 6% to 14% while Paul stayed at 8%)