Paulites Running for Congress

Why? Many reasons, most of them personal. The main reason that I am willing to discuss publicly is that during my brief campaign I came to realize that most of my fellow Americans are complete idiots.

We must make it known that if anything ever happens to Dr Paul, it will only serve to make us strive even harder to carry on the Paulean principles.
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It's very gratifying to see a thread like this!. This is how we will truly take back our country. I have been at this 20 years and had all but given up hope that enough people would stand up and take our country back. However I am now full of hope seeing tens of thousands of my countrymen stand up for freedom!

There are already some great sites out there that have been mentioned. I recently checked out http://www.libertycongres... and it looks like a great site. I spoke to Rock Howard on the phone he is the site owner and I am going to get involved with that site for starters.

We need to vet liberty candidates and then focus the Ron Paul grassroots machine that has come together to help more Ron Paul's get elected to congress.

Do you realize that if we had a true pro Liberty Congress it wouldn't hardly matter who was President, they would keep him in check.
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If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. Samuel Adams

Unfortunately, I live in Rhode Island and will be going up against Patrick Kennedy. Not an easy feat considering how much of a blue state this is. Rhode Island is the epitamy of an entitlement state. If I ever ran on a platform of self responsibility and less government percs, I'd probably get hung.

I live in Kentucky, and want to run for congress, however I would need some serious help to unseat our congressman, although he voted for the war, voted for financing it after it was deemed uneeded by the people, and voted for H.R. 1955 that will be used to squash our freedom of speech. I do not have the money to run.
I have a college education in Public Management with a political science minor, and am working toward saving some money for a future run, but a run now is out of the question. Congressional runs take a couple of million to even compete, so unless we are prepared to have a single website that gives a choice to donors to where their money will go I do not see it happening, I would however like to see the web site developed.
One web site that gives unknowns like myself a chance to pitch to the public our ideas and let the public decide to finance their runs before the campaigning starts. Most states allow a letter of intent up to a year before running so it can be done. What do you think?

Every state is different, but incumbants are easy to beat(especially in years that do not have presidential election attached) A lot of times, it only takes a few thousand votes in a given district. We could focous on districts that are in College towns. A lot of young people, and a small area to work in. The Libertarian message is universal. It is sort of the best of both parties. If you are running in a Blue state, run as a democrat, and emphasize the liberal social aspect. If you are running in a red state, emphasize the social conservative aspect. With over 100k people working on your side, it should be very easy. Think, If we were able to raise $30M this year alone, that's enough to send at least 20-40 Pauliticians to Congress.

I have had some great folks volunteer, and I really haven't done a lot of advertising of the Campaign. Thats about to change.

An important thing also is in Georgia its a little over $4000 to get on the ballot, and I am running against a Republican incumbant and am unsure ( the party is undecided) if it will be paid for. I am sure other candidates are in the same boat.

I want to encourage you to vist paulcongress.com and get your meetup group to take one of the candidates under your wing and donate. Yes, we have all donated to Dr. Paul, but $10-25 can really go a long way in a Congressional race (exp a house race when its such a small area).

I have some money from friends, family and self, but I'll shamelessly say I need more for my own Campaign. However, I think most of the candidates would be great choices to donate to.

Thank you,

Jason Thompson
Candidate for Georgia's 7th District

www.votejasonthompson.us

My opinion is that the platform for this movement is the Republican Liberty Caucus

http://fl.rlc.org/

We need to take back the Republican Party.
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Since most or should I say almost all politicians will say and do whatever it takes to get reelected, maybe the incumbents will be singing a different tune once Dr. Paul is elected President. We will just have to let them know they will not be reelected if they do not support the revolution.

If we learn anything from him it is that the way things are now are not the way they are supposed to be.

Great vids too - Here's the list of Candidates from the clip. But, are they all democrats?
2008 Liberty Candidates for Congress
Ted Terbolizard – California 4th District
Dean Santoro – Florida 21st District
John Mithcel – Ohio 7th District
Michael Starkman – Maryland 4ht District
Collins Bailey – Maryland 5th District
Brent Sanders – Louisiana 5ht District
Mike Smitley – Ohio 5th District
Stevie McDuffie – Colorado 3rd District
Jason Thompson – Georgia 7th District
Vern McKinley – Virginia 10th District
Dave Redick – Wisconsin 2nd District

There are already 3 sites working to provide this information.

http://LibertyCongress.or... lists and grades liberty-minded incumbents and candidates for federal and state legislatures. Also lists Ron Paul endorsers, liberty-oriented PACs, political parties, caucuses, and more. Has a blog with a feed and facebook app interface.

http://www.PaulCongress.c... lists federal incumbents and candidates on the basis of their support for the constitution.

http://RonPaulsAcrossAmer... is a blog-like site that lists candidates that specifically support Ron Paul and ask for a listing.

You know, someone could do a website that is not supposedly just for Ron Paul, but it IS to vote out every single incumbent for promising to end the war and then doing nothing about it.

Democrats who get attracted to that will help more Ron Paul people in the process. And any non Ron Paul new congressman just might get the message that they had better join the movement if they want to keep their job.

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I think we need a pac that identifies and supports key Ron Paul Republicans running for congress AND opposes sitting congress critters who oppose President Paul's reforms. It should have a Board that operates in the open with clear criteria for selecting candidates to support. It could also act as a clearing house for information for local activists.

When this election cycle is over, we are going to have a HUGE grass roots organization that will be ready to turn its attention and resources to reform in congress. If the Ron Paul supporters we have now were to turn their attention to congress, we could clean house in no time.

He's catching on, i'm telling ya

This revolution is worldwide. If America fails, God help us all

It will take very strong individuals to withstand the pressures of power. Someone can say they are a Ron Paul Constitutionalist but then change once in the seat of power.

Don't you think that many of our representatives thought the same thing when they were elected? Once you surround yourself with all the rich trappings, the office, the offers of money and gifts, only the very best of people can resist the temptation. So far the only two that I know that didn't sell out are Jesus and Ron Paul. (There may be more, but you get my point)

Why do you think that Ron Paul is so unusual? It is because he is the only one that could maintain his principles out of 535 individuals.

You may think you can go to Washington D.C and resist the temptations, but I doubt it.

called PAcleansweep he got all the bums who asked for a pay raise without a vote out of PA politics. I think we could definatelty do this across the country.

I was envisioning a site, like myspace, where people could log onto their home district and know about each candidate and the next time they were running from office.

This would not be restricted to congress, but local officials as well. It is so hard for anyone to know about all the different elections we just need a site to do this for us.

Peter James is running as a "Ron Paul candidate" for Congress in Maryland:
http://peterjames08.com/

His website could use a llttle work, but otherwise this is great news! If we all did this, we could essentially replace Congress. Maybe someone should set up RonPaulCongress.com or something like that to be a central place to find out about such candidates.

That certainly is true. Ron Paul will need allies in the Congress. If Ron Paul can get elected, so can people running for Congress who support his agenda of Constitutional government.

Ron Paul has said that he can't fix our problems alone. He needs to work with the Congress. This is true. The majority of congressmen have shown that they are not fit to hold public office. They need to be replaced. It makes perfect sense for people to run on Ron Paul's coat tails.

If the American people are ready for peace, prosperity and freedom, they will elect Ron Paul. And they will elect a Congress that will work with him to restore Constitutional government.

When I learned in 2006 that Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo and two Democrats were the only ones protecting basic freedoms in Congress...I was infuriated...

and I am glad that 1.5 years later this RP Revolution sprung up out of nowhere as if on cue.

Will Breazeale in North Carolina is running for Congress on a freedom platform. He is an Iraq vet and won't condemn the Iraq War specifically however. That should not be an orthodoxy requirement because that now involves an opinion about a past event and a war that should be over by now.

I think it's great that constitutionalists are running, it's fantastic even. However, ONE OBJECTIVE AT A TIME.

If we get divided right now, we can be conquered that much easier.

www.ronpaul2008.com

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Thanks for asking!

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We need a web site that would list Paulite candidates by state. That would certainly help us all out.