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Attn. ALL Florida & other early-primary Meetups!! Let's cooperate to give ALL our signs another week+ helping our country!!!
Posted January 23rd, 2008 by sarcasmo
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By Wednesday, Jan. 30th Florida's primary will be over. If Florida's meetups cooperate and work hard on that day & maybe the day after, though, we could give all our signs another week of supporting Ron Paul, and help our neighboring states! (This could also lead to a few "free" one-way rides for any rabid Ron Paul supporters wanting to get from Miami to Georgia!)
Here's my idea:
We simply ship our signs to Georgia & Alabama (or even other states!). The only problem will be herding ALL of the cats the morning of Jan. 30th. That Wednesday morning all your Ron Paul signs need to come down, ideally in as undamaged a condition as possible.
With a couple of pickup trucks (anyone in the Keys wanna do a road trip to Atlanta?) or even the small kind of U-Hauls, a couple of Miami supporters could set out northward on both I95 and I75 with all the signs from Miami. Ideally this would begin ASAP on Wednesday. They'd both already be in contact (I hope...) with the meetups on their sides of the state, and somehow mid-state places like Orlando which aren't all that near to either road would relay their RP signs to the trucks & headed-North to Georgia!
In the meantime (remember, this is my fantasy, but occasionally they *DO* come-true...) *ANOTHER* Ron Paul supporter in the Jacksonville area snags all the signs he/she can over there and heads West on I10, doing the same thing with other meetups' signs all the way over to Alabama!! This person would also take the initiative to be in touch with all meetups along the way on I10.
Needless to say, for this to be effective we'd need GA & AL meetups to be ready to receive and *immediately* distribute the FL signs effectively, but this is an opportunity for a LOT of RP signs which might otherwise go to waste. It's time-sensitive material, and doing this right could save the Paul campaign some money and give GA/AL a bigger impact in the important last-week before Super-duper Tuesday! Besides, "my" spinning "Media Bias Makes Me Do This" sign is included in the bargain!! ;) Another side-effect of this will be to impress Florida's election officials & sign bureaucrats with our stuff all suddenly-vanishing the morning after the primary.
Please forward this URL far & wide in all three states (but especially FL & *especially* Miami/Jacksonville) as we still need to find the 2 Miami-area volunteers & the Jacksonville volunteer who can do this, but if we start now it's possible IMO. If someone could also please post this URL to an appropriate area of the Ron Paul Forums site that would be much appreciated. Thanks.
JMR
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FL ever get shipped North?
Sarcasmo:
Did it ever work out? Did heroes step forth to haul FL signs to AL and GA--and folks there accept and use them? Just wondering. Great idea--wondering if the performance matched.
Clean up after yourselves - free/cheapcycle
Get out early enough to beat the city crews to the signs. Figure out the rest of the details later.
You can usually arrange to leave a Uhaul in whatever city you end up in and come back in a rental that guzzles less gas or Greyhound.
Palleting companies should also be helpful if you call one in a destination city or your own city.
Someone bump this in a couple of hours.
BUMP--head North folks (with your signs)
Wish I didn't live 1500 miles away--I'd bring my big farm truck and haul a load, but no can do. Go AL! Go GA! Go anybody else who can reuse signs from a state that has already held its primary/caucus! Go TO FL if you have to, and fetch your signs. We're reusing IA's signs here in MO--a BIG help! Great post, Sarcasmo.
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Go President Paul!
ill take as many yard signs as possible!!!!
please send them asap. im in long beach ny. i can pay for shipping but other then that im broke.....i can put as many around town as you can send.
Ok, Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, are you listening?
I had not even considered states beyond GA, but you're right, with the truckers and a big-ass pallet-O-signs we can ship just about anywhere. Brevard's are already on a pickup and headed for GA soon, but other counties will hopefully notice you and contact you directly.
I have a feeling this thing is getting far beyond my capabilities. Someone smarter than me needs to design something better than this thread for this idea, which is obviously way-bigger than I'd imagined. If we do things right, we can REALLY blanket late states like Texas with signs. Cats, herd thyselves!! ;)
JMR
Spoke with GA.
I spoke with Georgia, the problem I am having here in FL JMR, is that GA does not want the signs. they do not even want to pass them along. They have more material than they can handle, according to who I talked too.
ANYONE IN GA WHO DISAGREES, reply back ASAP. Give me a contact there who can use this truck full of stuff. Anyone in southern AL I spoke with Mark in Birmingham, and will speak with your state coordinater soon. Any info you have about where these can be used in AL will be helpful. Thank you.
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Well, our primary was early
And I'm sure SOMEONE will want free signs. At least, that's my hope!
JMR
Try a palleting company
Search in yp.yahoo.com for "pallets" and the city and state where you want to send them. Call that company and they'll help you figure out if there's a way to get a pallet of signs to them on the cheap.
That's a good idea, but it needs doing SOON.
I hope south Florida is not too down on the results to do something like this. I have not heard much from them, but their signs are farthest away so they'll be the most work, but I'm sure there are a LOT of 'em.
And someone from Georgia needs to help me with this, and contact Dan, and keep this thread prominent for a while despite the fluff, for this to work. We can't just dump the signs, they have to get distributed right away. Thanks to all who have helped.
JMR
Attn. southern Georgia. Free Ron Paul signs!!!
Brevard's hero has stepped forward, and his truck is already full (including the spinning sign, and my special RP Christmas-lights sign!). Someone in south Georgia needs to contact Dan O'Brien ASAP, and Georgia now needs to start helping me with these "plans" and I use the term loosely!! It's a herd of cats, as predicted...Anyway, help's still needed, so Georgia please respond directly to Dan!!
JMR
South Georgia sign distributor needed!!
Dan O'Brien is your man to contact, email him ASAP. Good luck and thanks.
JMR
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I'm so glad this came up!
I'm so glad this came up!
I have about 100 signs. If someone's going by Jacksonville, I
can meet for the exchange.
Go President Paul!
I'm west of you on I-10
If you can get the signs from Jax to Madison or Lake City even, I'll take them the rest of the way to Alabama if someone is willing to recieve them. I've offered to help but can't seem to connect w/the right people. My Ga group says they do not need the signs. I can't even get anyone to return my calls or email at this point.
Seems many did not actually read RP's message & are just plain discouraged. I say we are fighting for somethng bigger than any man, we are fighting for freedom and it's too late to put out that fire now.
Applause to all who are in the trenches, keep on fighting, we're winning, don't let the enemy lie to you, thats the only weapon they have.
Thanks!!
Do you know of anyone in Jacksonville who wants to do the one-way to Alabama run, by any chance?? :)
JMR
I need someone in Dade County or the Keys
To help us with this project. All FL meetups, even if you're like most of us and don't know how they will get north yet, PLEASE, gather ALL RP signs today and consolidate them so they're ready to go. If you're not in Florida, please contact all your Florida friends, and someone please try to make the RonPaulForums notice this, too. Today's the day we can make a difference if we cooperate well!!
JMR
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Go President Paul!
Signs from Orlando to Valdosta
Hey, Thanks for the great idea. We gathered signs last night and have a van full of them heading to the coordinator of Valdosta today. Go Georgia...keep those poll numbers rising.
Ok, and if you can fit any more...
Please contact any meetups to the north of you and arrange to get their signs, too. We can REALLY help in Georgia this way, so THANKS!!!
JMR
I still need a miracle (actually, 3!)
Miracle 1. Someone who needs a ride from Key West/Miami to Georgia, one way, who will rent a UHaul and stop at every meetup on I95 getting RP signs/stuff from each. (This person gets a tank of gas from me in Melbourne.)
Miracle 2. Someone who needs a ride from the Naples area to Georgia, one way, who will rent a UHaul and stop at every meetup on I75 getting RP signs/stuff from each.
Miracle 3. Someone who will do this across the state (perhaps the nice person who replied below can also help?) from Jacksonville all the way to Alabama, doing the same on I10 westward, getting ALL signs. This can cheaply flood 2 states with additional signs, so it's vitally important IMO.
I need all the meetups in Florida to know about this (so please again tell Ron Paul Forums) and we all need to cooperate. At the same time, I feel wary, as this would be an opportunity for an evil person to steal a BUNCH of our signs. So expect to identify yourself in some way as a RP supporter if you're heroic enough to volunteer, because that's life's ugly reality these days.
And if I can request it, please keep this thread "bumped" but with cogent and interesting replies. Back out to see if I can get one more vote for the man... jray at martincam.com gets me Thanks to everyone for the help, let's make this look like we've planned it for a week! :)
JMR
I can do I-10
I'm in N Fla & hooked up w/a meet up in Valdosta Ga. We can really use signs there too.
If anyone has signs & wants to meet me on the I-10 interstate off ramps please respond to this and we will get it together. I have a truck & a trailer. Contact me tru email we'll exchange numbers & get it together.
Ok, thanks.
I'm in Melbourne, still hoping for a south FL person who can relay our signs (including the infamous spinning "Media Bias" sign for sign waves!!) to you. Since you're on I10, how possible is it to rally panhandle meetups to get their signs to Alabama? I love GA, but I love AL too and I want FL's signs to help both. Early returns don't look good here...
JMR
I'll see what I can do from my end.
I'm brand new to this N Fla area. Just moved here from Naples, still commuting back & forth on business every other week. Definately signs to both Ga & Al... we need all we can get. I managed to get 3 people to vote today, it was like pulling teeth! Shesh, you'd think people would want to be free.
Wait a sec, that's GREAT news!!
Can you try to be in-Naples ASAP, and then commute back via 75 trying to get signs from each meetup along the way? That, along with the help you've offered up north, would be ideal. And I'm equally disappointed with Florida citizens. I just spoke with a Romney voter coworker who basically had all-RP positions. Sigh. The media have totally sold the "can't win" story via just repeating it incessantly.
Here in Brevard, we have a great volunteer with a small pickup, but ideally I want signs to come from the south to him/us so we can get them to Georgia. Please, folks, this thread is important today and tomorrow if we want Florida's signs to help other states. We can't afford to lose this idea in the fluff. Thanks.
JMR
Wish I could
That wont work for me. I wont be able to get back to Naples till Monday.
My meetup group is already getting signs from Orlando.
I'm not having much response for sign pickups in this area.
Still waiting on return calls and emails.
Ok, hopefully someone else in SW FL
Can step up to the plate. I still need a Naples miracle, folks!! And Miami!!
JMR
3 days OMG!!!
I just revisited this site and was amazed at all the comments. We are in overdrive here in Florida-- sign bombing, distributing slim jims, phone calling, door knocking, "call in sick day for Paul" in the papers, on the radios...you guys better get off the web and get to work, it will be 3 days till your primary before you know it! I sent an e mail to the Florida meet up organizers about "left over campaign supplies" and got properly rebuked "if we have any left over supplies then you haven't done your job!" now I have to sign bomb 15 precincts all by myself and I'm over 50 and outta shape...I am America and so can U. Actually, we won't be finished with our signs till November, I heard a call for more money...only one thing that can mean, we are going beyond super Tuesday!!!
Tell your rebukers...
That unless 100% of your signs vanish due to theft you WILL have left-over signs on Wednesday. Wednesday morning is NOT the time to think about what to do with 'em, hence this thread. If we truly wish to help Ron Paul win, our job does NOT end Tuesday night.
JMR
Thanks for your hard work, but...
you surely can "lend" your signs between Jan. 29 and September, AFTER the Primary! Think the long haul, as well as your immediate objectives. Here in Missouri, where I've been out canvassing almost every day for weeks, we have been immensely grateful for the signs given up by the good folks in Iowa AFTER their caucus. Then maybe we can send those same signs onwards later (minus those stolen, of course :-( ). They'll do a lot more service that way than sitting for months in someone's garage (or a dumpster or landfill). Save your country---recycle! :-)
Sarcasmo: Any luck in finding someone(s) with vans or trucks, either owned or rented, to haul the signs to GA or AL? Still think you might have more luck getting someone FROM those states to come get them---they'll have a vested interest after all. We travelled to Iowa for ours; the Iowa Meet-ups just rounded theirs up to centralized locations.
Not yet, but these miracles are always last-minute
I'm planning for good things anyway. We will somehow, quickly, get our signs to the rest of the country that needs them. Someone will step up for all 3 hero-jobs (or, alternatively, we'll be able to pile signs into a semi trailer in Orlando!). It needs to be done, and so we must do it. We can't count on anyone else to help, and we know it will work if we do it right.
JMR
I'm a "Nutcase" Hehehehe
Sarcasmo, I live on the Fl/Ga boarder, half way between Jax & Tallahassee. I have a truck and can get a trailer. Happy to help.
Go Florida!!! You guys are
Go Florida!!! You guys are doing some amazing things and seem well organized.
We only *seem* well organized...
I still need hero-nutcase-volunteer drivers to emerge both in the south part of the state (both sides, ideally Key West & Naples) AND one in Jacksonville going across on 10.
Or we need to decide, as a group, to ship all signs to a central spot like Orlando or Gainesville for re-shipment. And I can't really make this decision for everyone, I need to know our abilities soon. And I don't even know if there are any threads about this on RonPaulForums.
"I need a miracle every day." But especially in the next few days & on Wednesday. Please post in this thread if you think you can help us.
JMR
Go Florida!!! You guys are
Go Florida!!! You guys are doing some amazing things and seem well organized.
More truckers!
http://www.betonronpaul.c...
I really like this truckers
I really like this truckers for Ron Paul idea!
Ron Paul
For the long haul! Get the truckers involved.... see below posts!
This sounds like a great Idea!
I must tell you guys that WE MUST DO the impossible in Florida, WE Must get the MESSAGE OUT, MASSIVELY! Florida will be the Ice breaker! I am sure all RP supporters are working on something!
Keep up the great work paulitans and spread the message!
Considering all the media-bias
I don't think we can do the impossible or have a miracle, but if we just do well enough it's effectively a win. This idea, if we coordinate it right and get the right effort just-after primary day, can really help the other campaigns. I'm concerned that a bad-looking result here will make this effort difficult, but the rEVOLution doing things like this in a well-coordinated way is our only long-term chance to win the war, even if we seem to "lose" the winner-take-all battle here in Florida. You KNOW the Romney signs are all getting dumpstered Wednesday morning, but they can afford it. We can't.
Please tell all non-computer-users about this. Please keep the topic alive on RonPaulForums too. And above all, please be ready to do a bit of work late Tuesday night & early Wednesday morning so this can happen.
JMR
Did Anything Materialize With This? Got Enough Truckers?
Go President Paul!
Truckers for Ron Paul
Atten: Co-ordinators in Fl and GA! This was buried in the last page of this post but if you can get in touch with them and let them know the details of pick ups etc.. I dont think anyone would have to rent a Uhaul!
http://www.truckers4ronpa...
Excellent IDEA!!! holy crap!!
LOVE IT I will help... I am an Georgia county coordinator
YES!
I came up with it yesterday after seeing the great idea of the no sign left behind but then it got buried! They have CB radios for better coordination and can drop off points all along I -75 at truck stops etc...I just dont know who they can contact but if you do then pls follow up on it!
Ok, I contacted them.
I really want this to be 3 independent efforts focused on the 3 major roads I mentioned, and aside from posting on this thread I'd like to be minimally-involved except for buying a tank of gas at Exit 180 on I95 for whoever's lucky enough to head up this way. I'd love it if we could have a trucker doing this, but maybe that (*IF* it happens) qualifies for "plan B -- pile 'em all up in Orlando." Let's see what develops. And I *really* hope the Ron Paul Forums also know about this idea by now!!!
JMR
Truckers for Ron Paul
Atten: Co-ordinators in Fl and GA! This was buried in the last page of this post but if you can get in touch with them and let them know the details of pick ups etc.. I dont think anyone would have to rent a Uhaul!
http://www.truckers4ronpa...
At whatever scale...do it!
It is a great idea and should also include a press release to all media outlets in FLA, GA and AL.
It is a "daisy chain." One guy gets to A and another gets it to B...etc. Do a video.
You're right, IF it's a success
Because if it's a success, FL can issue a "we cleaned all our signs up" press release WITHOUT mentioning the fact that they're about to see 'em just north of here. We'll look good if it's done right, but I need my lunatic-heroes who are renting the UHaul or UHauls to step forward SOON!!! And please keep telling ALL FL RP supporters about this idea over the weekend.
JMR
Sign Stealers!!
. I live in tennessee, I put out 12 signs yesterday and 6 are gone this morning, what now? I cant figure out who would get my signs funny how there is only Hillary signs left at these locations, DUH!!